Recent publications by Southport & Ormskirk staff
These recent papers have been published by staff based at, or affiliated to Southport & Ormskirk NHS Hospital Trust. These papers have been indexed in Medline and Cinahl. If you have had a paper published recently or are interested to find out more about getting a paper published, get in touch with the Hanley Library.

The NHS: an anchor institution?
The Nuffield Trust has published an infographic The NHS as an anchor institution.  This infographic illustrates how NHS organisations act as anchor institutions in their local communities and positively influence the social, economic and environmental conditions to support healthy people and communities.

NICE Bites – Crohn’s disease
The May 2019 NICE Bites bulletin from the North West Medicines Information Service covers Crohn’s disease: management.  This publication provides a summary of key prescribing points taken from the NICE guidance NG129.

The changing face of clinical commissioning
NHS Clinical Commissioners has published The changing face of clinical commissioning.  This report showcases the unique perspective brought by clinical commissioners – the clinical expertise, collaborative working with provider and local government colleagues, and an understanding of the population’s needs in the system in which they operate – and argues that these are essential components to developing integrated services that are fit for purpose and get the best value for each NHS pound.

21^st Century social care
The Think tank Policy Exchange has published 21^st Century Social Care.  This research paper explores the nature and extent of the problems affecting the provision of social care in the UK.  It identifies how these problems have evolved from the institutional structures developed for providing health and social care and offers proposals for complex, long-term social care in England.

Social care funding
IPPR has published Social care: free at the point of need: the case for free personal care in England.  This paper sets out new research and bold policy proposals which aim to address the growing crisis in social care. Its recommendations aim to improve the efficiency of health and social care services in England by joining up health and social care policy and delivering a more preventative model of care.

Centre for Perioperative Care
The Royal College of Anaesthetists has launched the Centre for Perioperative Care.  The Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) is a cross-specialty centre dedicated to the promotion, advancement and development of perioperative care.

Dementia care
For Dementia Awareness Week from 20-26 May 2019, the Housing LIN has gathered examples of where extra care schemes or other housing related community services have supported people with dementia to develop meaningful relationships to prevent unwanted social isolation or reduce loneliness:

• Young at Heart – Sheffield
• Sycamore Dining Service – Nottingham
• The Scotswood Garden – Newcastle upon Tyne
• Housing 21 – linking with the social prescribing service – Aylesbury
• Share and care – Homeshare Organisation
• Once upon a time workshop – Kent
• BeConnected – Stafford and Rural Homes
• Reducing social isolation for people with dementia and their carers – Bracknell
• The Friendly Bench 
• Summary of other case studies

NICE guidance

NICE guideline

Highly specialised technologies guidance

Statistics 

• NHS Outcomes Framework Indicators – May 2019 Release
• Female Genital Mutilation – January-March 2019
• Practice Level Prescribing – March 2019
• NHS Sickness Absence Rates – January 2019 Provisional Statistics
• NHS Workforce Statistics – February 2019
• Deaths registered by area in England and Wales, monthly provisional – April 2019
• Population by country of birth and nationality: 2018
• Geographic patterns of cancer survival in England: Adults diagnosed 2012 to 2016 and followed up to 2017
• National Reporting and Learning System monthly report – May 2018 to April 2019
• Laboratory confirmed cases of measles, rubella and mumps, England – January 60 March 2019
• Diagnostic imaging dataset – January 2019
• Bed availability and occupancy data – Q4, 2018/19

Bulletins

• NHS Improvement costing newsletter – 15 May 2019
• NHS Workforce Bulletin – 20 May 2019
• SCIELine e-bulletin – 21 May 2019