NHS property and estates<\/strong> Learning from vanguards<\/strong> Maternity services survey<\/strong> Antimicrobial resistance<\/strong> Patient access to medicines and medical technologies<\/strong> Ambulance workforce<\/strong> Public health teams: standards for employers<\/strong> Agency staffing<\/strong> NICE guidance: sore throat<\/strong> CQC and NHSI statutory board meetings<\/strong> Quality accounts 2017\/18<\/strong> Accountable care organisations contracts<\/strong> Nursing workforce<\/strong> Security of network and information systems<\/strong> Regulation of independent healthcare services<\/strong> Social care briefings<\/strong> NHS provider communications<\/strong> Statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHS property and estates The Department of Health and Social Care has published The Government response to the Naylor Review.\u00a0 This document sets out the government\u2019s response to the review of NHS property and estates published in March 2017.\u00a0 The actions outlined are intended to drive transformation of the NHS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[37,15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ccg","category-daily-news","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4kWbe-2GG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10334"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10370,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334\/revisions\/10370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Department of Health and Social Care has published The Government response to the Naylor Review<\/a>.\u00a0 This document sets out the government\u2019s response to the review of NHS property and estates published in March 2017.\u00a0 The actions outlined are intended to drive transformation of the NHS estate and help deliver the Five Year Forward View.<\/p>\n
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\nThe NHS Confederation has published the following briefings sharing learning from vanguards:<\/p>\n\n
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\nThe Care Quality Commission has published the results from the Maternity services survey 2017<\/a>.\u00a0 The results show that women are reporting a more positive experience of maternity care and treatment and highlights improvements in areas such as choice of where to give birth, quality of information and access to help and support after giving birth, when compared to the results from previous years\u2019 surveys<\/p>\n
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\nThe World Health Organization has published Global antimicrobial resistance surveillance system (GLASS) report: early implementation 2016-17.<\/a> \u00a0This report provides information from GLASS enrolled countries on the status of their antimicrobial resistance surveillance systems and reports national data for selected bacteria that cause infections in humans.<\/p>\n
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\nThe NHS Confederation has published Brexit and the impact on patient access to medicines and medical technologies<\/a>.\u00a0 This briefing looks at how UK and EU citizens could be affected by the disruption in trade that could result from the UK\u2019s exit from the EU, as well as in the event of lack of cooperation in the regulation of medicines and devices between the EU and the UK post Brexit.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS Employers has launched a new section on its website for the \u00a0Ambulance workforce<\/a>.\u00a0 It aims to develop organisational cultures that promote higher levels of morale, motivation, staff satisfaction, wellbeing and engagement, to improve the working lives of all staff in the ambulance service. It is based on evidence provided from across the ambulance sector on where good work is already happening and where support is needed.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Local Government Association has published The standards for employers of public health teams in England.<\/a>\u00a0 The purpose of the Employer Standards is to enable and sustain high quality public health outcomes for the local population and communities.\u00a0 The standards are a set of principles and are accompanied by resources that give more detail, including guidance and links to frameworks with particular relevance to specific groups.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Office of Health Economics has published NHS staffing and the impact of recent interventions<\/a>.\u00a0 This briefing summarises a seminar exploring some of the reasons for the increase in the use of agency staff and the subsequent demand-side price caps and the context in which they were introduced.<\/p>\n
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\nNICE has published a NICE guideline\u00a0 Sore throat (acute): antimicrobial prescribing<\/a> (NG84).\u00a0 This guideline sets out an antimicrobial prescribing strategy for acute sore throat. It aims to limit antibiotic use and reduce antimicrobial resistance. Acute sore throat is often caused by a virus, lasts for about a week, and most people get better without antibiotics. Withholding antibiotics rarely leads to complications.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS Providers has published Summary of statutory board meetings: CQC and NHSI \u2013 January 2018<\/a>.\u00a0 This summary of the Care Quality Commission and NHS Improvement statutory board meetings includes the CQC\u2019s decision to reschedule some routine inspections this month, as well as updates from NHSI on winter pressures and the closer alignment of its work with NHS England.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS Improvement has issued a letter Quality accounts: reporting arrangements 2017\/18<\/a>.\u00a0 This letter, for providers of NHS healthcare, sets out the requirements for quality accounts for 2017\/18.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS England has announced it will launch a consultation on the contracting arrangements for Accountable Care Organisations<\/a>.\u00a0 The consultation will set out how the contract fits within the NHS as a whole, address how the existing statutory duties of NHS commissioners and providers would be performed under it, and will set out how public accountability and patient choice would be preserved.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Health Committee has published The nursing workforce<\/a>.\u00a0 This report examines the current and future scale of the shortfall of nursing staff and whether the Government and responsible bodies have effective plans to recruit, train and retain nurses.\u00a0 The committee concludes that there has been too little attention given to retaining nurses which has resulted in more nurses now leaving than joining the professional register.\u00a0 There are many causes for this shortfall, including workload pressures, poor access to continuing professional development, pay and a general sense of not feeling valued.<\/p>\n
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\nThe National Cyber Security Centre has published The NIS guidance collection<\/a>.\u00a0 This collection is intended to support the implementation of the EU Directive on the security of network and information systems (NIS) which becomes UK law in May 2018.\u00a0 The Department of Digital, Culture, Media & Sport has also published the government response to the recent consultation on the Security of Network and Information Systems Directive<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Care Quality Commission has launched a consultation on proposals for the regulation of independent healthcare services<\/a>.\u00a0 The CQC is seeking views on how to introduce quality ratings following inspections for independent healthcare providers and to develop how it monitors, inspects and rates services provided by these organisations.\u00a0 The consultation closes 23 March 2018.<\/p>\n
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\nThe House of Commons Library has published the following briefings relating to social care:<\/p>\n\n
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\nNHS Providers has published State of NHS provider communications 2017\/18<\/a>.\u00a0 This report provides benchmarking data on the state of communications practice within NHS trusts with thought leadership on the future of NHS communications.<\/p>\n
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