Towards a new partnership between disabled people and health and care services: getting our voices heard – The King’s Fund
Disabled people face poorer experiences of – and worse access to – health and care services than people who aren’t disabled and these health inequalities have been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. In this context, it’s vitally important to include disabled people in planning, designing and developing health and care services. This long read, with Disability Rights UK. sets out what we found out about how disabled people are currently involved in health and care service design, and what good might look like.

Guidance: Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel  – Department of Health and Social Care
Sets out the principles and best practice benchmarks health and social care employers and recruitment agencies must follow to ensure effective, ethical international recruitment.

Welcome to your new hospital – The BMJ 
August is a month of mass medical migration. Postgraduate doctors are scattered across UK hospitals, and for some, this is their first experience of a workplace as a professional or even their first experience of working in a new country. For others, they leave one hospital after a night shift and find themselves expected to magically teleport themselves to another hospital’s compulsory induction that same day.

Aspirin and similar drugs for the treatment of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) – Cochrane
Key messages: When used after standard initial treatment with anticoagulants, aspirin and similar drugs (antiplatelet agents) in addition to best medical practice (BMP), may reduce recurrent venous thromboembolism (VTE), i.e. deep vein thrombosis  (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (PE), when compared to BMP plus placebo in a chronic DVT setting. There is no clear difference in side effects, major bleeding or PE with the use of antiplatelet agents.

A guide to the Health and Care Act 2022 – NHS Providers
This briefing sets out an overview of proposals and a summary of the key parts of the Bill. It picks out the main provisions relevant to providers and systems and looks at the secondary legislation that will flow from the Act.

The impact of body image on mental and physical health – House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee

This report states that the government must speed up the introduction of a promised licensing regime for non-surgical cosmetic procedures to prevent vulnerable people being exploited. The report identifies a rise in body image dissatisfaction as the driver behind a new market that to date has remained largely unregulated.

Regulation, reform and services under pressure – NHS Providers
This report outlines key findings from a survey of trust leaders on their experiences on regulation in the last twelve months. It finds that trusts expressed strong support for the policy direction being taken by regulators. An overwhelming majority supported the Care Quality Commission’s planned shift towards a more risk-based approach, data monitoring, and its intention to update ratings more frequently. Also, a majority of trusts were supportive of the collaboration and system focus seen in NHS England and NHS Improvement’s new system oversight framework and its oversight metrics. However, trusts did not report experiencing the benefits of this shift in strategic direction in practice. Trust leaders reported an increase in the regulatory burden and the number of ad-hoc requests from regulators over the past year.

Health overview and scrutiny committee principles – Department of Health and Social Care
In advance of the statutory guidance on the Secretary of State’s new powers in relation to service reconfigurations, this document sets out the expectations of the Department of Health and Social Care, the Local Government Association, and the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny on how integrated care boards and integrated care partnerships and local authority health overview and scrutiny committee arrangements should work together to ensure that new statutory system-level bodies are locally accountable to their communities.

Expected ways of working between integrated care partnerships and adult social care providers – Department of Health and Social Care
This guidance was developed by the Department of Health and Social Care, Local Government Association and NHS England, in partnership with the Care Provider Alliance. It sets out a series of advisory principles for integrated care partnerships (ICPs) and adult social care (ASC) providers to guide their work together. It aims to ensure ASC providers are involved as essential partners, alongside commissioners, people with lived experiences of care or unpaid carers among others, in the work of the ICPs as they all have valuable perspectives to contribute to service planning across England.

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• Exclusive: Delays to pension payments after surge in retirements The body which handles NHS pensions is struggling to process applications on time after a 50 per cent increase in retirements from the service.
• NHSE awards extra ambulance capacity contract NHS England has awarded a contract for additional ambulance service capacity nationally to help cope with high demand and handover delays, with the capacity available from today.
• North by North West: GPs angered as ‘place’ maps redrawn Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England. Contact me in confidence here.
• Barclay calls urgent ‘hackathons’ over ambulance crisis The new health and social care secretary has asked officials to hastily organise several “hackathons” to try to address the crisis in ambulance performance.
• Trusts reveal thousands of new 12-hour waits Several trusts have now started reporting thousands of 12-hour waits in their emergency departments, representing a huge difference to the numbers published nationally under a slightly different measure.
• Former regional director drafted in to oversee troubled trust A former regional director has been drafted in to oversee a trust where a review found ‘multiple’ governance issues and ‘deep-seated’ cultural problems, HSJ has learned.
• Exclusive: NHSE leak reveals 1m patients on hidden waiting list More than a million people – including hundreds of thousands of children – are on an unpublished national waiting list for community health services, according to NHS England documents leaked to HSJ.
• Trust begins ‘most ambitious’ outpatients project in NHS A large acute trust is carrying out a major expansion of patient-initiated follow-up appointments, which is said to be “the most ambitious” project of its kind in the NHS.
• Guy’s still fixing IT systems 10 days after heatwave crash One of England’s largest trusts has apologised for major IT problems which it is still seeking to resolve, and said there will be an independent review into the crash.
• Top patient safety trio confirmed for HSJ event Three of the most influential people in patient safety in the UK have been confirmed to speak at the HSJ Patient Safety Congress this year.
• Patients kept in A&E for ‘up to three weeks’, CQC finds Patients experiencing a mental health crisis were kept in a trust’s emergency department for up to three weeks, a Care Quality Commission report has revealed.
• Trust’s future under question as specialist service shut down NHS England is closing the current gender identity clinic for children and young people following a critical independent review, replacing it with two new services in London and the North West of England.
• NHSE director switches to national integration role NHS England’s medical director for primary care is being seconded to a national integration role.
• Speaking up ‘still not business as usual’, national guardian warns Whistleblowing is still not ‘business as usual’ and leaders must take action after an unusual drop in the proportion of staff viewing their organisation as having a positive speak up culture, the national guardian for freedom to speak up has said.
• CQC probes bullying allegations at national NHS agency Bullying and harassment allegations made against leaders of the organisation that supplies blood to the NHS have prompted a Care Quality Commission review, with staff claiming poor culture has exacerbated the crisis around low blood stocks.
• Chief executive to lead neighbouring trust The chief executive of Derbyshire Healthcare Foundation Trust will leave this year to lead a neighbouring mental health trust.
• Barclay calls urgent ‘hackathons’ over ambulance crisis The new health and social care secretary has asked officials to hastily organise several “hackathons” to try to address the crisis in ambulance performance.
• Londoners several times more likely to get life-saving treatment The NHS and the Treasury need to make a renewed commitment to increasing the number of patients who benefit from thrombectomy, the Stroke Association has said, as it revealed the service was dependent on just 106 doctors in England.
• Shrinking NHS England issues £9m contract for digital ‘delivery partner’ A lack of digital ‘skill and resource’ has led NHS England to issue a £9m contract which will see an external supplier establish a ‘centre of excellence’ for the organisation.
• Trust’s IT crash stops staff accessing patient information An IT crash at one of the country’s largest trusts has prevented some of its staff from logging in to access patients’ medical information.