Bringing together digital and quality improvement: how boards can connect the dots and create allies in service transformation – NHS Providers
This briefing from the Digital Boards programme focuses on the benefits of bringing together digital and quality improvement. Trust leaders reflect on their collective role in leading these changes and how they can make best use of existing improvement capabilities, and set out some key considerations for boards.

Draft code of governance for NHS provider trusts – NHS England
This code sets out a common overarching framework for the corporate governance of trusts, reflecting developments in UK corporate governance and the development of integrated care systems. It is open for consultation until 8 July 2022.

Draft guidance on good governance and collaboration -NHS England
This guidance, issued under the NHS provider licence, sets clear expectations of collaboration by NHS trusts and foundation trusts and the governance characteristics that trusts must have in place to support this. It is open for consultation until 8 July 2022.

Evidence update on Orthopoxvirus Infections  – Dynamed
Including Smallpox and Monkeypox, the 2022 outbreaks, clinical criteria for diagnosis, lesion progression  images, and more.

Beds in the NHS – Royal College of Emergency Medicine
This report shows that an additional 13,000 staffed beds are required in the NHS across the UK to drive meaningful change and improvement. Meaningful change and improvement would constitute a significant improvement in A&E waiting times, ambulance response times, ambulance handover delays, and a return to safe bed occupancy levels.

Roadmap for integrating specialised services within integrated care systems  – NHS England and NHS Improvement 
This document sets out the roadmap for how the commissioning model for specialised services will evolve in the coming years. It charts a phased and managed approach to integrating commissioning of specialised services with wider ICB (integrated care board) commissioning responsibilities.

Nursing under unsustainable pressures: staffing for safe and effective care in the UK – Royal College of Nursing
In March 2022, the RCN invited nursing and midwifery staff from across the UK to give their experiences of the last time they were at work. There were 20,325 responses to the survey. Eight in ten (83 per cent) said there weren’t enough nursing staff to meet all patient needs safely and effectively on their last shift. Just a quarter (25 per cent) of shifts had the planned number of registered nurses. Less than one in five (18 per cent) said they had enough time to provide the level of care they’d like.

Making wound care work: rebuilding services for the 3.8 million people living with a wound in the UK
This report, published jointly with the company Mölnlycke, found that around 28 per cent of patients are managing their own wounds due to the pandemic. The report (based on a survey and interview with patients, and a survey of wound care nurses) also found that the majority (88 per cent) of nurses fear that Covid-19 has had a negative impact on wound care services and eight out of ten are worried about the delays it has caused to appointments, and the knock-on effect of delays to patient outcomes.

Shortage of respiratory professionals is jeopardising patient care – The BMJ  
A lack of skilled staff to care for a growing number of patients requiring specialist respiratory care is compromising patient outcomes and taking its toll on existing staff, the British Thoracic…

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey, UK: characteristics of people testing positive for COVID-19 – ONS 
Characteristics of people testing positive for COVID-19 from the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Infection Survey. This survey is being delivered in partnership with University of Oxford, University of Manchester, UK Health Security Agency and Wellcome Trust. This study is jointly led by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) working with the University of Oxford and Lighthouse Laboratory to collect and test samples.

Workforce Disability Equality Standard: 2021 data analysis report for NHS trusts and foundation trusts – NHS England
This report provides a summary of the 2021 national data analysis and presents key findings and recommendations for continued focus and actions by trusts. regions and the national Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team at NHS England and NHS Improvement. It enables a comparison of year on year progress into the career and workplace experiences of NHS disabled staff.