Need to find evidence-based information to support patient care, research, guideline and care pathway development, audit or policy documentation? Want to find up-to-date material on a topic of interest?
The Library & Knowledge Service can carry out searches on your behalf to identify journal articles, guidelines, systematic reviews and other evidence-based information to help meet your requirements. This service might be useful if you are searching a complex topic, struggling to find material (or narrow down the amount you find) or if you simply want to make sure you are getting the best results. The results of a search will be a list of bibliographic references with abstracts and/or links to websites (as appropriate to the topic). There is no charge for this service.

Regulators make it harder to improve care, special measures trust claims – Health Service Journal
A trust in special measures believes regulatory intervention has made it harder to improve patient care, the minutes of a high level ministerial meeting reveal.

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Health secretary could overturn devolved decisions – Health Service Journal
Decisions made under Greater Manchester’s proposed devolved health and social care system could be overturned by the health secretary if they think the decisions are “wrong”, a minister has indicated.

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Shared records take Manchester a step closer to integration – Health Service Journal
Integrated care records for 6,000 patients are being shared between the NHS and social care in Greater Manchester.

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High performing hospitals: a qualitative systematic review of associated factors and practical strategies for improvement – BMC Health Services Research
This review provides insights into methods used to identify high performing hospitals, and yields ideas about the factors important for success. It highlights the need to advance approaches for understanding what constitutes high performance and how to harness factors associated with high performance.

Do quality improvement collaboratives’ educational components match the dominant learning style preferences of the participants? – BMC Health Services Research 
Quality improvement collaboratives are used to improve healthcare by various organizations. Despite their popularity literature shows mixed results on their effectiveness. A quality improvement collaborative can be seen as a temporary learning organization in which knowledge about improvement themes and methods is exchanged. In this research we studied: Does the learning approach of a quality improvement collaborative match the learning styles preferences of the individual participants and how does that  affect the learning process of participants?  Finds that the participants’ satisfaction with the offered learning approach changed over time. The lacking match between these learning style preferences and the learning approach in the educational components of the quality improvement collaboratives studied might be the reason why the participants felt they did not gain new insights and therefore ceased their participation in the collaborative. This study provides guidance for future organisers and participants of quality improvement collaboratives about which learning approaches will best suit the participants and enhance improvement work.

How do third sector organisations use research and other knowledge? A systematic scoping review – Implementation Science 
Third sector organisations (TSOs) are a well-established component of health care provision in the UK’s NHS and other health systems, but little is known about how they use research and other forms of knowledge in their work. There is an emerging body of evidence exploring these issues but there is no review of this literature. This scoping review summarises what is known about how health and social care TSOs use research and other forms of knowledge in their work.

Training for staff who support students. The Clinical Teacher. Eleanor Flynn, Robyn Woodward-Kron, Wendy Hu
Front-line administrative, academic and clinical teaching staff often find themselves providing pastoral and learning support to students, but they are often not trained for this role, and this aspect of their work is under-acknowledged.

TDA refused to pay unexpected takeover costs – Health Service Journal 
NHS Trust Development Authority officials refused to pay the bulk of a claim for unanticipated costs made by a trust that fell into financial trouble after taking over a failing neighbour.

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Cracking the innovation nut: Diffusing healthcare innovation at pace and scale – NHS Confederation
This briefing outlines some of the lessons that Academic Health Science Networks (AHSN) have learned in their first 18–24 months of operation with regards to diffusing innovation and best practice at pace and scale. It includes examples of how AHSNs are working with the NHS, industry and others to overcome the challenges and gives recommendations to enable progress in this area.

The many meanings of ‘quality’ in healthcare: Interdisciplinary perspectives – BioMed Central 
A collection of open access articles articulating the many meanings of quality.

NICE consultations
NICE has published the following consultations:

• Joint distraction for knee osteoarthritis without alignment correction. Closing date for comment 23 July 2015
• Sacral nerve stimulation for chronic non-obstructive urinary retention. Closing date for comment 23 July 2015
• Transcranial magnetic stimulation for severe depression. Closing date for consultation 23 July 2015
• Type 2 diabetes: guideline consultation 2. Closing date for comment 24 July 2015
• Transition between inpatient hospital settings and community or care home settings for adults with social care needs.  Closing date for comment 6 August 2015
• Dry eye disease – ciclosporin (after artificial tears) [ID665]: appraisal consultation. Closing date for comment 15 July 2015
• Parkinson’s disease (update): call for evidence. Closing date for comment 20 July 2015

Statistics

• Critical care bed capacity and urgent cancelled operations – monthly situation reports, May 2015
• Delayed Transfers of Care: monthly situation reports – May 2015
• Opinions and Lifestyle Survey: Methodological Investigation into Response Scales in Personal Well-being
• Opinions and Lifestyle Survey: Methodological Investigation into the Societal Module