Supporting self-management: a guide to enabling behaviour change for health and wellbeing using person- and community-centred approaches. – NESTA
This guide outlines how the science of behaviour can help people to self-manage their health and wellbeing. It is written for people who support those living with long-term conditions, or those who help people avoid these conditions using person- and community-centred approaches.

A digital NHS?: an introduction to the digital agenda and plans for implementation –  The King’s Fund
In recent years, the digital agenda in health care has been the subject of an array of promises and plans, ranging from the Secretary of State’s challenge to the NHS to ‘go paperless’ to the commitment set out in the NHS’s Five Year Forward View to ‘harness the information revolution’. But have expectations been set too high? And is there sufficient clarity about the funding available to achieve this vision? This report looks at the key commitments made and what we know about progress to date.

Brexit and the future of migrants in the social care workforce – Independent Age
There has been much speculation about the future residence rights of the estimated three million EU migrants already living in Britain. This report reviews future workforce shortages in adult social care in England to take account of the EU referendum result.

A false economy: cuts to continuing professional development funding for nursing, midwifery and the allied health professions –  Council of Deans Health
This report highlights the risk posed to the NHS by the funding cuts and calls for the Department of Health to lead a discussion to address the disconnect between the funding decisions and national strategic priorities. It also warns about the potential consequences of the cuts for the Government’s push to expand student numbers as part of plans to reduce staff shortages.

New presentation to help you make the case for health and wellbeing – NHS Employers
Use our new presentation as a tool to help persuade your board of the benefits of a robust wellbeing strategy.

Fiscal sustainability analytical paper: fiscal sustainability and public spending on health –  Office for Budget Responsibility
This paper reviews the latest evidence on the demographic and non-demographic determinants of health spending in the UK and its implications for the Office for Budget Responsbility’s long-term health spending projection. It finds that demographic effects have explained only a small part of the increase in health spending over past decades and that they are likely to remain a relatively small, although growing, driver of spending in the future.

Policy paper: Dementia nursing: vision and strategy – Department of Health
This strategy sets out how nurses can provide high quality compassionate care and support for people with dementia, so they can live well with dementia within all care settings, including a person’s own home.

It aims to support all nurses to be responsive to the needs of people with dementia, continue to develop their skills and expertise, and achieve the best outcomes for people with dementia, their carers and families.

This refreshed strategy builds on the original strategy, published in March 2013.

NHS Digital director: Focusing cash on elite tech trusts first is right – Health Service Journal
Jeremy Hunt’s new policy to prioritise more digitally mature hospitals for central funding instead of less technologically developed trusts as previously planned has been backed by a senior figure at NHS Digital.

Improvement update: September 2016 – NHSI
A roundup of improvement work and innovation from across the NHS. Part of Inspiring improvement: an intensive year of improvement in the NHS

Leeds hospitals surgery postponed after IT problem – BBC News – Health
Some hospital appointments and surgery at Leeds hospitals are postponed because of a “significant” IT problem.

NHS needs 3.5 per cent annual funding increase, economists predict -Health Service Journal
New economic projections from the Office of Budget Responsibility suggest the NHS requires real terms funding increases of 3.5 per cent a year to 2030.

NHS should get £5bn Brexit bonus by 2019 – Health Service Journal
The NHS should get a “Brexit bonus” of at least £5bn a year no later than the 2019-20, former health secretary Andrew Lansley has said.

The NHS in 2016
The Royal College of Physicians (RCGP) has published Underfunded, underdoctored, and overstretched: The NHS in 2016. This report is the first of a series in the RCGP ‘Mission: Health’ campaign which will be focused on three major themes working for health, delivering health, and creating health.  In this report, the RCGP believes that the NHS needs a new plan for the future which is  designed to meet the UK’s health and care needs in the long term, and to value, support and motivate NHS staff.

Managing conflicts of interest
NHS England has published Managing conflicts of interest in the NHS: a consultation.  This consultation puts forward proposals for change in the way conflicts of interest in health are managed.   The aim is to establish a system where there is proper management of potential conflicts of interest, to ensure that they do not crystallise into situations involving an actual conflict of interest with the risk that personal interests will prevail over the interests of the NHS. The consultation closes midnight Monday 31st October.

Trusts and CCGs must take ‘rapid action’ to meet vital neonatal guidelines – NHE
Families of premature and sick babies are unable to help care for their children because many NHS trusts are failing to meet the guidelines on proper facilities. Research from the charity Bliss has found that one in seven neonatal units provide no, or very limited, facilities and financial support for families.

Social support for elderly drives down hospital readmission rate, pilot shows – NHE
Support for older patients after they were discharged from hospital led to a reduced rate of readmission and improved patients’ welfare, new research shows. The ‘Hospital to Home’ service in Leicester and Leicestershire led to 9.2% of patients aged over 75 being readmitted within 30 days, against 15% nationally.

Major review details ‘challenging goal’ of single Manchester CCG by April 2017 – NHE
Manchester’s three CCGs are set to join with Manchester City Council after the proposals were approved in an independent assessment by private firm Deloitte. Deloitte said the joint commissioning plan meant that commissioning in Manchester should be implemented by a single CCG, which would hold a partnership agreement with…

NICE guidance
NG56     Multimorbidity: clinical assessment and management

Quality Standards
QS130   Skin Cancer
QS131   Intravenous fluid therapy in children and young people in hospital
QS132   Social care for older people with multiple long-term conditions 

Statistics
Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Report– June 2016 Final, July 2016 Primary and most recent quarterly data
Investment in General Practice – 2011-12 to 2015-16
NHS Payments to General Practice – England, 2015/16