Knowledge @lert for Monday 20th October

October 20, 2014 Daily News

Organisations invited to apply to host Executive NHS Innovation Programme (ENIP) – NHS England
NHS England has established an Executive Innovation Programme to promote the development of innovation across the healthcare system. The programme aims to identify, train and mentor senior innovation leaders, empowering them to implement and disseminate innovation in their organisation and the wider NHS. The innovation programme will include four core components which will support the development of innovations for selected candidates. These are:

  • A one week intensive training course
  • Ongoing mentorship and support for one year from an experienced team of mentors
  • Provision of support and resource by partner organisations
  • A 2015 NHS Innovation Summit to showcase outputs from the programme and implemented innovations

Information posters about Ebola
NHS England is distributing a series of posters to inform NHS staff about Ebola to GP surgeries, A&E departments and pharmacies.  Posters will also be available in NHS premises to inform the public.

Information for healthcare workers: Ebola in pregnancy
Public Health England has published Information for healthcare workers: Ebola in pregnancy.  This guidance is aimed at clinical staff undertaking direct care of pregnant patients; it is a supplement to guidance for acute trusts and primary care, which contain more specific information on assessing patients at risk of Ebola virus disease.

Acute trusts told to abandon ‘fortress’ mentality – Health Service Journal – Acute care news
Hospitals that blinker themselves to the potential of working with mental health providers will usher in their ‘own financial demise’, the NHS England official overseeing the service has warned.

Community pharmacy management of minor illness – Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RCP)
This report shows that common ailments such as coughs and sore throats cost the NHS an extra £1.1 billion a year when patients are treated at A&E or GP surgeries rather than at community pharmacies. Treatment results were equally good regardless of whether patients were treated at a pharmacy, A&E or GP practice. Overall, the study estimates that 3% of all A&E consultations and 5.5% of GP consultations for common ailments could be managed in community pharmacies. This equates to over 650,000 visits to A&E and over 18 million GP consultations every year that could be diverted with a total annual cost saving of over £1billion.

Liver disease profiles –  Public Health England (PHE) 
These profiles contain data which reveal the geographic variation in mortality of patients with liver disease across the country. Some populations are more affected by liver disease than others. For example, the male mortality rate is 4 times higher in some local authorities compared to others. Similarly, there are large variations in hospital admissions from liver disease. Over 90% of liver disease is due to 3 main preventable and treatable risk factors: alcohol, hepatitis B and C, and obesity.

Improving The Delivery Of Adult Diabetes Care Through Integration – Diabetes UK
This report explains how diabetes care can be improved to achieve better outcomes for people with diabetes. The challenge for commissioners and healthcare providers locally is to make the system work to support that.

Economic crisis, health systems and health in Europe: impact and implications for policy – World Health Organization (WHO)
This report summarises the findings of a joint study by WHO Europe and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies analysing the impact of health policy responses to the crisis in Europe from 2008 to 2013. It is a key part of a wider initiative to monitor the effects of the crisis on health systems and health, to identify the policies most likely to sustain the performance of health systems facing fiscal pressure and to gain insight into the political economy of implementing reforms in a crisis.

Developing Supportive Design For People With Dementia – The King’s Fund
To support clinical and care staff, managers and estates colleagues, The King’s Fund has produced a range of resources to enable hospitals, care homes, primary care premises and specialist housing providers to become more dementia friendly.

  • Is your care home dementia friendly? – for use in care homes
  • Is your health centre dementia friendly? – for use in health centres and GP premises
  • Is your housing dementia friendly? – for use in any ‘housing with care’ setting including extra care housing, retirement communities, sheltered housing and very sheltered housing of any tenure
  • Is your ward dementia friendly? Is your hospital dementia friendly? – one tool for use in wards and clinical areas and the other for areas such as Outpatients

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