Knowledge @lert for Monday 11th August

August 11, 2014 Daily News

18 week waits, June 2014: explore the new maps – Health Service Journal
See all NHS waits around England by provider, CCG or specialty

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Quick guide to CQC consultations
The Care Quality Commission has published a quick guide to their consultations on guidance for services. This guide covers two CQC consultations relating to guidance for providers to help them meet the new regulations and guidance on how the CQC will use their enforcement powers to take action when providers fail to meet the requirements.

Evidence from voluntary and community sector to improve health outcomes
NHS Confederation has published a briefing Comparing apples with oranges? How to make better use of evidence from the voluntary and community sector to improve health outcomes. The briefing provides an overview of the knowledge, expertise and insight that voluntary and community sector organisations hold about their local communities and diverse groups of people within these, as well as the different ways this knowledge can be used to enhance JSNAs and commissioning. A poster has also been published alongside the briefing.

Legal claims against GPs up more than 20% in 2013 – GP Online
Legal claims against doctors rose 20% in 2013 – and higher still for GPs – as reforms to civil litigation rules came into force, medico-legal experts have revealed.

Urgent and emergency care workforce briefing
The NHS Confederation has published a briefing which brings together the learning from two workshops which explored how to develop a more flexible, integrated workforce to deliver urgent and emergency care. A workforce fit for the future: working together to improve the delivery of urgent and emergency care is intended as a reference document, providing an overview of existing programmes designed to deliver workforce changes at system level and practical examples of their implementation. It also offers some useful recommendations to national bodies involved in workforce design, planning and training on how to accelerate and better align their initiatives.

Linking pay and performance toolkit – new resources added – NHS Employers
New resources added to ‘Linking pay with performance‘ toolkit