Speak up: annual report 2016\/17 –\u00a0Healthwatch<\/strong> Quarterly monitoring report 24: November 2017 – The King’s Fund\u00a0<\/strong> The NMC register: 30 September 2017 –\u00a0Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)<\/strong> Accelerated access scheme means patients will get new treatments faster – DOH<\/strong> Help your colleagues talk performance – NHS Employers<\/strong> Quality checking draft toolkits<\/strong> Adult weight management KPIs<\/strong> Paediatric intensive care audit<\/strong> Countering fraud in the NHS<\/strong> Improving access to general practice<\/strong> HSJ Roundup<\/strong>\u00a0(contact the Library for further details<\/a>)<\/p>\n Our Fabulous NHS \u2013 Academy of Fabulous Stuff<\/strong>
\nThe Healthwatch network heard from 341,000 people, carers and staff during the last year about what they think of health and social care service. This\u00a0annual report<\/a> to Parliament highlights a summary of the common theme in people’s good and bad experiences and what could be improved.<\/p>\n
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\nAs the Chancellor prepares to announce the Budget later this month, these findings<\/a> show that a seven-year squeeze on NHS and social care budgets is taking a significant toll on patient care. Analysis for the report suggests that the NHS is heading into winter on a knife edge with performance worse than at this time last year against a number of key indicators.<\/p>\n
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\nThis report <\/a>presents data from the NMC register and finds that an increasing number of nurses and midwives are leaving the profession rather than joining it. It also finds that the number of nurses and midwives from Europe has decreased, with a 67 per cent rise in staff leaving and an 89 per cent drop in those requesting to join the NMC register.<\/p>\n
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\nThe government has announced a new fast-track route <\/a>into the NHS for \u201cbreakthrough\u201d medicines and technologies. This will speed up the time it takes for patients to benefit from ground-breaking products for conditions such as cancer, dementia and diabetes.<\/p>\n
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\nWork in communications or human resources? Our handy PPM toolkit<\/a> communications pack contains intranet and newsletter copy, tweets and a digital signature to help you share this popular toolkit with your colleagues.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS England has published series of NHS Quality Checking draft toolkits<\/a>. NHS England has worked with people with a learning disability, autism or both and voluntary groups to develop these draft toolkits which can be used to quality check various NHS services.\u00a0 \u00a0NHS England is now seeking feedback on these toolkits from people who work in the services, commissioners and other interested parties.\u00a0 The closing date for feedback is 1 December 2017.<\/p>\n
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\nPublic Health England has published Key Performance Indicators: Tier 2 weight management services for adults<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 This document provides an example of the Key Performance Indicators which could be incorporated into a specification for a tier 2 adult weight management service. The KPIs are intended to be used in conjunction with a service commissioned and delivered in line with the Public Health England services.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nThe Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership has published Paediatric Intensive Care Audit Network: annual report 2017<\/a>.\u00a0 This report presents findings for the five quality metrics adopted by the Care Quality Commission (case ascertainment, mobilisation time, nurse establishment, emergency readmissions and SMR).\u00a0\u00a0 It highlights that paediatric intensive care units are operating under increased pressure as they cope with rising numbers of patients and a lack of specialist nurses.<\/p>\n
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\nA new special health authority, the NHS Counter Fraud Authority<\/a> (NHSCFA), has been launched to detect, reduce and deter fraud, bribery and corruption within the NHS.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS England has published Improving access to general practice: national slidepack<\/a>.\u00a0 This slidepack has been produced to support the roll-out of improved access to general practice and is aimed at general practice staff and commissioners.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Care Quality Commission intends to expand the number of providers it registers.<\/li>\n
\nAn investigation into the deaths of people with learning disabilities has revealed they were \u201cless likely\u201d to have mistakes in their care \u201cpicked up\u201d.<\/li>\n
\nA former clinical director has lost his employment tribunal case after a judge ruled he quit his trust over the impact a reconfiguration would have had on his private work, not over patient safety.<\/li>\n
\nThe health service needs a minimum of \u00a34bn additional revenue just to sustain day to day services, the NHS Confederation has warned.<\/li>\n
\nNHS England has approved unprecedented changes to clinical commissioning groups across the country, consolidating 11 CCGs into four, HSJ can reveal.<\/li>\n
\nAn independent provider is to stop providing children and adolescents\u2019 mental health services at one of its units after NHS England and the Care Quality Commission said further action was needed to safeguard the \u201chealth and welfare\u201d of patients.<\/li>\n
\nThe board of a hospital trust in the West Midlands has agreed to reduce the numbers of registered nurses on its wards replacing them with nursing associates.<\/li>\n
\nAn investigation has been launched into the financial management of a large acute trust after external suppliers began threatening legal action over unpaid bills, HSJ has learned.<\/li>\n
\nTwo non-executive directors resigned after raising concerns around the governance of an NHS hospital trust involved in a new \u2018group model\u2019, HSJ has learned.<\/li>\n
\nAround half of NHS trusts are yet to pay for a procurement analytics tool despite being told to do so in August.<\/li>\n
\nNHS Improvement has written to the chief executives of all trusts providing community services setting out actions they must implement to reduce delayed transfers of care over winter.<\/li>\n
\nThe public will not forgive the government if leaving the EU damages the NHS, Sir Vince Cable has said.<\/li>\n
\nThe finance director of a Shelford Group trust has resigned, HSJ has learned.<\/li>\n
\nAn NHS hospital trust in special measures for the last four years \u2013 longer than any other provider \u2013 has finally made sufficient improvement to be lifted out of the regime.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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