Primary Care Networks<\/strong> Management of asthma: guideline<\/strong> Emergency admissions from care homes<\/strong> Rapid Diagnostic Centres (cancer)<\/strong> Social enterprises<\/strong> NIHR Signals<\/strong> Enhancing\u00a0supervision for postgraduate doctors in training\u00a0<\/strong> Emergency\u00a0admissions to hospital from care homes: how often and what for?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> NHS staff pay<\/strong><\/p>\n The following reports relating to pay for NHS staff have been published:<\/p>\n NICE guidance<\/strong><\/p>\n Quality Standard<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThe Community Network has published Primary care networks: a quiet revolution. <\/a>\u00a0This document provides a guide for provider organisations on how to engage effectively with PCNs.\u00a0 The paper draws on published guidance, discussions with PCN leaders in NHS England and NHS Improvement and discussions with providers of community services.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Scottish Intercollegiate Network and British Thoracic Society have updated their guideline British guideline on the management of asthma<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 This update includes a complete revision of the section on monitoring asthma including new information on predicting future risk of asthma attacks.\u00a0 It also updates sections on pharmacological management of asthma, supported self-management, non-pharmacological management of asthma, and management of acute asthma.\u00a0 It also includes a new checklist of information for patients and carers<\/p>\n
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\nThe Health Foundation has published Emergency admissions to hospital from care homes: how often and what for?<\/a>\u00a0 This briefing presents the results of a national analysis of emergency admissions from care homes across England, to provide insight into how often care home residents are being admitted to hospital and the types of conditions that are causing their admissions.\u00a0 Drawing on evaluations of four enhanced care packages provided to care home residents, it also explores the factors that may be most influential in reducing hospital admissions.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS England and NHS Improvement have published Rapid Diagnostic Centres vision and 2019\/20 implementation specification<\/a>.\u00a0 This document outlines the vision and approach for how Rapid Diagnostic Centres will develop and support the transformation of cancer diagnosis services over time. It also provides an implementation specification for Cancer Alliances to begin setting up Rapid Diagnostic Centres in 2019\/20.<\/p>\n
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\nThe NHS Confederation as published Social enterprises: part of the NHS family \u2013 an explanatory guide for the wider NHS<\/a>.<\/u>\u00a0 This guide describes social enterprises and the role they play in delivering better health and social care outcomes for the communities they serve.<\/p>\n
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\nThe following research summaries have been added to the National Institute for Health Research website:<\/p>\n\n
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\nThis report <\/a>sets out what high quality supervision looks like for doctors in training and provides a practical toolkit to assist trainees and supervisors. It forms part of a suite of resources including a handbook, a standards document and animation film and aims to provide trainees, trainers and supervisors with easy to understand information to ensure supervision is delivered and received in the best possible way.<\/p>\n
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\nThis briefing <\/a>from the Improvement Analytics Unit, a joint initiative between NHS England and the Health Foundation, finds that that more than four in ten (41 per cent) emergency admissions to hospital involving care home residents could be potentially avoided with better provision of preventative primary care, community support or NHS care in care homes.<\/p>\n
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