{"id":930,"date":"2014-07-30T11:50:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T10:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/?p=930"},"modified":"2014-07-30T11:54:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T10:54:09","slug":"knowledge-lert-for-wednesday-30th-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/2014\/07\/30\/knowledge-lert-for-wednesday-30th-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge @lert for Wednesday 30th July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stevens calls for NHS staff slimming drive &#8211; HSJ Article\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Junk food could be off the menu in hospital canteens and overweight doctors and nurses encouraged to take part in weight loss competitions, under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsj.co.uk\/news\/stevens-calls-for-nhs-staff-slimming-drive\/5073441.article?blocktitle=More-headlines&amp;contentID=15456#.U9jLxeNdXSg\" target=\"_blank\">plans<\/a>\u00a0floated by Simon Stevens.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonhslks.com\/contact-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">Contact the Library &amp; Knowledge Service<\/a> to request this article or Phn. 01704 704202<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Complying with Monitor\u2019s integrated care requirements &#8211; Monitor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Monitor has published\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0066cc;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/integrated-care-how-to-comply-with-monitors-requirements\">Complying with Monitor\u2019s integrated care requirements<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.\u00a0 This document assists providers and commissioners of healthcare services, and health and wellbeing boards to comply with their integrated care obligations. It also explains the relationship between these obligations and the other rules that Monitor enforces.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Addressing missing data in Patient-Reported Outcome Measures &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0Centre for Health Economics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Centre for Health Economics has published\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/che\/news\/che-research-paper-101\/\">Addressing missing data in Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs): implications for comparing provider performance<\/a>.\u00a0 Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are now routinely collected in the English NHS and used to compare and reward hospital performance within a high-powered pay-for-performance scheme. However, PROMs are prone to missing data. A key concern with missing PROMs is that the individuals with complete information tend to be an unrepresentative sample of patients within each provider, and inferences based on the complete cases will be misleading. This study proposes a strategy for addressing missing data in the English PROMs survey using multiple imputation techniques, and investigates its impact on assessing provider performance. It finds that inferences about relative provider performance are sensitive to the assumptions made about the reasons for the missing data<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Making research nurses feel part of the team \u2013 Health Service Journal Article\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nursing staff costs are a major expense for any hospital trust, but while the role of ward based nurses is well understood, a large proportion of the nursing workforce is employed as non-ward based nurses. These <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsj.co.uk\/leadership\/making-research-nurses-feel-part-of-the-team\/5073038.article#.U9eaPo0g-Uk\" target=\"_blank\">diverse roles <\/a>are often solitary and not well understood.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonhslks.com\/contact-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">Contact the Library &amp; Knowledge Service<\/a>\u00a0to request this article or Phn. 01704 704202<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Autism Innovation Fund: apply for grants to improve local services &#8211; <span style=\"color: #000000;\">D<a style=\"color: #0066cc;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">epartment of Health<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government has made \u00a31.2 million of funding available to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/autism-innovation-fund-apply-for-grants-to-improve-local-services\" target=\"_blank\"> improve local autism services<\/a> and increase awareness. The funding is available as part of Think Autism, the update to the 2010 Adult Autism Strategy for England.\u00a0Local authorities, NHS, third sector, commercial and voluntary organisations or individuals with autism in co-production with any of the above are all encouraged to apply.<\/p>\n<p>Funding will be awarded in 2 main areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a31 million for innovative projects to improve advice and support services and skills and employment services for those with autism<\/li>\n<li>\u00a3200,000 to help co-ordinate national work on awareness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Information about capital funding to make local environments more autism friendly will follow at a later date.\u00a0The deadline for applications is 17:00 on Tuesday, 26 August.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Is access to surgery a postcode lottery? &#8211;\u00a0The Royal College of Surgeons\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Royal College of Surgeons has published\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0066cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rcseng.ac.uk\/news\/many-ccgs-are-ignoring-clinical-evidence-in-their-surgical-commissioning-policies\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Is access to surgery a postcode lottery?<\/span><\/a>\u00a0This report analyses information obtained under the Freedom of Information Act gathered in April. The study investigated commissioning policies relating to four common surgical procedures carried out on the NHS and compared those policies to evidence-based guidance published by The Royal College of Surgeons, the surgical specialty associations and NICE.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Staff experience and patient outcomes &#8211;\u00a0NHS Employers\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NHS Employers have commissioned a report\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0066cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nhsemployers.org\/case-studies-and-resources\/2014\/07\/research-report-staff-experience-and-patient-outcomes\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Staff Experience and patient outcomes: what do we know?<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 The report written by Sheffield University Management School finds that there are clear links between improved staff experience and better care for patients. Good Human Resources (HR) practice and in particular staff engagement, should therefore be seen as integral to overall objectives for the NHS not a separate HR initiative.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Staff sickness costs \u00a31.5bn, NHS Employers claims\u00a0HSJ Article\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sickness absence is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsj.co.uk\/news\/staff-sickness-costs-15bn-nhs-employers-claims\/5073381.article?referrer=RSS\" target=\"_blank\">costing the NHS around \u00a31.5bn a year,<\/a> NHS Employers has claimed as new analysis reveals that hospital managers and doctors have some of the lowest rates.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonhslks.com\/contact-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">Contact the Library &amp; Knowledge Service<\/a>\u00a0to request this article or Phn. 01704 704202<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"mtext\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mtext\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>NICE Quality Standards<br \/>\n<\/strong>NICE has published the following Quality Standards and accompanying commissioning guidance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nice.org.uk\/Guidance\/QS63\">Delirium<\/a>\u00a0(QS63)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nice.org.uk\/Guidance\/QS64\">Feverish illness in children under 5<\/a>\u00a0(QS64)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nice.org.uk\/guidance\/SFCQS64\/chapter\/overview-and-resources\">NICE support for commissioning for feverish illness in children under 5\u00a0years<\/a>\u00a0(SFCQS64)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nice.org.uk\/Guidance\/QS65\">Hepatitis B<\/a>\u00a0(QS65)\u00a0 Additional link:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nice.org.uk\/News\/Article\/reducing-the-spread-of-hepatitis-b\">Press release<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nice.org.uk\/guidance\/SFCQS65\/chapter\/overview-and-resources\">NICE support for commissioning for hepatitis B<\/a>\u00a0(SFCQS65)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Bulletin<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhsbenchmarking.nhs.uk\/news\/view-article.php?id=57\">NHS Benchmarking Network Newsletter<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; July 2014<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mailbuilder.mailboxedge.co.uk\/campaign_manager\/campaign_processed_wrapped.jsp?lid=BjRfhj7aud\">NHS Workforce Bulletin<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 28 July 2014<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.england.nhs.uk\/2014\/07\/29\/ld-bulletin-july14\/\">Liaison and Diversion Bulletin<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; July 2014<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.england.nhs.uk\/ourwork\/tsd\/ig\/ig-bull\/\">Sixteenth Information Governance Bulletin<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 25 July 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stevens calls for NHS staff slimming drive &#8211; HSJ Article\u00a0 Junk food could be off the menu in hospital canteens and overweight doctors and nurses encouraged to take part in weight loss competitions, under plans\u00a0floated by Simon Stevens. 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