Knowledge @lert for Tuesday 15th May

May 15, 2018 CCG Daily News

Quality of care in maternity services
NHS England has published Fifteen steps for maternity: quality from the perspective of people who use maternity services. This document is part of a suite of toolkits for ‘The Fifteen Steps Challenge’; this toolkit helps maternity services to explore the experience of service users. It has been co-created with maternity service users, including those from seldom heard and minority groups and organisations that represent them.

Assurance in the NHS
The Good Governance Institute has published The surprising benefits to performance that mechanising assurance can bring. This paper investigates the benefits that mechanising assurance, and the use of integrated assurance software, can bring to NHS organisations and wider systems. It includes a set of recommendations for providers, regulators and others.

Antimicrobial prescribing, resistance and healthcare associated infections
The Department of Health and Social Care has published Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Prescribing, Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infection (APRHAI): 8th Annual Report, April 2016 – March 2017. This report provides a summary of activities carried out by the APRHAI advisory committee between April 2016 and March 2017.

Anaphylaxis in anaesthesia and surgery
The Royal College of Anaesthetists has published Anaesthesia, surgery and life-threatening allergic reactions: report and findings of the Royal College of Anaesthetists’ 6^th National Audit Project. The audit investigated every case of life-threatening anaphylaxis that occurred in NHS during one year. The findings are wide-ranging, highlighting new trends in the drugs causing anaphylaxis and the need for changes to hospital procedures and training, combined with better reporting and investigation of incidents.

Health and social care in Liverpool
The Care Quality Commission has published Liverpool: local system review report. This review has been carried out as part of a programme of 20 targeted reviews of local authority areas. The purpose of this review is to understand how people move through the health and social care system with a focus on the interfaces between services.

Stress: are we coping?
The Mental Health Foundation has published Stress: are we coping? This report looks at the prevalence of stress in the UK and its implications. It also focuses on what people can do to manage and reduce stress and sets out recommendations for the government in creating a stress-free UK. This report has been published in conjunction with Mental Health Awareness Week 2018 (14-20 May).

Cyber news brief
NHS Digital has published a briefing summarising recent progress on improving cyber security. Cyber News Brief describes the work undertaken by the NHS Digital Data Security Centre, the centralised Windows 10 agreement, cyber security assessments, Data Security Protection Toolkit, improving communications during an incident and a collaboration forum.

Prescribing indicators
The Department of Health and Social Care is introducing prescribing indicators to inform safer prescribing practice. The experimental indicators link prescribing data from primary care with hospital admissions for the first time. The purpose is to identify prescribing that could potentially increase the risk of harm and that may be associated with hospital admission. The first indicators focus on how different medicines may be contributing to people being admitted to hospital with gastro-intestinal bleeding. The programme will cover more medicines and associated conditions later in the year.

Mapping the NHS winter
NHS Providers has published its final overview of its Winter watch series Mapping the NHS winter. This briefing presents the winter of 2017/18 in numbers and looks at pressures on the ambulance service, pressures in A&E, capacity and what can be done to ensure the health service is ready next winter.

Promoting health in black, Asian and other minority ethnic groups
NICE has published a Quality Standard Promoting health and preventing premature mortality in black, Asian and other minority ethnic groups (QS167). This standard, covering all age groups and all settings, draws attention to some of the specific areas of inequality for people from black, Asian and other minority ethnic groups, such as increased health risks, poor access to and experience of services, and worse health outcomes. It aims to support public authorities in considering their equality duty when designing, planning and delivering services.

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