Leaving hospital or care settings
Healthwatch has published What happens when people leave hospital and other care settings?  Findings from the Healthwatch network.  This briefing brings together a summary of the experiences over 2000 people have shared with local Healthwatch during the last two years relating to leaving hospital and other care settings.  Although there are many positive experiences, the briefing highlights there is still significant work to be done to ensure discharge is a good experience for everyone.

Information standard for sexual orientation monitoring
The NHS England Equality and Health Inequalities Unit in partnership with the LGBT Foundation has published Sexual Orientation Monitoring: Full Specification. This Standard provides the mechanism for recording the sexual orientation of all patients/service users aged 16 years and over across all health services and Local Authorities with responsibilities for Adult social care in England in all service areas where it may be relevant to record this data.

NHS Indicators
The House of Commons Library has published NHS Indicators: England, October 2017.  This briefing provides a summary of performance indicators and demand levels for NHS services in England.  It covers A&E statistics, waiting lists, ambulance data, delayed charges and staffing levels including doctors and nurses.

The medico-legal crisis and how to solve it – Centre for Policy Studies
The author of this report concludes that the NHS’ liabilities for medico-legal claims now total £65bn, draining the NHS of much-needed funds and putting patients at risk by driving GPs out of practice. The report puts forward nine recommendations to bring down costs for the NHS and provide better outcomes for patients.

Partnerships for improvement: ingredients for success – The Health Foundation
This briefing looks at a range of current organisational partnerships. It focuses on five different partnering arrangements, as well as interviews with national leaders, and draws learning to help inform and guide policymakers and providers.

Harrogate’s social media journey – NHS Employers
We’ve published a new blog looking at a resourcing manager’s journey in aiding his trust to build and use social media effectively

Recruitment through Social Media – NHS Employers
Read more to find out how a Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust used social media to aid recruitment.

Bulletins

• Provider bulletin – 4 October 2017
• New Medicines Newsletter – September 2017
• New product evaluations a resource for medicines management–  September 2017

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• CQC plans rules on ‘safe workload’ for junior doctors 
  The Care Quality Commission has asked the medical royal colleges to draw up new “safe workload” standards for junior doctors, amid concerns they are still being given a workload that is unsafe, HSJ can reveal.
• NHS to fund new ‘digital exemplar programme’ for NPfIT system 
  DXC Technologies – supplier of the Lorenzo IT system – is set to receive about £10m to take part in a new national “digital exemplar” programme, HSJ has learned.
• New CQC chief inspector: We want to be friendly 
  The new chief inspector of hospitals has told HSJ the Care Quality Commission “wants to be friendly”, and a “strong partner” in helping trusts improve.
• HEE retracts hundreds of job offers after email blunder 
  Hundreds of junior doctors had NHS job offers retracted yesterday evening due to an email blunder by Health Education England.