Knowledge @lert for Friday 11th November
Experiences of being in hospital for people with a learning disability and autistic people – Care Quality Commission
This report looks at what people with a learning disability and people with autism experience when they need physical health care and treatment in hospital.
Why have ambulance waiting times been getting worse? – The Health Foundation
This data analysis looks at ambulance service performance and explores the contributing factors and priorities for improvement.
Anxiety nation?: economic insecurity and mental distress in 2020s Britain – Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Amid rocketing rates of diagnosis for anxiety, and with 7.3 million English adults already having received antidepressants by 2017-18, this report establishes many connections between financial insecurity and poor mental health. It calls for more to be done to protect those millions of Britons, and not just those on the very lowest incomes, at a time of increasing prices and interest rates.
Cardiovascular disease in England: supporting leaders to take actions – The Kings Fund
Given its high prevalence and large contribution to health inequalities, tackling CVD will be a relevant priority in most local areas. Integrated care systems (ICSs) can tackle CVD in their local areas by establishing strong local leadership and partnerships on CVD and public health, focusing on preventing and managing CVD and its risk factors, raising awareness of CVD, using data, tools and technology effectively, and reducing clinical variation. This work is informed by an analysis of published data on CVD; a literature review of current policy and evidence; and interviews and a workshop with key stakeholders working in health and care.
OD in the NHS X- Looking back and stepping forward: OD at the heart of transformation – NHS Employers
Celebrate ten years of OD in the NHS! Bookings are now open for OD in the NHS X at etc venues County Hall, London on 27th February 2023.
RCN announcement on strike action – NHS Employers
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has announced that nursing staff in the majority of NHS employers across the UK have voted to strike.
Recent statistics
- Provisional Accident and Emergency Quality Indicators for England, September 2022, by provider Monthly A&E quality indicators
- Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator (SHMI), Deaths associated with hospitalisation, England, July 2021 – June 2022 Indicator reporting mortality at hospital trust level across the NHS. This indicator is produced on a monthly basis and gives an indication for each non-specialist acute hospital trust in England whether the observed number …
- Provisional Monthly Hospital Episode Statistics for Admitted Patient Care, Outpatient and Accident and Emergency data, April 2022 – September 2022 Provisional monthly HES
- NHS Surplus Land, Quarter 2 2022/23 This report presents timely information from the new NHS Surplus Land live collection.
- Mixed Sex Accommodation breaches for September 2022 Number of breaches of the policy on mixed sex accommodation in relation to sleeping accommodation for the month.
- Psychological Therapies: reports on the use of IAPT services, England, August 2022 Final including a report on the IAPT Employment Advisers pilot Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) data for August 2022, including reports on the IAPT Employment Advisors Pilot
- Diagnostic waiting times and activity for September 2022 Diagnostic waiting times and activity for 15 key diagnostic tests and procedures. The data is available through a monthly collection.
- Referral to treatment waiting times statistics for consultant -led elective care for September 2022 : Information on Consultant-led Referral to Treatment waiting times, monitoring length of time from referral through to elective treatment.
- Ambulance Quality Indicators Systems Indicators for October 2022 Monthly call and incident counts, and response times, by Ambulance Service and Category.
- A&E attendances and emergency admissions for October 2022 Monthly A&E performance and emergency admissions for all A&E types, including Minor Injury Units and Walk-in Centres.
- Health Index for England: 2015 to 2020 National and local insights into trends in health, including the first Health Index results for a year affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- How health has changed in your local area: 2015 to 2020 An update of our tool that provides an article for every local authority area in England on trends in health, based on the Health Index. This update will include index data for 2020, the first year affected by the pandemic.
- Palliative and end of life care profiles: November 2022 data update The profiles provide an overview of palliative and end of life care in England at various geographies.
- Breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks after birth: annual data 2021 to 2022 Annual datasets on the number and proportion of infants who have been fully, partially or not at all breastfed at 6 to 8 weeks after birth.
- Child development outcomes at 2 to 2 and a half years: annual data 2021 to 2022 Annual datasets for local authority metrics on outcomes for children at 2 to 2 and a half years as measured by the Ages and Stages Questionnaire 3 (ASQ-3).
- Seasonal influenza and COVID-19 vaccine uptake in frontline healthcare workers: monthly data 2022 to 2023 Data showing the number and proportion of frontline healthcare workers (HCWs) in England having seasonal influenza and COVID-19 vaccines.