Press release: NHS Confederation launches 2006/07 Pocket Guide to the NHS

14 Jun 2006

The NHS Confederation, which represents more than 90 per cent of NHS organisations, today launches its latest version of the NHS Pocket Guide. The 2006/07 version not only covers all of the latest hot topics facing the service but is also now UK wide.Dr Gill Morgan, Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation, said:

"This year's pocket guide provides an up-to-date snap shot of the NHS. In a time of significant change and great uncertainty, as well as huge opportunities, the Pocket Guide really is a valuable tool in getting to grips with a very complex system.

"Whether you have years of NHS experience or are working in or alongside the health service, I am sure you will find this an indispensable aid to understanding the modern NHS."

The NHS: a pocket guide 2006/07 has been written by ex Health Service Journal editor, Peter Davies. It includes new sections on:

•           Payment by results
•           New pharmacy contract
•           Increase in non-NHS providers
•           Commissioning a patient-led NHS
•           Your health, your care, your say White Paper         
•           Progress for National Programme for IT
•           Workforce reforms

In addition to new sections on the various hot issues facing the NHS, the Pocket Guide 2006/07 is the first ever version to be UK-wide. Although the underlying principles governing the health services in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are the same - we are seeing very different systems emerging. The new pocket guide will help those working in healthcare navigate these new systems.

Talking about The NHS: a pocket guide 2006/07, James Johnson, Chairman of Council, British Medical Association said: "A timely, authoritative and invaluable source-book for those working in and with the NHS."

For more information or to order a copy of The NHS: a pocket guide 2006/07 please visit www.nhsconfed.org or call 0870 444 5841.

ENDS

Notes for editors

1. The NHS Confederation represents more than 90 per cent of the organisations that make up the NHS. Its members include the majority of NHS acute trusts, ambulance trusts, foundation trusts, mental health trusts, primary care trusts, special health authorities and strategic health authorities in England; trusts and local health boards in Wales; and health and social service trusts and boards in Northern Ireland.

 

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