The non-executive director’s guide to NHS data: part one –\u00a0NHS Confederation<\/strong> Towards an effective NHS payment system<\/strong> Medical exposure to radiation<\/strong> Briefing on party conferences: health<\/strong> How graphene tattoos can monitor health –\u00a0BBC News – Health\u00a0<\/strong> 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>
\nThis briefing<\/a> is the first in a new series of guides to be launched by the NHS Confederation in association with healthcare intelligence provider CHKS.\u00a0 The guides are for non-executive directors (NEDs) and aim to show how data can be used to drive improvement, provide effective oversight and support the transformation of care. The first guide considers data in acute care settings. It will be followed by a further three publications over 2017\/18.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Health Foundation and NHS Providers have published Towards an effective NHS payment system: eight principles<\/a>.\u00a0 This report examines how current payment systems impact on those providing care to patients and identifies eight principles that a payment system should meet if it is to support providers deliver high quality care.\u00a0 The eight principles are: clear purpose; realistic expectations about impact; national consistency with local flexibility; appropriate, aligned incentives; high quality data; balance between complexity of design and ease of use; independent oversight and support; and time to embed and evaluate systems.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Care Quality Commission has published IR(ME)R annual report 2016<\/a>.\u00a0 This annual report sets out CQC activity relating to the enforcement of The Ionising Radiation (Medial Exposure) Regulations 2000.\u00a0 It provides the number and type of notification received from providers when patients received exposures of radiation that were much greater than intended during 2016.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS Providers has published Briefing on the 2017 party conferences<\/a> which sets out the key health-related announcements made by the parties at their autumn conferences and the main discussion points from the roundtable discussions hosted by NHS Providers.<\/p>\n
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\nThe tattoo could be a wearable device<\/a> measuring electrical activity of the brain, muscles or heart<\/p>\n
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\nMembers of the public with no care experience are being offered up to \u00a31,000 a month to rent spare rooms to patients after they are discharged from hospital, under an Airbnb style model to be piloted by the NHS.<\/li>\n
\nKeith McNeil suggests CQC should make e-prescribing and medicine management uptake mandatory for best ratings.<\/li>\n
\nThe ambulance trust covering the South East Coast has seen its performance for emergency calls slump to the lowest ever recorded by any service.<\/li>\n
\nExperts have questioned a claim by NHS Improvement that the NHS could conduct an extra 280,000 operations a year if theatres were more efficient.<\/li>\n
\nThe private company operating NHS 111 and GP out of hours services in East Kent is to hand back the contract even earlier than previously planned \u2013 leaving commissioners to find an alternative provider to cover the winter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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