Category: NHS

NHS England

People plan for 2020-2021

The plan sets out what the NHS people can expect from their leaders and each other. It outlines practical actions for employers and systems and includes specific commitments about:

  • Looking after our people – with quality health and wellbeing support for everyone
  • Belonging in the NHS – with a particular focus on tackling the discrimination that some staff face
  • New ways of working and delivering care – making effective use of the full range of our people’s skills and experience
  • Growing for the future – how we recruit and keep our people, and welcome back colleagues who want to return

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Coronavirus Murals

Inside the world of pandemic-inspired street art

There is no aspect of life the COVID-19 pandemic has not affected and the art and culture scene is no exception. Street artists all over the world have ventured out into quiet streets and left behind vibrant, thought-provoking, amusing commentary on the crisis with many depicting front-line NHS workers as the real heroes in this crisis.

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National workforce plan for Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs)

Department of Health and Social Care, November 2019

Understanding the role of AMHPs in mental health services to help with recruitment and retention of the role in local areas. This document is a resource for agencies wishing to develop their AMHP services and aims to explain the role of AMHPs in mental health services. It contains a summary of all the current guidance. It is for local authorities, directors of adult and children’s social care, NHS mental health trusts, and integrated care system workforce leads.

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A descriptive analysis of health care use by high cost, high need patients in England

The Health Foundation, November 2019

The Health Foundation report exploring health care use by the top 5 per cent of users of primary and secondary care services by cost.

• Despite the increasing financial pressure on the NHS over the past decades, there has been little research to understand the distribution and concentration of health care costs across the population.

• This paper explores for the first time the distribution of both primary and secondary health care costs in England, including GP-prescribed drug cost. Identifying high-cost, high-need patients and examining the way in which they use health care services might help to design initiatives to reduce costs or to improve efficiency.

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Introduction of nursing associates – year 2: evaluation report

Health Education England, November 2019

The Nursing Associate role is a new support role that sits alongside existing healthcare support workers and fully-qualified registered nurses to deliver hands-on care for patients.  This report provides an evaluation of the Nursing Associate test site programme of Nursing Associates which began in January 2017.  

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Steps to expand placement capacity

NHS Employers, October 2019

The NHS Long Term Plan sets out ambitions to increase the number of people in learning placements across the NHS. To meet these ambitions, employers will have to scale up the ability to offer a safe and high-quality learning environment that supports workforce development. Based on conversations with those organisations which have already grown their capacity, this briefing sets out a series questions and actions, under six key areas to help employers reflect on what more they can do to increase placement capacity in a way that is sustainable for their organisation.

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Employer approaches to building placement capacity

NHS Employers, October 2019

Ambitions to scale up the number of nursing students across the NHS set out within the NHS Long Term Plan and the Interim People Plan will require services to increase the number clinical placements they offer. Understandably there is some apprehension about how additional capacity can be generated. This NHS Employers briefing provides an insight into some of the strategies and ideas being explored by employers to increase placement capacity and offers some options for you to consider.

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