Briefings

This section rounds up all of our resources associated with briefings.

Transforming Care Delivery 2007
All the resources from the April 2007 conference.

National Service Frameworks - Briefing
This briefing gives an overview of National Service Frameworks (NSFs) which are drivers of the NHS modernisation agenda.

Clinical Networks- Briefing
This is a briefing paper designed to give an overview of clinical networks, and to highlight their importance in relation to workforce planning.

Productivity Briefing Paper
This resource is a national and international literature review of productive time which has been written by Dr Keith Hurst, Senior Lecturer at the Nuffield Health and Social Care Group at Leeds University.

Skills Escalator - Briefing
This resource outlines what the skills escalator is, how it works and why it should be used.

Demographics and the healthcare workforce: briefing paper
An overview of the demographic factors impacting on the healthcare workforce.

Improving working lives: briefing
This briefing paper is designed to highlight the most important details of the improving working lives (IWL) strategy.

Lifelong Learning - Briefing
This is a briefing designed to support implementation of lifelong learning across the NHS.

New GMS Contract - Briefing
The new contract for General Medical Services (new GMS), accepted by GPs on 20 June 2003.

Payment By Results - Briefing
This is a guide to the Payment by Results (PbR) programme, which is increasing the emphasis on improving workforce productivity.