Health intelligence requirements for local authorities set out

Health intelligence requirements for local authorities set out: This information is available as a series of factsheets and a single combined document. NHS Networks

Labour in NHS privatisation vow

Labour in NHS privatisation vow: Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham will vow to reverse the "rapid" privatisation of NHS hospitals in England in his keynote conference speech. BBC News

How CCGs can find patients undiagnosed by practices

How CCGs can find patients undiagnosed by practices: A south-east London practice worried a significant number of patients had undiagnosed long-term conditions came up with a novel solution, writes Neil Durham. GP Online

Evaluating disease management programmes: learning from diverse approaches across Europe

Evaluating disease management programmes: learning from diverse approaches across Europe:
The DISMEVAL consortium examined approaches to chronic disease
management and its evaluation in 13 countries across Europe. The project
identified and validated evaluation methods that can be used in
situations where randomisation is not possible.

• Research briefing
• RAND Corporation - publications

NICE role to expand to social care

NICE role to expand to social care: The Department of Health has confirmed that the National Institue for Health and Clinical Excellence will expand its role from April 2013 to include social care. The DH has set out a list of topics for NICE to begin working on. These include autism in adults and children; mental well-being of older people in residential care; the transition between health and social care, including discharge planning... Healthcare Today

Mandarins take reins as NHS battle hots up

Mandarins take reins as NHS battle hots up: The future of the national health service will be a trial of strength between a giant NHS commissioning board and thousands of family doctors across England
With the arrival of the NHS commissioning board, the biggest quango ever created, with direct control of £25bn, the health service has entered the age of Davids. While much has been made about how tightly Jeremy Hunt, the new health secretary, will embrace the private sector, real power is now in the hands of three mandarins: David Behan at the Care Quality Commission (CQC); David Bennett at Monitor and Sir David Nicholson at the board.

Health tourism: GP surgeries selling 'black market' access to NHS

Health tourism: GP surgeries selling 'black market' access to NHS: Places on GP lists are being sold on the black market to NHS 'health tourists' for up to £800 a time, an undercover investigation has found.
The Daily Telegraph

Kill or cure? Why keeping pace with science and technology may be the death of the NHS

Kill or cure? Why keeping pace with science and technology may be the death of the NHS:
They could save the NHS – or bankrupt it. New technological advances that are transforming care of patients also risk crippling the health service responsible for delivering them.The Independent