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First published in 1989, The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) has produced the referral guidelines, Making the best use of clinical radiology services, to help clinicians, radiologists, radiographers and other healthcare professionals to determine the most appropriate imaging investigation(s) for a wide range of clinical problems. They provide practical guidance based on the best available evidence, together with expert opinion where evidence is lacking or conflicting.
Available on the Royal College of Radiologists website |
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Thursday, 17 June 2010 10:38 |
How doctors close the gap
Tackling the social determinants of health through culture change, advocacy and education.
 RCP Policy Statement - RCP website link |
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National Standard representation of Clinical Imaging Procedures
October 2007 Release
Delivery of the 18 Week Patient Pathway And Beyond: A Strategy for Imaging Workforce
March 2007 Release
Report of the second phase of the review of NHS pathology services in England
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Thursday, 10 March 2011 14:53 |
Payment Grouper
This grouper should be used to group data and derive HRGs, support data quality, conduct what-if-modelling, and assess local reimbursement that will be received under PbR for the 2011/12 financial year.
The Local Payment grouper should be used in conjunction with the Guide to File Preparation, which explains how data should be sorted and presented for processing by the Grouper. This, and other useful guidance documents, can be downloaded from the documentation downloads page for this grouper. Any feedback will be gratefully appreciated.
The HRG4 2011/12 Local Payment Grouper continues to support the latest table of coding equivalence (TOCE), which maps the OPCS-4.6 codes introduced from April 2011 to their equivalent codes in OPCS-4.4, on which the HRG4 2011/12 Local Payment design is based.
As with previous releases, the local Grouper does not apply PbR business rules, including provider eligibility for Specialised Service Code derivation. Activities relating to Treatment Function Code or other pre-processing exclusions should therefore be removed from the input data prior to running through the local Grouper. As HRG exclusions are at spell level, and the HRG4 Grouper produces both episode and spell-level HRGs during the same run, HRG exclusions should be made at spell level following grouping. There is no requirement to group data twice. Those organisations that choose not to remove exclusion data may generate HRGs for data that are excluded from national tariff under PbR funding policy.
Please note:
• In particular we would advise that the HRG4 Summary of Changes document is read before using the grouper due to changes made since last year.
• Data for local reimbursement calculations for the 2010/11 financial year are still to be processed using HRG4 2010/11 Local Payment Grouper
• Although appropriate output files are produced, there is no reporting feature in any of the Payment suite of HRG4 groupers
Please find the weblink to the NHS IC site to download the latest grouper: http://www.ic.nhs.uk/services/the-casemix-service/using-this-service/reference/downloads/payment/hrg4-2011-12-local-payment-grouper
Further information on PbR in 2011/12 can be found at the following website: www.dh.gov.uk/pbr
We are always interested in hearing your thoughts and comments and would appreciate any feedback you may have regarding our products via our Contact Centre on 0845 300 6016 or
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Kind regards
The Casemix Service
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