Safe, sustainable and productive staffing in urgent and emergency care – NHS Improvement
Draft improvement resource to help standardise safe, sustainable and productive staffing decisions in urgent and emergency care.

Safe, sustainable and productive staffing for neonatal care and children and young people’s services – NHS Improvement
Draft improvement resources to help standardise safe, sustainable and productive staffing decisions in neonatal care and children and young people’s services.

Special measures for quality review – NHS Improvement
Learn from trusts and the actions they took to come out of specials measures.

Preparing for winter pressures
Royal College of Physicians (RCP) president has written to chief executives and medical directors of NHS trusts with guidance on how to mitigate winter pressures. The Preparing for winter guidance covers the delivery of care, patient flow, wellbeing of the workforce and minimising unnecessary hospital occupancy.

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• Supreme Court gives doctors new power to challenge regulator 
  The Supreme Court has granted doctors facing investigation by the General Medical Council a new route to challenge the regulator’s processes.
• NHS Improvement reveals A&E safe staffing guidance 
  The latest draft safe staffing guidance from NHS Improvement has said there is no evidence for setting specific ratios of staff in urgent and emergency care settings.
• Hospital trust runs one in five GP practices on its patch 
  An acute trust in the West Midlands is now running nearly a fifth of GP practices in its area after integrating with its eighth practice.
• Commissioners U-turn on controversial 12 week minimum waits 
  One of the NHS’s largest clinical commissioning groups is set to ditch a controversial policy enforcing 12 week minimum waiting times for adults needing “non-urgent” treatment – just two months after setting out the plan.
• Hopson: NHS leaders’ careers at risk over ‘impossible targets’ 
  NHS leaders are being held to “unjust and unfair” standards by the centre, with careers put at risk over “impossible” performance targets, NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson has said.
• Managers having ‘suicidal thoughts’ due to pressure, union boss warns 
  NHS managers are experiencing depression and suicidal thoughts because of the pressure they are working under, the chief executive of the Managers in Partnership union has warned.
• Revealed: FT redundancy pay outs fall by more than a quarter 
  The amount spent on redundancy payments by foundation trusts has fallen significantly over the past three financial years, HSJ analysis reveals.

Our Fabulous NHS – Academy of Fabulous Stuff
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• Back Pain Help Campaign – Neuro Network Vanguard A new campaign supported by The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust is helping people look after their backs better. In the UK, the annual total cost attributable to low back pain has been estimated at £12.3billion. Low back pain is also the leading cause of work absence throughout much of the world, imposing a […]
• A Pneumonia Quick Reference Guide supporting frontline staff to provide the Advancing Quality Pneumonia Care Bundle Advancing Quality (AQ) is a North West Quality Improvement initiative devised of evidence based care bundles for specific clinical focus areas. The AQ Pneumonia Improvement Group made up of doctors, nurses and a pharmacist devised a pocket size ‘Quick Reference Guide’ to support frontline staff provide the ‘right care at the right time’ for every […]
• Flow in providers of community health services: good practice guidance (NHS Improvement) Good patient flow across health and social care systems is crucial for the NHS to run an effective and sustainable service. If patient flow is poor hospitals become congested, clinical outcomes are poorer, financial performance deteriorates and staff will be overstretched. Delayed transfers of care (DToC) clog system flow. Between August 2015 and August 2017, […]
• National Orthopaedic Alliance (NOA) vanguard publishes Short Guide to Clinical Coding for Clinicians The National Orthopaedic Alliance (NOA) vanguard through its work to develop quality standards and improve quality in orthopaedic care nationwide, has published the NOA Short Guide to Clinical Coding for Clinicians The vanguard, which is developing 120 standards across 28 areas of orthopaedics, created the guide following a coding and costing workshop earlier this year. One […]