Impact of the level of sickness on higher mortality in emergency medical admissions to hospital at weekends\u00a0<\/strong> Sustainability and transformation funding<\/strong> Sustainability and transformation plans and partnerships<\/strong> Warrington and Halton NHS Trust: Spinal surgery suspended –\u00a0BBC News – Health<\/strong> Explaining and apologizing to patients after errors –\u00a0BMJ\u00a0<\/strong> Entry requirements change for apprenticeships –\u00a0NHS Employers<\/strong> Flu vaccine: NHS patients wanted to test ‘universal’ jab –\u00a0BBC News – Health<\/strong> NICE guidance<\/strong><\/p>\n Medtech innovation briefing<\/p>\n Statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n HSJ Roundup<\/strong>\u00a0(contact the Library for further details<\/a>)<\/p>\n Our Fabulous NHS \u2013 Academy of Fabulous Stuff<\/strong>
\nJournal of Health Services Research & Policy 29 September 2017<\/strong>
\nAnalysis of emergency medical admissions<\/a> at the weekend linked with electronic National Early Warning Score (over 45,000 admissions during 2014) found that patients are sicker, have earlier clinical assessments, and after adjusting for the severity of their sickness, do not appear to have a higher mortality compared to weekday admissions.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS Providers has published Recovering provider deficits: has it worked and at what cost<\/a>? This report sets out what control totals and sustainability and transformation funding have achieved. It finds that the use of control totals and sustainability and transformation funding (STF) has played a key role in helping the provider sector stabilise its financial position, reducing the sector deficit from \u00a32.45 billion in 2015\/16 to \u00a3791 million in 2016\/17. However, the report argues that the STF and control total regime has not addressed the financial unsustainability of the sector; and has masked the underlying financial problems providers now face; and that the \u00a31.8 billion STF has become a key part of provider sector finances.<\/p>\n
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\nThe House of Commons Library has published a briefing Sustainability and transformation plans and partnerships<\/a>.\u00a0 This briefing covers the context in which STPs have been developed, their funding and accountability arrangements as well as their progress so far. It explores how these plans were developed, as well as research and debate surrounding the content and implementation of these plans.<\/p>\n
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\nAll spinal surgery has been suspended<\/a> at an NHS trust after four serious “incidents” in which two people died.<\/p>\n
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\nExplaining and apologizing to patients after a medical error has resulted in injury does not result in an increase in lawsuits, a large US study has reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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\nChanges announced to the minimum Maths and English entry requirements for apprentices<\/a> who have special educational needs, learning difficulties or disabilities.<\/p>\n
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\nThe experimental vaccine <\/a>should work against most flu types and offer years of protection, research says.<\/p>\n
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\nA teaching trust \u201con the verge\u201d of financial special measures is applying for distress funding after predicting it will run out of cash next month.<\/li>\n
\nThe chair of a trust struggling with accident and emergency performance is stepping down, just weeks after the chief executive resigned.<\/li>\n
\nOutcry from dozens of senior consultants has forced one of the country\u2019s largest teaching hospitals to review its \u00a314m digital patient record system amid fears over patient safety.<\/li>\n
\nThe medical director of Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has promised to act after the rollout of a digital record system caused widespread disruption.<\/li>\n
\nA trust is warning of a potential redundancy bill of \u00a313.5m if NHS England accepts proposals to close its congenital heart disease services.<\/li>\n
\nNHS trust leaders have called on the government to protect the \u00a31.8bn sustainability fund beyond 2018-19, but say it should not be channelled into commissioning allocations until problems with the national tariff are addressed.<\/li>\n
\nHealth secretary Jeremy Hunt will today outline plans to create an extra 5,000 training posts for student nurses from next year, an increase of 25 per cent.<\/li>\n
\nMinisters are set to issue a fresh warning to councils deemed to have made insufficient progress tackling delayed transfers of care, amid a bitter row over the withholding of funding.<\/li>\n
\nThe Care Quality Commission has set out the eight major priority areas which will underpin its regulation of urgent and emergency care providers this winter<\/li>\n
\nTwo Buckinghamshire clinical commissioning groups are expected to merge next year after seeking permission from NHS England.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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