Virgin in running for Bristol children’s community services contract – Health Service Journal
Virgin Care Services is in the running to be the interim provider of children’s community services in Bristol and south Gloucestershire, after the incumbent NHS provider announced it would end its contract in March.

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Quarter of FTs face regulatory intervention – Health Service Journal
Nearly a quarter of all foundation trusts are in breach of their licence, HSJ analysis has revealed.
Monitor taking enforcement action against 36 FTs Ten more being investigated over finances or performance FT chief concerned over level of intervention Map: see the trusts and reasons for their breach The analysis shows that Monitor is taking enforcement action against 24 per cent of FTs for breaching their licences. There are 151 trusts with foundation status.

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Experiential learning: What’s missing in most change programs – McKinsey Insights & Publications
Successful transformations demand new capabilities. To build them, experiential learning leverages the intimate link between knowledge and experience.

Care in the last days and hours of life
The Department of Health has published One chance to get it right: one year on report. This report shows the progress organisations have made on specific commitments in the One Chance to Get it Right report, which set out actions to improve care in the last days and hours of life. This update sets out progress made on: the new Care Quality Commission inspection regime for end of life care; new NICE guidance; actions to improve education, training and research; professional regulation and the implementation of the priorities for care.

NICE advice
NICE has published a new evidence summary: unlicensed or off-label medicineInfantile haemangioma: topical timolol (ESUOM47). ‘Evidence summaries: unlicensed or off‑label medicines’ summarise the published evidence for selected unlicensed or off‑label medicines that are considered to be of significance to the NHS, where there are no clinically appropriate licensed alternatives. The summaries provide information for clinicians and patients to inform their decision‑making and support the construction and updating of local formularies.  The strengths and weaknesses of the relevant evidence are critically reviewed within this summary. This summary is not NICE guidance.

NICE consultations

• Obesity – clinical assessment and management: topic engagement.  Closing date for comment 28 August 2015
• Intrapartum care for high risk women: consultation on the draft scope. Closing date for comment 11 September 2015
• Community engagement (update): draft guideline consultation. Closing date for comment 24 September 2015
• Care and support of older people with learning disabilities: consultation on the draft scope. Closing date for comment 8 September 2015
• Drug misuse prevention: call for evidence. Closing date for comment 7 September 2015
• Complex fractures: draft guideline consultation. Closing date for comment 21 September 2015

Statistics

• Cancelled elective operations, England, Q1 2015-16
• Higher risk of death associated with weekend hospitalisation

Bulletins

• Cancelled elective operations, England, Q1 2015-16
• Higher risk of death associated with weekend hospitalisation