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皇冠体育app independent NHS Future Forum, a group of the country鈥檚 top health experts, has today published its interim advice on integrated care, patient information and public health in a modern NHS, after listening to thousands of NHS staff, patients and the public as well as voluntary sector organisations.

皇冠体育app advice follows a request from the Prime Minister earlier this year for the NHS Future Forum to continue its successful dialogue and consider certain key themes with staff, patients and the public.

皇冠体育app interim advice and recommendations published today are aimed at informing the 2012/13 NHS Operating Framework and the plans around a new public health system.

皇冠体育app advice stresses that information about health and social care services must be published in a transparent and usable form and patients must have better access to health care records. It also calls for a national partnership across the NHS and public health.

皇冠体育app final reports, which will also include recommendations on education and training, will be published towards the end of the year.

In his meeting with the NHS Future Forum yesterday, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said:

鈥淚t is clear that the approach taken by the NHS Future Forum, both during the listening exercise and in its current phase, has provided us with invaluable feedback and insight from patients and NHS staff on what the NHS needs to do to improve outcomes and put patients at the heart of everything it does.

鈥溁使谔逵齛pp interim advice and recommendations are very useful and we will take them into consideration before we publish the 2012/13 NHS Operating Framework and further details about the new public health system.

鈥淭his shows the importance of engaging with patients and staff to ensure services are designed around patients.聽 I look forward to the Forum鈥檚 final report later in the year.鈥�

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1.聽For more information, please contact the Department of Health Newsdesk on 020 7210 5221

2.聽皇冠体育app interim advice can be found on the .