Preparation for winter pressures
NHS Providers has published Ready and resilient? How NHS trusts have prepared for winter.  This briefing sets out what has been done locally and nationally to ensure safe, high quality care for patients over the winter period.   It also highlights continuing difficulties and pressures that could impact on trusts’ ability to cope.

Maternity care
The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership has published Saving Lives, improving mothers’

Care: lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2013–15.  This fourth annual report of the  Confidential Enquiry into includes surveillance data on women who died during or up to one year after pregnancy between 2013 and 2015 in the UK.

Safeguarding adults
The Local Government Association has published Making Safeguarding Personal: what might ‘good’ look like for health and social care commissioners and providers?  This resource is intended to support the joined up development of Making Safeguarding Personal across providers and commissioners in health and social care and signposts to sources of advice on fundamental principles for safeguarding which underpin Making Safeguarding Personal.

NICE guidance

Technology appraisal guidance

• TA492    Atezolizumab for untreated locally advanced or metastatic urothelial cancer when cisplatin is unsuitable
• TA493    Cladribine tablets for treating relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis

Quality Standard

• QS124   Suspected cancer

NICE surveillance reports
NICE has published the Surveillance Reports below.  These provide a summary of new evidence published related to a NICE guideline and include the decision that NICE has taken about the need to update the relevant clinical guideline in light of this new evidence.

• Psychosis and schizophrenia in adults: prevention and management (CG178 – 2014) – surveillance decision: NICE will not update the guideline at this time.  Some editorial or factual corrections have been identified.
• Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in adults: diagnosis and management (CG163 – 2013) – surveillance decision: NICE will not update the guideline at this time but have made a cross-reference to technology appraisal guidance TA379).
• Ovarian cancer: recognition and initial management (CG122 – 2011) – surveillance decision: NICE will not update the guideline at this time.
• Acute kidney injury: prevention, detection and management (CG169 – 2013) – surveillance decision: NICE proposes a partial update of this guideline.
• Behaviour change: general approaches (PH6 – 2007) – surveillance decision: NICE will not update the guideline at this time.
• Behaviour change: individual approaches (PH49 – 2014) – surveillance decision: NICE will partially update this guideline.
• Hepatitis B and C testing: people at risk of infection (PH43 – 2012) – surveillance decision: NICE will not update the guideline at this time.

Healthy ageing and musculoskeletal health

Public Health England has published Health Matters: productive healthy ageing and musculoskeletal health.  This latest edition of Health Matters examines productive healthy ageing and musculoskeletal health.  It focuses specifically on the burden of inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, conditions of musculoskeletal pain such as osteoarthritis and back pain, and osteoporosis and fragility fractures such as fracture after fall.

Sharing patient data
The National Data Guardian has published reports of two seminar events examining how health and care data may be shared to support individual care in line with patient expectations:

• Sharing patient data: exploring consensus on reasonable expectations – explores whether and to what extent there was consensus among attendees
• Reasonable expectations: supporting health and care professionals to share data in line with patient expectations – explores how health and care professionals may share personal data in line with patients’ reasonable expectations.

Statistics

• Young People’s Statistics from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System – 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017
• Registered Blind and Partially Sighted People England – 2016 to 2017
• Statistics on Women’s Smoking Status at Time of Delivery, England – England Quarter 2, July 2017 to October 2017
• Health state life expectancies, UK – 2014 to 2016
• Data on written complaints in the NHS – 2017-18 Quarter 2
• Maternity Services Monthly Statistics, England – July 2017
• Dementia Assessment and Referral Data Collection – Q2 2017-18
• P. aeruginosa bacteraemia: monthly data by location of onset by CCG – April 2017 – October 2017
• Klebsiella spp. bacteraemia: monthly data by onset location by CCG – April 2017 – October 2017
• E. coli bacteraemia: monthly data by location of onset by CCG – October 2016 to October 2017
• MSSA bacteraemia: monthly data by attributed CCG – October 2016 to October 2017
• MRSA bacteraemia: monthly data by attributed CCG – October 2016 to October 2017
• Clostridium difficile infection: monthly data by attributed clinical commissioning group – October 2016 to October 2017
• Wheelchair services: operational data collection – Quarter 2 dataset (July – September 2017)

Bulletins

• NICE News: November 2017
• Primary Care: November 2017
• NHS Workforce Bulletin: 4 December 2017
• New medicines newsletter: November 2017

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

NHS England hands down legal directions to island CCG
NHS England has issued legal directions to a clinical commissioning group that is struggling to deliver its savings plan.

Trust searches for ‘imaginative’ estates partner in £100m deal
An integrated foundation trust is looking to partner with a private company for up to 25 years in a bid to unlock capital funding for its future estates plans.

NHS trusts forced to find new transport services as firms exit market
London hospital trusts have been forced to bring patient transport services in house or re-tender them as incumbent firms exit the market.

Union concern at linking pay rise to productivity as Hunt starts talks
The Royal College of Nursing today said it had “concern” over the link between productivity and pay increases in a letter sent by Jeremy Hunt formally beginning pay negotiations for 2018-19.

Government ditches cap on social care costs
A plan to introduce a cap on social care costs by the end of the decade has been dropped, the care minister has announced.