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