Knowledge @alert for Thursday 8th December
Quality at a cost – Nuffield Trust
Quality at a cost is the fourth annual statement from QualityWatch, a joint research programme from the Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation.
What have we learnt about keeping people safer? David Naylor, The King’s Fund Blog
Despite the availability of well-evidenced guidance and the best intentions of health and social care staff, there is still an ‘implementation gap’ between what we want to do to keep patients and service users safe and what actually happens in practice. We need to have a better understanding of what sustains this gap and what we can do to narrow it.
Recently, 90 people from across the health and care system came together for an event run by The King’s Fund, the Sign up to Safety campaign and NHS Improvement, to talk about keeping people safer.
Long term conditions data packs for CCGs
NHS RightCare has published CCG data packs for long term conditions. These packs contain data on a number of disease areas and elements of care. The pack is split by stages along a long term conditions pathway and enables a local health economy to look at an element, for example disease detection or prescribing, across multiple disease areas.
Impact of alcohol abuse on the emergency services
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Alcohol Harm has published The Frontline Battle. This report presents the results of an inquiry into the impact of alcohol on emergency services. It sets out the extent of the pressures and dangers of alcohol related problems placed on the emergency services and discusses the impact on staff, the impact on service provision and the effect on time and resources.
UK maternity care
MBRRACE-UK has published Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care: Surveillance of maternal deaths in the UK 2012–14 and lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2009–14. The report presents the findings of maternal mortality surveillance 2012 to 2014 in the UK and the lessons learned from the confidential enquiries into maternal deaths from cardiovascular causes, blood pressure disorders of pregnancy, early pregnancy causes together with messages for critical care.
HSJ roundup: (contact the library for further details on any of these HSJ articles)
- Trust leaders pressured ‘not to reveal’ financial problems
Trust leaders were pressured not to reveal their organisation’s real financial outlook at the mid-year point of 2016-17, according to an official document. - CCGs complain to NHS England ‘in strongest terms’ over budget cuts
Local commissioners have raised concerns with NHS England about their allocations being reduced as a result of the new national payment tariff. - Trusts ‘on track’ with finances forecast major deterioration
A number of NHS trusts that were said to be on track with their financial plans midway through 2016-17 have actually produced forecasts suggesting significant deterioration. - Resident consultants key to safe care, says royal college
Medical consultants should work more resident shifts on obstetrics and gynaecology wards to ensure safe care and help tackle rota gaps, according to a new royal college report. - Cyber attack trust reveals details of ransomware virus
The cyber attack experienced by Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Foundation Trust in October was caused by a variant of ransomware, a trust director has revealed.
Statistics
- Maternity Services Monthly Statistics – July 2016, Experimental statistics
- E. coli bacteraemia counts by CCG and month – October 2015 to October 2016
- MSSA bacteraemia counts by CCG – October 2015 to October 2016
- MRSA bacteraemia counts by CCG – October 2015 to October 2016