{"id":2253,"date":"2015-12-03T11:45:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T11:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2015-12-03T11:57:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T11:57:08","slug":"knowledge-lert-for-thursday-3rd-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/2015\/12\/03\/knowledge-lert-for-thursday-3rd-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge @lert for Thursday 3rd December"},"content":{"rendered":"

Supporting The Role Of The Chief Operating Officer \u2013 Monitor<\/strong>
\nMonitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority surveyed COOs in the NHS to find out more about what the role entails. This report <\/a>provides a summary of the survey findings. The main aim of the survey was to gain insight into: characteristics of today\u2019s COOs, including their motivations for taking on the role; challenges they face; and support they have and additional support they would find helpful.<\/p>\n

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Health Care Providers Need a Value Management Office \u2013 Harvard Business Review<\/strong>
\nMany health care organizations today are striving to deliver better patient outcomes at lower cost and to be rewarded for accomplishing both. Most have begun this journey with pilot projects to obtain valid measures of outcomes and cost for one or two medical conditions. They implement process improvement and standardize care pathways from a patient\u2019s initial office visit through all aspects of treating the condition, and then explore offering new value-based payment models, including bundled payments, for those conditions. To accelerate the dissemination and adoption of this value agenda<\/a> for many more medical conditions, leaders should now consider establishing a new central office to oversee the creation of all the capabilities and information for such initiatives.<\/p>\n

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RCN responds to report on patient satisfaction and non-UK educated nurses – Royal College of Nursing<\/strong>
\nRCN response <\/a>to a new report suggesting a link between lower patient satisfaction and non-UK educated nurses.<\/p>\n

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Push for private sector to tackle endoscopy backlog delayed \u2013 Health Service Journal<\/strong>
\nNHS providers\u2019 attempts to deal with an endoscopy backlog<\/a> by putting work out to the independent sector have been hampered by accreditation issues. \u00a0NHS England papers, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, show that some of the private providers the NHS would like to transfer procedures to have not been fully approved by the Joint Advisory Group for Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy<\/a>. The group is responsible for setting and maintaining professional standards for endoscopy and is hosted by the Royal College of Physicians.<\/p>\n