Transforming elective care services<\/strong><\/p>\n NHS England has published two transforming services handbooks aimed at commissioners, providers and those leading the local transformation of services:<\/p>\n Inpatient falls<\/strong> Older people\u2019s care survey<\/strong><\/p>\n The Family and Childcare Trust has published Older People\u2019s Care Survey 2017<\/a>.\u00a0 This survey of local authorities and health and social care trusts examines whether enough care is provided in their areas and how much funding authorities and individuals have to pay for it.\u00a0 The results indicate that over 4.2 million people aged 75 and over live in areas that do not have enough care to meet demand.\u00a0 While 81 per cent of respondents said they had enough availability for care home places, the figure falls to 46 per cent for home care and 37 per cent for nursing homes with specialist dementia support.<\/p>\n Lung cancer audit<\/strong> Preventing cancer<\/strong> Multiple birth babies requiring neonatal care<\/strong> National vascular registry annual report<\/strong> National clinical audit benchmarking<\/strong> Alcohol policy and older people<\/strong> Advanced clinical practitioners framework<\/strong> Individual funding requests<\/strong> Primary medical care policy and guidance manual –\u00a0NHS England<\/strong> Addressing ambulance handover delays –\u00a0NHS England<\/strong> Nutritional care tool report 2017 –\u00a0BAPEN<\/strong> Multi-professional framework for advanced clinical practice in England –\u00a0Health Education England (HEE)<\/strong> NICE Shared Learning<\/strong><\/p>\n Statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transforming elective care services NHS England has published two transforming services handbooks aimed at commissioners, providers and those leading the local transformation of services: Transforming musculoskeletal and orthopaedic elective care services Transforming gastroenterology elective care services Inpatient falls The Royal College of Physicians has published National Audit of Inpatient Falls:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[37,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ccg","category-daily-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4kWbe-2xi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9752"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9779,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752\/revisions\/9779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\nThe Royal College of Physicians has published National Audit of Inpatient Falls: audit report 2017<\/a>.\u00a0 This second report presents aggregated and individual hospital data relating to falls in acute, community and mental health hospitals.\u00a0 It makes a number of recommendations for trust boards and executive teams for improving inpatient falls prevention.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Royal College of Physicians and The Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland have published Lung cancer clinical outcomes publication 2017 (for surgical operations performed in 2015<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0This report focuses on the activity of surgeons or their specific contribution to lung cancer care. The data relate to patients diagnosed with lung cancer who underwent surgical operations during 2015.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Chief Executive of NHS England is to announce the scaling up of schemes to save lives by catching more cancers early<\/a>.\u00a0 This press release refers to mobile lung cancer scanning trucks, a more sensitive bowel cancer test, and use of high definition MRI scans to reduce average prostate cancer diagnosis time.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Twins and Multiple Births Associations (Tamba) has published Twin pregnancy and neonatal care in England: a Tamba report November 2017<\/a> (pdf).\u00a0 This report includes information from neonatal networks for stillbirth rates, neonatal death rates, NICE compliance and neonatal admissions for twins.\u00a0 The authors suggest admissions of twins to neonatal units could be reduced by a third per year if all neonatal networks had the lowest admission rate.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland (VSGBI) and the Royal College of Surgeons have published National Vascular Registry: annual report 2017<\/a>. This report provides data on provider activity, metrics on the process of care and clinical outcomes for major vascular interventions.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) has launched an online portal National Clinical Audit Benchmarking<\/a> (NCAB).\u00a0 This tool provides access to national audit data benchmarked searchable by speciality, Trust, hospital or unit.\u00a0 The specialities currently available are lung cancer treatment, upper GI cancer surgery, lower GI cancer surgery, vascular surgery, hip fracture care and intensive care.<\/p>\n
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\nThe International Longevity Centre UK has published Calling Time: addressing ageism and age discrimination in alcohol policy, practice and research<\/a>.\u00a0 This report examines ageism and age discrimination in alcohol policy, practice and research.\u00a0 It also contains research on age discrimination legislation and policy in the UK and includes examples of positive practice.<\/p>\n
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\nHealth Education England has published National Framework for Multi-Professional Advanced Clinical Practice<\/a>.\u00a0 This document sets out a vision for the further development of Advanced Clinical Practitioners.\u00a0 It provides national definition of the role as well as requirements for entry.\u00a0 It will provide ACPs with guidance and principles to follow throughout their careers.<\/p>\n
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\nNHS England has published a series of documents in relation to Individual Funding Requests (IFR). The following documents update existing published standard operating procedures for the management of IFRs and outline how the process for managing IFRs for NHS England will operate:<\/p>\n\n
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\nThis document <\/a>provides commissioners of primary care services the\u00a0context, information and tools to safely commission and contract\u00a0manage primary medical care contracts.<\/p>\n
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\nThis letter and guidance<\/a> sets out the main points from recent guidance documents and separates them into actions to be embedded as part of normal working practice, and actions to be\u00a0taken should ambulances begin to queue.<\/p>\n
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\nThe BAPEN nutritional care tool report<\/a> provides organisational-level data on how nutritional care is organised and patient-level data on the quality of nutrition in hospitals, care homes and community organisations.<\/p>\n
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\nThis national framework<\/a>, produced in partnership with NHS Improvement and NHS England, sets out a vision for the further development of advanced clinical practitioners. It\u00a0provides a national definition and framework of what advanced clinical practice is and what the requirements for entry are.<\/p>\n
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