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The English national framework for NHS continuing healthcare came into force on 1 October 2007 as a development in the light of the case of Coughlan which established that where a person's need is primarily for health care then the health service must fund the whole cost of nursing home placement. [1]
The Health and Care Act 2022 put these systems on a statutory basis, each with an approved constitution. On 1 July 2022, a total of 42 ICSs became statutory. There are more than 70 performance metrics by which they are judged, grouped into six "oversight themes": quality, access and outcomes, preventing ill health and reducing inequalities, leadership, people, and finances.
Any Qualified Provider (AQP) is a contractual system within the NHS internal market of the English National Health Service.The system was introduced under the Labour administration in 2009/10 under the name "Any Willing Provider" and was accelerated under the coalition Government which formed in 2010.
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The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care, which oversees the HCPC, reported that by mid-2022 the median time for the HCPC to reach a first decision on international applications was over 90 weeks. The PSA considered that this was serious, "given that the delays could seriously affect applicants and aggravate workforce ...
HCRG Care Group is a private provider of community health and social services in parts of the UK, commissioned by the National Health Service and by local authorities in England. Founded in 2007 as Assura Medical , the company became majority-owned by the Virgin Group in 2010 and was known as Virgin Care .
NHS Digital is also the national collator of information about health and social care, and publishes over 260 statistical publications each year, including Official Statistics and National Statistics. [4] It also runs "The NHS Website" (www.nhs.uk, formerly NHS Choices), which is the national website for the NHS in England.
In April 2022, it took over responsibility for the Department of Health and Social Care’s Personal Protective Equipment programme. [6] A group of business analysts researched the ICN advice notices from suppliers in the last two weeks of November 2022, to look for trends and causes of delays in medical equipment throughout the NHS.