CQC NHS enforcement action triples – HSJ The number of enforcement actions issued by the Care Quality Commission to NHS trusts surged last year, in a further sign of the increased willingness of regulators to take action over quality concerns in the wake of the Francis report.  Papers presented at the…

Annualisation: an approach to consultant job planning. Annualisation is a fairly new innovation in organisation of workforce. It allows the employees’ work pattern to be planned prospectively over a period of a year and the pay to be calculated based on the work performed at that period. It first appeared in Europe…

How Monitor, CQC and the NHS Trust Development Authority will work together to assess how well led-organisations are. – Care Quality Commission (CQC)   One of the five questions CQC now asks of all providers is ‘how well-led is this organisation?’. The quality of leadership is one of the most important…

Working together to assess how well led organisations are – TDA The NHS Trust Development Authority, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Monitor have committed to developing an aligned framework for making judgements about how well led NHS providers are. By ‘well led’ we mean that the leadership, management and governance of…

Eyes on Evidence The May edition of Eyes on Evidence has been published by NICE. It includes the following items: Adenotonsillectomy in children with obstructive sleep apnoea Ibuprofen compared with indometacin for patent ductus arteriosus Gallbladder removal with or without bile duct imaging Collaborative care for depression End-of-life preferences of people with…

Watch NHS England’s live stream of the board meeting – NHS England Thursday 15 May 2014, at NHS Southside, London.   Board meeting will start at 10:30am To view the board meeting, click here. The doctor’s digital toolbox (Infographic)  – Integrated Care Today The annual spend on IT in the United States was predicted…

New requirements for NHS audit committees The Department of Health has published Constitutional requirements of NHS Trusts’ and Clinical Commissioning Groups’ audit committees: Government response to consultation. The department  proposed new constitutional requirements for NHS Trusts and Clinical Commissioning Groups issued in October 2013 and asked for views on the chair…

Local judgement is crucial for setting safe NHS staffing levels – NHS Employers news The NHS Employers organisation is emphasising the importance of local evidence and decisions, in response to the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence launch of a new public consultation on draft guidelines about safe staffing. Labour plans…

Safe nurse staffing of adult wards in acute hospitals – National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE)  This draft guidance provides recommendations on safe staffing for nursing in adult inpatient wards in acute hospitals. The guidance was developed following the Francis and Berwick reports and aims to provide evidence-based guidance on…

Leadership – easier said than done – Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) This report explores general leadership issues and looks at the capacity of individuals at all levels of an organisation to buy into and lead on the organisational agenda, highlighting how misaligned organisational structures and processes can get in…