This revised leaflet aims to help you identify, assess and control health and safety risks associated with workplace hazards – the guidance replaces ‘Five steps to risk assessment’.

It is mainly aimed at employers, managers and others with responsibility for health and safety, and will also be useful to employees and safety representatives.

Explanation of emotional intelligence and how to build it in yourself and team.

Local authorities’ public health funding allocations for 2015 to 2016 and a new public health incentive scheme announced. The Department of Health has announced that local authorities’ public health funding is expected to remain the same as last year, at £2.79 billion. The funding will remain ring-fenced to ensure it is used solely for improving public health.

Patient and Family-Centred Care (PFCC) is a simple, step-by-step method for understanding what a care experience is like, what needs to change, and which small improvements can make a big difference to patients, families and staff alike. Across the country, teams have implemented the approach to improve services, ranging from paediatric accident and emergency to the care of frail older people, with measurable results.

Patients requiring specialised care are usually treated by specialist teams with particular expertise and equipment. Concentrating services in this way should be cost-effective but there is concern that national tariffs might fail to fully reflect the true costs associated with treating patients that require specialised care. This is because the healthcare resource groups (HRGs), used to categorise patients and on which national tariffs are based, may not perfectly differentiate between patients that do and do not receive specialised care. This analysis aims to identify whether or not a patient received specialised care and evaluate whether and by how much such patients have higher costs than those allocated to the same HRG.

This report addresses recent calls for research to examine the wider sociocultural and organisational context of patient safety between care settings and processes. It develops the idea that health-care services might be seen as complex systems involving non-linear and dynamic interactions between heterogeneous actors. In this sense, the sources and threats to safety emerge from systems-level interdependencies and relationships

Interim report that outlines the progress with NHS England’s work with local commissioners and the development of their five year strategic and two year operational plans as well as updates on planning to develop demonstrator sites to trial new models, including the new NHS 111 service specification.

Blog post by the Think Tank Reform’s Andrew Haldenby considering the role of charging in the NHS. Research by Reform, carried out last year, found that a £10 charge for GP consultations (with exemptions on the basis of age and income) could raise £1.2 billion each year for the NHS. Reforming prescription charges could raise an additional £1.4 billion each year. This would help plug the annual funding gap of £4 billion, estimated by NHS England. This blog posts identifies little appetite for charges.

Briefing on the role of the third sector in implementation of Better Care Fund planning. This briefing is based on current government guidance.

This guide offers easy to follow, step-by-step guidance and resources to support organisations to use evidence to influence policy and practice. It also provides guidance on the use of evidence to influence funding and commissioning decisions and highlights other key resources.