The magical thinking of Hunt’s medical training move – Health Service Journal<\/strong> Council chief appointed CCG director- Health Service Journal<\/strong> Operational plans timetable ‘extremely challenging’ for providers – NHE<\/strong> The crown estate of health and care – NHE<\/strong> Regulator launches investigation into cost of patient falls – Health Service Journal<\/strong> The powerful link between staff and patient satisfaction – NHE<\/strong> The future of the NHS Understanding sustainability and transformation
\nJeremy Hunt\u2019s commitment to increase medical training is a significant move – but it relies on some magical thinking, and ignores the NHS\u2019s bigger and more urgent problems in nursing.<\/p>\n
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\nA senior council officer has been appointed \u201cinterim recovery director\u201d of a troubled clinical commissioning group in Merseyside. Mike Wyatt will take on the new role at St Helens CCG, while continuing as strategic director of people\u2019s services at St Helens Council.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS Improvement has warned that it will be \u2018extremely challenging\u2019 for trusts to complete operational plans to support their sustainability and transformation plans <\/a>(STPs) for next March. All NHS trusts and FTs are required to produce two-year operational plans for 2017-18 and 2018-19 that are consistent with the goals of…[]<\/p>\n
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\nAlong with optimising land usage and promoting co-location, a radical new report makes the case for rationalising all local NHS estate<\/a> into one body. NHE\u2019s Luana Salles reports. As with the rest of the public sector, estate management has been a key focus across the NHS in recent months. Whether that\u2019s in the form of NHS…<\/p>\n
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\nNHS Improvement has launched an investigation into the cost and prevalence of inpatient falls across the NHS in a bid to better understand, and help providers tackle, the problem.<\/p>\n
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\nDavid Behan CBE, chief executive of the Care Quality Commission (CQC), talks to NHE about the correlation between high rates of staff satisfaction and improved patient experience<\/a>. \u201cThe link between satisfied and engaged staff and satisfied and engaged patients is powerful,\u201d David Behan, the chief executive of the CQC, told NHE…<\/p>\n
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\n<\/span><\/strong>The Good Governance Institute has published The future of the NHS: a proposition paper critically examining the future of the national health service<\/a>.\u00a0 This paper presents the core arguments from a breakfast seminar held in June 2016 which set out to critically examine the future challenges facing the NHS.\u00a0 This paper sets out the next steps required to safeguard the future sustainability of the health and care system.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n<\/span><\/strong>The NHS Confederation has published Understanding sustainability and transformation plans<\/a>.\u00a0 This briefing discusses the policy context, development to date, the timetable for further development and implementation, as well as the key messages from local political, commissioning and provider leaders on how the sustainability transformation plans process could most helpfully develop in the coming months.<\/p>\n
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