NHS Premises Assurance Model<\/strong> How will we know if integrated care systems reduce demand for urgent care? Establishing fair benchmark levels for the blended payment system\u00a0<\/strong> Creative emergency department recruitment amid staff shortages\u00a0<\/strong> Special Collection: Coronavirus (2019-nCoV): evidence relevant to critical care\u00a0<\/strong> New bill gives hospitals power to develop personalised treatment\u00a0<\/strong> Improving primary and community care<\/strong> Social Care Digital Pathfinders<\/strong> NICE guidance<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThis model supports boards, directors of finance and estates and clinical leaders to make more informed decisions about the development of their estates and facilities<\/a> services and provides assurances that the estate is safe, efficient, effective and of high quality.<\/p>\n
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\nFor the 2019\/20 financial year the National Tariff Payment System (NTPS) for emergency care moved from a fee-for-service arrangement to a blended payment system<\/a>. The blended system encourages the provider to moderate activity growth by providing financial incentives for effective demand management. However, there is currently scant detail surrounding crucial aspects of the NTPS scheme. Failure to address this issue may not only lead to the inappropriate distribution of resources across the health system; it could result in tens of millions of pounds being diverted away from urgent care.<\/p>\n
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\nConducting a skill-mix and establishment review, the Princess Royal University Hospital’s emergency department introduced new roles<\/a>including healthcare support workers and trainee nursing associates to help support the significant staff shortages and high use of temporary staffing.<\/p>\n
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\nThis Cochrane Library Special Collection pulls together the Cochrane Reviews that are most relevant to the management of people hospitalized with severe acute respiratory infections<\/a>. It features Cochrane Reviews from three Cochrane Groups who are part of the Acute and Emergency Care Network to inform health-decision making relevant to current WHO recommendations for the 2019 Coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Medicines and Medical Devices Bill introduces new safety measures, increases the professions that can prescribe low-risk medicines<\/a> and allows hospitals to develop personalised medicines.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Institute of Public Policy Research has published Realising the neighbourhood NHS: delivering a new deal for primary care in England<\/a>.\u00a0 This paper provides new evidence and ideas to improve the provision of primary and community care.\u00a0 It argues there should be a \u2018new deal\u2019 for general practice which should consist of: creating neighbourhood care providers to deliver the \u2018neighbourhood NHS\u2019; offering all GPs the right to NHS employment; reforming new GP roles to create career progression, time to care and realistic workload; and a radical transformation of the primary care infrastructure.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS Digital has announced sixteen organisations providing and commissioning adult social scare services will receive a share of \u00a34.5m to enable them to roll out their local digital projects on a wider scale.\u00a0 The Social Care Digital Pathfinders<\/a> will now commence a 13-month implementation phase with projects predominantly looking at standardising information and developing digital ways of sharing information between multiple health and care organisations.<\/p>\n
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