Safe medical staffing
The Royal College of Physicians has published Guidance on safe medical staffing: report of a working party.  This guidance aims to help those planning and organising core hospital medical services to answer the question: ‘How many doctors or their alternatives, with what capabilities, do we need to provide safe, timely and effective care for patients with medical problems?

Agenda for Change pay deal
The Department of Health and Social Care has issued Agenda for Change pay deal: context and funding for 2018/19.  This document explains how the DHSC is allocating the additional £800 million available to meet the costs of the new pay deal.

Elective care: model access policy – NHS Improvement
Updated: We’ve produced this policy in response to requests from providers and wider health systems for guidance and support in producing their own elective access policies.

Elective care pathway analyser for referral to treatment – NHS Improvement
Our elective care pathway analyser tool will identify the main reasons for delays in referral to treatment and help operational teams to focus on interventions that will have the biggest impact on reducing waiting times.

Grow your own bank  – St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust shares its experience and process of developing a skilled and experienced temporary workforce.

Statistics

• Patients Registered at a GP Practice – July 2018
• Recorded Dementia Diagnoses – June 2018
• Friends and Family Test data – May 2018
• Emergency presentations of cancer: quarterly data – October to December 2017
• Measuring socioeconomic inequalities in avoidable mortality in England and Wales – 2001-2016
• The characteristics and circumstances of those who report lowest personal well-being ratings
• MRSA bacteraemia – 2017/18
• Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection  – 2017/18
• MSSA bacteraemia  – 2017/18
• Klebsiella species bacteraemia –2017/18
• Escherichia coli bacteraemia – 2017/18
• Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) bacteraemia – 2017/18
• Annual epidemiological commentary: Gram-negative bacteraemia, MRSA bacteraemia, MSSA bacteraemia and C. difficile infections

Our Fabulous NHS – Academy of Fabulous Stuff
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• 68% OF SURGICAL BEDS SAVED THROUGH A SERIES OF IMPROVEMENTS IN AMBULATORY CARE Staff from the Acute Surgical Unit (ASU) at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary have made significant improvements to patient flow and care through the surgical department. More than 2,481 patients from July 2017- March 2018 were seen in the Surgical Emergency Ambulatory Care Unit (SEAC) at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT). Only […]
• Renal education with an international reach from Lancashire Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has held two international courses to improve education and awareness of kidney conditions and procedures. Dr Aimun Ahmed and the renal team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals have led two important and prestigious international courses; the first Preston Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Interstation Course and the seventh Preston Renal Biopsy Course. […]
• First robotic recruit into international clinical trial Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has recruited the first robotic patient into an international clinical trial. The trial aims to improve the outcomes of patients having minimally invasive surgery for rectal cancer. When undergoing rectal cancer surgery, there is the potential for a leak from where two parts of the bowel have joined; called […]
• The return of the Camerados teepee to Blackpool Victoria Hospital: how a simple tent can help to create a ‘human hospital’ When social movement Camerados put a teepee in Blackpool Hospital in 2017, staff, patients and visitors – several thousand people in total – began to make connections and look out for each other more than ever. They felt it helped to make the hospital a better place to work, a more supportive place to get […]
• Innovative organisational development team and the ‘rising stars’ initiative  The Leadership and Organisational Development team at Lancashire support members of staff who are identified as “rising stars” to shine through talent management systems. The project has involved creation and embedding of a talent management programme which fosters ongoing development for staff, identifies individual strengths and areas for development; ultimately retaining talent and enhancing staff […]
• Improving emergency care for those with acute biliary disease A team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been named as a finalist in a national awards ceremony for improvements to emergency care. The upper gastrointestinal (upper GI) team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been recognised in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) National Quality Awards Ceremony 2018 for the improvements that they […]
• Improvement Fundamentals – A radical new programme of online courses for those involved in health and social care Are you: Working in, or with, health or social care? Enthusiastic about make things work better in your local service? Keen to put your improvement ideas into practice, but not sure how? Eager to hear from colleagues across the country with the same concerns? Looking for free, bite-sized Quality Improvement training that you can access […]