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Healthcare In Suffolk
Healthcare in Suffolk was the responsibility of two clinical commissioning groups until July 2022: Ipswich and East Suffolk, and West Suffolk. History From 1947 to 1965 NHS services in Suffolk were managed by the East Anglian regional hospital boards. In 1974 the boards were abolished and replaced by regional health authorities. Suffolk came under the East Anglian RHA. There was a Suffolk Area Health Authority from 1974 until 1982: There were two District Authorities: East and West Suffolk. in 1993 these were combined. Regional Health Authorities were reorganised and renamed strategic health authorities (SHAs) in 2002. Suffolk was under the Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire SHA. In 2006 regions were again reorganised and Suffolk came under NHS East of England until that was abolished in 2013. There was one primary care trust for the county. Sustainability and transformation plans Suffolk and North East Essex formed a sustainability and transformation plan area in March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clinical Commissioning Group
Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) were NHS organisations set up by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to organise the delivery of NHS services in each of their local areas in England. On 1 July 2022 they were abolished and replaced by Integrated care systems as a result of the Health and Care Act 2022. Establishment The announcement that GPs would take over this commissioning role was made in the 2010 white paper "Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS". This was part of the government's stated desire to create a clinically-driven commissioning system that was more sensitive to the needs of patients. The 2010 white paper became law under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 in March 2012. At the end of March 2013 there were 211 CCGs, but a series of mergers had reduced the number to 135 by April 2020. To a certain extent they replaced primary care trusts (PCTs), though some of the staff and responsibilities moved to local authority public health teams when PCTs ceased ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Health And Social Care Act 2008
The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (c 14) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Synopsis The Act was created on 11 March 2009 with the following regulated activities: * provision of health care to patients by a National Health Service (NHS) Trust or NHS Foundation Trust. * provision of ambulance services, for transporting patients for the purpose of treatment by a NHS Trust or a NHS Foundation Trust. * provision of health care to patients by a Primary Care Trust. * management of NHS Blood and Transplant, including: supply of blood, supply of stem cells and bone marrow, supply of tissues for transplant or grafting and also the Donor Organs including the matching and allocation. The Care Quality Commission has the responsibilities to ensure service providers are providing quality care when carrying on the regulated activities. The Act makes further substantial revisions and repeals to the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984, by section 129, and Schedule 11. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Healthcare In The United Kingdom
Healthcare in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter, with England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales each having their own systems of publicly funded healthcare, funded by and accountable to separate governments and parliaments, together with smaller private sector and voluntary provision. As a result of each country having different policies and priorities, a variety of differences have developed between these systems since devolution. * Healthcare in England * Healthcare in Wales * Healthcare in Scotland * Healthcare in Northern Ireland Despite there being separate health services for each country, the performance of the National Health Service (NHS) across the UK can be measured for the purpose of making international comparisons. In a 2017 report by the Commonwealth Fund ranking developed-country healthcare systems, the United Kingdom was ranked the best healthcare system in the world overall and was ranked the best in the following categories: Care Process (i.e. effe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Health And Social Care Act 2012
The Health and Social Care Act 2012c 7 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It provided for the most extensive reorganisation of the structure of the National Health Service in England to date.'' BMJ'', 2011; 342:d408Dr Lansley's Monster It removed responsibility for the health of citizens from the Secretary of State for Health, which the post had carried since the inception of the NHS in 1948. It abolished primary care trusts (PCTs) and strategic health authorities (SHAs) and transferred between £60 billion and £80 billion of "commissioning", or healthcare funds, from the abolished PCTs to several hundred clinical commissioning groups, partly run by the general practitioners (GPs) in England. A new executive agency of the Department of Health, Public Health England, was established under the act on 1 April 2013. The proposals are primarily the result of policies of the then Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley. Writing in the '' BMJ'', Clive Peedell ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronic Health Record
An electronic health record (EHR) is the systematized collection of patient and population electronically stored health information in a digital format. These records can be shared across different health care settings. Records are shared through network-connected, enterprise-wide information systems or other information networks and exchanges. EHRs may include a range of data, including demographics, medical history, medication and allergies, immunization status, laboratory test results, radiology images, vital signs, personal statistics like age and weight, and billing information. For several decades, electronic health records (EHRs) have been touted as key to increasing of quality care. Electronic health records are used for other reasons than charting for patients; today, providers are using data from patient records to improve quality outcomes through their care management programs. EHR combines all patients demographics into a large pool, and uses this information to as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norfolk Community Health And Care NHS Trust
Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust is a provider of community services to a population of about 882,000 in Norfolk. It was established under the Transforming Community Services initiative. It comprises the community services previously run by Norfolk primary care trust, Primary Care Trust. It employs 2,250 full-time equivalent members of staff. Roisin Fallon-Williams was appointed chief executive in March 2015. in succession to Michael Scott. Lisa Christensen, former head of Norfolk County Council's children's services department resigned after two weeks as a non-executive member of the board in November 2014. It is part of a joint venture with West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust which took over the provision of community care in Suffolk from Serco in October 2015. Performance The trust was rated outstanding by the Care Quality Commission in 2018. "There were many notable examples of outstanding practice… We saw examples where patients ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serco
Serco Group plc is a British company with headquarters based in Hook, Hampshire, England. Serco primarily derives income as a contractor for the provision of government services, most prominently in the sectors of health, transport, justice, immigration, space, defence and citizens services. Approximately 55% of the company's revenue and some 75% of its profit is generated from overseas. The company also operates in Continental Europe, the Middle East, the Asia Pacific region (including Australia), and North America. Serco manages over 500 contracts worldwide, employing over 50,000 people. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History Serco was founded in 1929 as RCA Services Limited, a United Kingdom division of the Radio Corporation of America and initially provided services to the cinema industry. RCA Services Limited began providing services to governments after during World War 2. After the onset of the war, RCA S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norfolk And Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) is a large mental health trust and an NHS Foundation Trust. It runs services in Norfolk and Suffolk, England, chiefly at Hellesdon Hospital, Norvic and Juilan Hospital in Norwich, Northgate in Great Yarmouth, and Carlton Court in Lowestoft It was formed by a merger of Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust with Suffolk Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust on 1 January 2012. Stuart Richardson was appointed Chief Executive Officer in 2021. Performance In November 2013 a campaign to save mental health services in Norfolk and Suffolk alleged that inpatient and community services are in "acute crisis" because of cutbacks. The staff group claimed they were finding it "almost impossible to function in a safe and legal manner". "hundreds of people packed into a room at the Vauxhall Centre in Norwich" on 25 November 2013 for the first meeting of the Campaign to Save Mental Health Services in Norfolk and Suffolk at which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Suffolk And North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS foundation trust in the East of England. It runs Colchester Hospital in Colchester, Essex and Ipswich Hospital in Ipswich, Suffolk, as well as several smaller community hospitals in the surrounding area. History The trust was formed on 1 July 2018 by the merger of Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust and The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust. The trust used Datix in 2022 to report inappropriate attendances at A&E to GP practices. These reports were said to increase stress on GPs and to be ‘a major source of strife locally which the Local Medical Committee has repeatedly sought to defuse’. Development In 2019 the trust announced plans to end open access to the Accident and Emergency department. The plan is that patients will arrive at a newly built urgent treatment centre at Colchester hospital run by the trust and the local GP confederation which will deal with minor injuries and illnesses. From there t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS foundation trust which runs West Suffolk Hospital, a large district general hospital in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. The Trust provides a wide range of services to the population of west Suffolk and serves a catchment area of approximately 600 square miles with a population of around 280,000 people. It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 2604 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.86%. 78% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 76% recommended it as a place to work. The trust went live with the Cerner Millennium electronic patient record system in May 2016. In September 2016, the trust was selected by NHS England as one of twelve Global Digital Exemplars. See also * List of NHS trusts *Healthcare in Suffolk Healthcare in Suffolk was the responsibility of two clinical commissioning groups until July 2022: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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