Winter preparedness<\/strong> Frequent attenders – NHS Right Care<\/strong><\/p>\n NHS England has published support documents for the High Intensity User service<\/a> resource pack.\u00a0 The pack is intended to support local health communities who think that these innovations can be adapted and adopted to support an improvement in their local area.<\/p>\n Employee engagement in the NHS<\/strong> Board Assurance Frameworks<\/strong> NIHR Signals<\/strong><\/p>\n Aligning resource plans across the system<\/strong> Talking about dying: how to begin honest conversations about what lies ahead –\u00a0Royal College of Physicians<\/strong> The NHS bursary scheme new rules: seventh edition –\u00a0Department of Health and Social Care.\u00a0<\/strong> The importance of sleep for NHS staff – NHS Employers<\/strong> Statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nNHS Providers has published Steeling ourselves for winter 2018\/19<\/a>.\u00a0 This briefing explores some of the key questions about the sector’s preparedness for the coming winter. These include the operational and financial challenges trusts face following this summer\u2019s heatwave, the support available from the national bodies, and the preparations trusts and their partners are making to meet the needs of their local populations.<\/p>\n
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\nThe RAND Corporation has published Employee Engagement in the NHS: a secondary data analysis of the NHS Healthy Workforce and Britain\u2019s Healthiest Workplace surveys<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 This study examined the factors associated with engagement among NHS employees as part of a project with the Health Foundation.\u00a0 It found that a ‘one size fits all’ approach to NHS staff engagement is unlikely to be the answer and that staff engagement differs among the groups that make up the NHS population. Therefore, approaches aimed at improving staff engagement will need to be targeted at specific groups.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Good Governance Institute has published A survey of practice: Board Assurance Frameworks (BAF)<\/a>.\u00a0 This report is targeted at risk practitioners, boards and regulators and is intended to provide guidance as to what constitutes a good Board Assurance Framework.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Healthcare Financial Management Association has published How do you align resource plans across the system?<\/a>\u00a0 This is the first in a mini-series covering system governance issues.\u00a0 This briefing explores how to ensure strong strategic system planning and is intended to be of use for health and care system leaders, finance officers, non-executive directors and lay members.<\/p>\n
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\nThis report <\/a>begins to highlight and challenge professional reluctance to engage in conversations with patients about uncertainty, treatment ceilings, resuscitation status and death. It offers some \u2018mythbusters\u2019 to get physicians thinking and signposts to tools and educational resources to support physicians and other healthcare professionals.<\/p>\n
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\nThis guidance <\/a>contains information for students and higher education institutions about the NHS bursary scheme rules that apply for the academic year 2018 to 2019.<\/p>\n
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\nRead how a power nap can help reduce the impact of fatigue, and the positive benefits of this for NHS staff and ultimately their patients.<\/p>\n
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