January flu fighter competition open for entries\u00a0<\/strong> Safe, sustainable and productive staffing: an improvement resource for adult inpatient wards in acute hospitals –\u00a0NHS Improvement<\/strong> Suicide among health-care workers: time to act – The Lancet Editorial<\/strong> Commissioning for Value packs: STP footprint areas CCGs paying millions to firms that delay GP referrals – NHE<\/strong>
\nFlu fighter are looking for the trust who best used communication <\/a>in their flu fighting campaign<\/p>\n
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\nThis guidance <\/a>aims to help standardise staffing decisions in adult inpatient wards in acute hospitals. This resource is based on the National Quality Board\u2019s expectations opens in a new window that to ensure safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led care, trusts will employ the right staff with the right skills in the right place and at the right time. The closing date for comments on the draft guidance is 3 February 2017.<\/p>\n
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\nIn the UK, physician burnout<\/a>\u2014typified by emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, and a sense of reduced personal accomplishment\u2014has reached epidemic proportions, according to an article published in The Lancet in September, 2016. Implications of burnout are serious, not only for patients as preventable medical errors become increasingly inevitable, but also for the mental wellbeing of the individuals providing care with increases in burnout associated with suicidal ideation. The rate of depressive disorders among health-care workers compared with the general population is alarming and is an issue that spans the medical profession.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>NHS Right Care has now published the Commissioning for Value packs at Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) footprint level.\u00a0 Commissioning for Value: where to look packs<\/a> include aggregate data at STP level for all the CCGs that make up an STP footprint. These STP packs contain newer data than the published CCG packs for some areas where updated data has been made available since publication.<\/p>\n
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\nCCGs are paying millions to private organisations that can stop patients being referred to hospital by their GPs, an investigation has found. \u2018Referral management centres\u2019 <\/a>are being used by some CCGs to scrutinise GP referrals of patients to hospitals, with some criticising that they risk delays in diagnosis.<\/p>\n
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