NHS England Board meeting
28 November 2018
Highlights for Arden & GEM CSU by Anne Gray, Knowledge Officer
Board Papers
available here.
Agenda
1. Minutes of the Previous Meeting
2. Chairman’s Report
3. Chief Executive’s Report
4. Freedom to Speak Up:
• Annual Report and Update on the work
of the National Guardian’s Office
• Update on the work of the NHS England Freedom
to Speak Up Guardians’ work
5. Developing the NHS long term plan: reducing inappropriate
clinical procedures
6. Low Priority Prescribing Consultation and GlutenFree Food
Guidance
7. Update on new voluntary medicines pricing scheme
8. Best value adalimumab product in the NHS Inform Matthew
Swindells
9. Third progress report from the Empowering People and
Communities Taskforce
10. NHS Performance and update on progress against the FYFV
11. Winter Preparations 2019-20
12. Consolidated Month 6 2018/19 Financial Report
13. Reports from Board Committees
i. Commissioning Committee
ii. Investment Committee Assure
iii. Specialised Services Commissioning
iv. Audit and Risk Assurance Committee
Date of next NHS
England Board meeting Thursday, 31 January 2019
4. Freedom to Speak Up
- Update on the work of the NHS England Freedom to Speak Up Guardians’ work
- The National Guardian’s Office (NGO) will be supporting primary care providers in implementing NHS England’s guidance on Freedom to Speak Up in primary care. This will be supported by local integration plans that bring together primary and secondary providers, and commissioners, at the local level. The NGO is working with vanguard organisations including large GP providers, an LMC, a CSU and the Defence Medical Services to develop options for primary care models of speaking up.
- National Guardian’s Office: Annual Report 2018.
- Following consultation clinical criteria for 17 interventions which should not be routinely prescribed or offered have been revised and agreed. Other interventions will be considered for a second phase.
- NHS England has adjusted the implementation mechanisms, including expected activity reduction volumes for 2019/20. These are issued as part of new statutory guidance for CCGs.
- Statutory guidance, consultation papers, activity analysis and FAQ available here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/evidence-based-interventions/
- Following consultation regulations are being laid in Parliament which would allow for no GF products to be prescribed at NHS expense, other than GF bread and GF mixes
- NHS England has developed supporting guidance for CCGs, which is intended to communicate the changes in regulations, and to support CCGs with the development of local GF food prescribing policies.
- Regulations come into force on 4 December 2018.
- NHS England will continue to work with NHS CC to identify further low priority items that should not routinely be prescribed in primary care. A further eight items have been identified and consultation will follow. (see paper 6i.)
- Prescribing Gluten-Free Foods in Primary Care: Guidance for CCGs
- Appendix 3 includes Draft Principles for VCSE Engagement and Partnership Working. These principles outline the way in which NHS England intends to work with the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector and our expectations from organisations that engage with it.
