#AMillionDecisions – Health Education England
Every day more than a million decisions are made across the NHS and healthcare sector.  Under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 health services have a responsibility to ensure that evidence is obtained from research.  Health Education England (HEE) and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) have launched #AMillionDecisions campaign, calling for all decisions we make to be evidence based and to do this by utilising the skills of health librarians.

Find out more and pledge your support:

• #AMillionDecisions
• cilip.org.uk/amilliondecisions

Changing clinical care in hospitals
The Nuffield Trust has published The London Quality Standards: a case study in changing clinical care.  This report evaluates the introduction of standards which set out the minimum quality of care that patients with medical illnesses should expect when admitted to hospital.  It shows the standards worked well in making people aware of shortcomings in care, and drove change in how people worked. However, the initial analysis did not show any evidence that they achieved consistent improvement in patient outcomes

Health and care of older people
Age UK has published The health and care of older people in England 2017.  This briefing examines the health and care needs of the ageing population, the state of social care, the state of healthcare and whether the health and care system is fit for the future.  It demonstrates the challenges facing older people who need care and the impact of the failure to provide it on their health and wellbeing, as well as the NHS.

Next generation of community health – American Hospital Association (AHA)
This report takes a U.S. focused view on how community health services are likely to develop as hospitals redefine themselves to keep pace with the changing health care landscape. It examines how community health has the potential to become the hub for population health and to bring together multiple sectors to reduce health inequalities.

BMJ Quality & Safety  – March 2017 issue (full text available with NHS Athens Account, contacy the Hanley Library for further details)

• Mobilising a team for the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist: a qualitative video study
• The denominator problem: national hospital quality measures for acute myocardial infarction
• Variations by state in physician disciplinary actions by US medical licensure boards
• Information transfer in multidisciplinary operating room teams: a simulation-based observational study
• A cross-sectional observational study of high override rates of drug allergy alerts in inpatient and outpatient settings, and opportunities for improvement
• Evaluation of the association between Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS) measures and catheter-associated infections: results of two national collaboratives
• Improving feedback on junior doctors’ prescribing errors: mixed-methods evaluation of a quality improvement project
• Re-examining high reliability: actively organising for safety
• Learning from incidents in healthcare: the journey, not the arrival, matters

Bulletins

• TEL News (Technology Enhanced Learning) (pdf) – February 2017
• NHS Workforce Bulletin – 13 February 2017
• Provider bulletin – 15 February 2017
• SCIE ebulletin – 15 February 2017

Statistics

• Mixed sex accommodation breaches – January 2017
• Direct access audiology waiting times – December 2016
• Provisional accident and emergency quality indicators for England by provider – November 2016
• Provisional monthly hospital episode statistics for admitted patient care, outpatient and accident and emergency data – April to December 2016

HSJ roundup: (contact the library for further details on any of these HSJ articles)

• Trust tells staff to stand in meetings to help hit funding goal
  A Midlands trusts is asking staff to stand when meetings run over an hour to help meet its staff health and wellbeing CQUIN goal, which is worth £900,000 this financial year.
• Trust chiefs must sign off CCG mental health spending
  Mental health trust leaders must sign off their commissioners’ spending for the sector under radical new plans to make sure cash is reaching the front line, HSJ can reveal.
• Success regime will not solve region’s problems, warn senior medics
  Plans for a major acute reorganisation in Essex will not address its financial and workforce sustainability problems and provide “relatively little change to current provision”, senior clinicians have warned.
• ‘Lives at risk’ unless ambulance trust cuts waiting times
  The chief executive of East of England Ambulance Service Trust has admitted the organisation “does not have the capacity” to reach patients within national response time targets.
• Concerns over future of pioneering heart failure unit
  “Significant” concerns have been raised over the sustainability of a pioneering heart failure unit at a major London trust, which will now review its use of resources.
• Mortality spike linked to care cuts
  A sharp rise in deaths last year was likely to have been caused by failures in health and social care linked to funding cuts, a study has concluded.