What's it all for? Removing unnecessary bureaucracy in regulation calls on the Department of Health and regulators to simplify providers' process of reporting and calls for a reduction in unnecessary form-filling by improving how regulators collect and share information.
The report is based on work undertaken by the Provider Advisory Group, a joint NHS Confederation and Independent Healthcare Advisory Services (IHAS) group. It found considerable overlap and duplication in reporting requirements.
The group suggests the Department of Health could help reduce providers' burdens by merging agencies or putting them under a common directorship. Its recommendations include an improvement in the level of information-sharing between agencies and a greater preparedness among providers to challenge multiple submissions of the same data to different agencies.
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