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• Health and Wellbeing of Staff 
  The health and wellbeing of our staff is extremely important. We have considerably improved management information to improve our understanding of issues surrounding stress. Staff have 24/7 access to a staff support service, supplied by colleagues in Merseycare NHS Trust. We also have a comprehensive range of training opportunities for all staff to assist in […]
• A central stationary store to streamline processes 
• The Cervix Visual Assessment Guide
  Alison Roberts, Specialist Nurse Colposcopist at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has developed the Cervix Visual Assessment Guide which is designed to assist primary care health professionals with the assessment and evaluation of the cervix. The guide is a visual educational tool developed by health professionals specialising in colposcopy and gynaecology. In response to […]
• Clinic Utilisation and Central Intelligence

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• GPs oppose ‘huge and unwieldy’ STP plans 
  GPs in North Staffordshire have said they want to see a new multispecialty community provider set up for the region instead of the larger organisation covering the whole county outlined in its sustainability and transformation partnership.
• NHS to build new cybersecurity centre 
  The agency charged with protecting the NHS from cyberattacks is planning to build a new ‘security operations centre’.
• NHS worker allowed to keep £30,000 after pensions mix-up 
  An NHS worker has been told she can keep more than £31,000 in payments she was not entitled to after blunders by the NHS Business Services Authority
• Challenged trust appoints former nurse as chief executive 
  A former nurse has been appointed as the new chief executive of a £550m turnover trust.
• Plans confirmed for biggest ever CCG merger 
  A merger of three clinical commissioning groups would streamline commissioning across Birmingham and Solihull with some functions shifting to accountable care organisations.
• CCGs face ‘impossible’ choices to deliver higher savings targets 
  Local commissioners must deliver efficiency savings of almost 4 per cent to meet their financial targets this year, despite failing to get close to last year’s target of 3.2 per cent.
• New top doctors’ leader warns over ‘softening’ of waiting targets 
  One of the UK’s top medical leaders has warned over the ‘softening’ of waiting list targets, in the first interview in her new post.

Nursing associate case studies published 
Health Education England has published a range of case studies featuring trainees from the nursing associate pilot programmes.

Better care for people with co-occurring mental health and alcohol/drug use conditions: a guide for commissioners and service providers – Public Health England
This guidance supports local areas to commission timely and effective responses for people with co-occurring mental health and alcohol or drug use conditions.

Behind closed doors: can we expect NHS staff to be the shock absorbers of a system under pressure? – Point of Care Foundation
This briefing highlights concerns that the pressures within the NHS are placing staff under stress and at risk of burnout and the impact that this could have on patient safety. It makes recommendations that focus on support for bottom-up initiatives that acknowledge the intrinsic motivations that staff feel to care for patients, and for actions at every level of the NHS to enable staff to be at their best with patients.

Costs of inpatient falls in hospitals
NHS Improvement has published The incidence and costs of inpatient falls in hospitals. This review provides an overview of the scale of inpatient falls and the benefits to the NHS if the rate of falls was reduced in hospitals. It examines the incidence of inpatient falls in hospital; the estimated costs hospitals incur as a result of inpatient falls; the potential cost savings from reducing falls by implementing well-evidenced multidisciplinary interventions; and potential savings to hospitals from taking these actions.

‘Eating for two’ pregnancy myth
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has highlighted the publication of a survey, to understand women’s perceptions of how much they should eat during pregnancy.  The survey, commissioned by the National Charity Partnership,, found 69 per cent of women are unaware of how many extra calories they need to consume during pregnancy. The RCOG is working with the National Charity Partnership to bust the ’eating for two’ myth and make it easier for people to understand how to make healthy choices during pregnancy to avoid unhealthy weight gain.

Mesh implants
NHS England has published Mesh Oversight Group Report. This document sets out progress to fulfil the recommendation set out in the Mesh Working Group interim report.  The work aims to address concerns over the use of mesh devices implanted in the pelvic region to treat stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse. The report, aimed at CCGs, GPs and hospitals, sets out steps to improve care as well as processes for reporting of complications.

Statistics

• Emergency presentations of cancer – data up to December 2016

• Breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks after birth – 2016 to 2017, quarterly data, experimental statistics

• Health visitor service delivery metrics – quarter 4, 2016 to 2017