Guidance and regulation

Sets out COVID-19 testing for hospice patients and staff.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Updated: 25 March 2024

Information resource for care home workers about preventing and controlling infection in care homes.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care and 1 others
• Updated: 18 February 2013

Guidance for managing seasonal influenza, identifying pathogens and transmission routes for acute respiratory disease in care homes.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Updated: 7 July 2023

Explains how commissioners and health professionals can use data and analysis for decisions about dementia services and interventions.

• From: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
• Updated: 6 November 2023

Resources to help local commissioners achieve value for money by estimating the return on investment (ROI) and cost-effectiveness of public health programmes.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 12 August 2021

This publication explains the importance of faith at the end of life, for professionals, providers and commissioners working in communities.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 29 January 2016

Sets out the outcomes and corresponding indicators used to hold the NHS Commissioning Board to account for improvements in health outcomes.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 13 November 2012

A guide that supports the methods used for all place of death indicators as classified by Office for National Statistics (ONS) death certificate data.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 1 March 2019

The NHS Outcomes Framework sets out indicators for measuring outcomes in NHS services.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 20 December 2010

Information for healthcare professionals.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 26 October 2009

How the National End of Life Care Programme Board is delivering personalisation and choice in care for people at or near the end of life.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 21 September 2017

Sets out the amount of funding received by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) for hospice and palliative care services in the 2019 to 2020 financial year.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 29 October 2019