VLE- Commission & deliver of health care in England

Question 1

What are the NHS values?

Answer 1

1. Work together for patients
2. Compassion
3. Commitment to quality of care
4. Respect and dignity
5. Improving lives
6. Everyone counts

Question 2

Which bodies can compission health services?

Answer 2

1. NHS england
2. CCG
3. Local Authorities

Question 3

What types of health services are comissioned nationally?

Answer 3

• Primary care
• Specialised services
• Offender healthcare
• Armed force’s healthcare
• Immunisation, Screening, Young children

Question 4

Which types of health services are comissioned locally?

Answer 4

• Secondary care
• Community services
• MH
• Rehabilitation services
• Local public health services

Question 5

What is NICE and what does it do?

Answer 5

Provides nation guidance & advice on promoting high quality health, public health and social care

• Produce evidence based guidance
• Develop quality standards & performance metrics for those providing & commisioning services
• Provide range of information services for commisioners, practitioners & managers

Question 6

Describe three types of guidelines produced by NICE?

What is the status of these guidlines?

Answer 6

• Clinical
• Public health
• Social care
• Medicines practice
• Cancer services guidelines
• Antimicrobial prescribing

Advisory

Question 7

What other kind of guidance does NICE produce?

Answer 7

• Technology
• Interventional procedures
• Diagnostic
• Highly specialised technology

Question 8

To what extend must NICE guidance be followed by commissioners & service providers?

Answer 8

• Legally obliged to fund & resource medicines & treatments recommeneded by NICE. Must be available within 3 months of its date of publication

Question 9

What is NICE’s citizens council?

Answer 9

30 members of the public reflecting the demographic charactersitics of the UK

It provides a public perspective on moral and ethical issues that NICE have to take account of when producing guidance

Question 10

Give 4 key societal values that the citizen’s council have said should be considered across health care, public health and social care?

Answer 10

• Accountabilty
• Dignity
• Education
• Fairness
• honest
• Justice
• Maximising benefit
• Respect
• QOL
• Value