Type 2 diabetes: prevention in people at high risk – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
This refreshed public health guideline recommends that people at the highest risk of type 2 diabetes should be given intensive exercise and weight loss help by the NHS. NICE has identified 1.7 million people who could benefit from lifestyle advice administered by the NHS as there is evidence to suggest that lifestyle changes can help those with high fasting glucose to avoid developing diabetes.

What does the public think about the NHS? – The King’s Fund
This report, based on polling data carried out by Ipsos MORI, explores public attitudes towards the health service. It finds that despite the significant challenges it faces, the NHS still holds strong support amongst the majority of the general public with 66 per cent of respondents stating that they would be willing to pay more taxes in order to fund the NHS.

Depression in children and young people: identification and management – National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
This guideline covers identifying and managing depression in children and young people aged between 5 and 18 years. Based on the stepped care model, it aims to improve recognition and assessment and promote effective treatments for mild, moderate and severe depression. The guidance has been updated to clarify the training needed for therapists.

Providing accountable care
The National Association of Primary Care has published Providing accountable care: comparing the delivery of Primary Care in the UK and USA through accountable care systems and organisations (pdf). This report summarises some of the debate by system leaders within the UK and US around the accountable care system.  Based on a symposium held in May 2017, it also describes some of the future challenges and possible solutions.

Percutaneous coronary interventions
The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership has published National Audit of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention annual public report.  This report details the use of percutaneous coronary intervention procedures performed in NHS and private hospitals to treat angina and acute coronary syndromes including heart attacks.

Enabling people with dementia to remain at home
Housing LIN has published Are we nearly there yet? Enabling people with dementia to remain at home: a housing perspective.  This report sets out the key role housing providers, and in particular social housing providers, can play in supporting people living with dementia to stay independent in the home of their choice for as long as possible.

Data Protection Bill
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport has introduced the Data Protection Bill to the House of Lords. The bill is intended to update the data protection laws in line with the digital age.   The UK Parliament website contains documents relating to the Data Protection Bill.

NIHR Signals
The National Institute for Health Research Signals are summaries of recently published research and intended to provide decision makers in health and social care organisations with evidence they can use

• Use of public defibrillators linked to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival
• A range of anti-epilepsy drugs are effective as first-line treatment
• Group rehabilitation activities improve walking after stroke
• 52-week programme leads to more weight loss than 12-week

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• Beleaguered trust forced to revise finance plan after ‘significant slippage’ 
  A struggling trust tasked with making savings worth nearly 7 per cent of its income is set to submit a revised finance plan after “significant slippage” in its efficiency schemes.
• Smokers and obese patients face six month surgery waits 
  Elective surgery referrals for smokers and patients with a body mass index over 35 look set to be delayed for six months under a new commissioning plan in Yorkshire.
• Council ‘at breaking point’ over NHS’s push to accountable care system 
  Leicester City Council has threatened to raise formal concerns with Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland STP over proposals to evolve into an ACS, HSJ has learned.
• Merger trust seeks to fix ‘cultural’ differences between managers and clinicians 
  Trust leaders have outlined plans to address “cultural” differences between clinicians and managers at Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.