New nursing degree apprenticeship – Department of Health<\/strong> Ophthalmology common clinical competency framework Effect of market structure on hospital quality for elective procedures Governance and STPs Education and training for sepsis – Health Education England Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme NHS England authorises controversial CCG plans to delay surgery for obese patients – NHE\u00a0<\/strong> NHS trust leaders warn of ‘much higher level of risk’ – NHE\u00a0<\/strong> NICE guidance and advice HSJ roundup: (contact the library for further details on any of these HSJ articles)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New nursing degree apprenticeship – Department of Health The first apprentice nurses could be working on wards from September, and once established, up to 1,000 apprentice nurses could join the NHS each year. Aspiring nurses will join the apprenticeship at different stages, depending on their qualifications and experience, and stay…\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":[37,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ccg","category-daily-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4kWbe-1rr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545","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=5545"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5667,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions\/5667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe first apprentice nurses could be working on wards from September, and once established, up to 1,000 apprentice nurses could join the NHS each year. Aspiring nurses will join the apprenticeship at different stages<\/a>, depending on their qualifications and experience, and stay in work whilst learning. By offering staff who want to progress more flexibility, regardless of whether they are health care support workers or already working towards higher level qualifications, employers will be able to open up a career in nursing to people from all backgrounds.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/span><\/strong>A new Ophthalmology common clinical competency framework<\/a> (CCCF) has been published by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists to provide standards of knowledge and skill required for non-medical eye healthcare professionals.\u00a0 The Framework covers four clinical areas: acute and emergency eye care, cataract assessment, glaucoma and medical retina<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong><\/span>The University of York Centre for Health Economics has published Market structure, patient choice and hospital quality for elective patients<\/a> (Research paper 139).\u00a0 This paper examines the change in the effect of market structure on hospital quality for elective procedures (hip and knee replacements, and coronary artery bypass grafts) following the 2006 loosening of restrictions on patient choice of hospital in England\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n<\/span><\/strong>NHS Providers in partnership with Hempsons Solicitors has published Governing for transformation:\u00a0 STPs and governance<\/a>. This report sets the context for STPs, identifies the challenges for organisations, examines the role of the board, and addresses the constraints of current legislation. It provides practical guidance on governance for those concerned with the leadership and direction of STPs, and makes clear that the nature, scale and pace of local transformation must be determined by local realities.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Health Education England has published Getting it right: the current state of sepsis education and training for healthcare staff across England<\/a>. The purpose of this report is to provide a broad understanding of the current provision of sepsis education and training for healthcare staff across England. The report includes examples of good and innovative practice in sepsis training and highlights high quality educational resources which could be promoted nationally for use in sepsis training.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong><\/span>The Royal College of Physicians has published the third annual Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP) report Mind the Gap<\/a>!\u00a0 The report shows that despite stroke care continuing to improve year on year, work is still required to ensure that all patients have access to high quality care regardless of where they live or when they are admitted to hospital. SSNAP has also published 2016 acute organisational audit<\/a>.\u00a0 This is a snapshot audit that measures the structure of stroke services in acute hospitals.<\/p>\n
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\nVale of York CCG\u2019s controversial proposals <\/a>to ask obese people and smokers to lose weight and cease smoking or face delays to routine surgical procedures have been approved by NHS England. Patients with a BMI of over 30 will be asked to lose weight or face a year\u2019s delay for elective surgery while smokers will be asked to quit…<\/p>\n
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\nThe NHS is facing a \u201cmuch higher level of risk\u201d than it can sustain, NHS Providers has warned <\/a>as it published a new report which revealed widespread fears about service quality, funding and workforce levels. The survey covered 172 chairs and chief executives from 136 hospital, mental health, community and ambulance…<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong><\/span>Medtech innovation briefings:
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\nMIB87\u00a0\u00a0 CytoSorb therapy for sepsis<\/a>
\nMIB88\u00a0\u00a0 Sternal Talon for sternal closure in cardiothoracic surgery<\/a>
\nMIB89\u00a0\u00a0 Impella 2.5 for haemodynamic support during high-risk percutaneous coronary interventions<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nA vanguard acute trust is holding talks with seven GP practices with a view to fully integrating them into its primary care provider arm by the end of 2016-17, HSJ has learned.<\/li>\n
\nAn NHS trust\u2019s controversial pension scheme has been ruled as legal by regulators.<\/li>\n
\nAn ambulance trust has upgraded how it responds to some emergency calls from pregnant women, following the death of a full-term baby.<\/li>\n
\nThe chief executive of NHS Improvement has said some regional health systems could \u201cchange their governance mechanisms\u201d to create a single entity to run the NHS in their area.<\/li>\n
\nJim Mackey has said he argues \u2018every day\u2019 with the Treasury for more money, but warned the NHS must first produce more convincing plans to\u00a0make sound capital investments and rationalise overheads.<\/li>\n
\nHundreds of band five nursing, social worker and therapist posts could be cut in Nottinghamshire as part of the county\u2019s sustainability and transformation plan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n