Better mental health: JSNA toolkit – Public Health England (PHE)
This toolkit aims to support the joint strategic needs assessment (JSNA) process in relation to mental health needs. It links mental health data, policy and knowledge to help planners understand needs within the local population and assess local services.

Talking leadership: Mark Redhead on the Top Manager Programme – The King’s Fund
Mark Redhead is Head of Strategy and Planning at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. He took part in the Top Manager Programme (TMP) in 2016. As we launch a new scheme for TMP alumni, Mark talks to us about his experience of the programme and how he is applying what he learned to his work.

Managing dementia where there is challenging behaviour
Esme Moniz-Cook and Jill Manthorpe summarise the findings from a study on the management of dementia. (609 words) Help for family carers supporting people with dementia who are distressed is much needed but services struggle to provide effective responses Both…..[ ]

A message from nursing leaders: make sure your voice is heard – NHS England
Four of the country’s most influential nursing figures including our own Executive Director of Nursing have joined forces to support a vital consultation on the future of the profession. Ruth May, our Executive Director of Nursing joins forces with the following nursing leaders to support a vital consultation on the future standards of proficiency for registered nurses:

• Professor Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer, England
• Hilary Garratt, Director of Nursing, NHS England and Deputy Chief Nursing Officer, England
• Professor Lisa Baylis-Pratt, Director of Nursing and Deputy Director of Education and Quality, Health Education England

NHS ‘leaking millions’ in PFI contracts – BBC News – Health
Companies that built and run NHS hospitals have made £831m in the past six years, a report says.

Divided by choice? Private providers, patient choice and hospital sorting in the English National Health service – Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
This study examines the impact of the NHS reforms of the 2000s which enabled privately-owned hospitals to enter the NHS market. It finds that post-reform, poor and ethnic minority patients were much less likely to choose private hospitals; and that the key factors in choice related to the geographic distribution of hospitals and health-based criteria for treatment from private providers.

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• Trust forced to pay £300k VAT over Virgin Care contract 
  A trust in Staffordshire has been forced to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds in VAT charges due to a controversial “prime provider” contract commissioned by its CCG.
• Patient record opt-outs risk blocking improvements in cancer care 
  The UK’s two leading cancer charities have written to Jeremy Hunt to raise concerns that changes to patient data opt-outs may put at risk the ability to deliver a cornerstone of the national cancer strategy.
• Extra costs for CCGs after NHS England pauses procurement 
  Commissioners in two counties have incurred extra costs after NHS England delayed their procurement for an NHS 111 and out of hours GP service.
• Trust chief outlines plans for A&E performance ‘surge’ 
  The chief executive of a major acute hospital trust has outlined a series of actions being taken to turnaround the trust’s poor accident and emergency performance.

Our Fabulous NHS – Academy of Fabulous Stuff
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• Loud and Proud at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals – REACT (Resuscitation Emergency Assessment Clinical Teaching) The Resuscitation Team at the Health Academy have recently initiated a new training tool to enable 3rd year student nurses to become exposed to real-life cardiac arrest clinical situations in order to advance their learning. REACT (Resuscitation Emergency Assessment Clinical Teaching) facilitates learning through response to real 2222 emergencies, where students respond as part of […]
• Leader resilience on the front line of service delivery How do we support leaders working on the front line of service delivery to remain well and resilient in increasingly stressful working environments? This is one of the questions posed for a scoping project that explored the meaning of resilience and wellbeing with senior public sector leaders in Wales. The study brought together senior leaders […]