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Since January 2010, all providers and commissioners of NHS care are under a new legal obligation to have regard to the NHS Constitution in all their decisions and actions. This means that the Constitution, its pledges, principles, values and responsibilities need to be fully embedded and ingrained into everything the NHS does. The State of Readiness Group (SoRG), convened at the request of the NHS Management Board, has produced a report containing recommendations and examples of good practice designed to help. |
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The Handbook to the NHS Constitution is here to give NHS staff and patients all the information you need about the NHS Constitution in one place. It acts as a guide to:
- patients’ rights and pledges
- responsibilities of patients and the public and staff
- staff rights and NHS pledges to its staff
At the back of this Handbook is an appendix, which outlines the legal source for both the patient and staff rights in the NHS Constitution. |
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The core purpose and values of the NHS will be reinforced by placing a duty on providers and commissioners of NHS services to have regard to the new NHS Constitution. |
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The Constitution commits the Government to providing a statement of NHS accountability.This document accompanies the NHS Constitution, and provides a summary of the structure and functions of the NHS. |
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- Principles that guided the NHS
- NHS values
- Patients and the Public
- Staff
- e-learning
- Feedback
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A guide to values in the NHS from the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. As part of Lord Darzi's Next Stage Review, staff and patients across the country came together to discuss what mattered to them in the NHS. These discussions helped to define NHS wide values, which are now part of the NHS Constitution. |