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NHS STANDARD CONTRACT – 2013/2014
North Durham Clinical Commissioning Group Workshop
Katrina Bage / Paul Leake North of England Commissioning Support
Partners in improving local health
INFLUENCING / KEY DOCUMENTS
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THE CONTRACT
• National context of contract – Cannot be changed – explicit eg Never Events
• Local context of contract– Can be varied / changed by local
requirements/needs determined by the Commissioner
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THE IMPORTANCE OF SCHEDULE 2 – The Specification
• What it is?
- A live document, reference and guide
• What it isn’t?
- A shelf document that is pulled out last minute
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RESPONSIBILITY OF CCG AS COMMISSIONERS
• Commissioners are responsible for managing external demand for services eg primary care referrals to providers compliant with agreed protocols.
• Decision making on all contractual changes particularly financial.
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RESPONSIBILITY OF NECS
• Oversee, monitor and manage contracts on behalf of Clinical Commissioning Groups eg – Procurement and mobilising new contracts– Implement effective execution of the contract– Indicative activity plans (shared estimation)– Monitoring data, correlation with payments– Contract reviews, – Highlighting and addressing issues to CCG eg
assurance/compliance, patient experience
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RESPONSIBILITY OF PROVIDER
Deliver to the specification
AccountabilityFlexibility
Submission of Accurate and
timely data
Managing internal demands
Compliance to Governance and Quality Improvement
Innovation leading to value for money
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IMPORTANCE OF ACCURATE AND TIMELY DATA
– Provision of MDS template– Submitting data in support of invoices via
[email protected] prior to mobilisation.– Failure to use these templates can result in payment
being delayed.– The information requested will be used to authorise
payment, monitor key performance indicators and manage the contract.
– Patient experience data to inform the quality and governance aspects of the contract and influence future planning.
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CHANGES IN GUIDANCE ON IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
– There has been a change in guidance on submission of identifiable information from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (the body charged with regulating flows of data within the health care system) since this specification has been put together.
– There will need to be addendum of minor re-wording of the information parts of the specification, or all providers will be required to submit “Data Depositor Agreements” to NECS.
– Data from nursing homes will be compared with that maintained by the Nurse Co-ordinator.
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SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES
• Process Address:
Shared Business Services
Pheonix House
Topcliffe Lane
Wakefield WF3 1WE
• Invoicing correlation vs electronic data NHS North Durham CCG
00J Payables L245
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THE REALLY IMPORTANT BITS
• Thank you for listening
• Questions?
• Contact details – base John Snow House , [email protected] (provider team)
[email protected] (information team)
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