Investing in health and care data analytics<\/strong> Adult health screening<\/strong> National Audit of breast cancer in older patients<\/strong> National diabetes audits<\/strong> Additional links: NHS Digital \u2013 National Diabetes Inpatient Audit (NaDIA) – 2018<\/a> | NHS Digital National Diabetes Inpatient Audit \u2013 Harms, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Additional link: NHS Digital – National Diabetes Foot Care Audit, 2014-2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n National Lung Cancer Audit<\/strong> What the long term plan means for system working<\/strong> Workforce Race Equality Standard data<\/strong> Organisation-wide improvement in health care<\/strong> Complaints to PHSO<\/strong> Number of GPs in the UK<\/strong> The Nuffield Trust has also produced an explainer The NHS workforce in numbers<\/a>.\u00a0 This summary provides facts on health care staffing and highlights the extent of current shortages and their effect.<\/p>\n NICE guidance<\/strong><\/p>\n NICE guideline<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThe Health Foundation has published Untapped potential: investing in health and care data analytics<\/a>.\u00a0 This report highlights nine key reasons why there should be more investment in analytical capability.\u00a0 It explores some of the ways in which good data analytics can support decision makers which could result in an NHS that can make faster progress on improving outcomes for patients.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Public Accounts Committee has published Adult health screening<\/a>.\u00a0 This report summarises evidence on the management of four screening programmes in England: bowel cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer and abdominal aortic aneurysm.\u00a0 The report finds that the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and Public Health England are not doing enough to make sure that everyone who is eligible to take part in screening is doing so, and do not know if everyone who should be invited for screening has been.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership has published National Audit of Breast Cancer in Older Patients: 2019 annual report<\/a>.\u00a0 This third annual report describes the process and outcomes of care for 147,162 patients, diagnosed with breast cancer between 1st January 2014 and 31st December 2017 in England and Wales. The patterns of care received by people aged 70+ years are compared with the care received by people diagnosed with breast cancer aged 50\u201369 years.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership has published the results of the following audits relating to diabetes:<\/p>\n\n
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\nThe Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership has published National Lung Cancer Audit annual report 2018<\/a>.\u00a0 This report represents the culmination of nearly two years of patient care and follow up, data collection, data analysis and interpretation. Its purpose is to understand the current quality of care and outcomes for patients with lung cancer, to celebrate good practice and to highlight variability, to ensure that all patients have access to the best care.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS Providers has published What the long term plan means for system working<\/a>.\u00a0 This briefing addresses he commitments set out in the long term plan and analyses what they mean for providers within a system context under six key themes: the future of system working, legislative change, governance and accountability, regulation, finances and population health and integration.\u00a0 The briefing is part of a series on the progress of STPs.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS England has published 2018 Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) data analysis report for eight national healthcare organisations<\/a>.\u00a0 This report presents two years of workforce race equality data and enables organisations to compare their performance with others providing similar services, with the aim of encouraging improvement by learning and sharing good practice.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Health Foundation has published The improvement journey: why organisation-wide improvement in health care matters, and how to get started<\/a>.\u00a0 This report is a practical guide to developing an organisation-wide approach to improvement. It summarises the benefits of such an approach and outlines the key elements and steps that NHS trust leaders should adopt when pursuing this agenda.\u00a0 It is accompanied by a poster showing the six key steps in the improvement journey<\/a> (pdf).<\/p>\n
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\nThe Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has produced the following \u00a0leaflets setting out how they handle complaints:<\/p>\n\n
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\nThe Nuffield Trust has carried out an analysis of the number of GPs in the UK<\/a>.\u00a0 The analysis draws on published data and indicates the number of GPs relative to the size of the population has fallen in a sustained way for the first time since the 1960s.\u00a0 The fall has been particularly marked in certain regions of England.<\/p>\n
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