This page provides links to relevant national policy documents that are relevant to MSLCs across the UK.
This guide provides a summary of the proposed 2013/14 Payment by Results (PbR) pathway funding system for maternity services. It identifies what the NHS needs to do during 2012/13 to prepare for its implementation. The D ...
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 10/04/2012
The background information on how and why the PbR maternity pathway system has been developed is published. It includes the structure of the system, how prices have been produced, data templates, business rules and frequ ...
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 16/02/2012
This is the list of “never events” for use in the NHS in 2012/13. These incidents are considered
unacceptable and eminently preventable. Minor amendments have been made to the
definitions of two of the events that were ...
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 18/01/2012
The policy framework for a new approach to workforce planning and the education and training of the health workforce.
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 10/01/2012
This document outlines the business and planning arrangements for the NHS in 2012/13.
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 24/11/2011
This evidence pack from the Department of Education provides references and research links informing the government's Families in the Foundation Years work.
Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
Published Date: 19/07/2011
This article summarises the Department of Education’s plans to support parents from pregnancy until their child reaches the age of five. It sets out the government's strategy to provide a family-friendly environment for ...
Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
Published Date: 18/07/2011
This document summaries the key changes that the government intends to make in response to the NHS future forum. The changes are largely structured around the four workstream themes considered by the NHS future forum ans ...
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 14/06/2011
The NHS Future Forum has published key recommendations to Government on the future for NHS modernisation.
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 13/06/2011
The Department of Health have produce two documents which are a synthesis of three pieces of qualitative research undertaken by them about the experience of expectant and new parents.
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 08/04/2011
This is the final report from the Midwifery 2020 programme. It underpins how midwives can lead and deliver care in a changing health care environment, reflecting policy and service direction. It also identifies the chang ...
Publisher: Depatment of Health
Published Date: 09/09/2010
This non-statutory guidance is intended for local authority service commissioners, service managers and decision-makers. It will also be of interest to children’s trust partner agencies. The guidance considers the case f ...
Publisher: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
Published Date: 25/03/2010
The document has been developed jointly by the Department of Health, The Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, drawing on the views of mothers and fathers, children’s centr ...
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 16/03/2010
This statutory guidance explains the legal provisions as they relate to Sure Start children’s centres and gives advice on the action local authorities, primary care trusts and Jobcentre Plus should take to comply with th ...
Publisher: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
Published Date: 16/03/2010
The Commissioners have spoken and listened to the views of many thousands of nurses, midwives, stakeholders and members of the public. This report highlights the major challenges identified and seeks to provide solutions ...
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 02/03/2010
The operating framework for the NHS for 2010/11 sets out the priorities for the NHS for the year ahead to enable them to begin their planning.
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 17/12/2009
This guide is aimed at practitioners working in mainstream services or areas where the prevalence of teenage pregnancy is relatively low and where there are no dedicated services for pregnant teenagers. It sets out the r ...
Publisher: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
Published Date: 27/11/2009
The Healthy Child Programme for the early life stages focuses on a universal preventative service, providing families with a programme of screening, immunisation, health and development reviews, supplemented by advice on ...
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 29/10/2009
The NHS Plan outlines the vision of a health service designed around the patient: a new delivery system for the NHS as well as changes between health and social services, changes for NHS doctors, for nurses, midwives, th ...
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Published Date: 11/08/2009
This guide makes the case for increased attention to the planning, organisation and delivery of maternity services for teenagers and gives practical suggestions on how to achieve a high-quality service that meets their n ...
Publisher: Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
Published Date: 15/07/2008
This best practice guidance has been developed in order to provide clear guidance for patients, the public and NHS staff on the processes underpinning changes to acute NHS services
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 09/05/2008
The plan is about delivering the recommendations and themes of the Health Inequalities Infant Mortality PSA Target Review (February 2007). Building on the key interventions in the review, it shows how to narrow the healt ...
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 17/12/2007
This document sets out a brief overview of the priorities for the NHS for 2008-09. It is accompanied by annexes that provide more detail on the priorities, how they are measured and how the new arrangements for managing ...
Publisher: Department of Health
Published Date: 11/12/2007
This document is for commissioners, service providers and other organisations involved in the provision of maternity services. It builds on the maternity services commitment outlined in Our Health, Our Care, Our Say and ...
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 03/04/2007
These guidelines inform healthcare managers, commissioners, practitioners and others on ways in which local maternity services liaison committees can work effectively and contribute to improving maternity services in lin ...
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 13/02/2006
The Our Health, Our Care, Our Say White Paper sets out a vision to provide people with good quality social care and NHS services in the communities where they live. NHS services are halfway through a 10 year plan to beco ...
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 30/01/2006
The Children's NSF is a 10-year programme intended to stimulate long-term and sustained improvement in children's health. Setting standards for health and social services for children, young people and pregnant women, th ...
Publisher: Department of Health
Published Date: 15/09/2004
This practice guidance is to help staff address and share the why and the what of patient and public involvement in the context of Section 11 of the Health and Social Care Act - why it is important and what it entails.
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 28/02/2003
The NHS Plan outlines the vision of a health service designed around the patient: a new delivery system for the NHS as well as changes between health and social services, changes for NHS doctors, for nurses, midwives, th ...
Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
Published Date: 01/07/2000
This document is intended as a refreshment of the national Framework for Maternity Services in Scotland, first published in 2001.
Publisher: The Scottish Government
Published Date: 01/02/2011
The Scottish Government wants to ensure that all children have the best possible start to life, are ready to succeed and live longer, healthier lives. To help achieve this they have developed this Maternal and Infant Nut ...
Publisher: The Scottish Government
Published Date: 18/01/2011
The Scottish Government Health Directorate is responsible both for NHSScotland and for the development and implementation of health and community care policy.
Publisher: The Scottish Government Health Directorate
Published Date: 16/03/2008
This site provides details of the Scottish Multiprofessional Maternity Development Programme and maternity services from all NHS Boards in Scotland.
Publisher: NHS Education for Scotland
Published Date: 16/03/2008
This Action Plan sets out the Government's programme to deliver a healthier Scotland by helping people to sustain and improve their health, especially in disadvantaged communities, ensuring better, local and faster acces ...
Publisher: Scottish Executive
Published Date: 12/12/2007
The Clinical Standards for Maternity Services were developed and published in March 2005 following extensive consultation. Peer review visits to all NHS Board areas in Scotland were conducted between November 2005 and Ju ...
Publisher: NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
Published Date: 16/01/2007
A major part of the remit of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (NHS QIS) is to develop
and run a national system of quality assurance of clinical services. Working in partnership
with healthcare professionals and member ...
Publisher: NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
Published Date: 16/10/2005
They reflect best practice in the area of pre-conception services, and also incorporate key areas of the organisation and provision of maternity services, the assessment and management of risk, and the importance of good ...
Publisher: NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
Published Date: 07/03/2005
This Framework is the product of wide consultation with women and professionals......
Publisher: Scottish Executive
Published Date: 16/02/2001
The Scottish Programme for Clinical Effectiveness in Reproductive Health is funded by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland, and was launched in September 1997.
Publisher: NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
Published Date: 16/09/1997