Private healthcare order 2014: directions issued to seven hospitals – Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
Following the CMA’s 2014 investigation of the private health care sector, private hospitals are now required to submit information on their quality of care to the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) for publication. Seven hospitals have been directed to publish information on the quality of their private healthcare services after failing to meet the deadline. These directions have been issued to the hospitals and they demand that this information is provided by the end of October 2017.

Future of the sea: health and wellbeing of coastal communities – Government Office for Science (GO-Science)
This report summarises the evidence on the drivers of and growing threats to the health and wellbeing of coastal communities. These include the current health status of UK coastal communities; economic and demographic drivers of change; and threats to health from the changing environment.

The bottom line: understanding the NHS deficit and why it won’t go away – Nuffield Trust
This briefing assesses the financial health of the NHS provider sector by unpicking the headline figures presented in the official accounts to reveal the true underlying state of the NHS’s finances today, and to outline prospects for the next three to four years. The analysis finds that NHS trusts ended last year with an underlying overspend almost £3 billion more than was reported in their official accounts. It warns that even if trusts continue to make savings, underlying deficits will still remain until 2020/21.

GPs to be asked to ‘peer review’ all referrals – Pulse 
CCGs are formulating plans to scrutinise practices’ referral systems after a leaked NHS England memo showed they have promised to incentivise peer review schemes in order to reduce referrals by 30%, Pulse has learnt.

Total Reward Statements for 2016/17 – now live  – NHS Employers
Total Reward Statements for 2016/17 are now live. Encourage your staff to access their statements.

Apprenticeships and learndirect – NHS Employers
Learndirect Apprenticeships Limited (LDA) has provided a contact for any one with concerns over its ability to deliver training.

NHS Funds Held on Trust – Department of Health
An introduction to the general principles determining the financial responsibilities of trustees of NHS charities. It outlines how funds held on trust are handled and managed, including the processes for transferring funds to other bodies.

Long Term Conditions Financial Modelling Tool – Simul8
A LTC Modelling Tool, produced by SIMUL8 Corporation and Datalytics Technology, with the support of Kings Health Partners & NHS England, which allows you to test the financial impact of person-centred care interventions for people living with multiple long term conditions.

Realising the Value economic modelling tool – NESTA 
The Realising the Value economic modelling tool allows commissioners to assess the potential impact of commissioning person- and community-centred approaches in their local area.

Influenza vaccine effectiveness: 2016 to 2017 estimates – Public Health England
This document shows provisional end-of-season results for the 2016 to 2017 influenza season.

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• Supreme Court decision forces NHS pension rule change 
  NHS trusts are to be asked for help in tracking down unmarried former partners of deceased NHS staff who were wrongly denied pension benefits, HSJ has learned.
• Court orders Paula Vasco-Knight to detail financial assets 
  A court has told a disgraced former NHS chief executive she must provide details of her financial assets under the Proceeds of Crime Act.
• Regulator clears new hospital venture between trust and US provider 
  The Competition and Markets Authority has today cleared a major acute trust to partner with a US company to build a new hospital, after finding the region would benefit from more competition between private providers.
• NHS England asks STPs to nominate clinical reps 
  NHS England is planning to establish a new “national network” of sustainability and transformation partnership clinical leaders to address a lack of clinician engagement in the programme to date, HSJ has learned.
• Competition regulator orders five trusts to release private data 
  The Competition and Markets Authority has threatened to take action against five NHS trusts after they failed to hit a deadline for publishing private patient data.
• Buyout scheme to cut CCG spending on empty buildings
  Commissioners are being offered the chance to buy themselves out of their liability for costs associated with vacant properties under a new scheme which starts today.

Our Fabulous NHS – Academy of Fabulous Stuff
***Get involved*** –  share your fab stuff!

• Loud and Proud at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals – Introduction to Employment Programme From July to September 2017 there were 857,000 young people (aged 16 to 24) in the UK who were not in education, employment or training (NEET). This is an increase of 14,000 from April to June 2016 and up 3,000 from 2015. The end of the academic year could be well be contributing factor to […]
• Looking at role development across health and social care sectors Health Education England working across Kent, Surrey and Sussex (HEE KSS) is working with Skills for Care, Skills for Health, health and social care employers, to support a coordinated approach in the development of roles (new and existing) within the support workforce in the region. Through the Role Development Network, a core group of stakeholders […]