The two summaries - providing IMPRESS's analysis of the key aspects of these documents for clinicians who are interested in respiratory careare available from the IMPRESS website.

The Operating Framework is the NHS's planning and priorities document issued by the Department of Health annually in December for the year ahead to enable the NHS to begin its planning for the financial year starting in April.

> Read the IMPRESS guide to the Operating Framework for 2011/12

The first NHS outcomes framework sets out the outcomes and corresponding indicators that will be used to hold the NHS Commissioning Board to account for the outcomes it delivers through commissioning health services from 2012/13.

The framework sets direction of travel in the journey towards improving outcomes, and offers an opportunity for the NHS to begin to understand what an NHS focussed on outcomes means for individuals, organisations and health economies.

> Read the IMPRESS guide to the Outcomes Framework

Integrated Care

IMPRESS have also produced summaries of two useful documents
about integrated care:
Kings Fund Clinical and service integration: The route to improved outcomes
and
Ernst and Young and RAND Europe independent interim evaluation of the 16 integrated care pilots in the NHS

> Read the IMPRESS summaries of the integrated care reports