Health care workforce
The Health Foundation, King’s Fund and Nuffield Trust have published The health care workforce in England.  The briefing sets out the reasons why the long-term plan and supporting workforce strategy must address the urgent and mounting challenges facing the health care workforce.  It will be followed in the coming weeks by a more in-depth report that explores five key levers available nationally and locally that could help ameliorate the workforce crisis affecting both health and social care.

Maternity services: Digital Maturity Assessment
NHS England has published Maternity DMA Report – Digital Maturity Assessment of Maternity Services in England 2018.  The Digital Maturity Assessment (DMA) is a complete picture of the digital maternity landscape across England – a baseline for improvement at both a national and local level.  It is accompanied by supporting documents.

Community-centred practice
Public Health England has published Community-centred practice: applying All Our Health.  This document provides information for front-line staff to adopt community-centred ways of working that help improves the health and wellbeing of the most marginalised communities.  It also recommends actions that managers and staff holding strategic roles can take.

Technology in care
The Care Quality Commission has launched a new resource Technology in care.  This resource explores the use of technology in care, looking at the benefits of innovation and updating previously published information on surveillance.  New topics will be added to the resource.  People can sign up to receive email alerts when new items are published.

Homelessness: duty to refer
On 1 October 2018, the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 introduced a new legal duty on specified public services to refer service users they consider may be homeless or threatened with homelessness to a local housing authority.  The Department of Health and Social Care has published an overview of the duty to refer for NHS staff, including how to make a referral to a local authority.

NICE guidance
Technology appraisal guidance

Statistics

• VTE thromboembolism (VTE) risk assessment 2016/17 – Q3 and Q4 data
• National Reporting and Learning System Monthly Report, England – November 2017 to October 2018
• Hepatitis C treatment monitoring in England report – data to end April 2018
• Prescribing Costs in Hospitals and the Community – England 2017/18
• GP Contract Services – England, 2018-19
• Childhood Immunisation CCG/GP Practice level coverage statistics – 2017-18 (Management Information)
• NHS Outcomes Framework Indicators – November 2018 Release
• Learning Disability Services Monthly Statistics – AT: October 2018, MHSDS: August 2018
• Learning Disabilities Health Check Scheme England – Quarter 2, 2018-19
• Recorded Dementia Diagnoses – September 2018
• Recorded Dementia Diagnoses – October 2018
• Breast and Cosmetic Implant Registry  – October 2016 to June 2018, Management Information
• Patient Safety Alert compliance data – November 2018

NICE Shared Learning

• Driving quality through the implementation of NICE guidance in a local authority
• Adopting Transanal irrigation as a treatment option for people with bowel problems at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Atlas of Shared Learning

The following case studies have been added to the Atlas of Shared Learning:

• Early intervention practitioners in care homes – Nottingham City CCG
• Reducing Hypoglycaemia in inpatients at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
• Peer mentor emotional well-being programme – HM Prison Swaleside
• The ‘Okay to Stay’ programme –  reducing unnecessary hospital stays in Sheffield
• Quality Always – the DCHS way – Derbyshire Community Health Services
• Going Smoke-free: Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS (Mental Health) Trust
• ‘The gloves are off’ campaign – Great Ormond Street Hospital (over-use of non-sterile gloves)
• ‘Meet the Matrons’ clinic – an initiative to improve patient experiences – Northampton
• Procuring for effective wound management – East London Wound Healing Centre

Bulletins

• NHS Workforce Bulletin – 12 November 2018
• Drug Safety Update – November 2018

NIHR Signals

• Peer support may reduce readmissions following mental health crises
• Oral steroids do not help hearing for children with glue ear
• ‘Artificial pancreas’ improves glucose control in hospital patients with type 2 diabetes
• Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening for women is unlikely to be a fair use of NHS resources