GPs urged to ignore NICE diabetes advice when treating frail elderly – GP Online
GPs should consider stopping diabetes treatment in frail elderly patients to improve health outcomes, as NICE guidance does not take their multi-morbidity or age into account, a GP expert has said.

How to win the A&E battle – Health Service Journal
What would happen if you took 48 of the brightest brains from Europe’s top business schools, locked them up in a tower for a day and asked them to solve the “wicked” problem of the NHS’s overstretched emergency departments?

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Patient records to be rolled out to community pharmacists – Health Service Journal
Summary care records will be accessed by community pharmacists nationwide from the autumn.

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Medicine optimisation can cut the costs of long term conditions – Health Service Journal
Medicines optimisation can cut waste, emergency admissions and the cost of long term conditions. But a review of rheumatoid arthritis care reveals how far it has to go. The drive for medicines optimisation appears to be gaining momentum across the NHS as a potentially effective means of improving both outcomes and efficiency. Championed by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and NHS England, its central concern is to ensure that healthcare professionals and patients make the most effective use of medicines.

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Make people the controllers of their data to help the NHS go digital – Health Service Journal
Changing how we view data and who is in control of it could help us address information governance issues so we make the best use of people’s health records, whoever has created them.  Anyone with a smartphone, tablet or Fitbit knows that, when it comes to our health, all of us now have the power to be “data creators”.

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NICE’s new symptom–based approach will help to save thousands of lives from cancer – NICE
Thousands of lives in England could be saved each year if the NHS follows updated guidance to help it diagnose cancer earlier, NICE says. NICE has updated and redesigned its guideline to support GPs to recognise the signs and symptoms of 37 different cancers and refer people for the right tests faster.

Give AHPs more powers to unlock new care models, says NHS England official – Health Service Journal
Plans to give allied health professionals the ability to prescribe medicines without the input of a doctor will help the NHS develop new models of care, an NHS England official has said.

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NHS must prioritise ‘a good death’ – Nursing solutions for palliative care – Royal College of Nursing
The RCN has responded to Triggers for Palliative Care, a new report from Marie Curie and launched new guidance on end of life care and nutrition and hydration for nursing staff.

Employment checks – references for new doctors in training – NHS Employers
Guidance for trusts refusing to accept references from medical schools as part of pre-employment checks.

Improving patient safety culture through teamwork and communication: TeamSTEPPS – Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence (HPOE)
Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in enhanced patient safety and improved clinical performance. This guide outlines a framework for improving organisational communication and teamwork skills to improve patient safety.