Doing right when you are wrong: perspectives on workforce planning in the NHS in uncertain times  – Nuffield Trust 
The health service’s most important asset is its staff. Ahead of a promised national workforce strategy for the NHS, Billy Palmer takes a closer look at workforce planning in the health service over the years, describes the challenges involved in getting it right, and outlines what a successful workforce plan should cover.

Junior doctors in England threaten to take industrial action over pay – The BMJ
The BMA has said it will prepare to ballot for industrial action unless the government commits to its demand for “full restoration” of junior doctors’ pay to levels equivalent to 2008-09 adjusted for…

South Asian Dementia Pathway Toolkit (ADaPT) – Race Equality Foundatian
This toolkit aims to provide improved culturally sensitive support for people living with dementia from South Asian communities. People from South Asian communities are at greater risk of developing dementia but are less likely to access all points of the care pathway – and more likely to present in crisis and/or at a later stage. They are more likely to face barriers including a late or missed diagnosis, reduced access to treatments, and inappropriate or inadequate support coupled with problems caused by language barriers. They often rely on local, community-led organisations for support.

Recent publications by S&O Staff –  Full text available on request from the Hanley Library

Vaishya, R., Scarlat, M.M. and Iyengar, K.P., 2022. Will technology drive orthopaedic surgery in the future?. International Orthopaedics, pp.1-3.

Saad, A., Iyengar, K.P., Firtzpatrick, J., Azzopardi, C., Panchal, H. and Botchu, R., 2022. The Linear Hallux Valgus Offset–A novel way to measure Hallux Valgus. Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma, p.101898.

Elhenawy, Y., Adhami, S., Abdelmeguid, Y., Ahmad, P.O., Chinchilla, P., Cody, D., Grundman, J., Mandilou, S.V.M., Ng, M., Orozco, J.A. and Perez‐Garcia, M., 2022. ISPAD Annual Conference 2021 Highlights from the ISPAD Roving Reporters Team. Pediatric Diabetes, 23(4), pp.427-432.

Lek, N., Manivong, A., Rassavong, K., Phommachack, D., Toomey, C. and Ng, S.M., 2022. Type 1 Diabetes in Laos, 2016–2021. Pediatric Diabetes.

Gupta, N., Ish, P., Iyengar, K.P. and Sakthivel, P., 2022. New essential criteria for medical faculty in India: A paradigm shift. The National medical journal of India, 34(5), pp.317-318.

Nune, A., Barman, B., Sapkota, H.R., Ish, P., Chelliah, E.G., Diwan, M., Chiphang, A. and Iyengar, K., 2022. Nanotechnology applications in rheumatology. Rheumatology International, pp.1-9.

Nune, A., Iyengar, K.P., Barman, B. and Manzo, C., 2022. The VEXAS syndrome from rheumatology perspective: genomic DNA sequencing as available blueprint for diagnosing rheumatic diseases with overlapping haematological or dermatological findings. Clinical Rheumatology, pp.1-2.

HSJ Roundup –  Full text available on request from the Hanley Library

Major trust records fifth never event at troubled department A fifth patient has been given the wrong blood at a major teaching hospital’s haematology department where patient safety concerns were raised by clinicians last year.

NHS England recruiting five new board directors NHS England is appointing five new non-executive directors to its board, according to an announcement published this week.

Interim CEO drafted in to calm trust’s leadership woes An ambulance trust which is expected to be heavily criticised in an imminent Care Quality Commission report has appointed a new interim chief executive.

North West surge accelerates covid admissions rise The number of patients admitted to hospital who test positive for covid is rising exponentially once more, with all seven English regions showing significant increases.

Trust’s improvement plan ‘limited in robustness’ A trust’s attempts to improve safeguarding – believed to have been prompted by a case where a patient with dementia was restrained and forcibly treated – have been criticised by an independent review.

Government ‘manager bashing’ to hide Conservative failings on NHS, says Confed chief Ministers, including the health secretary are bashing managers and exploiting the culture wars to try to ‘explain away’ the crisis in the NHS instead of facing up to the problems 12 years of Conservative-led government have created, NHS Confederation chief executive Matthew Taylor has told HSJ.