Prognostic Accuracy of Sepsis-3 Criteria for In-Hospital Mortality Among Patients With Suspected Infection Presenting to the Emergency Department<\/strong> Six Steps to Managing Demand in Adult Social Care – a performance management approach –\u00a0Institute of Public Care (IPC) at Oxford Brookes University<\/strong> CCG decides minor injury units to be closed and replaced –\u00a0Health Service Journal\u00a0<\/strong> Surge in child emergency admissions prompts new care standards –\u00a0BMJ<\/strong> Self-care: everybody’s talking about it –\u00a0Regional Voices\u00a0<\/strong> NHS procurement transparency: NHS Standard Contract [updated guidance] –\u00a0Department of Health<\/strong> The actions focus on:<\/p>\n Staff at inadequate trusts worst for reporting patient harm –\u00a0Health Service Journal\u00a0<\/strong> Government\u2019s mandate to NHS England Finance directors survey Delivering an Outcomes-based NHS: Creating the Right Conditions –\u00a0OHE Seminar Briefing<\/strong> Guidance: Hospital tap water scheme: current distribution –\u00a0Public Health England<\/strong> Clinical commissioning group guidance on senior appointments, including accountable officer –\u00a0NHS England\u00a0<\/strong> NICE guidance Evidence summaries NICE Shared Learning Statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nThis piece of research <\/a>has lead to a practice changing update on <\/a>DynaMed Plus<\/a>*<\/strong>. It concludes that among adults with suspected infection admitted to an ICU, an increase in SOFA score of 2 or more had greater prognostic accuracy for in-hospital mortality than SIRS criteria or the qSOFA score. These findings suggest that SIRS criteria and qSOFA may have limited utility for predicting mortality in an ICU setting. [*available with NHS Athens Account – contact the library for further details<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n
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\nCritical steps for managing demand in social care, as well as a range of strategic objectives and suggested performance indicators and targets<\/a>.
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\nClinical leaders in Yorkshire have decided to close three minor injuries units<\/a> and replace the others with urgent care centres<\/a> as part of a major reconfiguration of services.<\/p>\n
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\nThe rising number of children attending emergency departments<\/a> has prompted experts to produce new standards for specialist assessment units<\/a> to deal with demand and help prevent children from being admitted to hospital inappropriately.<\/p>\n
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\nThis paper <\/a>highlights the need to support patients to better manage their own health and the need for greater recognition of the potential for voluntary and community services contribution towards this. The discussion paper outlines the benefits of promoting self-care approaches and the briefing for the voluntary and community sector contains case studies.<\/p>\n
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\nThis updated document<\/a> provides guidance to all NHS foundation and non-foundation trusts on the actions to take to increase openness and clarity about NHS procurement. Although this document is not applicable to independent sector providers of NHS healthcare, such providers may wish to consider the benefits of adopting the guidance in this document.<\/p>\n\n
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\nStaff working at NHS trusts rated inadequate by the Care Quality Commission are significantly more likely to witness harmful errors but less likely to report them, a CQC report has found.<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n<\/span><\/strong>The Department of Health has published The Government\u2019s mandate to NHS England for 2017-18<\/a>.\u00a0 This mandate to NHS England sets out the government\u2019s objectives for NHS England, as well as its budget.\u00a0 It sets out plans to ensure that NHS England delivers the best care and support to NHS patients, but also continues to deliver the reform and renewal needed to sustain the NHS for the future.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n<\/span><\/strong>NHS Providers has published NHS finance directors survey: NHS Providers report<\/a> (pdf).\u00a0 This report presents the results of a survey of finance and commercial directors in NHS trusts and foundation trusts in England in February 2017. It asked questions concerning how financial plans are progressing for the next financial year, what the financial outlook is, and how providers have responded to the issues related to control totals.<\/p>\n
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\nSummary of a seminar given by Dr Nicholas Hicks, COBIC (Capitated Outcomes-Based Incentivised Care).
\nThe COBIC approach involves six elements<\/a>: (1) defined population and scope, (2) desired outcomes associated with indicators, (3) service model redesign, (4) financial analysis and defined budget, (5) agreed contract form and duration, describing incentives and risks, and (6) readied and prepared service providers.
\nIncludes discussion of the Bedfordshire Musculoskeletal (MSK) project, where COBIC worked with Bedfordshire CCG to improve MSK care and outcomes, and to decrease per capita costs.<\/p>\n
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\nUpdated: Added hospital tap water scheme<\/a>: distribution HTW9 request form.\u00a0The examination covered will be Pseudomonas aeruginosa and the distribution will consist of 2 samples.<\/p>\n
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\nUpdated policy and procedures<\/a> for appointing a new accountable officer to a CCG.<\/p>\n
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\nNG66 <\/strong>Mental health of adults in contact with the criminal justice system<\/a><\/p>\n
\nES9\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Parkinson\u2019s disease with end-of-dose motor fluctuations: opicapone<\/a>
\nES10 <\/strong>Hyperhidrosis: oxybutynin<\/a><\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>NICE has published the following Share Learning case studies:<\/p>\n\n
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