Big jump in private share of NHS community services market – HSJ Article

The share of NHS community health service funding going to private providers has sharply increased in recent years, a new study reveals.

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A state policy framework for integrating health and social services – The Commonwealth Fund 

This briefing describes three essential components for integrating health, including physical and behavioural health services and public health, and social services: a co-ordinating mechanism; quality measurement and data-sharing tools; and aligned financing and payment.

 Shaping Future Dementia Services – Sefton News 

Sefton residents are being asked for their views and experiences about living with dementia to help shape a borough wide strategy for improved services. The draft strategy, ‘Living Well with Dementia…

NICE guideline update: advanced breast cancer

NICE has published Addendum to managing complications (chapter 6) of clinical guideline 81, advanced breast cancer. The document has added recommendations on exercise in people with or at risk of breast-cancer-related lymphoedema to section 1.5 of the NICE guideline. The addendum also contains details of the methods and evidence used to update these recommendations. The recommendations in exercise in lymphoedema are also relevant for people with early or locally advanced breast cancer. Additional link: CG81 – Advanced Breast Cancer

NHS England launches the NHS Number survey for all Trusts – NHS England

NHS England has launched a survey on the uptake and use of the NHS Number as the primary patient identifier aimed at Trusts across all services. The survey – the first of its kind – will enable NHS England to create a comprehensive picture by Trusts across England of use of the NHS Number in direct care. The NHS Standard Contract for 2014-15 states that “the provider must use the NHS Number as the primary identifier in all clinical correspondence” and is a key criterion for applications to the Integrated Digital Care Fund.

Human capital flows: using context-emergent turnover (CET) theory to explore the process by which turnover, hiring, and job demands affect patient satisfaction.  – Academy of Management Journal; Jun 2014, Vol. 57 Issue 3, p 766-790

The dynamic systems view of voluntary turnover rates advocated in context-emergent turnover theory is used to explore how and why human capital flows impact unit performance over time. We examine hiring rates and employee transfer rates as distinct system components that work alongside voluntary turnover rates to affect job demands, and ultimately patient satisfaction. Our work explores this dynamic system of interrelated constructs, and explains and compares their mutual causality over time. The sample examined consists of 12 nursing units in a large hospital over 72 monthly observations, with patient satisfaction as the measure of unit performance.

Bulletins

• NHS workforce bulletin – 30 June 2014
• #HEElife – Issue 6 (Health Education England’s newsletter)