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Merseyside trust announces £1m nurse recruitment drive – Nursing Times
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is planning to invest £1m in recruiting registered nurses over the next 12 months.

Trust pilot to ‘push boundaries’ on road to staff ownership – Health Service Journal
A major teaching hospital is to hive off its orthopaedic services into an ‘autonomous team’ within the trust as part of a pilot designed to improve staff performance and outcomes.

Stevens launches hospital chains ‘vanguard’ – Health Service Journal
NHS England will ‘test new ways’ of sustaining smaller hospitals, including ‘chains’ running acute services, in its latest vanguard programme launched today by Simon Stevens.

Every patient a research patient? Evaluating the current state of research in the NHS – Health Management and Policy Alert,  University of Birmingham
According to this report, based on interviews with clinicians, nurses and administrators involved in NHS clinical cancer research, daily pressures on the NHS are having a serious impact on its ability to support world-leading research into cancer. It reveals pockets of excellence in clinical research, but also showed how escalating pressures to deliver routine NHS services are squeezing out time for hospital staff to do vital research. It also highlights how financial pressures are affecting research infrastructure and the capacity of host organisations to fund additional research costs.

NHS launches new collaboration to sustain and improve local hospitals – NHS England
The NHS invites expressions of interest from hospitals across England interested in developing new ways of delivering and improving their local acute services.The aim is to enhance the viability of local hospitals through new formal shared working arrangements between clinical specialists at different hospitals, and to improve efficiency by sharing back office administration and management between different sites.

Dying without dignity: complaints about end of life care
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has published Dying without dignity: investigations by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman into complaints about end of life care.  This report is intended to inform the debate about how, as a society, standards to improve the quality of end of life care offered across the country can be developed. It features 12 cases that illustrate the issues the Ombudsman regularly sees in casework on end of life care. The examples represent a diverse collection of stories, drawn from a range of different health care settings.

Prime Minister’s plan for a 7 day NHS
The Prime Minister has set out his vision for a modern NHS that will work for patients 7 days a week.  The speech set out the government’s plans to prioritise patient access to all services – from GP access to hospital care – backing NHS England’s plan for modernising the NHS.  Investment into the NHS will increase by £8 billion a year by the end of the Parliament to support the transformation of services across the country, including an increase in the number of GPs, faster access to new drugs and treatments and a greater focus on mental health and healthy living.

The practice of system leadership
The King’s Fund has published The practice of system leadership; being comfortable with chaos.  This report draws on the experiences of 10 senior leaders to look in depth at the skills needed to be a system leader. The 10 individuals are from different backgrounds and work in different contexts, and give some very candid reflections on their successes and failures. But they share a track record of having tried to bring about change (not always successfully) through using ‘soft’ power, enabling others to see and deliver the changes that are needed.

Caring into later life
Carers UK and Age UK have published Caring into later life: the growing pressure on older carers. The report rings together and analyses evidence from national data sources and older carers themselves to set out some of the key facts about this growing and diverse group and look at what steps must be taken to better support older carers.  The report is accompanied by statistics showing number of carers by local area.

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SIGN guideline development programme
The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network has published its current SIGN guideline development programme.  The programme includes new guidelines that are in development and published guidelines that are in the process of being updated. The timescales are provisional and will be revised quarterly.

Informed
The 19 May issue of Informed has been published by NHS England and includes the following items:

  • Simon Stevens calls for bold action to make NHS fit for the future
  • London GP mental health scheme helps hundreds, skills up primary care staff and saves thousands
  • Thousands of women confront mental health issues in thriving community perinatal scheme
  • Innovation Test Beds search extended
  • Mental health staff working with police and courts now cover half of England
  • Secretary of State writes to frontline staff
  • Are you ready for Dying Matters Awareness Week 2015?
  • NHS Confederation Annual Conference
  • Health + Care 2015 and Commissioning 2015

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