No hospital is an island: new models of acute collaboration in the NHS \u2013 Nigel Edwards and Jacob West, NHS England<\/strong> Maternity services – The King\u2019s Fund Seven day services – NHS England blogs<\/strong> Consultation on the clinical commissioning policy proposition: commissioning medicines in children –\u00a0 NHS England<\/strong> Personal safety when working alone: guidance for members working in health and social care –\u00a0 Royal College of Nursing (RCN)<\/strong> Foundation groups could be first step to full merger – NHS Improvement<\/strong> BMA urges trust CEOs to pause junior doctor contract as roll-out kicks off – NHE<\/strong>
\nEncouraged in recent years through the NHS Five Year Forward View, the Dalton and Carter reviews and now Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), hospitals are looking for creative solutions to clinical and financial challenges<\/a> that they can\u2019t solve on their own. We recently brought together the 13 acute care collaboration vanguards, who are exploring this [\u2026]<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>The King\u2019s Fund has published User feedback in maternity services<\/a>.\u00a0 This report looks at what maternity services are doing locally to collect, analyse and act on user feedback. It describes the challenges of adopting the different approaches and highlights the features of organisations that are successful in user feedback activities.<\/p>\n
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\nRead NHS England blogposts on seven day services here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS England has launched a public consultation on a clinical commissioning policy proposition for commissioning medicines in children.<\/a> There has already been extensive engagement on this national policy, it has been developed with the support and input of lead clinicans and patient and public representatives. This approach has helped ensure that the views of key stakeholders have informed and influenced the development of this policy to date. NHS England now wish to test them further with wider groups of stakeholders. The closing date for comments is 4 November 2016.<\/p>\n
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\nThis guide <\/a>has been developed for RCN members who work alone. It also contains a checklist for RCN safety representatives who work on negotiating improvements to workplace safety for members and nurse managers who manage lone working staff.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS Improvement has published more detailed guidance on how the new foundation groups could be set up, but has said they could be a first step to a merger between trusts. In August, the first four trusts accredited to lead hospital chains were named as Guy\u2019s and St Thomas\u2019, Northumbria Healthcare, Royal Free London and Salford…<\/p>\n
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\nThe BMA has written to all NHS trust chief executives in a last-ditch effort to pause the introduction of the new junior doctor contract<\/a>, set to be rolled out from today for obstetrics and gynaecology ST3 doctors. The union\u2019s junior doctor committee chair, Dr Ellen McCourt, said today marks a \u201cwatershed moment\u201d for the…<\/p>\n