Commissioning services for older adults
Public Health England has published Return on investment resources to help local authorities and CCGs in designing and implementing services to support older people’s healthy ageing.  Resources include a main report which summarises the evidence on identified interventions to support older people, a technical report and a return on investment (ROI) tool.

Integrated Care Systems: workforce, people and skills
The NHS Confederation has published Growing our own future: a manifesto for defining the role of integrated care systems in workforce, people and skills.  This manifesto outlines the workforce powers, freedoms and responsibilities ICSs and STPs are increasingly asking for and the local commitments and relationships necessary to deliver change.

Children and young people’s mental health inpatient services
NHS England and NHS Improvement have published Taskforce Charter: National Quality Improvement Taskforce for children and young people’s mental health inpatient services.  This document provides details of the NHS England / Improvement vision for mental health, learning disability, and autism inpatient services to be delivered to the consistently high standard that children and young people deserve.

Gender and nursing as a profession: valuing nurses and paying them their worth 
This report explores and critiques the gendered construction of value within the nursing profession and evaluates how value is attributed to nursing, the value placed on individuals and the status of the profession.

International Year of the Nurse and Midwife
Read how to celebrate and recognise nurses and midwives as part of the WHO’s designated International Year of the Nurse and Midwife.

Shaping the future workforce events
Learn what employers are doing to prepare for the changing NHS workforce landscape at one of these free events.

For a greener NHS
Simon Stevens has announced three steps the NHS will take during 2020 to reduce air pollution and tackle climate change:

• establish an expert panel to chart a practical route map to enable the NHS to get to ‘net zero’;
• a proposed new NHS Standard Contract which calls on hospitals to reduce carbon from buildings and estates, whilst switching to less polluting anaesthetic gases, better asthma inhalers and encouraging more active travel for staff;
• running a campaign ‘For a Greener NHS’ to encourage staff and hospitals to cut their impact on people’s health and the environment.

NICE guidance

 Interventional procedures guidance

Statistics

• Breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks after birth – July to September 2019
• Health visitor service delivery metrics – quarter 2, 2019 to 2020
• Child development outcomes at 2 to 2 and a half years – quarter 2, 2019 to 2020
• Smoking prevalence in adults – current smokers aged 18 to 64 by socio – economic group
• Laboratory reports of hepatitis A infections in England and Wales – July to September 2019
• Meningococcal ACWY immunisation programme: vaccine coverage estimates – to August 2019
• School leaver booster (Td/IPV): vaccine coverage estimates – to August 2019