Mental health and wellbeing resource for doctors<\/strong> Digital champions for health<\/strong> Scrutiny of ICSs and STPs<\/strong> GP contract update<\/strong> Additional links:<\/p>\n QOF quality improvement modules<\/strong> Health and social care to support people with learning disabilities<\/strong> Medical Devices Registry proposal<\/strong> Reducing loneliness and isolation<\/strong> Monitoring the Mental Health Act<\/strong> NICE Surveillance reports<\/strong> NICE consultations<\/strong><\/p>\n Exemption checking for prescriptions<\/strong> Healthcare briefings<\/strong> The House of Commons Library has published the following briefings:<\/p>\n Bulletins<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThe Royal College of Physicians has launched an online mental health and wellbeing resource<\/a> which aims to open up the conversation about physicians\u2019 mental health issues and their impact.\u00a0Additional link: RCP press release<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nNHS Digital has published Digital champions for health: a blueprint for success<\/a>. This report details the findings of a project that was set up to explore the value of a standardized, national Digital Champions for Health model. The research found that specially trained health and social care staff and volunteers can support individuals to safely and confidently manage their health online which increases their confidence to use digital health tools.\u00a0Additional link: NHS Digital press release<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nNHS Confederation has published Improving the scrutiny of integrated care systems and sustainability and transformation partnerships: a guide to good practice<\/a>. The paper covers the experiences of scrutiny leads and their supporting officers in engaging with ICSs and STPs to date; the steps that ICSs and STPs could take to improve these relationship; and the way that the role of health scrutiny might evolve to support the move to whole system partnership thinking<\/p>\n
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\nThe British Medical Association and NHS England have published Update to the GP contract agreement 2020\/21 \u2013 2023\/24<\/a>. This agreement document updates and enhances the existing five-year GP contract\u00a0agreement \u2018Investment and Evolution\u2019.<\/p>\n\n
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\nNHS England and NHS Improvement have published guidance on the two quality improvement topics for QOF<\/a> for 2020\/21 focusing on supporting people with learning disabilities and early diagnosis of cancer.<\/p>\n
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\nThe National Institute for Health Research has published Better health and care for all<\/a>. This review brings together NIHR-funded research for and about health and social care services for people with learning disabilities. It features 23 recent studies with important findings for those who commission, deliver, work in and use these services which range from qualitative research on user experience to randomised trials of complex new services. Many of these studies involved people with learning disability and family carers in the research and in delivering some of the interventions.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership has published Proposal for a Medical Devices Registry<\/a>. This report makes 33 recommendations in support of the development and implementation of a national implantable medical devices registry.\u00a0Additional link: HQIP press release<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nThe Department of Health and Social Care has published Evidence scope: loneliness and social work<\/a>. This evidence scope was commissioned by the Chief Social Worker for Adults to look at the role of social workers in preventing and reducing loneliness and isolation.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Care Quality Commission has published Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2018\/19<\/a>. This is the CQC annual report on the use of the Mental Health Act. It looks at how providers are caring for patients, and whether patients’ rights are being protected. The report finds there has been an improvement in the number of people being given information about their rights and being offered the support of an Independent Mental Health Advocate (IMHA). However, services need to do more to ensure that they are complying with their human rights duties.\u00a0Additional link: CQC press release<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nNICE has published the Surveillance Reports below. These provide a summary of new evidence published related to a NICE guideline and include the decision that NICE has taken about the need to update the guideline.<\/p>\n\n
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\nNHS Digital has announced the national expansion of the Real time Exemption Checking service for prescriptions<\/a>. The system enables pharmacies to immediately check if a patient is eligible for free prescriptions saving time and helping patients claim free prescriptions correctly. An average of two minutes per request is saved in the pharmacy when an exemption is confirmed digitally.<\/p>\n
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\nThe House of Lord\u2019s Library has published the following briefings:<\/p>\n\n
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