Nurses could ‘walk away’ from NHS over pay restraint – Health Service Journal Nurses could ‘walk away’ from the NHS in the face of four more years of pay restraint, the new chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing has told HSJ. Contact the Library & Knowledge Service to request…

Measuring employee productivity, topic overview – Public Health England An overview of the literature on employee productivity and the different ways to measure it.   It includes information on: measuring productivity presenteeism (attending work whilst sick) productivity and wellbeing The impact of physical environments on employee wellbeing, topic overview – Public…

Virgin in running for Bristol children’s community services contract – Health Service Journal Virgin Care Services is in the running to be the interim provider of children’s community services in Bristol and south Gloucestershire, after the incumbent NHS provider announced it would end its contract in March. Contact the Library…

A patient approach: putting the consumer at the heart of UK healthcare –  Institute of Economic Affairs This analysis of the population’s attitudes towards access to healthcare suggests that people are open to a variety of providers when it comes to personal treatment, with nearly half the population indicating no…

Is the NHS delivering too much of the wrong things? – The King’s Fund More health care is not always better health care. Sometimes the NHS delivers services that people don’t want or need: the problem of overuse. Overuse happens when health care is delivered even though the potential for…

Monitor puts leadership condition on Wirral FT’s licence – Health Service Journal Monitor has taken enforcement action at Wirral University Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust, following a deterioration in its finances. The regulator said there were “reasonable grounds” to suspect the trust breached its licence to provide health services. It has told the…