The state of the NHS provider sector: November 2016 –\u00a0NHS Providers<\/strong> Pediatric emergency department return visits: a proactive approach to quality improvement.\u00a0Ostrow, O., Shim, A., Azmat, S., Chartier, L. – BMJ Quality & Safety<\/strong> A ‘paperless wall-mounted surgical safety checklist with migrated leadership can improve compliance and team engagementOng, A. P. C., Devcich, D. A., Hannam, J., Lee, T., Merry, A. F., Mitchell, S. J. – BMJ Quality & Safety<\/strong> Displaying radiation exposure and cost information at order entry for outpatient diagnostic imaging: a strategy to inform clinician orderingKruger, J. F., Chen, A. H., Rybkin, A., Leeds, K., Guzman, D., Vittinghoff, E., Goldman, L. E. – BMJ Quality & Safety<\/strong> The Healthcare Complaints Analysis Tool: development and reliability testing of a method for service monitoring and organisational learning – Gillespie, A., Reader, T. W – BMJ Quality & Safety<\/strong> Does integrated care reduce hospital activity for patients with chronic diseases? An umbrella review of systematic reviews. –\u00a0BMJ Open<\/strong> NMC announces new OSCE test centre<\/strong> NHS trusts urged to use private care to beat winter crisis – NHE\u00a0<\/strong> Market structure, patient choice and hospital quality for elective patients –\u00a0Centre for Health Economics (CHE)<\/strong>
\nThis survey of NHS trust chairs and chief executives has revealed rising concerns over the growing NHS workforce gap<\/a>. 172 NHS leaders responded to the survey and only 27 per cent of these respondents reported confidence in having the right staff numbers, quality and skill mix to deliver high-quality care. The report provides examples of where trusts are improving quality of care and increasing productivity despite financial constraints and growing demand. The report highlights that trusts are able to deliver when given achievable tasks but warns that the sustainability of services is at risk.<\/p>\n
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\nRoutine monitoring and investigation of ED RVs provides a proactive approach to seeking improvement opportunities<\/a>. With a better understanding of specific patient and visit-level factors associated with RVs, future system-level quality improvement initiatives can be targeted.<\/p>\n
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\nImprovements in team engagement and compliance <\/a>with administering checklist items followed introduction of migrated leadership of checklist administration and a wall-mounted checklist. This paradigm change was relatively simple and inexpensive.<\/p>\n
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\nDisplaying radiation exposure and cost information <\/a>at order entry may improve clinician awareness about diagnostic imaging safety risks and costs. More clinicians reported the radiation information influenced their clinical practice.<\/p>\n
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\nHCAT is not only the first reliable tool for coding complaints<\/a>, it is the first tool to measure the severity of complaints. It facilitates service monitoring and organisational learning and it enables future research examining whether healthcare complaints are a leading indicator of poor service outcomes. HCAT <\/a>is freely available to download and use.<\/p>\n
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\nThis summary <\/a>of 50 reviews investigating integrated care interventions found that most reported statistically significant improvements in outcomes (e.g. emergency admissions, length of stay), but that interventions rarely demonstrated unequivocally positive effects<\/p>\n
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\nThe Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has announced the opening of a new UK centre for testing the competence of nurses and midwives <\/a>trained outside of the European Economic Area.<\/p>\n
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\nLeaked documents <\/a>show that trusts are being instructed to transfer patients to the private sector as part of a bid to cope with unprecedented demand this winter, leading the BMA to warn that the NHS is now facing \u201cunmanageable pressures\u201d. The NHS England and NHS Improvement memo, seen by the Daily Telegraph, instructs trusts…<\/p>\n
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\nThis paper <\/a>examines the change in the effect of market structure on hospital quality for elective procedures following changes in 2006 to encourage greater patient choice of hospital in England. The study finds that post-2006, hospital quality was reduced as the probability of emergency readmission was increased for hip and knee replacement patients.<\/p>\n
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