Seven Day Services Clinical Standards – NHS England
Supporting information for trusts implementing the ten seven day hospital services clinical standards, along with the evidence base for each standard.

Hip fracture database
The Royal College of Physicians has published National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD) annual report 2017. This ninth annual report examines trends in performance and outcome over the 10 years since the NHFD was established.  It shows that while more patients are receiving early surgery and surviving a hip fracture, two in five are not receiving all of the recommended elements of a hip fracture programme that represent ‘best practice’.

Transferring people in and out of hospital
The Social Care Institute for Excellence and NICE has published Moving between hospital and home, including care homes: a quick guide for registered managers of care homes and home care.  This guide, based on NICE guidelines and quality standards, provides a brief overview of how care home managers can work with hospitals to ensure a good experience of transition for the people in their care.

Equally outstanding: equality and human rights – good practice resource – Care Quality Commission
This guidance aims to help providers put equality and human rights at the heart of their improvement work so that the quality of care gets better for everyone. It contains case studies and identifies nine common success factors.

NHS efficiency map – Healthcare Financial Management Association
This map promotes best practice in identifying, delivering and monitoring cost improvement programmes in the NHS. It contains links to a range of tools and guidance to help NHS bodies improve their efficiency. The map is split into three sections: enablers for efficiency, provider efficiency and system efficiency. It highlights the successes some NHS providers have had in delivering specific efficiency schemes and provides sign-posts to existing tools and reference materials. It also includes updated definitions for different types of efficiency.

Expanding performance assessments of providers regulated by CQC: consultation – Department of Health
The Department of Health proposes to amend the Care Quality Commission (Reviews and Performance Assessments) Regulations 2014 so that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has a duty to rate all providers of regulated activities, except for some specific registered service providers or regulated activities. This consultation is targeted at providers of health and social care services registered with the CQC. The closing date for comments is 7 November 2017.

Draft Health Service Safety Investigations Bill – Department of Health
This draft bill proposes setting up the Health Service Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB). The HSSIB will conduct investigations which focus on learning from patient safety incidents in the NHS, to reduce health care harm and improve patient care. The draft bill allows the HSSIB to conduct investigations using ‘safe space’. ‘Safe space’ is a set of legal powers that prevent the HSSIB from disclosing the information it gathers in the course of an investigation.

Health economics: evidence resource tool – Public Health England
This health economic evidence resource tool shows the key cost-effectiveness and return on investment evidence on activities in the public health grant. Each piece of evidence is summarised across over 20 criteria to provide details on how the results were created and to highlight the inputs and assumptions used in the original studies. It aims to help users to understand the relevance and apply the evidence to their local setting.

Getting into shape: delivering a workforce for integrated care – Reform
This paper focuses on the structural barriers to delivering integrated care. It studies issues such as the medical labour market, devolved workforce planning and pay, and professional boundaries.

NHS SBS transforms back office functions of 48 organisations – NHE | NEWS 
A £10m investment by NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) has driven 48 organisations to sign contracts for a range of finance, procurement and employment services targeting transforming back office functions across the health service. Since the start of the year, a number of leading providers have made the shift to shared…

NICE guidance

Quality standards

• QS159   Transition between inpatient mental health settings and community or care home settings
• QS160   End of life care for infants, children and young people
• QS161   Sepsis   Additional link: NICE press release

Medtech innovation briefing

• MIB119 Aptiva for painful diabetic neuropathy

 Interventional procedures guidance

• IPG591  Ab externo canaloplasty for primary open-angle glaucoma
• IPG592  High-intensity focused ultrasound for symptomatic breast fibroadenoma

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• Special measures trust faces ‘one of the biggest financial challenges in NHS’
  A trust facing a deficit of £75.2m has appointed external consultants as it faces what its deputy chief executive called “one of the biggest financial challenges in the NHS”.
• Government’s capital funding regime is like ‘driving in fog’ 
  The leader of Greater Manchester’s devolution team has called for more clarity over NHS capital funding, saying the government’s current regime is like “driving into fog”.
• Government pushes ahead with safe space plans despite ‘misuse’ concerns 
  A new health service safety investigations bill pushes ahead with controversial plans to allow local NHS trusts to investigate safety breaches without the need to disclose the information uncovered.
• Reasons for referring controversial hospital closure to Hunt revealed 
  An acute trust has been accused by councillors of “inadequate” consultation over controversial plans involving the closure of an emergency department and a new £298m private finance initiative hospital.
• Eight-fold increase in DH ‘exit package’ payments 
  The Department of Health and its executive agencies spent £39m on “exit packages” last year, following the departure of more than 700 staff.

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• FabAmbassador Newsletter – 4th in the series:  You can download and read the full newsletter here 
• UHMBT showcases “phenomenally powerful” work to Chief Nursing Officer for NHS England Nurses, midwives, allied health professionals and advanced nursing practitioners at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) were treated to a visit from Professor Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer for NHS England, on Wednesday 13 September. Professor Cummings attended showcase events at Furness General Hospital and Royal Lancaster Infirmary where staff held market […]
• Work experience/employability programmes Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals has been awarded a Gold Standard Accreditation for our work experience/employability programmes, which Annette Pollitt from our team leads on for us. The Work Experience Quality Standard is a national accreditation, for all industries and services, and which provides external quality assurance for high quality work experience and employability […]

Statistics

• Data on written complaints in the NHS – 2016-17
• Data on written complaints in the NHS – 2017-18 – Quarter 1,
• Patients Registered at a GP Practice – September 2017
• Provisional Accident and Emergency Quality Indicators for England – July 2017, by provider
• Quarterly Epidemiological Commentary: Mandatory MRSA, MSSA and E. coli bacteraemia, and C. difficile infection data  – up to April-June 2017
• GP Earnings and Expenses Estimates – 2015/16