Knowledge @lert for Wednesday 18th February

February 18, 2015 Daily News

Implementing the NHS five year forward view – The King’s Fund
This report calls for fundamental changes to how health services are commissioned, paid for and regulated to deliver the vision of the NHS five year forward view.

Raising awareness of needlestick injuries in healthcare settings – HM Government
At the fifth POINTERS conference following a series of presentations relating to occupational exposures to bloodborne viruses, a discussion group session was held to explore the topic of ‘raising awareness of needlestick injuries in healthcare settings’. This report highlights the points raised during the session.

Monitor directorates – HM Government
This document explains the function of Monitor’s directorates, or sectors. You can find out more about Monitor’s structure in the organisation chart.

Maternity care pathways – Health Education England (HEE) 
This tool, developed in collaboration with the Centre for Workforce Intelligence, aims to enable service providers to analyse their whole maternity workforce aligned with their service’s individual care pathways. The tool is free to download alongside a user guide but requires free registration for full access.

Doing transformational change in the English NHS in the context of “big bang” redisorganisation. David J. Hunter et al. Journal of Health Organization and Management, Volume 29 Issue 1
The purpose of this paper is to examine a bold and ambitious scheme known as the North East transformation system (NETS). The principal aim of the NETS is the achievement of a step-change in the quality of health services delivered to people living in the North East region of England. The paper charts the origins of the NETS and its early journey before describing what happened to it when the UK coalition government published its proposals for unexpected major structural change in the NHS. This had a profound impact on the leadership and direction of the NETS and resulted in it taking a different direction from that intended.

Emergency department pilots partnership with private pharmacists – Health Service Journal  
North Manchester General Hospital has installed a private healthcare provider pharmacist at its A&E department to ease demand by treating patients with common ailments and minor injuries.

Most providers believe they cannot sign contracts before April, survey finds – Health Service Journal
A majority of provider sector finance chiefs believe that their organisations will not be able to sign contracts before the start of the coming financial year, according to a snap survey shared with HSJ.

A&E consultants resign en masse from trust – Health Service Journal 
Five accident and emergency consultants have resigned from a troubled West Midlands acute trust across two hospitals, including all four consultants from one department.

Making NICE guidelines mandatory ‘counterproductive’, says former chair – Health Service Journal 
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s former chair Sir Michael Rawlins has criticised NHS commissioners for ‘poorly implementing’ the body’s guidelines but said making them mandatory would be ‘counterproductive’.

Expert Patients – The Reform Research Trust
This report explores how patients can be more engaged in their health and more involved in their healthcare. The report argues greater patient engagement could both improve outcomes and reduce costs.  It estimates that stronger patient engagement could lead to savings of nearly £2 billion by 2020-21, i.e. around 10 per cent of the NHS England target saving.  Innovators outside the NHS are already giving patients the opportunity to engage in their health and care.

…and finally… “When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” – JANE AUSTEN.  The QI Elves (@qikipedia) February 18, 2015

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