System Transformation and Care Homes: A discussion document – Good Governance Institute and Care England 
A discussion paper, developed through a literature review and desktop review of all 44 STPs, identifies the gaps in the STP process and how care homes can fill these gaps. Opportunities are illustrated through case studies from three of the vanguard sites – Airedale and Partners, Gateshead Care Home Project and Sutton Homes of Care

Integrating physical and mental health care
The King’s fund has published an article Talking leadership: Chris Naylor on integrating physical and mental health care.  The article provides an overview of the King’s Fund ‘Integrating physical and mental health care learning network’ and how it helps translate a policy ambition to new models of care.

Specialised service activity
NHS England has published Handbook to support the identification of specialised service activity.  This document provides guidance to providers and commissioners on how specialised service activity can be identified using data flows collected by healthcare trusts.  It should be read in conjunction with the ‘Prescribed services manual’ and guidance documents issued by NHS Digital for the PSS software tool.

Guide to NHS data
NHS Confederation has published The non-executive director’s guide to NHS data – Part one: hospital activity, data sets and performance.  This briefing is the first in a series which aims to increase non-executive directors’ understanding of NHS data and its role in transforming care.  This first guide is aimed at non-executive directors in acute care, looking at activity in primary and secondary care settings.

NICE guidance
NICE guideline

Medtech Innovation Briefings

Clinical Guideline (update)

Role of education in young people’s mental health
The House of Commons Education and Health Committees have published Children and youngpeople’s mental health—the role of education: Government Response to the First Joint Report of theEducation and Health Committees of Session 2016–17.  This document sets out the Government’s response to the inquiry on the role of education in children and young people’s mental health.

Statistics

• Public Health Outcomes Framework: indicators updated – November 2017
• Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics Commissioner Census (Assuring Transformation) –  September 2017, Provisional Statistics
• Measures from the Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework, England – 2016-17
• Adult Social Care Activity and Finance Report, England – 2016/17

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• ‘Carebnb’ trust U-turns on controversial care plan
  The trust involved in a controversial plan to send discharged patients to private spare rooms, under an Airbnb style model, has now said it has “no intention…to support the pilot at this time”.
• NHS England and NHS Improvement to merge top digital role 
  The replacement for the NHS’s top ranked digital doctor will report to both NHS England and NHS Improvement, as the two organisations share more roles and resources.
• Special measures trust to replace nearly half its executive posts 
  A struggling trust in the West Midlands is set to replace almost half of its executive board roles.
• Exclusive: Hundreds of mental health patients’ deaths still uninvestigated 
  The families of patients who have died while detained under the Mental Health Act in England and Wales are continuing to be denied inquests, HSJ can reveal.
• New trust chief prepared to ‘take a hit’ on funding over winter 
  An acute trust is preparing for winter by reducing elective inpatient orthopaedic work for up to six months despite knowing its finances will “take a hit”, its chief executive has said.
• BCF ‘escalation’ process threatens spending plans 
  Several councils have been placed in a better care fund “escalation” process due to government concerns over their performance on reducing delayed transfers of care, Local Government Chronicle reports.