Knowledge @lert for Friday 15th May

May 15, 2015 Daily News

Digital Health Conference and Exhibition
Attending the Digital Health Conference and Exhibition 2015 allows you to explore the transformation of healthcare service delivery, while harnessing technology for patient benefit.
The conference will provide you with tools to improve patient choice and satisfaction levels whilst enhancing quality of care by reducing face-to-face interaction.

  • Fitting in with people’s busy lives.
  • Delivering faster and more convenient services
  • Empowering patients to take control of their own healthcare needs.
  • Improving collaboration across healthcare, social care and industry.
  • Using technology to deliver the same high standard

Fully funded places available; call on 0161 295 2092 or email Chris Reynolds on c.reynolds1@salford.ac.uk

Leeds links staff training with devices – EHI News
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has implemented new software to reduce the misuse of medical devices in its hospitals.

More cities to control health budgets – EHI News
Chancellor George Osborne has opened the way for more big cities to take control of local healthcare budgets.

Prior resigns as CQC chair to join government – Health Service Journal
David Prior has stepped down as chair of the Care Quality Commission to become a health minister in the new Conservative government.

Junior doctors told they must negotiate new contract – Health Service Journal
The chief executive of NHS Employers has warned the British Medical Association ‘there is no alternative’ to negotiation over a new contract for junior doctors.

Inclusion and diversity in the NHS: let’s be bigger and bolder – King’s Fund
This week marks NHS Employers’ Equality, Diversity and Human Rights Week. In the past year, the NHS has started to make progress in this area, particularly in terms of raising awareness – a crucial first step. However, measuring diversity and setting quotas are not ends in themselves; they are part of the progression towards inclusive, successful organisations and cultures of high-quality care.

International recruitment – quick guides for employers – Latest NHS Employers
NHS Employers has developed a range of quick guides on the subject of international recruitment.

Antimicrobial Resistance Review – The Review for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
The Review for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) has published a third paper Securing new drugs for future generations: the pipeline of antibiotics.  This latest paper proposes a set of interventions which directly address the specific problems of antibiotic development, and find ways to balance issues of profitability with access and conservation, so that commercial investment flows again into the area.  The proposals are intended to radically overhaul the antibiotics pipeline over the next 20 years.  The proposal costs are modelled on achieving 15 new antibiotics a decade, of which at least four should be breakthrough products, with truly novel mechanisms of action or novel therapeutic profiles targeting the bacterial species of greatest concern.  The final report from this review will be published in summer 2016.

Developing obstetric medicines – The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has published Developing new pharmaceutical treatments for obstetric conditions (Scientific paper 50).  This paperaddresses the reasons for a lack of development of new drugs for use in obstetrics and suggests ways that barriers to finding new treatments could be overcome. It highlights that, despite the obvious demand and the challenges to obstetric drug development, more should be done to help mothers and babies. These challenges include; high development costs; difficulties in trial design; and complex ethical and regulatory issues.  The paper outlines strategies to improve the development of new obstetric treatments.

Do patients choose hospitals that improve their health? – The University of York Centre for Health Economics
The University of York Centre for Health Economics has published Do Patients choose hospitals that improve their health? (Research Paper 111).   This paper tests whether hip replacement patients in England are more likely to attend a hospital that achieves larger improvements in their patients’ health. The study examined the choices made by NHS-funded patients treated during the period 2010 to 2012. It concludes that health improvements are more important for the choice of hospital than readmission or published mortality rates.  However, patients’ reaction to quality information is generally limited: even for large changes in quality patients would only be willing to travel few kilometres more. But because the market for hip replacement surgery is large, individual hospitals can attract a substantial number of extra patients if they can improve their quality.

NICE Local Practice Collection: shared learning case studies – NICE
NICE has added the following case studies to its Local Practice Collection. The collection includes shared learning examples showing how NICE guidance and standards have been put into practice.

Strengthening health system accountability
The European Office of the World Health Organisation has published Strengthening health system accountability: a WHO European Region multi-country study. This report takes stock of the measures that countries in the WHO European Region have put in place to strengthen their health systems’ accountability since the adoption of the Tallinn Charter: Health Systems for Health and Wealth (2008) and the Health 2020 policy framework (2012)

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