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Please submit comments on the draft to definitions@... by Tuesday 19^th May 2009.

It was never properly finished last time – there are still “drafting” comments and questions in it.

The key thing is that it the only official commissioning-guidance available! The timing is a bit weird as I thought that commissioning standards were going to be looked at as part of “Pathfinder” projects.

Thinking of which, have you seen this consultation too:

NHS Evidence: draft accreditation process manual public consultation

http://www.nice.org.uk/aboutnice/nhsevidence/NHSEvidenceAccreditationProcessManualConsultation.jsp

NHS Evidence: draft accreditation process manual public consultation

Process manual for accrediting producers of guidance and recommendations for practice: a guide for producers and stakeholders.

1.1. Introduction

As part of the 2008 next stage review ‘High Quality Care for All’ report from Lord Darzi, NICE was given the responsibility of managing the synthesis and spread of knowledge through NHS Evidence – a portal through which all healthcare professionals will be able to access authoritative clinical and non-clinical evidence and best practice. NHS Evidence will provide access to a comprehensive evidence base for everyone in health and social care who makes decisions about treatments or the use of resources.

NHS Evidence will quality-assess guidance producers in order to allow users to recognise sources of information of the highest quality and to drive up standards in the longer-term. NHS Evidence will not accredit the content of individual products, but will award a seal of approval – ‘the accreditation mark’ – to guidance producers that show compliance with a defined set of accreditation criteria that reflect the processes used to develop their products.

This draft ‘Process manual for accrediting producers of guidance and recommendations for practice: a guide for producers and stakeholders’describes the process for accrediting producers of guidance and recommendations for practice. It provides details on the scope for accreditation and what types of guidance producers are accredited, the criteria used to perform the accreditation assessment, the main steps in the process for reaching an accreditation decision and the notification and publication process of an accreditation decision.

The draft NHS Evidence process manual for accrediting producers of guidance and recommendations for practice is now open for consultation (see links below). We would like to receive comments on the document from anyone who has an interest in NHS Evidence.

Please send us your comments using the comment form below.

The deadline for receipt of comments is 5pm on Friday 1st May 2009.

Note: this document does not constitute the final process manual for accrediting producers of guidance and recommendations for practice and may change following this public consultation. Until the updated process manual is published, the current draft version will be followed for accrediting guidance producers.

1.2. Consultation process

Consultation period:
This consultation period will take place between Monday 2nd February 2009 – Friday 1st May 2009

How to submit your comments:
1. Use consultation comments form to comment on the draft process manual
2. Fill in your name, the organisation you represent and your role at that organisation (if applicable).
3. Fill in the section number that your comment relates to.
4. Please put each separate comment in a new row on the comment form.
5. Email your completed comments form to NHSEvidenceAccreditation@nice.org.uk by 5pm Friday 1st May 2009.

NICE is committed to promoting equality and eliminating unlawful discrimination. If you have a disability which prevents you from submitting your comments via this form, please contact general enquires at nice@... or 0845 003 7781 to arrange an alternative method.

Consultation Documents:

The Institute is unable to accept:

Comments received after the consultation deadline (5pm on Friday 1st May 2009).
Comments that are not submitted using the correct comment proforma (unless alternative arrangements have been confirmed).
Confidential information or other material that you would not wish to be made public.
Attachments such as journal articles. If you wish to highlight specific studies please cite the full journal reference in your comments.

Acknowledgement of comments:
You should receive an automated acknowledgement when you submit your comments. If you do not receive this acknowledgement, please contact general enquires at nice@... or 0845 003 7781 to ensure your comments have been safely received.

Consultation findings:

All eligible comments will be sent to the NHS Evidence project team.

All comments from stakeholder organisations and responses will be published on the NHS Evidence and NICE websites following the consultation period.

We encourage comments through organisations and unfortunately are unable to respond to comments from individuals. However comments received from individuals will be considered with comments from stakeholder organisations by the Advisory Committee.

PLEASE NOTE: The Institute reserves the right to summarise and edit comments received during consultations, or not to publish them at all, where in the reasonable opinion of the Institute, the comments are voluminous, publication would be unlawful or publication would be otherwise inappropriate.

Comments received in the course or consultations carried out by the Institute are published in the interests of openness and transparency, and to promote understanding of how manuals are developed. The comments are published as a record of the submissions that the Institute has received, and are not endorsed by the Institute, its officers or advisory committees.

Best wishes,

Liz Panton
Head of Service
Communicate

(The Northern Communication Aid Centre)
Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust
Tel: 0191 287 5240
Fax: 0191 287 5250
Featurenet: 8745 65240
Email address for general enquiries: communicate@...

Communicate wiki: http://communicate.editme.com

NTW Website: www.ntw.nhs.uk

PLEASE SAVE PAPER - Do you really need to print this e-mail?

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Subject: Re: Invitation to consult on 3rd edition of the Specialised Services National Definitions Set (SSNDS) - Definition No. 5, The Assessment and Provision of Equipment for People with Complex Physical Disability (All ages)

Who do we send consultation responses back to Liz? This document is a bit of a mess (or is it just me??).

Cheers. Keren

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Includes communication aids - deadline for end of consultation is 19^th May

Best wishes,

Liz Panton
Head of Service
Communicate

(The Northern Communication Aid Centre)
Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust
Tel: 0191 287 5240
Fax: 0191 287 5250
Featurenet: 8745 65240
Email address for general enquiries: communicate@...

Communicate wiki: http://communicate.editme.com

NTW Website: www.ntw.nhs.uk

PLEASE SAVE PAPER - Do you really need to print this e-mail?

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Subject: FW: Invitation to consult on 3rd edition of the Specialised Services National Definitions Set (SSNDS) - Definition No. 5, The Assessment and Provision of Equipment for People with Complex Physical Disability (All ages)

Communicate
(The Northern Communication Aid Centre)
Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust
Walkergate Park
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Tel: 0191 287 5240

Fax: 0191 287 5250

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From: Robert Couch [Robert.Couch@...] On Behalf Of Definitions (NCG) [Definitions@...]
Sent: 20 April 2009 17:25
Subject: Invitation to consult on 3rd edition of the Specialised Services National Definitions Set (SSNDS) - Definition No. 5, The Assessment and Provision of Equipment for People with Complex Physical Disability (All ages)

Dear Sir/Madam,

The SSNDS describes specialised services in sufficient detail to enable accurate identification of individual specialised service activity. This accuracy helps hospitals to provide soundly based costings and commissioners to effectively plan, procure and monitor specialised services activity. The second edition of the SSNDS comprised 35 Definitions and was produced in 2002, but is now out of date. See: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Policyandguidance/Healthandsocialcaretopics/Specialisedservicesdefinition/index.htm

The third edition of the SSNDS will be published over 2009/10. Through this email we are seeking views from your organisation on the draft text of one (or more) Definitions which will eventually form part of the third edition. These draft Definitions have been produced by clinicians appointed by the Royal Colleges and endorsed by their appropriate Societies.

The third edition SSNDS aims to improve the precision and coverage of these definitions, incorporating the most up to date diagnosis and intervention codes to make the SSNDS as comprehensive as possible. Improving the SSNDS is an iterative process and very much depends on the adequacy of national diagnosis and intervention classification systems. It should be noted that the SSNDS is a mechanism to identify service activity in a consistent way across all providers and is not a set of service guidelines or service models.

The National Specialised Commissioning Group (NSCG) has overall responsibility for the production of the third edition. The NSCG, whose membership includes the 10 Specialised Commissioning Groups (SCGs), oversees and co-ordinates the work of the SCGs with regard to specialised services commissioning. SCGs are collective bodies of PCTs who commission specialised services on behalf of their PCTs. The NSCG is also responsible for the commissioning of forty highly specialised services (eg. heart and lung transplants) on a national basis through its standing committee the National Commissioning Group

We would welcome your views on the accuracy of the text and codes of the draft Definition(s) attached to this email. In some definition sections we have included prompts (‘question’ or ‘comment’) where we invite stakeholders to provide us with specific feedback. We are very happy to receive comments in any format you wish. In past consultations some stakeholders have found it useful to submit comments relating to the numbered sections of each definition. Others have amended the definition directly and highlight their proposed changes. Please submit comments on the draft to definitions@... by Tuesday 19^th May 2009.

Information provided in response to this consultation may be published or disclosed in accordance with the access to information legislation (these are primarily the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004). If you want the information that you provide to be treated as confidential, please be aware that under the FOIA there is a Code of Practice with which public authorities should comply and which includes obligations of confidence. It would therefore be helpful if you could explain to us why you regard the information you have provided as confidential. If we receive a request for disclosure of the information we will take full account of your explanation, but we cannot give an assurance that confidentiality can be maintained in all circumstances. An automatic confidentiality disclaimer generated by your IT system will not, of itself, be regarded as binding on the National Specialised Commissioning Team. The National Specialised Commissioning Team will process your personal data in accordance with the DPA and in most circumstances this will mean that your personal data will not be disclosed to third parties.

We apologise for taking up your time if the consultation topic is not relevant to your organisation. If this is the case we would be very grateful if you could notify us at definitions@... and we will remove you from our SSNDS stakeholder spreadsheet.

After the end of the consultation period your comments will be collated and reviewed by us to produce a final draft definition. This draft will then be submitted to the National Specialised Commissioning Group for approval before being published on their website at www.nscg.nhs.uk .

We look forward to your feedback.

With best wishes,

The National Specialised Commissioning Team

National Specialised Commissioning Group

4th floor, Southside

105 Victoria Street

London SW1E 6QT

Direct Line: 020 7932 3946
Fax: 020 7932 3800
www.london.nhs.uk

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