Using data in the NHS: the implications of the opt-out and GDPR – The Kings Fund<\/strong> Securing the future: funding health and social care to the 2030s –\u00a0Institute for Fiscal Studies<\/strong> Measuring wellbeing inequality: what are appropriate indicators of wellbeing inequality? –\u00a0New Economics Foundation (NEF)<\/strong> NHSI and NHSE merger plans mark ‘profound shift’ in management – with potentially big risks –\u00a0NHE | NEWS<\/strong> \u2018The world\u2019s biggest quango\u2019: the first five years of NHS England –\u00a0The King’s Fund<\/strong> Strengthening your nursing supply case study –\u00a0NHS Employers\u00a0<\/strong> Good rostering guide –\u00a0NHS Employers<\/strong> Quality improvement<\/strong> GP retention<\/strong> Health and social care in Cumbria<\/strong> NHS pressures – winter analysis<\/strong> Bulletins & newsletters<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nEvery time a patient has an interaction with an NHS organisation, information is collected about them. Clinicians and NHS administrators collect this information on an individual\u2019s care \u2013 for instance, so that there is a record of treatments or drugs they are given or so that hospital consultants can share their test results with GPs.\u00a0Key messages<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nThis report <\/a>is a collaboration between the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Health Foundation, in association with NHS Confederation. It aims to understand how and why spending on health and social care has risen over time, where the money is spent, how costs are likely to develop in the future, and how these costs might be met.<\/p>\n
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\nThis working paper<\/a> explores the strengths and weaknesses of different measures of wellbeing inequality and to make a recommendation of a measure which could be reported by the Office for National Statistics alongside mean wellbeing. It also encourages researchers to reflect on which wellbeing inequality measure they choose and for a broader debate between key stakeholders on appropriate wellbeing inequality measures for different purposes.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSI) have announced plans to work closer together by establishing a new NHS Executive Group and an NHS Assembly<\/a>, as well as aligning their current non-executive board committees \u2013 in a move that providers argue could \u201cherald a profound shift in the way the NHS is led at national and regional level…<\/p>\n
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\nThis study<\/a>, commissioned jointly by the Institute for Government and The King\u2019s Fund, explores the fate of one of the central provisions of the Health and Social Care Act, NHS England, established as a statutorily independent board with the aim of distancing politicians from the day-to-day running of the NHS. It asks whether the objectives of establishing a statutorily independent board were fulfilled or disappointed.<\/p>\n
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\nBarking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust has committed to strengthening its nursing supply, through the introduction of new roles<\/a>, such as nursing apprenticeships, and mapping out career pathways so that staff can visually identify how they can develop their careers from apprentice through to chief nurse. The case study looks at how the trust has diversified its workforce and introduced new roles and education routes to support staff development and increase skills, staff experience and retention.<\/p>\n
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\nThe guide <\/a>sets out ways in which good rostering practice can be used to develop rotas. It aims to support and create an effective training environment that also meets the needs of the service, while enabling flexibility for doctors and employers, both of whom have a stake in the process.<\/p>\n
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\nThe BMJ in partnership with, and funded by, the Health Foundation are launching a joint series of papers exploring how to improve the quality of health care delivery<\/a>. \u00a0The quality improvement series will discuss the evidence for systematic quality improvement, provide knowledge and support to clinicians and ultimately will aim to help improve care for patients.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS England has published two case studies relating to GP retention:<\/p>\n\n
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\nThe Care Quality Commission has published Cumbria: local system review report<\/a>.\u00a0 This review has been carried out as part of a programme of 20 targeted reviews of local authority areas. The purpose of this review is to understand how people move through the health and social care system with a focus on the interfaces between services.<\/p>\n
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\nThe British Medical Association has published NHS pressures \u2013 winter analysis<\/a>.\u00a0 This analysis examines how NHS secondary care in England coped over the winter months of 2017\/18 and examines how doctors working at the frontline experienced the winter.<\/p>\n
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