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Sustainability and transformation in the NHS<\/strong> Accountable care<\/strong> Policies for healthy lives<\/strong> End of life care collaborative<\/strong> Routes to cancer diagnosis<\/strong> Health Education England <\/strong> PFI and PF2 –\u00a0National Audit Office<\/strong> No homes for nurses: how NHS land is being sold off to build unaffordable homes –\u00a0New Economics Foundation<\/strong> Patient safety review and response<\/strong><\/p>\n NHS Improvement has published Patient safety review and response: October 2016 to March 2017<\/a>.\u00a0 This document provides a summary of how NHS Improvement reviewed and responded to patient safety issues reported by patients and the public.\u00a0 It provides examples of the action taken between October 2016 and March 2017 as a direct result of incident reviews.<\/p>\n Never Events policy and framework<\/strong><\/p>\n NHS Improvement has revised the Never Events policy and framework and Never Events list 2018<\/a>.\u00a0 The policy and framework explains what Never Events are, how staff providing and commissioning NHS-funded services should identify, investigate and manage the response to them. These documents will become active upon initiation of the update to the 2017-2018 NHS Standard Contract on 1 February 2018.<\/p>\n NICE guidance<\/strong><\/p>\n Medtech Innovation Briefings<\/p>\n
\nThe National Audit Office has published Sustainability and transformation in the NHS<\/a>.\u00a0 This report examines the progress the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and NHS Improvement have made towards achieving financial balance.\u00a0 It provides a summary of the financial position of NHS England, CCGs and trusts; looks at what the Department, NHS England and NHS Improvement have done to support local NHS bodies to improve their financial positions; and examines the support the national bodies have given local NHS bodies to help them work better in partnership.<\/p>\n
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\nThe King\u2019s Fund has published two articles relating to accountable care:<\/p>\n\n
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\nThe Health Foundation has published Policies for healthy lives: a look beyond Brexit<\/a>.\u00a0 This collection of essays underlines the value of taking a health-in-all-policies approach to the legislative programme that will follow the UK\u2019s departure from the EU.\u00a0 The authors identify some common challenges and point towards the necessary conditions required to deliver better domestic policymaking for health, while exploiting opportunities to innovate, be progressive and put health at the heart of policy.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS Improvement have published information about the End of life care collaborative<\/a>.\u00a0 They ran a 150-day programme, involving 16 volunteer trusts, to improve end of life care across a number of settings to improve the experience and quality of care received by patients at end of life.\u00a0 They have published the following case studies:<\/p>\n\n
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\nPublic Health England has published the latest Routes to Diagnosis<\/a> dataset which shows an improvement in the way some cancers are being diagnosed.\u00a0 This latest update includes a new interactive tool which shows trends in cancer diagnosis for 53 different types of cancer.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Department of Health and Social Care has published DHSC mandate to Health Education England: April 2017 to March 2018<\/a>.\u00a0 The mandate sets out the government’s objectives for Health Education England around workforce planning, health education and training and development.<\/p>\n
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\nThis briefing <\/a>looks at the rationale, costs and benefits of the Private Finance Initiative; the use of and impact of PFI, and ability to make savings from operational contracts; and the introduction of PF2.<\/p>\n
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\nThis report <\/a>examines the NHS sites that have been sold under the Government\u2019s public land sale programme. These include hospitals, community health centres and other health service infrastructure that have been identified as surplus by the NHS. It compares the homes planned on these sites to the average wages of NHS key workers.<\/p>\n
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