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HSJ Roundup<\/strong><\/p>\n Giving antibiotics immediately reduces deaths from sepsis – NIHR Signals<\/strong> NHS workforce race equality standard: 2016 data analysis report for NHS trusts –\u00a0NHS England<\/strong> Productivity of the English NHS: 2014\/15 update –\u00a0Centre for Health Economics<\/strong> Outcome performance measure development for persons with multiple chronic conditions –\u00a0RAND Corporation<\/strong> New pensions infographic – NHS Employers<\/strong> CCG functions benchmarking BMJ Quality & Safety – May 2017<\/strong> (available with your NHS OpenAthens login)<\/p>\n Editorials:<\/p>\n\n
\nTwo nursing directors have been asked by NHS Improvement to lead work developing new safeguards to protect care quality when trusts make significant changes to their workforce.<\/li>\n
\nA teaching trust recently taken out of special measures has been told its level of consultant cover for 38 of its junior doctors is \u201cnot adequate\u201d.<\/li>\n
\nNational leaders have set out new measures to control spending in health economies deemed to be \u201cliving off bailouts\u201d, which may result in some contracts having to be revisited for the current financial year.<\/li>\n
\nThe latest chapter in HSJ and NHS England\u2019s series on the progress made by sustainability and transformation plans travels to Lancashire and South Cumbria, where the whole community is involved in tackling public health problems.<\/li>\n
\nThe implementation of a new platform intended to save millions of pounds from procurement spending has been delayed, HSJ has learned.<\/li>\n
\nThe chief executive running one of the NHS\u2019s most advanced hospital chains has responded to claims made by another trust leader that the model will not work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\nGiving immediate antibiotics (defined as within one hour) when people present to emergency departments with suspected sepsis reduces their risk of dying by a third compared with later administration<\/a>.\u00a0This meta-analysis<\/abbr> of observational data from 23,596 people in emergency department settings confirmed that giving antibiotics within one hour was linked to a lower risk of in-hospital mortality<\/abbr> compared with giving antibiotics later.\u00a0This adds weight to recommendations from NICE and other organisations that antibiotics should be administered straight away in people with suspected sepsis. However, in practice up to a third of people in the UK do not receive antibiotics within the hour.\u00a0NHS England and the UK Sepsis Trust have recently launched a campaign<\/a> to encourage all healthcare professionals to act quickly when they recognise sepsis.<\/p>\n
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\nThis report <\/a>publishes data from providers of NHS-funded care, including the voluntary and private sector, to demonstrate how they are addressing equality issues. It includes data covering nine indicators including four relating to the workplace covering recruitment, promotion, career progression and staff development alongside BME board representation. The remaining four indicators are based on data from the NHS staff survey 2016, covering harassment, bullying or abuse from patients, relatives or the public. It shows a positive change in a range of areas including the number of nurses and midwives who have progressed from lower grades into senior positions; in BME representation at very senior management and executive board level; and a slight reduction in the reported experience of discrimination of BME staff from colleagues and managers.<\/p>\n
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\nThis report <\/a>updates the Centre for Health Economics\u2019 time-series of NHS productivity growth. It finds that the rate of NHS productivity growth since 2004\/5 compares favourably with that achieved by the economy as a whole. It suggests that increased NHS output has come about in response to pronounced increases in NHS expenditure which has funded both higher wages and more staff and resources.<\/p>\n
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\nThis report <\/a>summarises analyses to assess the reliability and validity of a patient-reported outcome performance measure: the Veterans RAND twelve-item health survey (VR-12). The report makes recommendations towards the future use of performance measures and argues for the need for evaluation of the psychometrics of these measures at practice level.<\/p>\n
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\nOur new infographic <\/a>shows there are many stages during an employee’s career when it can be a good time to talk about the benefits of the NHS Pension Scheme.<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>The NHS Benchmarking Network has published details of the Clinical Commissioning Group Functions benchmarking pilot project<\/a>. This new pilot project uses publicly available data and information from a short questionnaire to show key metrics with regards to the running of CCGs.\u00a0 Due to the variation in sizes of CCGs, there is a wide variance in how they are run. Participants to the project have received a bespoke report.<\/p>\n
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