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• Networked care – a toolkit for practice from Moorfields Eye Hospital – Acute Care Vanguard site Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the 13 acute care vanguards which aim to “link hospitals together to improve their clinical and financial viability, reducing variation in care and efficiency”. The Moorfields vanguard team has spent the past year exploring whether the longer-term sustainability of single speciality services can be strengthened by […]
• RWarp-It – an upcycling portal Warp-It is our Trusts’s upcycling/recycling/freecycling solution. Warp-It gets the best value out of waste resources by finding owners for items that otherwise be disposed of. We have so much spare furniture such as desks, chairs, filing cabinets etc. The portal is available to all staff and the idea is they can advertise unwanted furniture etc, […]
• Children’s Easy Read Blood Test Easy read helps explain a procedure using simple language and pictures. The Children’s Phlebotomy service at Queen’s Hospital in Romford is the only local service providing blood tests to children with Special Needs. The Phlebotomists have helped 403 children and young people with special needs receive their blood tests in the year April 2016 to […]

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• Inadequate CCG moves to join with council 
  Plans for a single commissioning body to span health and social care in Somerset have been announced.
• NHS leader to replace council chief as STP boss 
  One of the council chiefs leading a sustainability and transformation partnership is to stand down and hand the role to a local NHS service leader.
• DH tightens ‘retire and return’ pension loophole for NHS managers 
  NHS trusts must not approve bids by staff to retire and then return to work unless there is a business need and it provides value for money, new official guidance says.
• NHS England pauses CCG and council’s integration plans 
  Plans by NHS and local authority commissioners in London to fully integrated their budgets have been paused after NHS England launched a review into governance around the process.
• FT chair steps down amid charity payment allegations 
  A foundation trust chair has resigned with immediate effect following allegations his charity was paying him large amounts of money.
• CCG chief officer quits as STP lead 
  The chief officer of a CCG rated outstanding is stepping down as lead of a STP with the lowest rating.
• Vanguard turned to plan B after first model ‘didn’t work’ 
  A national vanguard site has told HSJ that it has started “afresh” with its new care model after the version used in the first two years “didn’t work”.

Emergency department guidelines
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has published a Best Practice Guideline Emergency department care.   Developed to help medical staff within Emergency Departments provide better care for patients, this publication is a fifty-point checklist that covers all aspects of emergency care including the patient environment and pathway; education about care; care of elderly patients, children and those with complex needs; team working and leadership.  

Improving the working environment for safe surgical care – Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
This discussion paper outlines a number of critical recommendations to government to greatly improve safety in the delivery of surgical treatment and patient care. The report notes factors adversely affecting morale, including a lack of team structure, poor communication, high stress levels, and limited training opportunities. The report also records how staff, at times, feel diverted away from the patient-centred care they strive to deliver because of administrative and IT issues, and believe that being more innovative and efficient with existing resources could make a positive difference.

A playbook for fostering hospital-community partnerships to build a culture of health – American Hospital Association (AHA)
This guidance outlines a range of methods, tools and strategies to help create and sustain partnerships between hospitals and communities in order to create a culture of health. The guidance also uses insights from cohorts of a pilot programme on how to manage, strengthen and accelerate collaborations effectively.

Barometer on change 2017 – Moorhouse Consulting
This report examines the challenges faced by service leaders and finds that the pressure for organisations to meet customer demands is at a high. Technological innovation has changed the expectations of customers and also raised the bar for quality of services and products. The report looks across all sectors of the service market and highlights industry-specific challenges for the health and care sector and the pharmaceutical sector.

Suicide prevention
The Department of Health has published the Government response to the Health Select Committee’s Inquiry into suicide prevention.  The report responds to the committee’s recommendations for improving delivery of the cross-government suicide prevention strategy.  It sets out the government response to each of the recommendations.

A personalised approach to quality assuring care and support – Local Government Association (LGA)
This case study of Surrey County Council outlines how their quality assurance team works closely with local CCGs to ensure a high quality of care in care home, home care providers and supported living schemes.

NICE guidance
Medtech innovation briefing

• MIB114 FebriDx for C-reactive protein and Myxovirus resistance protein A testing in primary care
• MIB115 VEST external stent for coronary artery bypass grafts

Highly specialised technologies guidance

• HST6 Asfotase alfa for treating paediatric-onset hypophosphatasia

Statistics

• Maternity Services Monthly Statistics – March 2017, Experimental statistics
• Dementia Assessment and Referral – May 2017
• Deaths related to drug poisoning in England and Wales – 2016 registrations
• E. coli bacteraemia counts by CCG and month – June 2016 – June 2017
• MSSA bacteraemia counts by CCG  – June 2016 – 2017
• Clostridium difficile infection counts by CCG and month – June 2016 – June 2017