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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.

Public awareness about care.data

NHS England and the Health and Social Care Information Centre have set out the next steps to raise public awareness about care.data, a programme which will use information to improve the safety and care of patients.

CQC to receive increased independence

The health regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), is to be given greater independence to ensure it can act fearlessly as the nation’s chief whistleblower on health.

Transforming Participation in Health and Care: Guidance for Commissioners

Transforming Participation in Health and Care has been developed to support commissioners to improve individual and public participation and to better understand and respond to the needs of the communities they serve.

Specialist services commissioning 2013/15-2015/16

NHS England has published details of its commissioning intentions for specialised services for 2014/15 and 2015/16.

Planning for a sustainable NHS

Ahead of NHS England issuing its planning guidance in December, Sir David Nicholson, Chief Executive, has written to commissioners to highlight some of the challenges facing the NHS.

Recruitment of patient and public voice representatives

The Patient Safety team in NHS England are recruiting a number of patient and public voice representatives to sit on six Patient Safety Expert Groups and on the national Patient Safety Steering Group.

Accountability hearing with Public Health England

The Health Committee’s first accountability hearing with Public Health England is scheduled for Tuesday 19 November.

Improving General Practice: A call to action

NHS England has launched Improving General Practice – A Call To Action, to help general practice transform the way it provides services to address the challenges its faces.

Involvement in Health survey

Complementing Regional Voices work on Health and Wellbeing Boards, NAVCA are carrying out a survey designed to identify the extent to which the structures are hearing the voices which are the least likely to be heard.

NHS e-Referral Service seeks input from VCS

The NHS e-Referral Service Programme Team have produced a suite of information based on potential clinical scenarios and associated patient journeys.

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