Introducing learning and pastoral support workers at Portsmouth Hospitals – NHS Employers 
Find out why Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust took the decision to introduce a new band three role, the learning pastoral support worker.

Draft Mental Health Bill 2022 – Department of Health and Social Care
This draft bill delivers on two government manifesto commitments: to reform the Mental Health Act; and to improve the way that people with a learning disability and autistic people are treated in law. This draft legislation is intended to give effect to the policy approaches outlined in Sir Simon Wessely’s 2018 independent review, Modernising the Mental Health Act. These were subsequently taken forward in the government’s white paper Reforming the Mental Health Act in 2021.

Shared decision making from the perspective of clinicians and healthcare professionals – Patients Association
This report finds healthcare professionals are positive about shared decision making — a way of working with patients to decide treatment options. But the report also finds professionals’ ability to practice shared decision making regularly is limited by the current crisis in the NHS. The report makes a number of recommendations and the Patients Association will now look to partner with NHS England, the Personalised Care Institute and other organisations to support professionals’ call for more support to practice shared decision making.

NHS should publish exit interviews to allow doctors to compare conditions, meeting declares – The BMJ 
The BMA should push for all NHS employers to publish the anonymised results of exit interviews through an open access national database, to allow job applicants to compare employment conditions, representatives have said. A motion passed in full by the BMA’s annual representative meeting 2022 in Brighton this week also called for a new national NHS platform where employees can share views on their employing organisations’ management and culture, similar to websites such as Glassdoor.

Digital revolution to bust Covid backlogs and deliver more tailored care for patients – Department of Health and Social Care 
People across the country will benefit from faster, more personalised healthcare, following a digital revolution to make the health and social care system fit for the 21st century.

NHS leaders welcome digital health and care strategy – NHS Confed
Dr Layla McCay responds to the publication of the Plan for Digital Health and Social Care.

Eye care services: an urgent call for reformation – NHS Confed
A comprehensive national eye care strategy is needed to address fundamental issues in the system.

Delivering inclusive leadership through actions not words – NHS Confed 
Layla McCay states the case for inclusive leadership with examples of where things have gone well – and not so well – for two NHS leaders.

NHS in final push to treat longest waiters – NHS England
More than 6,000 long-term waiting-list patients who have waited two years or more for elective surgery are being offered treatment in different parts of the country as part of the NHS Elective Recovery Plan.

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NHS England appoints chief workforce officer to lead expanded department NHS England has appointed a new chief officer for its people directorate, following the departure of Prerana Issar earlier this year, HSJ has learned.

Treasury adviser who said northerners should be paid less moves to DHSC An adviser to chancellor Rishi Sunak who has sparked controversy over past comments on economic policy is to move to the Department of Health and Social Care

Patient safety is not a ‘priority’ for NHSE claims watchdog chief The outgoing chief investigator of the national safety watchdog has described his frustration with the organisation’s ‘ambivalent’ relationship with NHS England

NHS could get ‘much better deals’ by building on ‘infamous’ drugs procurement The NHS should seek to build on its ‘infamous’ reputation for pharmaceuticals procurement, as it could be getting ‘much better deals’ on many of the goods and services it buys, a national director has said

Regulators downgrade rating of high-profile trust but promote four NHS England has moved four providers out of ‘special measures’ but significantly downgraded the rating of one specialist trust.

NHS England downgrades rating of high-profile trust but promotes four NHS England has moved four providers out of ‘special measures’ but significantly downgraded the rating of one specialist trust.