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• Admin and clerical professional development framework – CMFT
• New ‘Show How to Know How’ training film for health and social care HRCH have produced this short training film (27 minutes – suitable for use in team meetings) to show how professionals, paid and family carers can use the principles of the Mental Capacity Act to support wellbeing and uphold human rights in the community. There is an accompanying A5 size colour booklet for people who don’t have […]

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• NHS England ‘no option’ but to hold back £120m from CCGs 
  “Urgent steps” have been taken to hold back funding intended for clinical commissioning groups, to help the Department of Health deliver financial balance this year.
• Major expansion of ‘model hospital’ to STPs and CCGs 
  The “model hospital” system for measuring trusts’ productivity and efficiency is to be expanded over the next two years to CCGs, STPs and ACOs, HSJ can reveal.
• Primary care underspend helps counter trust deficits 
  NHS England and local commissioners underspent on their primary care budgets by almost £200m in 2016-17, which helped offset the £791m deficit in the provider sector, new figures reveal.
• CQC warns trust over ‘bullying’ culture 
  A struggling trust in the West Midlands was threatened with enforcement action over the staffing levels and culture in its maternity service, HSJ has learned.
• Hospital downgrade approved despite pending appeals to Jeremy Hunt 
  Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group has approved controversial plans to downgrade maternity and intensive care units at the Horton General Hospital – despite Jeremy Hunt considering appeals against the plans.
• NHS Improvement chief role ‘not for the fainthearted’, says job ad
  NHS Improvement has put out an advert to recruit a leader with the “resilience and strength of character” to take over as its chief executive when Jim Mackey leaves later this year.
• ‘Full stretch’ NHS’s stuttering winter preparations spark concerns
  Pressure is mounting on NHS bosses to intervene ahead of winter, as official data suggests the system failed to make headway against key performance measures in the first quarter of 2017-18.

What are the priorities for health and social care? The King’s Fund
As the dust settles on the first weeks of the new parliament and ahead of the party conference season, we assess the state of health and social care and set out the big issues facing the government.

Results of a national survey of support to adult care homes in England: a specialist palliative care provider perspective – Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care
This survey of organisations providing specialist palliative care services to care homes highlights the work they do and identifies the key challenges they face. The report, commissioned by Public Health England, undertaken by the Marie Curie Research Centre at Cardiff University, with input from the National Council for Palliative Care and Hospice UK, examines the role of specialist palliative care in providing support to care homes in England.

Developing people – improving care: a national framework for action on improvement and leadership development in NHS-funded services  – NHS Improvement
This updated framework focuses on helping NHS and social care staff to develop four critical capabilities: systems leadership; established quality improvement methods; inclusive and compassionate leadership; and talent management.

National maternity and perinatal audit: organisational report 2017 – Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)
This report finds large increase in midwife-led units co-located with obstetric units, increasing birthplace choice for pregnant women but also describes variation in availability of staff, facilities and services.