Reducing emergency admissions / managing long-term conditions The Health Foundation has published Reducing emergency admissions: unlocking the potential of people to better manage their long-term conditions.  This briefing summarises research that explores the link between how well patients feel able to manage their long-term conditions such as asthma, diabetes and…

UK government’s preparations for a no deal scenario – GOV.UK The government has today published guidance on how to prepare for Brexit if there’s no deal.  Guidance relating to blood products, regulating medicines and medical equipment includes: Batch testing medicines if there’s no Brexit deal Ensuring blood and blood products…

NHS data security: protecting patient records – Parliament Street Using Freedom of Information legislation, sixty-eight NHS trusts were asked for information on patient records which were reported ‘missing’ over the 2017-2018 financial year. This revealed that nearly 10,000 patient records were lost over this period. Beyond social care: keeping later life…

Brexit: NHS managers warn about impact of no deal – BBC News The group representing hospitals and ambulance services in England has warned of a lack of “contingency planning” to deal with the impact of a no-deal Brexit on the health service. NHS trusts lost almost 10,000 patient records last…

Developing the long-term plan for the NHS – NHS Improvement & NHS England The NHS has been asked to set out a long-term plan for the future of the NHS by the autumn, setting out our ambitions for improvement over the next decade, and our plans to meet them over the…

STPs and ICSs NHS Providers has published Key questions for the future of STPs and ICSs.  This is the second in a series of briefings on sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs).  It summarises recent developments relevant to system working, sets out the state of play for STPs and integrated care…

Always events Picker has published Always Events® Evaluation: Phase 4: scale-up and spread. This document outlines the key learnings from NHS trusts involved in the scale-up and spread of Always Events, an initiative undertaken by Picker, NHS England and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.  Always Events are aspects of the…