Our Fabulous NHS \u2013 Academy of Fabulous Stuff<\/strong><\/p>\n Get involved \u2013<\/span><\/strong> \u00a0share your fab stuff!<\/a><\/p>\n HSJ Roundup <\/strong>(contact the Library for further details<\/a>)<\/p>\n Tackling variations in clinical care: Assessing the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme.\u00a0 – The King’s Fund<\/strong> Delivery costs extra: can STPs survive without the funding they need? – British Medical Association (BMA)<\/strong> Capital collaborations between the NHS and local authorities\u00a0\u00a0– HFMA<\/strong> NHS RightCare Pathway: Diabetes\u00a0<\/strong> Winter warning: managing risk in health and care this winter\u00a0–\u00a0NHS Providers<\/strong> Investigation: clinical correspondence handling at NHS Shared Business Services\u00a0–\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n Checklist for recruiting CCG lay members – NHS Clinical Commissioners<\/strong> The rising cost of clinical negligence: who pays the price?\u00a0–\u00a0Medical Protection Society (MPS)<\/strong> Each baby counts: 2015 summary report\u00a0–\u00a0Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)<\/strong> Principles of consent – RCN<\/strong>\n
\nUniversity Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) have been awarded \u00a380,000 following the government\u2019s plans to make England [\u2026]<\/li>\n
\nUniversity Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) has won the Improving Value Through Innovative Financial Management or Procurement [\u2026]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\nLegal change is needed for sustainability and transformation partnerships to be successful, a leading think tank has said.<\/li>\n
\nFour acute hospitals in a troubled health economy will all retain their emergency departments, but look set to share more services and staff under proposals by local clinicians.<\/li>\n
\nThe surgeon leading the national programme to reduce clinical variation in the NHS says there is \u201cno way\u201d he would ask for extra funding until the service improves efficiency and quality of care.<\/li>\n
\nNine hospitals with the highest fire risks due to the use of external cladding have been identified for intensive support from NHS Improvement in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster.<\/li>\n
\nNHS regulators have moved to clarify instructions that were issued to struggling health economies after local leaders complained of excessive \u201ctop-down pressure\u201d and unrealistic expectations of the financial savings they were expected to deliver.<\/li>\n
\nNHS England is preparing to tender a framework worth \u00a330m for companies to source 500 GPs from abroad to help tackle the NHS\u2019s shortage, HSJ has learned.<\/li>\n
\nThe Care Quality Commission has told more than 31,000 people working for care homes, independent hospitals and hospices to carry out urgent fire safety reviews following the Grenfell Tower fire.<\/li>\n
\nAn acute trust and a community and mental health trust will create a joint executive management team after agreeing to \u201cformal collaboration\u201d.<\/li>\n
\nA commissioning leader from the North West has been appointed as director for the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent sustainability and transformation partnership, HSJ has learned.<\/li>\n
\nThe Care Quality Commission has uncovered unsafe prescribing practises at another digital health provider, including a doctor prescribing sleeping disorder drug to keep a person awake for work.<\/li>\n
\nNHS trusts face significant fire safety risks, research by HSJ has shown.<\/li>\n
\nThe biggest ever proposed clinical commissioning group merger has been paused for at least a year, the three Merseyside CCGs involved have said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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\nThe Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme <\/a>aims to bring about higher-quality care in hospitals, at lower cost, by reducing unwanted variations in services and practices.<\/p>\n
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\nThis report <\/a>analyses all 44 STP plans and highlights concerns around poor engagement with clinicians, patients and the public and the challenging timeline of STP implementation without upfront funding to deliver the plans. The report is also accompanied by a paper summarising each STP plan and a glossary of commonly used acronyms.<\/p>\n
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\nThis briefing <\/a>provides background on the local authority and NHS funding mechanisms, including the prudential code under which local authority treasury management and borrowing is determined. It sets out the problems that NHS bodies currently face in relation to capital funding and identifies some opportunities for working together on capital projects.<\/p>\n
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\nThe pathway <\/a>defines the core components of an optimal diabetes service for people with or at risk of developing Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes that delivers the better value in terms of outcomes and cost. It allows commissioners to think about their existing diabetes service and compare it with an optimal diabetes service. It provides guidance for commissioners about the scale of improvements that could be delivered through optimization of local pathways<\/p>\n
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\nThis report<\/a>\u00a0highlights concerns from NHS leaders around the ability of the health system to respond to mounting pressures next winter. It argues that the extra \u00a31bn social care funding committed to easing delayed transfers of care will not be sufficient with 91 per cent of trusts reporting a lack of capacity in social care. The report calls for a funding injection of \u00a3350m to ensure that there is enough capacity across the system and to ensure adequate resourcing.<\/p>\n
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\nIn March 2016, NHS Shared Business Service (NHS SBS) informed NHS England and the Department of Health that it had discovered a backlog of approximately 435,000 items of unprocessed clinical and other correspondence. This report <\/a>outlines the findings of an\u00a0 investigation into how NHS SBS handled unprocessed clinical correspondence.\u00a0As at 31 May 2017, the review of the backlog of correspondence has found 1,788 cases of potential harm to patients and NHS England have estimated that the cost of the incident will be at least \u00a36.6 million.<\/p>\n
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\nThis checklist <\/a>aims to support CCGs with recruiting lay members and provides a series of questions that can be asked to start conversations about both recruitment and succession planning.<\/p>\n
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\nThis report <\/a>estimates that clinical negligence costs in the NHS have increased by 72 per cent over the last five years and that costs could reach \u00a32.6bn a year by 2022. It argues that there should be reasonable compensation for patients who suffer harm due to clinical negligence but that this must be balanced against society’s ability to pay. The report makes recommendations for legal reforms around clinical negligence compensation.<\/p>\n
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\nThis report <\/a>presents a\u00a0detailed analysis of all stillbirths, neonatal deaths and brain injuries that occurred during childbirth in 2015 and it identifies key clinical actions needed to improve the quality of care and prevent future cases. The analysis finds that 76 per cent of cases which underwent local review might have had a different outcome with different care.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Royal College of Nursing has published Principles of Consent: guidance for nursing staff.<\/a>\u00a0 This document aims to provide information to registered nurses and other nursing staff to guide their practice around consent. It includes who can provide consent; what to do if the person does not consent; advance decisions; children and young people; professional accountability; who should seek consent and when;\u00a0 Form of consent; duration of consent; and consent for sharing information.<\/p>\n
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