{"id":1384,"date":"2014-12-17T08:52:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T08:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2014-12-17T11:16:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T11:16:41","slug":"knowledge-lert-for-wednesday-17th-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/2014\/12\/17\/knowledge-lert-for-wednesday-17th-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge @lert for Wednesday 17th December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Waiting time standards toughened up under contract proposals &#8211;\u00a0Health Service Journal\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nTougher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsj.co.uk\/news\/acute-care\/waiting-time-standards-toughened-up-under-contract-proposals\/5077705.article?referrer=RSS\" target=\"_blank\">financial penalties<\/a> will be imposed on trusts that fail to meet waiting time standards and commissioners\u2019 freedom to waive penalties will be curbed under NHS England\u2019s draft standard contract for 2015-16, which was published this week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonhslks.com\/contact-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">Contact the Library &amp; Knowledge Service<\/a> to request this article or Phn. 01704 704202<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Emergency care fines strengthened to encourage &#8216;radical transformation&#8217; &#8211;\u00a0Health Service Journal\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsj.co.uk\/news\/acute-care\/emergency-care-fines-strengthened-to-encourage-radical-transformation\/5077718.article?referrer=RSS\" target=\"_blank\">financial penalty imposed on accident and emergency departments<\/a> that fail to meet the 95 per cent four hour target has been strengthened to encourage \u2018radical transformation\u2019 from struggling NHS providers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonhslks.com\/contact-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">Contact the Library &amp; Knowledge Service<\/a> to request this article or Phn. 01704 704202<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>NHS England to trial employing pharmacists in A&amp;E &#8211;\u00a0Health Service Journal<\/strong><br \/>\nThe urgent and emergency care review being led by NHS England will conduct <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsj.co.uk\/news\/nhs-england-to-trial-employing-pharmacists-in-ae\/5077730.article?referrer=RSS\" target=\"_blank\">a national pilot in the spring to trial employing pharmacists in an emergency department<\/a> setting.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonhslks.com\/contact-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">Contact the Library &amp; Knowledge Service<\/a> to request this article or Phn. 01704 704202<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>How crowdsourcing engaged NHS staff in Leeds &#8211;\u00a0Health Service Journal<\/strong><br \/>\nLearn how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsj.co.uk\/news\/hsj-live\/hsj-live-17122014-how-crowdsourcing-engaged-nhs-staff-in-leeds\/5077765.article?referrer=RSS\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds Teaching Hospital Trust gathered ideas and opinions from thousands of staff<\/a> quickly by harnessing the power of crowdsourcing, plus the rest of today\u2019s news and comment<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonhslks.com\/contact-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">Contact the Library &amp; Knowledge Service<\/a> to request this article or Phn. 01704 704202<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Staff shortage fuels recruitment of nearly 6,000 overseas nurses &#8211;\u00a0Health Service Journal\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsj.co.uk\/news\/exclusive-staff-shortage-fuels-recruitment-of-nearly-6000-overseas-nurses\/5077720.article?referrer=RSS\" target=\"_blank\">shortage of registered nurses<\/a> to fill an increasing number of posts has driven nearly three-quarters of hospital trusts to recruit overseas, an HSJ investigation has revealed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonhslks.com\/contact-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">Contact the Library &amp; Knowledge Service<\/a> to request this article or Phn. 01704 704202<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Astonishing over-reliance on overseas nurses &#8211;\u00a0Royal College of Nursing\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nDr Peter Carter, RCN Chief Executive &amp; General Secretary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcn.org.uk\/newsevents\/news\/article\/uk\/astonishing_over-reliance_on_overseas_nurses\" target=\"_blank\">responds <\/a>to latest figures from the Health Service Journal showing the number of overseas nurses being recruited in the UK.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>More training places needed to cope with pressures &#8211;\u00a0Royal College of Nursing\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nRCN CEO Dr Peter Carter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcn.org.uk\/newsevents\/news\/article\/uk\/more_training_places_needed_to_cope_with_pressures\" target=\"_blank\">responds <\/a>to Health Education England&#8217;s 4% overall increase in 2015\/16 nursing training places.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Selecting For Excellence \u2013 Final Report \u2013 Medical Schools Council\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Selecting for Excellence project was established to address the fact that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.medschools.ac.uk\/SiteCollectionDocuments\/Selecting-for-Excellence-Final-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> half of UK secondary schools and colleges did not provide a single applicant to medicine in recent years<\/a>. This report highlights the need for an expansion of outreach activity to ensure that there is coverage across the whole of the UK. It makes a series of recommendations as to how medical schools, organisations such as Health Education England, and Government, can work together to address them. The report also calls on the NHS to expand the provision of work experience for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b><strong>NICE Guidance<\/strong><\/b><br \/>\nNICE has published the following guidance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nice.org.uk\/advice\/mib15\">Aixplorer ShearWave Elastography for ultrasound imaging and assessing suspicious breast lesions<\/a> (MIB15).\u00a0 Medtech\u00a0 innovation briefings.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nice.org.uk\/advice\/mib16\" target=\"_blank\">The Oncentra Prostate v4.x for ultrasound\u2011guided real\u2011time HDR brachytherapy in men with localised prostate cancer<\/a> (MIB16) Medtech innovation briefings.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nice.org.uk\/advice\/mib17\">The Space Glucose Control System for managing blood glucose in critically ill patients in intensive care<\/a>(MIB17). Medtech innovation briefings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b><strong>Statistics<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hscic.gov.uk\/catalogue\/PUB16265\">NHS Continuing Healthcare Activity Statistics for England<\/a>, &#8211; 2014-15 quarters 1 and 2, Experimental statistics.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hscic.gov.uk\/catalogue\/PUB16252\">Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF), Recorded dementia diagnoses<\/a>, &#8211; April-November 2014<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hscic.gov.uk\/catalogue\/PUB15880\">Statistics on women\u2019s smoking status at time of delivery, England<\/a> \u2013 Quarter 2, 2014-15<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hscic.gov.uk\/catalogue\/PUB16021\">National Bowel Cancer audit report<\/a> &#8211; 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waiting time standards toughened up under contract proposals &#8211;\u00a0Health Service Journal\u00a0 Tougher financial penalties will be imposed on trusts that fail to meet waiting time standards and commissioners\u2019 freedom to waive penalties will be curbed under NHS England\u2019s draft standard contract for 2015-16, which was published this week. 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