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The voluntary and community sector has made significant contributions to health and wellbeing, often reaching areas and communities that have been difficult to reach by mainstream health and social care providers. One East Midlands aims to keep the voluntary and community sector informed about these changes and where possible contribute to policy and strategy development.

NHS England Mandate 2014/15

The refreshed Mandate to NHS England for 2014/15 was published on 12 November.

NHS Standard Contract 2014/15

Following consultation, NHS England plans to issue the 2014/15 NHS Standard Contract via its website by the end of December.

Making health and social care information accessible

NHS England has commenced a programme of work to develop and implement an Information Standard, a framework of requirements and recommendations which NHS and adult social care organisations must follow, for accessible information.

NHS equality toolkit refresh

The Equality Delivery System toolkit, designed to ensure NHS organisations deliver services that are free of discrimination and meet the requirements of the Equality Act 2010, has been refreshed.

Public Health Outcomes Framework – quarterly update published

Public Health England has published the latest update to the Public Health Outcomes Framework data tool.

East Midlands Prospectus

The Public Health England East Midlands Centre has published its prospectus setting out the services and functions that the Centre can offer to serve the needs of people in the region.

Shaping the future of specialised services

Patients, clinicians and other key stakeholders are being encouraged to give their views on the future of specialised health services, and how they are to be provided by the NHS over the next five years.

Department of Health Connecting Programme

The Department of Health Connecting Programme is part of the response to the Francis Inquiry observation that staff are not connected to the reality of the frontline NHS.

New resources – Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework

Regional Voices is keeping track of new databases/resources that are open for the VCS to use.

Webinar: Voluntary Sector Intelligence and Joint Strategic Needs Assessments - 16 December

Regional Voices is committed to bringing learning events out of London and is supporting the Department of Health/NHS England/Public Health England Voluntary Sector Strategic Partnership Programme to hold an online Joint Learning Event on joint strategic needs assessments.

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