Useful links

NHS and Department of Health

	NHS Direct
	Online health information service
	Emergency Care at the Department of Health
	Emergency Care at the Department of Health - contains details about the Emergency Care Programme
	Long-term Conditions at the Department of Health
	Long-term Conditions at the Department of Health - contains details about the Long-term Conditions National Service Framework
	Workforce Planning at the Department of Health
	Workforce planning at the Department of Health Contains information about integrated systems of workforce planning
	Primary Care at the Department of Health
	Primary Care at the Department of Health - contains details of the Government's NHS modernisation programme for primary and community care, including PCTs, Clinical Governance, Beacons, etc
	Primary Care Contracting
	The site brings together information and resources to help you understand and implement the new primary care contracting arrangements.
	National Primary Care Development Team
	The National Primary Care Development Team (NPDT) established primarily to assist primary care organisations - practices and PCTs - in developing their capability to deliver rapid, sustainable and systematic improvements in the care they provide to patients and their communities.
	Reforming Emergency Care
	Department of Health web pages devoted to the Reforming Emergency Care programme.
	The NHS
	NHS public web site. Includes a database of all practices and Primary Care Trusts in England.
	NHS Security Management Service
	The NHS Security Management Service is part of the NHS Counter Fraud and Security Management Service, a Special Health Authority, and has overall responsibility for all policy and operational matters related to the management of security within the delivery of NHS Services, including violence against staff.

Academic

	National Exemplar Programme Evaluation
	Independent evaluation of how the provision of out-of-hours care is developing in relation to the Out-of-Hours Review.
	National Primary Care Research and Development Centre
	National Primary Care Research and Development Centre - contains details about the Centre's research programmes and publications. The Centre has produced some leading work on quality and clinical governance in primary care.
	ScHARR
	One of the four Schools in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sheffield, ScHARR is a significant university-based concentration of health related resources in Trent and one of the most important in the UK.

Professional bodies

	RCGP
	Royal College of General Practitioners - contains useful details about the College, including membership, examinations, activities, services and publications.
	RCN
	Royal College of Nursing
	NPSA
	The National Patient Safety Agency is improving the safety and quality of care through reporting, analysing and learning from adverse incidents and 'near misses' involving NHS patients.

Reference sources

	NICE
	National Institute for Clinical Excellence - the website outlines NICE activities and will have National Health Service Frameworks, protocols and guidance as they are produced
	BMJ
	British Medical Journal
	National Electronic Library for Health
	The Primary Care National Electronic Library for Health. Indispensable directory of 1000 primary care web sites with a searchable index system.
	Medicines Management Services Collaborative
	Web link for the Medicines Management Services Collaborative with an overview of the programme and information on the Collaborative methodology.

This is now a legacy site

For up-to-date information on Out-of-Hours please visit: www.dh.gov.uk/outofhours