{"id":1122,"date":"2014-09-22T12:29:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T11:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2014-09-22T14:27:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T13:27:34","slug":"knowledge-lert-for-monday-22nd-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/2014\/09\/22\/knowledge-lert-for-monday-22nd-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge @lert for Monday 22nd September"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bereavement in the workplace \u2013 ACAS<\/strong>
\nBereavement in the workplace can be challenging to manage: employees may need to take time off unexpectedly; find their performance is impacted, or be temporarily unable to perform certain roles. However a compassionate and supportive approach demonstrates that the organisation values its employees, helps build commitment, reduce sickness absence, and retain the workforce.\u00a0This guidance <\/a>can help employers prepare for managing bereavement in the workplace by having a clear bereavement policy and by training managers and selected staff to have compassionate and effective conversations with bereaved employees.<\/p>\n

Values Based Recruitment special report –\u00a0Health Service Journal<\/strong>
\nNHS Employers\u00a0have worked with the Health Service Journal to create a special report<\/a> on Values Based Recruitment (VBR) in the NHS. The article not only outlines the\u00a0VBR project but also includes three case study examples from NHS trusts which show how using VBR helps provide high quality, values driven staff which leads to the best possible experience for staff as well as patients.<\/p>\n

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Group established for ‘innovative’ smaller hospitals –\u00a0Health Service Journal – Acute care news<\/strong>
\nA new group for small and medium-sized hospitals <\/a>has been set up by the Nuffield Trust to look at how they can adapt their business models.<\/p>\n

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Does glove use increase the risk of infection? –\u00a0Nursing Times – Healthcare Acquired Infections<\/strong>
\nUse of gloves is widespread in clinical practice, but research suggests<\/a> they are often used inappropriately, and that this increases infection risks to patients<\/p>\n

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Empathy at work \u2013 Mind Tools<\/strong>
\nExploration of what empathy <\/a>is and how to use it effectively.<\/p>\n

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More Than Money: Closing The NHS Quality Gap \u2013 Health Foundation\u00a0<\/strong>
\nThe gap in NHS finances<\/a> has been projected to reach \u00a330bn by 2021. This report discusses the implications of this financial gap for quality of care in the NHS. It argues that additional resources alone will not be enough to close the \u2018quality gap\u2019: the difference between the quality of care the NHS should deliver, and what it is capable of delivering. Increasingly tight budgets make it likely that the quality gap will get wider. The report highlights the changes needed in order to change how the NHS delivers services and is able to improve care to make it more efficient.<\/p>\n

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Tips for cold-emailing intimidatingly powerful people \u2013 Harvard Business Review Blog<\/strong>
\nSuccess stories which have come from sending cold emails to intimidatingly powerful people<\/a>. Tips are provided on how to best structure the email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bereavement in the workplace \u2013 ACAS Bereavement in the workplace can be challenging to manage: employees may need to take time off unexpectedly; find their performance is impacted, or be temporarily unable to perform certain roles. However a compassionate and supportive approach demonstrates that the organisation values its employees, helps…\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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4kWbe-i6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","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=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}