Our foundation trust’s got talent – HSJ Article

North Tees and Hartlepool Foundation Trust has piloted the NHS Leadership Academy’s Talent Conversation Guide after facing a pressing need to make the most of its staff’s potential.

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Let’s unlock our people’s potential – HSJ Article

‘Talent conversations’ should help to redress the NHS’s historic shortcomings in staff development according to NHS Leadership Academy’s Karen Lynas.

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Improving NHS care by engaging staff and devolving decision-making – The King’s Fund 

An independent review for the government has concluded that more NHS organisations should be encouraged to become public service mutuals. The review, led by Chris Ham, Chief Executive of The King’s Fund, found compelling evidence that NHS organisations with high levels of staff engagement – where staff are strongly committed to their work and involved in decision-making – deliver better quality care. While staff engagement levels have increased across the NHS in recent years, the review found significant variations between organisations. It calls on all NHS organisations to make staff engagement a key priority in order to improve care at a time of unprecedented financial and service pressures.

HEE to axe local board posts in major shake up – HSJ Article

All local education and training boards are due to lose their managing directors, directors of finance and directors of education under a reorganisation proposed by Health Education England.

Safe staffing for nursing in adult inpatient wards in acute hospitals – National Institute for Care and Excellence (NICE)

This guidance is designed to help ensure safe and efficient nurse staffing levels on hospital wards that provide overnight care for adult patients in England and is in response to concerns about standards of patient care following the Mid-Staffs inquiry. The guidance committee concluded that when each registered nurse is caring for more than 8 patients this is a signal to check that patients are not at risk of harm. At this point senior management and nursing managers should closely monitor red flag events, analyse safe nursing indicator data and take action if required. No action may be required if patient needs are being adequately met.

Central funding of NHSmail SMS to end- EHI

Plans to end central funding of email-to-SMS services for NHSmail2 will “go down like a lead balloon” with GPs, a primary care leader has warned.

Liverpool gets Emis access on tablets- EHI

Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust has deployed 1,500 tablets to give its staff access to Emis Web in the community.

Responding to the independent review on staff engagement and empowerment- NHS Employers 

Responding to the Kings Fund review on staff engagement, find out what resources are available to support your organisation.

Fifth edition of the Gold Guide published -NHS Employers

The fifth edition of the Gold Guide, A reference guide for postgraduate specialty training in the UK, is now available, replacing all previous versions of the guide with immediate effect. Written by the four UK health departments and published by Health Education England (HEE), the guidance applies to all trainees undertaking core, and/or specialty training programmes that commenced from 1 August 2007.

Eligibility information for FP 2015 entry published – NHS Employers

The United Kingdom Foundation Programme Office (UKFPO) has published information on their website detailing the steps needed for trainees to complete an eligibility application for entry to the Foundation Programme in 2015. The FP 2015 eligibility application information can be found on the UKFPO website, and is only required to be submitted for trainees who:

• are a student or graduate from non-UK medical school
• graduated from a UK medical school prior to 4 August 2013.

All other trainees who wish to enter the Foundation Programme in 2015 will need to submit their entries personally and via nomination through their medical school dean. The UKFPO has published ‘FP/AFP 2015 Application Guidance,’ which can also be found on their website.

BMJ Quality and Safety – August 2014, Volume 23, Issue 8

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• The need for independent evaluations of government-led health information technology initiatives
• Regulating and legislating safety: the case for candour
• From harm to hope and purposeful action: what could we do after Francis?
• In the spotlight: healthcare inspections as an opportunity for trainee clinicians to be the leaders of today
• The effect of the electronic transmission of prescriptions on dispensing errors and prescription enhancements made in English community pharmacies: a naturalistic stepped wedge study
• The Surgical Safety Checklist and Teamwork Coaching Tools: a study of inter-rater reliability
• More than a score: a qualitative study of ancillary benefits of performance measurement
• Quality of care in systemic lupus erythematosus: the association between process and outcome measures in the Lupus Outcomes Study
• Identifying patient safety problems during team rounds: an ethnographic study
• Safety measurement and monitoring in healthcare: a framework to guide clinical teams and healthcare organisations in maintaining safety
• Patient complaints in healthcare systems: a systematic review and coding taxonomy
• A multidisciplinary, multifaceted improvement initiative to eliminate mislabelled laboratory specimens at a large tertiary care hospital