Knowledge @lert for Thursday 7th July
Contact the Library for further information on any of the topics listed below.
Patients as partners
The King’s Fund has published Patients as partners: building collaborative relationships among professionals, patients, carers and communities. This report stems from an evolving body of the Fund’s work focused on exploring and supporting shared leadership. This work is reinforced by a growing consensus that health services, agencies, patients and communities need to work together more and differently. The report suggests five approaches to developing an effective relationship this includes: making time for learning: setting aside time for reflection, record learning and sharing that learning with peers.
What staff need to know – An infographic from the Working Longer Group – NHS Employers
Download the new Working Longer Group infographic for staff, which highlights the important facts about the ageing workforce in the NHS.
Serious incidents in NHS acute hospitals
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published Learning from serious incidents in NHS acute hospitals: a review of the quality of investigation reports. This briefing document discusses the need for a change in the way that serious incidents are investigated and managed in the NHS. It reviews a sample of serious incident investigation reports from 24 acute hospital trusts. It provides a summary of the findings and calls for all organisations to work together across the system to align expectations and create the right environment for open reporting, learning and improvement.
New apprenticeship web pages – NHS Employers
As employers prepare for key policy changes, we have refreshed and updated the apprenticeships section of our website. The new web pages have a range of information to help employers plan for the implementation of the apprenticeship levy, including:
- a dedicated page on policy to keep you up to date with the latest changes
- an easy to navigate beginner’s guide section
- at-a-glance summaries of business benefits and common myths
- top tips and good practice examples.
End of Life care
The Department of Health has published Our commitment to you for end of life care: the Government response to the review of choice in end of life care. This report details the six commitments that the government has made to the public to end variation in end of life care across the health system by 2020. It outlines the actions the government is taking to ensure all people have high quality, personalised end of life care built around their needs.
End-of-life care case study – NHS Employers
NHS Employers has published a case study from Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust describing how staff are empowered to deliver end-of-life care. Making staff experts in delivering end-of-life care illustrates that through investing in education and training, the trust has been awarded an outstanding CQC rating for its end-of-life care services; improved patient care through improved staff communications; and received excellent feedback from patients’ families about the service provided.
End-of-life care webinar – NHS Employers
Book on to the webinar dedicated to end-of-life care, to hear from guest speakers who will share their knowledge and experience of this important area of healthcare. Aimed at end-of-life care facilitators, line managers, and education and training leads, you will hear best practice examples of how organisations are improving end-of-life care for patients through the education and training of staff.
NHS England closing Care.data – Health Service Journal
NHS England is closing the much-criticised Care.data programme, ministers have announced.
Hunt confirms junior doctors contract will be imposed – Health Service Journal
Jeremy Hunt today announced the government would impose a new contract on junior doctors, despite medics rejecting the proposed deal in a vote.
CQC warns of ‘significant risk’ in newborn care – Health Service Journal
There is a significant risk to hundreds of babies and children because of inconsistent practice and a lack of clear guidance on treatment, an investigation by the Care Quality Commission has found.
A national approach to reducing fragility fractures – Henry Mace, NHS England Blog
In the latest in the series of blogs from the Musculoskeletal Programme within the Long Term Conditions Team, Henry Mace, from the National Osteoporosis Society, discusses Fracture Liaison Services and their upcoming webinar with NHS England: The National Osteoporosis Society is the only UK-wide charity dedicated to improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis […]
Looking into the future of health and care
The King’s Fund is launching a series of short essays that take a step back from the challenges currently facing the NHS to explore a range of hypothetical scenarios for the future of health and care. What if antibiotics stopped working? What if every patient in the NHS had their genome mapped? What if people owned their own health data? The aim of the series is to encourage new thinking and debate about possible future scenarios that could fundamentally change health and care.
Statistics
- Maternity Services Monthly Statistics – February 2016, Experimental statistics
- NHS Safety Thermometer Report – England June 2015 – June 2016
- E. coli bacteraemia counts by clinical commissioning group and month – May 2015 to May 2016
- E. coli bacteraemia counts by NHS acute trust and month– May 2015 to May 2016
- MSSA bacteraemia counts by from CCG– May 2015 to May 2016
- MSSA bacteraemia counts by Acute trust – May 2015 to May 2016
- C. difficile infection counts by CCG and month – May 2015 to May 2016
- C. difficile infection counts by Acute trusts and month – May 2015 to May 2016
- MRSA bacteraemia: monthly data by post infection review assignment– May 2015 to May 2016