Nursing, midwifery and care staff learning tool – NHS England
NHS England has published Leading change, adding value: learning tool to support all nursing, midwifery and care staff.  This document provides details of the Leading Change, Adding Value (LCAV) framework and supports all nursing, midwifery and care staff to identify and address unwarranted variation in practice – recognising unequal standards of care and changing them.

Operational workforce planning: a self-assessment tool – NHS Improvement
Creating an effective workforce requires an evidence-based workforce plan, integrated with finance, activity and performance plans, and directly involves leaders and managers of the service. Working with workforce planners and trusts, we have created a tool that details the characteristics and processes of effective workforce planning. It enables self-assessment against typical workforce planning requirements, complements and signposts to existing workforce planning resources and provides transparency on how we review workforce plans.

The learning disabilities mortality review: annual report 2017 – Health Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP)
The Learning Disabilities Mortality Review programme was established to support local areas to review the deaths of people with learning disabilities, identify learning from those deaths, and take forward the learning into service improvement initiatives. This annual report summarises the learning and recommendation from 103 reviews of deaths of people with learning disabilities during 2017.

Freedom to Speak Up: guidance for NHS trust and NHS foundation trust boards – NHS Improvement
Effective speaking up arrangements protect patients and improve the experience of NHS workers. This guidance contributes to the need, set out by Sir Robert Francis in his Freedom to Speak Up review, to develop a more open and supportive culture that encourages staff to speak up about any issues of patient care, quality or safety. The accompanying self-review tool supports the standards laid out in the guidance. It supports trusts’ review around the eight key lines of enquiry set out in the well-led framework.

Supporting research in the NHS: consultation – NHS England
In November 2017, NHS England set out proposals for how they would work with the Department of Health and the Health Research Authority to implement changes to simplify NHS research proposals. A summary of responses received to the consultation has now been published and is accompanied by details of 12 agreed actions to support and apply research in the NHS.

HR professional development strategy
NHS Employers has published NHS HR professional development strategy stocktake report.  The report evaluates the outcomes of the Aspirant Director of Workforce Career Development Programme. The work was undertaken by NHS Employers to promote NHS HR, social media activities and regional activities that are taking place within HR Director networks to support NHS HR professional development.

Equality analysis on the proposed amendments to Clinical Excellence Awards (CEAs) for consultant graded doctors in the NHS in England – Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
NHS Employers and the British Medical Association proposed changes to the way NHS consultants are rewarded for their performance. This publication considers how the proposals may affect protected groups.

Spending on and availability of health care resources: how does the UK compare to other countries? – The King’s Fund
How does health spending in the UK compares to other countries and how does the NHS measures up on some of the key resources this spending pays for? Using data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, our new briefing compares spending on staffing, beds, equipment and medicine across 21 countries.

Statistics

• General Practice Extended Access Data Collection (Biannual)
• Practice Level Prescribing – presentation level data – February 2018
• Dental commissioning statistics, England – March 2018
• MSSA bacteraemia: monthly data by CCG and location of onset – March 2017–March 2018
• difficile infection: monthly data by CCG and onset status – March 2017–March 2018
• MRSA bacteraemia: monthly data by CCG and by location of onset – March 2017–March 2018
• coli bacteraemia: monthly data by CCG – March 2017–March 2018
• coli bacteraemia: monthly data by onset and CCG – March 2017–March 2018
• Klebsiella spp. bacteraemia: monthly data by onset and CCG – April 2017–March 2018
• aeruginosa bacteraemia: monthly data by onset and CCG – April 2017–March 2018

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• Radio Society of Great Britain hosts launch of new NHS amateur radio station, GB1NHS, at the National Radio Centre as part of #EndPJparalysis GB1NHS is the new National Health Service amateur radio station. The Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) is delighted to be hosting the launch of GB1NHS at the National Radio Centre, Bletchley Park today. The launch is part of the NHS #EndPJparalysis campaign which is a 70-day mission to get patients up, dressed and moving […]
• Our ‘On Scotter Ward What we do differently’ board  On the ward we needed to display lots of information . We found we were putting multiple posters up around the ward on bay doors day room doors and notice all often displaying the same information. For example we had 6 posters in different places around the ward asking relatives if they would ensure that […]
• Can we recover the VAT on that? 10 NHS VAT facts that might surprise you Liaison Large NHS organisations typically pay multi-million pound sums in VAT each year. So it’s a big help to budgets that the health service is allowed to recover VAT for some types of purchase. What’s rather less helpful is that the rules about what payments can be reclaimed are both complicated and confusing.  The starting […]
• Trust signs up to dementia friendly hospital charter University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) has signalled its commitment to people with dementia by joining the Dementia Action Alliances’ Dementia-Friendly Hospital Charter. The Trust submitted an action plan covering six key principles: staffing, partnership, assessments, care, environment and governance, which a person with dementia or their carer would expect. The charter […]