{"id":1490,"date":"2015-01-29T13:05:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T13:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2015-01-29T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T14:37:17","slug":"knowledge-lert-for-thursday-29th-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/2015\/01\/29\/knowledge-lert-for-thursday-29th-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge @lert for Thursday 29th January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Investing in specialised services: consultation<br \/>\n<\/strong><span lang=\"EN\">NHS England is consulting on a proposed set of principles which will underpin the future decision making process for investment in specialised services.\u00a0 <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engage.england.nhs.uk\/consultation\/3a67882b\">Investing in Specialised Services<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN\">sets out how NHS England will prioritise which specialised services and treatments to invest in.\u00a0 <\/span>It directly commissions around 145 specialised services. In order to ensure the maximum number of patients benefit from new innovative treatments coming on stream, choices need to be made about which of these to fund.\u00a0 <span lang=\"EN\">The consultation runs until 27 April 2015. <\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN\">Standards for medical education and training<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\">T<\/span><span lang=\"EN\">he General Medical Council has launched a consultation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmc-uk.org\/education\/26040.asp?WT.mc_id=MENE150128\">Standards for medical education and training<\/a>.\u00a0 The new standards will, for the first time, create a single set of standards for organisations delivering medical education and training across the UK.\u00a0 The standards aim to bring together the medical education and training received by all doctors and are designed to make sure that fairness and patients\u2019 safety, experience and quality of care lie at the core of teaching and training.\u00a0 The consultation period closes on the 24 March 2015. <\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Hospital objections scupper controversial 2015-16 pricing plans- Health Service Journal<\/strong><br \/>\nThe NHS will go into what is expected to be its toughest financial year yet with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsj.co.uk\/news\/finance\/breaking-exclusive-hospital-objections-scupper-controversial-2015-16-pricing-plans\/5081632.article?referrer=RSS\" target=\"_blank\">no nationally agreed set of prices for services<\/a>, after controversial 2015-16 tariff proposals were resoundingly rejected by the dominant 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>Labour&#8217;s 10-year plan for health and caref &#8211;\u00a0Your Britain\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nThis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourbritain.org.uk\/uploads\/editor\/files\/Labour_Ten_Year_NHS_Plan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">document <\/a>sets out the Labour Party&#8217;s plan for health and care for the next ten years. It aims not just to protect the NHS but to improve it for years to come by making sure that the health service can meet the challenges of the 21st century and remain sustainable for the future<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>The code: professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses and midwives &#8211;\u00a0Nursing &amp; Midwifery Council<\/strong><br \/>\nThis revised code of practice places public expectations at the heart of good nursing and midwifery practice. It has been written with the input of many patients, carers, nurses and midwives. It is shaped around four statements, which state that good nurses and midwives will prioritise people, practice effectively, preserve safety, and promote professionalism and trust.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Winterbourne view: transforming care two years on &#8211;\u00a0Department of Health<\/strong><br \/>\nThe government committed in Transforming care: a national response to Winterbourne View Hospital to produce a report two years later setting out the progress that had been made to ensure what happened at Winterbourne View is not repeated. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/399348\/Winterbourne_review.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">update report<\/a> is a collective account from partners across the health and care system, which describes the work that has taken place. It provides an update against the actions in the original report and shows that not as much progress has been made as was intended.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Regulation of health and social care professionals: response &#8211;\u00a0HM Government<\/strong><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/regulation-of-health-and-social-care-professionals-response\" target=\"_blank\">response <\/a>covers:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 the structure of reform<br \/>\n\u2022 the make-up of a regulatory body<br \/>\n\u2022 registers and registration<br \/>\n\u2022 education, standards and practice<br \/>\n\u2022 fitness to practise<br \/>\n\u2022 the role of the Professional Standards Authority<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>The response sets out the government\u2019s approach to public protection and how this can be supported by professional regulation. &#8211;\u00a0The King&#8217;s Fund\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nThis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingsfund.org.uk\/projects\/bsa-survey-2014\" target=\"_blank\">report <\/a>details the results and satisfaction trends relating to the NHS and health care issues from the British Social Attitudes survey 2014. It finds that overall public satisfaction with the NHS increased to 65 per cent in 2014 \u2013 the second highest level since the British Social Attitudes survey began in 1983. Dissatisfaction with the service fell to an all-time low of 15 per cent.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Fines for breaching A&amp;E target could rise by over a third &#8211;\u00a0Health Service Journal<\/strong><br \/>\nFines levied on hospitals for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsj.co.uk\/news\/acute-care\/hsj-analysis-fines-for-breaching-ae-target-could-rise-by-over-a-third\/5078344.article?referrer=RSS\" target=\"_blank\"> missing the accident and emergency waiting target<\/a> could increase by more than 35 per cent under new rules proposed for the coming financial year, HSJ analysis has found.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investing in specialised services: consultation NHS England is consulting on a proposed set of principles which will underpin the future decision making process for investment in specialised services.\u00a0 \u00a0Investing in Specialised Services\u00a0sets out how NHS England will prioritise which specialised services and treatments to invest in.\u00a0 It directly commissions around&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4kWbe-o2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}