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Improving whole system flow Medical professionalism matters: report and recommendations –\u00a0General Medical Council<\/strong> Lessons in leadership from women clinical commissioners: practical guidance to support the next generation of women clinical leaders –\u00a0NHS Clinical Commissioners<\/strong> Medicines optimisation dashboard Morale of the medical workforce End of life care for infants, children and young people with life-limiting conditions: planning and management –\u00a0National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)<\/strong> Temporarily suspending patient registration commissioner guidance NICE shared learning<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n C<\/strong>urrent systems missing new hospital infections, APPG report warns – NHE\u00a0<\/strong> Ambitions for palliative and end of life care hub Increasing patient safety through structured conversations – NHE\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> CMA fines drug firms \u00a390m for over-charging NHS – NHE\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> CQC to rate NHS trusts on ‘value for money’ in the future – NHE\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> Sir Bruce Keogh honours NHS Trusts for healthy workforce efforts – NHS England<\/strong> National Paediatric Asthma Audit<\/strong>
\n<\/strong><\/span>The Health Foundation and the Advancing Quality Alliance have published The challenge and potential of whole system flow: improving the flow of people, information and resources across whole health and social care economies<\/a>. This report outlines an organising framework and tested methods that local health and social care leaders can use to improve whole system flow. It draws on case studies and other examples of work from across the UK and internationally and describes steps that policymakers and regulators at a national level should take to create an environment that is conducive to change at this scale.<\/p>\n
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\nThis report <\/a>is the culmination of 18 months of events and conversations with the medical profession, from GPs, consultants and trainees who work on the ground, to royal colleges, training providers and employers. Among the most frequently raised issues were the lack of time and support to make a reality of reflective practice \u2013 at every stage of a doctor\u2019s career. Doctors also cited problems around professional isolation, fragmentation of care for patients and poor communication.<\/p>\n
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\nThis publication <\/a>aims to provide practical advice based on the experience of women CCG leaders at the top of their careers. It contains examples from women clinical commissioning leaders on the skills, values, and behaviours that helped them to succeed in their own roles. It also includes advice on supporting future women clinical commissioning leaders, including actively encouraging women colleagues to apply for leadership roles and making sure that wording in job adverts attracts rather than discourages female applicants.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong><\/span>The NHS Prescription Service has relaunched the Medicines Optimisation Dashboard.<\/strong><\/a> The November 2016 dashboard is now available via a new platform based on NHS RightCare\u2019s InstantAtlas.\u00a0 The dashboard helps support NHS organisations in highlighting variation and facilitates discussion on how they compare with others across a range of comparators.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/span><\/strong>The Royal College of Physicians has published Keeping medicine brilliant: improving working conditions in the acute setting<\/a>. This report focuses on developing the evidence base to support new ways of assessing and improving doctors\u2019 morale.\u00a0 The report also explores the issue of recruitment to the rank of medical registrar, and highlights that the perception of on-call roles as being extremely stressful and a significant deterrent to recruitment.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nThis guideline <\/a>covers the planning and management of end of life and palliative care in for infants, children and young people (aged 0\u201317 years) with life-limiting conditions. It aims to involve children, young people and their families in decisions about their care, and improve the support that is available to them throughout their lives.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>NHS England has published Commissioner guidelines for responding to requests from practices to temporarily suspend patient registration<\/a> (pdf). These guidelines have been published to assist commissioners in responding to general practices wanting to suspend patient registration on a temporary basis. It recognises the duty on commissioners to secure services for patients as well as the pressure on practices in providing services.<\/p>\n
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\nNew healthcare-acquired infections (HCAIs) are being missed by current surveillance systems,<\/a> the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Patient Safety warned in its final report. According to the report, \u201ca number of increasingly concerning\u201d HCAIs, including CPE, fall outside the scope of routine surveillance and monitoring…<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong><\/span>NHS England has established the Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care website<\/a> which is a national Knowledge Hub for providing health professionals with a \u2018one stop shop\u2019 of palliative and EoLC information. It provides anyone involved in the commissioning or provision of palliative and end of life care with a quick and easy way to source information.\u00a0 It includes helpful tools and resources to drive delivery of the Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care.<\/p>\n
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\nSign up to Safety\u2019s national campaign director, Dr Suzette Woodward, explains how structured conversations <\/a>and helping people talk to each other can be vital key in improving patient safety. Conversation is a powerful thing. Done right, it can lay the foundations for a safety culture \u2013 helping people to connect, learn and…<\/p>\n
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\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has fined the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Flynn Pharma almost \u00a390m for hiking up the price to the NHS for an anti-epilepsy drug <\/a>by almost 2,600%, in a conclusion to an investigation begun last year. The CMA imposed a record \u00a384m fine on the manufacturer Pfizer and a…<\/p>\n
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\nThe CQC and NHS Improvement are discussing introducing a framework for assessing the value for money of NHS services<\/a>, the regulator\u2019s chief executive told the Health Select Committee yesterday. David Behan said that a consultation on the proposals would be published after it was approved by the CQC board later in…<\/p>\n
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\nSir Bruce Keogh, NHS England Medical Director, has honoured 21 NHS trusts for their work in helping staff get and keep healthy <\/a>by employing a host of innovative techniques such as using walking meetings, a range of new technologies and extra support for shift workers.<\/p>\n
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\nThe British Thoracic Society has published the BTS National Paediatric Asthma Audit<\/a>. This audit examined the demographic profile, severity at presentation, processes of care and outcomes of children over 1 year of age admitted to hospital in the UK with an acute attack of wheezing\/asthma during the month of November 2015.<\/p>\n
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