Paediatric intensive care surge standard operating procedure – NHS England This guidance sets out instructions for managing unplanned peaks in demand for critical care beds, across the country’s 29 paediatric intensive care units. The After Francis policy commentary Picker has published The After Francis policy commentary.  This document is based on…

Shared commitment to quality from the National Quality Board – NHS England This framework provides a nationally agreed definition of quality and guide for clinical and managerial leaders wanting to improve quality.  The approach has been agreed across NHS and social care organisations to provide more consistency and to enable the…

Themed issue on Quality & Safety plus HSJ roundup. Considering chance in quality and safety performance measures: an analysis of performance reports by boards in English NHS trusts – BMJ Quality & Safety. Schmidtke, K. A., Poots, A. J., Carpio, J., Vlaev, I., Kandala, N.-B., Lilford, R. J. Hospital board…

CQC review into how trusts investigate deaths: What you need to know – NHS Confederation An overview of key findings and recommendations from the CQC’s review into how NHS trusts investigate and learn from deaths. Stephen Dalton: The CQC’s report on investigations into patient deaths is a powerful reminder that more…

Sustainable development in the health and care sector – annual performance maps – Sustainable Development Unit These interactive online maps outline how the health and care system is doing on sustainable development. They show how the system across England’s is performing by regions – which can be shown either by…

Quality at a cost – Nuffield Trust Quality at a cost is the fourth annual statement from QualityWatch, a joint research programme from the Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation. What have we learnt about keeping people safer? David Naylor, The King’s Fund Blog Despite the availability of well-evidenced guidance and the…

  Improving whole system flow The Health Foundation and the Advancing Quality Alliance have published The challenge and potential of whole system flow: improving the flow of people, information and resources across whole health and social care economies. This report outlines an organising framework and tested methods that local health…

Managing doctors, doctors managing – Nuffield Trust, Dr Alison Powell, Professor Huw Davies Good working relationships between doctors and managers are critical for the safety and quality of NHS care. Yet recent reports have referred to a ‘gulf’ between the two groups and to the growing risk of clinicians disengaging from…