New requirements for NHS audit committees

The Department of Health has published Constitutional requirements of NHS Trusts’ and Clinical Commissioning Groups’ audit committees: Government response to consultation. The department  proposed new constitutional requirements for NHS Trusts and Clinical Commissioning Groups issued in October 2013 and asked for views on the chair and membership of audit committees. Overall respondents were supportive on proposals for the independence and composition of audit committees, although some concerns were raised in relation to increased costs associated for CCG audit committees. The department working with NHS England has made some adjustments to the requirements to take these concerns on board.

NHS England told: revive HR transition scheme – Health Service Journal – Workforce news
NHS England has been urged to centrally manage NHS redundancies again amid widespread expectations of cost-saving layoffs over the next two years.

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All in a day’s work: the drive for better ambulatory care – Health Service Journal Article

In an effort to reduce the number of bed days used in hospitals, trusts have focused on making same-day ambulatory emergency care the default option for emergency patients.

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Mobilising identities: the shape and reality of middle and junior managers working lives – a qualitative study, Health Services and Delivery Research, Vol:2, Iss:11

The aims and objectives of the study are as follows:

1. To chart the work of Middle and Junior Healthcare Managers; including identity work and to produce an ethnography of the lived experience of middle and junior management within the distinctive organisational context of healthcare and specifically the NHS.
2. To explore the identities (goals, values, motivations, beliefs and interaction styles) of  Middle and Junior Healthcare managers and how these are constructed, and further, how  the performance of their roles is shaped by these identities.
3. To capture how Middle and Junior Healthcare Managers leverage their identities to create success, establish trust and broker alliances to exert influence in different and various spheres and to determine how they interpret and take forward their ‘project’ to achieve organisational, group and personal goals within the framework of the NHS.
4. To determine the influence of managerial identities on organisational processes and outcomes. The study will consider multiple organisational outcomes, suggested in previous research on identity in organisations, such as: socialisation, role conflict, inter-group relations (Ashforth and Mael, 1989), social cohesion and adherence to (or deviation from) organisational norms, and leadership effectiveness (Hogg and Terry, 2000).

Sefton Supports New ‘Dementia Friends’ Campaign 

Sefton Council is supporting Public Health England and the Alzheimer’s Society’s ‘Dementia Friends’ campaign which highlights one of the biggest health issues facing the region.

Saving humans: the future of health and social care – Health Services Management Centre (HSMC)
In four new blogs Jon Glasby discusses aspects of the future of health and social care.

NHS technology funding faces £60m shortfall – HSJ Article

A £500m technology fund set up by NHS England to help hospitals move away from paper based systems appears to have been slashed by £60m, official documents suggest.

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Schedule change from 3 to 2 doses in the HPV vaccination programme – HM Government

In March 2014, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation revised its existing recommendation to change from a 3 to a 2 dose schedule. Recent research shows that antibody response to 2 doses in adolescent girls is as good as a 3 dose course in the age group where efficacy against persistent infection and pre-cancerous lesions has been demonstrated. Emerging evidence from evaluation of Human papillomavirus programmes around the world has shown that the number of young people with pre-cancerous lesions is falling and protection is expected to be long term.<