One year on: the Government response to the review of choice in end of life care – Department of Health
This report sets out how the National End of Life Care Programme Board is delivering personalisation and choice in care for people at or near the end of life.

Person-centred care in 2017: evidence from service users – National Voices
This report attempts to create a snapshot of the extent of person-centred care in the English health and care system, based on how people report their experience of treatment, care and support. This data was found through surveys of patients and service users. It concludes that NHS services do not give people adequate control of their own health and care, and there is no reporting of whether people’s care is coordinated across health and social care.

BMJ Quality & Safety, October 2017

• Preventing hospital readmissions: the importance of considering ‘impactibility,’ not just predicted risk
• Simplification of the HOSPITAL score for predicting 30-day readmissions
• Mobilising or standing still?A narrative review of Surgical Safety Checklist knowledge as developed in 25 highly cited papers from 2009 to 2016
• The role of social media around patient experience and engagement

NICE guidance

• MIB120 Caris Molecular Intelligence for guiding cancer treatment
• CG28      Depression in children and young people: identification and management
• NG51     Sepsis: recognition, diagnosis and early management
• PH38      Type 2 diabetes: prevention in people at high risk

Group B streptococcal disease guideline

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has updated Group B Streptococcal Disease, Early-onset (Green-top Guideline No 36).  This guideline guidance for obstetricians, midwives and neonatologists on the prevention of early-onset (less than 7 days of age) neonatal group B streptococcal (EOGBS) disease.

Reviewing local health policies – Southport & Formby CCG
We are inviting your views on over 100 policies for routine health treatments and procedures that we are reviewing and updating to reflect the latest medical evidence about what works and what does not. We are joining together with six other CCGs around the region – Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, South Sefton, St Helens and Warrington – to carry out the 12 month phased review, which aims:

• To ensure that the latest medical guidance and techniques are being used and so the best treatment is being provided to each patient
• To ensure that NHS resources are being used in the best possible way for all patients
• To provide more equal access to healthcare and treatments, where possible

Lancashire-wide review and harmonisation of clinical policies – Have your say: West Lancashire CCG
As part of the ongoing review of clinical policies for all the Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in Lancashire and South Cumbria, we are now seeking feedback on the two latest policies to be reviewed or developed.

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• ‘Inadequate’ private provider to hand back troubled contract early
  A company operating one of the first integrated NHS 111 and GP out of hours services is to hand back the contract to the NHS.
• Circle reduces losses by more than £3m
  Private provider Circle has reduced its losses year on year by more than £3m, documents lodged with Companies House reveal.
• Trust facing £75m deficit needs extra millions for fire safety improvements
  A trust forecasting a £75m deficit this year has warned capital projects, including bolstering cybersecurity, could be delayed by a £5.1m shortfall in its fire safety funding.
• HSIB launches two new investigations
  The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch has launched two new NHS safety investigations.
• Private firm beats trust to controversial £55m contract
  A controversial £55m contract for elective treatment has been given to a private provider, HSJ can reveal.
• Large scale general practice not linked to quality, says chief inspector
  Scaled up general practice does not necessarily lead to better quality of care, the Care Quality Commission’s chief inspector for GPs has said.
• A&E to be downgraded in major overhaul of hospital services
  Commissioners have given the green light to an overhaul of NHS services in an accountable care system that will see two acute hospitals split into emergency and elective centres.
• Spending on GPs rose by more than 3 per cent last year
  NHS spending on general practice rose by more than 3 per cent in real terms over 2016-17 compared to the previous year, new data shows.
• Social enterprise chief resigns suddenly to ‘explore new opportunities’
  The chief executive of a social enterprise that provides community services across west Yorkshire has resigned, four months after the company received a damning inspection report.

Our Fabulous NHS – Academy of Fabulous Stuff
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• TRUST SEES IMPROVEMENTS AS PART OF NATIONAL INITIATIVE Staff at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI) University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) took part in a three day initiative in conjunction with North West Utilisation Management Unit. The initiative was designed to support trusts to rapidly improve performance towards the operational standard for A&E waiting times that says 95% of patients […]