Accountable care systems and accountable care organisations – BMJ Briefing
A very short briefing by Tom Moberly, UK editor, The BMJ, including history and how they might affect the NHS and what the critics say. [Contact the library for full text]

Mental health at work: the business costs ten years on – Centre for Mental Health
This report finds that mental health problems in the UK workforce cost employers almost £35 billion last year. The largest part of this business cost is in the form of reduced productivity among people who are at work but unwell: or ‘presenteeism’. This costs businesses twice as much as sickness absence relating to poor mental health.

Consolidated charging policy 2017-18 – NHS Property Services (NHSPS) 
This refreshed policy outlines NHSPS’ core charging principles for the occupation of properties that the service is responsible for. The key changes are updates on the vacant space handback scheme and the sessional space pilot. The vacant space handback scheme allows commissioners to pass the liability for eligible vacant space back to NHSPS. The sessional space pilot allows for easier booking of NHSPS properties for short-term clinical and non-clinical use.

Reducing health inequalities: system, scale and sustainability – Public Health England (PHE)
This document identifies steps to support local action on health inequalities to improve outcomes. It is aimed at local authority leaders, chief executives, other senior officers and councillors, directors of public health, public health specialists, and commissioners.

National Engagement Service – NHS Employers
This infographic outlines the work of the National Engagement Service which supports leaders on workforce issues in the NHS.

Managing risk in health and care this winter: update – NHS Providers
This report assesses NHS planning for the upcoming winter season and finds whilst the level of planning and support is more developed than last year, the system still requires emergency funding to ensure patient safety. NHS Providers warns that a failure to make an emergency investment of £200-£350 million will lead to longer patient waiting times and increased patient safety risks.

Statistics

• Venous thromboembolism – Quarter 1 2017/18 April to June 2017
• Quarterly performance of the NHS provider sector: quarter 1 2017/18

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• NHS trusts branding care staff as ‘advanced nurses’ 
  Unregistered care assistants are working in the NHS with job titles describing them as nurses with advanced skills, new research has revealed.
• STP to consider ACS plans after regulators intervene 
  Leaders in Leicestershire will decide this month how to establish a new accountable care system after receiving a “clear message” in favour of the proposal from regulators.
• NHSI investigates trust over financial governance concerns 
  NHS Improvement is investigating financial governance at a London hospital trust after management consultants raised concerns over how it produced its 2017-18 plan.
• CCGs to stunt GP spending growth in national savings drive 
  Commissioners in Cheshire are set to cut the growth in their primary care budgets in response to the national capped expenditure process, HSJ can reveal.
• Former London trust chief executive to lead troubled STP 
  The chief executive of a London acute trust has agreed to head a troubled sustainability and transformation partnership.
• Southern Health may lose community services as CCGs prepare to procure 
  Southern Health Foundation Trust has confirmed it is considering divesting itself of its community services provision – which accounts for a third of its turnover – ahead of a procurement for a new integrated model of care.
• First national procurement contract aims for four per cent savings 
  The architects of the NHS’s new national procurement drive have suggested that the first element scheme should deliver savings of around four per cent.
• NMC: All graduate nurses should be ready to prescribe 
  Nurses could be able to prescribe medication “much sooner” in their careers than they currently can under plans being consulted on by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
• Third trust reveals large neurology backlog 
  A trust in the East Midlands has become the latest to reveal it has hundreds of neurology patients overdue follow up appointments due to a lack of capacity.
• How to cut the cost of diabetes: an in-depth guide 
  Read HSJ’s digital guide on improving compliance by patients and providing services that better serve their needs, in association with Roche Diabetes Care

Our Fabulous NHS – Academy of Fabulous Stuff
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• Mouth Care Policy at SaTH A small multi-disaplinary working group was set up in SaTH last year to improve mouth care for all. Mouth care is essential for the health and well being of patients, despite its importance It is often not done well in a hospital setting. After months of the working group meeting up discussing the equipment currently […]
• THE JOURNEY TO CREATING AN INTEGRATED DIABETES CARE MODEL We started with the call to develop a Northamptonshire Diabetes Care Pathway involving commissioners and stakeholders in 2009. We explored the complexity of the pathway development that evolved with the realisation of the different aspects of diabetes care that needed to be considered. This process enabled the service provision that crossed organisational boundaries to be […]
• Developing resilience and wellbeing with the Third Workforce (Carers) During the Autumn of 2016, we were asked by the Mid Wales Healthcare Collaborative and Hywel Dda University Health Board, to work with carers and develop a resilience and wellbeing programme, that would help them to cope with their caring role. Defined as the ‘Third Workforce’ of over 6.5 million strong, carers provide an informal […]
• Actively involving patients and family in care – #partnersincare Our patients and family have told us that they want to be more involved in their treatment and care while in hospital. Our patients and family have also told us that communication with them isn’t the best and they are not always aware of what’s going on. We have informal arrangements for patients who are […]