Knowledge @lert for Wednesday 12th December
Improving staff retention: key conversations to have with your staff – NHS Employers
Understanding what matters to staff can help overcome retention challenges. Aimed at employers, this guide explores when and how to have these conversations and includes practical tips and examples from a number of NHS organisations.
Never too busy to learn: how the modern team can learn together in the busy workplace – Royal College of Physicians
This report, supported by Health Education England, helps healthcare teams make the most of daily learning opportunities in the workplace. It explores how ‘invitational’ learning environments can be created in clinical settings and, in doing so, poses two key questions: how do we create learning opportunities in the clinical workplace and how do we maximise the impact of these opportunities?
Training environments 2018: key findings from the national training surveys -General Medical Council
This document is a full review of the General Medical Council’s latest annual national training surveys, which collate the views and experiences of more than 70,000 doctors in training and senior doctors who act as trainers. It found that while trainers and training organisations continue to provide high quality medical education, trainees rated their experience as worse when they had poor handovers, inadequate inductions and gaps in rotas.
Evidence standards framework for digital technologies
NICE has published the Evidence standards framework for digital technologies. The aim of these standards is to make it easier for innovators and commissioners to understand what good levels of evidence for digital healthcare technologies look like, while meeting the needs of the health and care system, patients, and users.
Home care in England
The King’s Fund has published Home care in England: views from commissioners and providers. This report aims to understand the key trends and challenges facing the home care sector, based on discussions with commissioners, providers and national social care organisations.
New models of home care
The King’s Fund has also published New models of home care. This report explores innovative models and approaches to commissioning and delivering home care and considers their potential to provide care that is more closely aligned with what people want.
NHS Executive Group
NHS England and NHS Improvement have announced a new joint senior leadership team – the NHS Executive Group. As part of closer working arrangements between the two organisations, NHS England and NHS Improvement will share the new combined management group chaired by the two chief executives.
NICE Surveillance reports
NICE has published the Surveillance Reports below. These provide a summary of new evidence published related to a NICE guideline and include the decision that NICE has taken about the need to update the guideline.
- Barrett’s oesophagus: ablative therapy (CG106, 2010) – surveillance decision: NICE will update the guideline
- Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding over 16s: management (CG141, 2015) – surveillance decision: NICE will not update the guideline
- Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease in children and young people: diagnosis and management (NG1, 2015) – surveillance decision: NICE will not update the guideline
- Drug allergy: diagnosis and management (CG183, 2014) – surveillance decision: NICE will not update the guideline
- Pressure ulcers: prevention and management (CG179, 2014) – surveillance decision: NICE will not update the guideline
- Bedwetting in under 19s (NG111, 2010) – surveillance decision: NICE will not update the guideline
- Exceptional Review Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management (NG80, 2017) – surveillance decision: NICE will update the guideline.
Assistive technology for older people
The National Institute for Health Research has published a themed review Help at Home – use of assistive technology for older people. This review presents a selection of recent research on assistive technology for older people funded by the NIHR and other government funders. This review focuses on research around the use of technology in the home, remote monitoring systems and designing better environments for older people.
Medical education and practice
The General Medical Council has reported on The state of medical education and practice in the UK. This report sets out some of the challenges the NHS and doctors continue to face, and what should be done to address these issues and create a sustainable workforce for the future.
Medical professionalism
The Royal College of Physicians has published Advancing medical professionalism. This report examines how essential professionalism is in increasing job satisfaction, improving patient care and raising productivity, and looks at what this means for doctors under growing pressures from increased workload, to their own remit and to their relationship with patients
Ambulance trust engagement in STPs and ICSs
NHS Providers has published A seat at the table: ambulance trust engagement in STPs and ICSs. This briefing summarises the experiences of eight ambulance trust leaders of engaging with STPs. It highlights the opportunities, and challenges, that system working presents for ambulance trusts and explores what they can contribute to the journey of collaboration and more integrated care
The future of surgery
The Independent Commission on the Future of Surgery has published its report Future of surgery. It sets out a vision of the future of surgery in the UK, setting out the changes that are likely to occur over the next 20 years, in the delivery of surgical care.
Learning opportunities for healthcare teams
The Royal College of Physicians has published Never too busy to learn: how the modern team can learn together in a busy workplace. This report, supported by Health Education England, helps healthcare teams make the most of daily learning opportunities in the workplace.
NICE consultations
- Radially emitting laser fibre treatment of an anal fistula: interventional procedure consultation. Closing date for comments: 31 December 2018.
- Child maltreatment: when to suspect maltreatment in under 18s: surveillance consultation. Closing date for comments: 4 January 2019.
- Tildrakizumab for treating moderate to severe plaque psoriasis: appraisal consultation. Closing date for comments: 4 January 2019.
- Certolizumab pegol for treating moderate to severe plaque psoriasis: appraisal consultation. Closing date for comments: 4 January 2019.
- Percutaneous mitral valve leaflet repair for mitral regurgitation: interventional procedure consultation. Closing date for comments: 7 January 2018. Additional link: NICE press release
- Hyperparathyroidism (primary): diagnosis, assessment and initial management: draft guidance consultation. Closing date for comments: 16 January 2018.
Statistics
- Friends and Family Test data – October 2018
- Abortion statistics for England and Wales – 2017
Bulletins
- NHS Workforce Bulletin – 3 December 2018
- NHS Managers’ Bulletin – 29 November 2018
- New Medicines Newsletter – November 2018