Bliss Baby Report 2015 This report has heard from neonatal units, transport services and parents across the country in order to assess the state of neonatal care in England in 2015. It found that neonatal staff are being forced to cope with consistently high demand, with far too few resources…

Lord Carter will produce ‘clearer guidance’ on nurse staffing levels Innovating inventory management Urgent care commissioning standards guidance National price caps for agency staff working in the NHS Impact case studies End of life care: government response NICE guidance NICE Quality Standard NICE surveillance report NICE consultations Statistics Lord Carter…

National price caps for agency staff working in the NHS – NHS Trust Development Authority Restrictions on nurse recruitment from overseas changed – Department of Health New AHCS blog explores innovation, 28 day diagnosis and public assurance – NHS Employers Struggling CCG may join leading NHS ‘ACO’ project – Health…

Community matrons’ experience as independent prescribers. – British Journal of Community Nursing. Factors influencing evidence-based practice for community nurses. – British Journal of Community Nursing. Context for successful quality improvement. N Fulop, G Robert, The Health Foundation, October 2015. Measuring the performance of local health systems: a review for the…

Overarching Financial Position Of NHS Trusts For The First Quarter Of 2015/16 NHS – Trust Development Authority Registered nurses and health care support workers: a summary of RCN policy positions – Royal College of Nursing (RCN) King’s Lynn ‘up for’ radical restructure to stave off £39m deficit – HSJ More…

Turning Value-Based Health Care into a Real Business Model – Harvard Business Review The shift from volume-based to value-based health care is inevitable. Although that trend is happening slowly in some communities, payers are increasingly basing reimbursements on the quality of care provided, not just the number and type of…

Trusts continue acute care collaboration despite failed vanguard bid – Health Service Journal Four acute trusts in Lancashire will continue discussions about sharing services, despite failing to secure ‘vanguard’ status.  The trusts had requested project management and cash support from NHS England under its acute care collaboration vanguard programme, but…

Vanguards in Action – Solihull Vanguard Together for Better livesThe work of the Solihull – Academy of Fabulous NHS Stuff Together for better lives partnership of local health and social care organisations to improve urgent and emergency care has already create an integrated system that combines preventative services with rapid…