• Naylor review: NHS needs £10bn increase in capital – HSJ
  An increase of at least £10bn in capital funding is required to deliver proposals in sustainability and transformation plans and make NHS facilities fit for purpose, a major government review of the service’s property and estates has concluded.
• NHS ‘must become more commercial’ to raise £6bn from land  – HSJ 
  Trusts could generate nearly £6bn from redeveloping and then selling land but they would need to take “a far more commercial approach”, according to a major review by the government’s estates tsar.
• Provider deficit will be ‘at least £500m’ in 2017- 18 – HSJ
  NHS trusts are heading for a deficit of more than £500m next year, the body which represents the sector has warned.
• Trusts to team up with ‘exemplars’ to copy IT – HSJ  
  NHS England has outlined fresh details of a major shake-up of how trusts will procure IT systems, under which hospitals will partner with “exemplars” and replicate their “blueprints” rather than procuring systems themselves.

NHS England has published Next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View.
This document reviews the progress made since the launch of the NHS Five Year Forward View in October 2014 and sets out a series of practical and realistic steps for the NHS to deliver a better, more joined-up service with the aim of a more responsive NHS in England in the future.

NICE guidance: managing medicines
NICE has published Managing medicines for adults receiving social care in the community (NG67). This guideline covers medicines support for adults (aged 18 and over) who are receiving social care in the community. It aims to ensure that people who receive social care are supported to take and look after their medicines effectively and safely at home. It gives advice on assessing if people need help with managing their medicines who should provide medicines support and how health and social care staff should work together.

Improving rehabilitation of older people following discharge from hospital
Researchers funded by the National Institute of Health Research are conducting a five year national study looking at how rehabilitation can be improved for older people with frailty following discharge from hospital after an acute illness or injury. The overall aim is to investigate whether an extended rehabilitation programme using a home-based exercise intervention developed for older people with frailty improves health-related quality of life.

NIHR Signals
The National Institute for Health Research regularly publishes signals.  Signals are summaries of recently published research and intended to provide decision makers in health and social care organisations with evidence they can use.

• Skin-to-skin contact improves breastfeeding of healthy babies
• Patients receiving pedometers by post increased their physical activity for at least 12 months
• Men find self-testing acceptable to test for sexually transmitted infections

NICE guidance
Technology appraisal guidance

Statistics

• Critical care bed capacity and cancelled urgent operations for: February 2017