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NMC Revalidation – Southport & Ormskirk Discussion Group
This is an online discussion group where you can connect with colleagues who are undertaking or have recently completed the NMC Revalidation process. Share your experiences, ask questions or give others a helping hand!

Brexit will not affect status of any EU doctor on UK register, says GMC – GP Online
The UK’s vote to leave the EU ‘should not have any impact‘ on the registration status of any doctor already on the register, the GMC has said.

Regulators reveal conditions on £1.8bn ‘sustainability’ fund – Health Service Journal
NHS regulators have spelled out the conditions for trusts to access the £1.8bn “sustainability and transformation fund” in 2016-17.

Trust to spend £12m on clearing waiting list backlog – Health Service Journal
PERFORMANCE: A teaching hospital is to spend £12m clearing its backlog of elective patients who have waited more than a year.

Congenital heart disease units will close in Manchester, Leicester, and the Royal Brompton – BMJ News
Several heart specialist services are due to be closed across England under new proposals, and care will focus instead on centres of excellence that meet tough new standards.
Units that currently provide congenital heart surgery at the Central Manchester, Leicester, and Royal Brompton hospitals are set to close. The proposed changes, announced by NHS England on 8 July, are said to be necessary to ensure consistently high quality services across England for patients with congenital heart disease. The condition affects as many as 9 in 1000 babies born in the United Kingdom, with differing types of disease and levels of severity.

Integration self-assessment tool
The Local Government Association in association with NHS Confederation, ADASS and NHS Clinical Commissioners has published Stepping up to the place: integration self-assessment tool. This tool is designed to support local health and care leaders through health and wellbeing boards to critically assess their ambitions, capabilities and capacities to integrate services to improve the health and wellbeing of local citizens and communities. It focuses on the key elements and characteristics needed for successful integration.

Use of e-cigarettes in public places and workplaces
Public Health England has published two advice documents to inform evidence-based policy making   around e-cigarettes:

• Use of e-cigarettes in public places and workplaces:  advice to inform evidence-based policy making – sets out five principles to guide the development of evidence-based policies that maximise the potential for e-cigarettes to improve public health while managing the risks
• Report of PHE stakeholder ‘conversation’ on use of e-cigarettes in enclosed public places and workplaces – explains how the stakeholder group was formed and the five principles in the framework came to be drafted and adopted.

Statistics

•  Data on written complaints in the NHS – 2015/16 Quarter 4, Experimental

• HES-DID Data Linkage Report – Provisional Summary Statistics, April 2015 to February 2016