Governance Leadership of Quality: Confronting Realities and Creating Tension for Change –\u00a0American Hospital Association<\/strong> Leadership in today\u2019s NHS: delivering the impossible \u2013 The King\u2019s Fund<\/strong> Government publishes strategy on UK’s future relationship with EU –\u00a0NHS Confederation\u00a0<\/strong> NHS priorities<\/strong> Options for funding the NHS and social care<\/strong> Public perceptions of the NHS<\/strong> Preconception care<\/strong> NHS England case studies<\/strong> Hospital vending machines <\/strong> Health care expenditure growth<\/strong> Diversity and the NHS<\/strong> Teenage pregnancy<\/strong> Weight management services<\/strong> NICE consultations<\/strong><\/p>\n Bulletins<\/strong><\/p>\n Statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n NHS England publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n Annual reports <\/strong>
\nLeadership of quality is a key responsibility of governance and, done well, serves as an exceptional gift: engaged boards produce better outcomes. For all the progress made over the last 20 years, however, many boards, trustees, and executives continue to struggle with quality oversight.\u00a0A new diagnostic tool<\/a>, constructed around six key drivers of board engagement, is designed to help boards and leaders identify challenges that may be impeding efforts to improve quality.<\/p>\n
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\nIn 2014,\u00a0work by The King\u2019s Fund\u00a0assessed the level of leadership vacancies in NHS provider organisations. As pressures on services have increased and NHS organisations are called on to work more collaboratively, levels of leadership vacancies and leadership churn continue to pose problems.\u00a0This report is based on a survey of NHS trusts and foundation trusts carried out by NHS Providers in late 2017<\/a>, qualitative interviews and a roundtable event with frontline leaders and national stakeholders.
\nThe survey showed that leadership vacancies are widespread, with director of operations, finance and strategy roles having particularly high vacancy rate and short tenures.<\/p>\n
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\nFind out the key proposals relevant to employers in the NHS<\/a> from the government white paper on the UK’s future relationship with the EU.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Department of Health and Social care has published a speech<\/a> by the Secretary of State\u00a0for Health and Social Care to hospital staff in which he outlined his priorities for the NHS: the workforce, technology and prevention.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Health Foundation has published Identifying options for funding the NHS and social care in the UK: international evidence<\/a>. As part of a larger project to identify a range of feasible options for the future funding of health and social care in the four countries of the UK, this working paper explores how 16 other high-income countries have thought about and implemented changes to their funding systems for health and social care to better meet the challenges ahead.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Health Foundation has published NHS at 70: Public perceptions<\/a>, the results of a poll conducted in partnership with The Kings Fund, Nuffield Trust and the Institute of Fiscal Studies to mark the 7oth anniversary of the NHS.<\/p>\n
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\nPublic Health England has published resources relating to preconception care<\/a> to help in planning and preparation for pregnancy and to improve outcomes for mothers and babies.<\/p>\n
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\nCalderdale: Integrating mental health therapy in primary care<\/a> \u2013 illustrates the positive impact of integrated mental and physical health services have had in a primary care settings.<\/p>\n
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\nPublic Health England has published Hospital vending machines: helping people make healthier choices<\/a>.\u00a0 This report presents findings from research into how changes to vending machine product availability and positioning across Leeds Teaching Hospital altered purchasing choices.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Centre for Health Economics has published The determinants of health care expenditure growth<\/a>.\u00a0 This paper considers changes in hospital inpatient expenditure (a key component of health care expenditure) over time and how these relate to changes in the determinants of such expenditure using individual-level administrative data.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Good Governance Institute has published Diversity: the new prescription for the NHS<\/a>.\u00a0 This report aims to reframe the debate about diversity in the NHS, for boards and executives of trusts, in terms of the dividends it can deliver for patient health and staff success.<\/p>\n
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\nThe British Pregnancy Advisory Service has published Social media, SRE and sensible drinking: understanding the dramatic decline in teenage pregnancy<\/a>.\u00a0 This report explores the factors which may have contributed to a sharp decline in teenage pregnancy rates.<\/p>\n
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\nPublic Health England has published Uptake and retention in group-based weight management services<\/a>.\u00a0 This is a literature review and behavioural analysis designed to identify how weight management programmes can maximise uptake and retention.<\/p>\n
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\nThe following annual reports have been published:<\/p>\n\n