Quality at a cost – Nuffield Trust<\/strong> What have we learnt about keeping people safer?\u00a0David Naylor, The King’s Fund Blog<\/strong> Recently, 90 people from across the health and care system came together for an event run by The King\u2019s Fund, the Sign up to Safety campaign and NHS Improvement, to talk about keeping people safer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Long term conditions data packs for CCGs<\/strong> Impact of alcohol abuse on the emergency services<\/span><\/strong> UK maternity care<\/strong> HSJ roundup: (contact the library for further details on any of these HSJ articles)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Statistics<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nQuality at a cost is the fourth annual statement from QualityWatch<\/a>, a joint research programme from the Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation.<\/p>\n
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\nDespite the availability of well-evidenced guidance and the best intentions of health and social care staff, there is still an \u2018implementation gap<\/a>\u2019 between what we want to do to keep patients and service users safe and what actually happens in practice. We need to have a better understanding of what sustains this gap and what we can do to narrow it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\nNHS RightCare has published CCG data packs for long term conditions<\/a><\/strong>. These packs contain data on a number of disease areas and elements of care.\u00a0 The pack is split by stages along a long term conditions pathway and enables a local health economy to look at an element, for example disease detection or prescribing, across multiple disease areas.<\/p>\n
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\nThe All-Party Parliamentary Group on Alcohol Harm has published The Frontline Battle<\/a><\/strong>. This report presents the results of an inquiry into the impact of alcohol on emergency services. It sets out the extent of the pressures and dangers of alcohol related problems placed on the emergency services and discusses the impact on staff, the impact on service provision and the effect on time and resources.<\/p>\n
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\nMBRRACE-UK has published Saving Lives, Improving Mothers\u2019 Care: Surveillance of maternal deaths in the UK 2012\u201314 and lessons learned to inform maternity care from the UK and Ireland Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity 2009\u201314<\/a><\/strong>. The report presents the findings of maternal mortality surveillance 2012 to 2014 in the UK and the lessons learned from the confidential enquiries into maternal deaths from cardiovascular causes, blood pressure disorders of pregnancy, early pregnancy causes together with messages for critical care.<\/p>\n
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\nTrust leaders were pressured not to reveal their organisation\u2019s real financial outlook at the mid-year point of 2016-17, according to an official document.<\/li>\n
\nLocal commissioners have raised concerns with NHS England about their allocations being reduced as a result of the new national payment tariff.<\/li>\n
\nA number of NHS trusts that were said to be on track with their financial plans midway through 2016-17 have actually produced forecasts suggesting significant deterioration.<\/li>\n
\nMedical consultants should work more resident shifts on obstetrics and gynaecology wards to ensure safe care and help tackle rota gaps, according to a new royal college report.<\/li>\n
\nThe cyber attack experienced by Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Foundation Trust in October was caused by a variant of ransomware, a trust director has revealed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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