Knowledge @lert for Thursday 29th September

Creating supportive environments: tackling behaviours that undermine a culture of safety – Academy of Medical Royal Colleges This report explores bullying and undermining within the medical workforce in the UK. It looks at current efforts to tackle problems and what further work is required. New frameworks to increase integrated health…

Knowledge @lert for Friday 23rd September

Following the publication of yesterday’s planning guidance, here are the six must read articles from HSJ’s comprehensive coverage: Planning guidnce: Funding to shore up NHS deficits will continue until 2019 – Health Service Journal. A further £3.6bn of “sustainability funding” will be used to plug NHS provider deficits over the…

Knowledge @lert for Thursday 22nd September

Our daily Knowledge @lerts are a round up of all the latest news and publications around health management and service improvement including The Kings Fund, NHS Improvement, NHS England, the HSJ, the National Health Executive, the BMJ, Nursing Times and many more.

Knowledge @lert for Tuesday 20th September

Cuts to social care funding represent urgent threat to the NHS, warn experts – BMJ Successive cuts to local authority budgets are leading to serious gaps in social care availability to older people and are putting significant strain on the NHS, according to a new report by health think tanks…

Knowledge @lert for Friday 16th September

Second South West social enterprise to close next month – Health Service Journal A second social enterprise in the South West is to be wound down after it lost its main contract to an NHS trust. Specialist hospital rated ‘one of the best trusts in England’ – Health Service Journal…

Knowledge @lert for Thursday 15th September

Local plans for local people: communicating change – NHS Confederation NHS England have produced a guide for local areas to use, which is intended to support them in involving and engaging with local people in the development of Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs). Most areas should publish STPs by end…

Knowledge @lert for Tuesday 13th September

Preventing avoidable hospital admissions – The University of Birmingham The University of Birmingham has published Who knows best? Older people’s contribution to understanding and preventing avoidable hospital admissions.  With estimates of over two  million unplanned hospital admissions per year of people aged over 65, questions are often asked such as:…

Knowledge @lert for Thursday 8th September

New podcast from Professor Ivan Robertson on resilience in the workplace – NHS Employers Hear Ruth Warden, assistant director at NHS Employers, catch up with Professor Ivan Robertson to talk about the importance of resilience in the NHS workforce Technology ‘must be embedded in STPs’ and IT moved away from…

Knowledge @lert for Wednesday 7th September

Birmingham trusts to form single organisation to solve ‘unsustainable’ arrangements – NHE University Hospitals Birmingham and Heart of England NHS Foundation Trusts will form a single trust after finding that their current structure is not delivering the best care for patients. If the decision is approved by both trusts’ boards, one trust…

Knowledge @lert for Tuesday 6th September

NICE Bites: Sepsis The August 2016 NICE Bites bulletin from the North West Medicines Information Service covers Sepsis.  The aim of this publication is to provide healthcare professionals with a clear and succinct summary of key prescribing points taken from the NICE guidance, NG51.  This guideline covers recognition, diagnosis and…