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STP Quick Guides – NHS England
These quick guides are designed to help local leaders work together in tackling the big system questions, and build on existing efforts to make progress on some of the most challenging priorities. Each guide starts by setting out what success would look like in 2020, and gives suggestions about how areas could approach implementation.
Includes:

• Introduction to the aide memoires
• Primary care
• Urgent and emergency care and 7 day hospital services
• New care models
• Cancer
• Mental health
• Learning disabilities
• Digital
• Prevention
• Supporting people to manage their own health, wellbeing and care

STP June 30th submission guidance – NHS England

1. This short note is a guide for STP footprints on what the national bodies would expect to see in STP submissions, which are due on the June 30th 2016.It outlines how initial submissions should be developed.
2. There will not be a standard submission template apart from a shared financial template for each footprint to show it could close its financial gap for NHS services and achieve sustainable financial balance in aggregate by 2020/21.
3. ANNEX – Topics to cover in June

• Executive summary / plan on a page
• Starting point [as set out in April submission]
• Priorities and transformation schemes
• Solutions that taken together close the gaps, and its impact quantified – health and care being described as concretely as possible in terms of expected effect on metrics.
• How to deliver your plan

Strategic quality improvement – The Kings Fund
The Kings Fund has published Strategic quality improvement: an action learning approach.  This case study provides details of work with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust to develop its ability to appraise its own approach to quality improvement with a view to improving performance, achieving better clinical outcomes and building further on the trust’s capacity as a learning organisation.

The impact of the 2015 Comprehensive Spending Review on higher education fees and funding arrangements in subjects allied to medicine –  UNISON
According to this report, government plans to scrap the bursary funding for students on nursing, midwifery and other health degrees will mean around 2,000 fewer people a year will study for a career in the NHS.

New patient safety body to begin investigations this autumn – Health Service Journal
The new Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch will be operating from this autumn with a budget of £3.6m for around 30 investigations, HSJ has been told.

Spike in demand for ‘off-payroll’ interim trust executives – Health Service Journal
There has been a sharp rise in requests from trusts to hire interim executives on an off-payroll basis, HSJ has learned.

Challenges, solutions and future directions in the evaluation of service innovations in –  National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
Policies and interventions in the health-care system may have a wide range of effects on multiple patient outcomes and operate through many clinical processes. This presents a challenge for their evaluation, especially when the effect on any one patient is small. This essay explores the nature of the health care system and discuss how the empirical evidence produced within it relates to the underlying processes governing patient outcomes.

Innovating for improvement £1.5million available – The Health Foundation
Now open for applications

• £1.5m available for up to 20 teams to test and develop innovative ideas and approaches to improve health care delivery and/or the way people manage their own health care in the UK.
• Each project team will receive up to £75,000 of funding to support the implementation and measurement of the project.
• Teams should demonstrate how their projects will lead to direct benefits or impact on patients.

Shaping the future: CQC’s strategy for 2016 to 2021 –  Care Quality Commission (CQC)
This five-year strategy sets out CQC’s vision and ambitions for a more targeted, responsive and collaborative approach to regulation so that more people receive high-quality care. It describes how CQC will combine learning from 22,000 comprehensive inspections with better use of intelligence from the public, providers and partners in order to focus inspections more tightly to where people may be at risk of poor care. The new strategy also aims to encourage services to innovate and collaborate to drive improvement.

Scale of NHS staff transfer to private sector revealed – Health Service Journal
The scale of the transfer of NHS staff to independent sector providers in recent years has been revealed in new figures.

NICE guidance/advice
NG47  Haematological cancers: improving outcomes

Interventional procedure guidance
IPG557 Endovenous mechanochemical ablation for varicose veins
IPG558 Biodegradable subacromial spacer insertion for rotator cuff tears
IPG559 Transcutaneous electrical stimulation of the supraorbital nerve for treating and preventing migraine

Technology appraisal guidance
TA390 Canagliflozin, dapagliflozin and empagliflozin as monotherapies for treating type 2 diabetes
TA391 Cabazitaxel for hormone-relapsed metastatic prostate cancer treated with docetaxel