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Government unlikely to deliver promised new hospitals, inquiry finds

The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has no confidence that Government will deliver the new hospitals it promised, a highly critical report has said. The PAC is extremely concerned at the New Hospital Programme’s (NHP) lack of progress, given the prominence and importance of the 2020 commitment to build 40 new hospitals by 2030. Very little has happened from the perspective of patients since the Government’s original commitment. The report warns that it is highly unlikely even to construct the 32 new hospitals that it is now aiming to complete by 2030, after the commitment to build all 40 by then was abandoned in May.

New Hospital Programme: Inquiry finds no confidence Government will deliver on promises – Committees – UK Parliament

Gender pay gap needs closing in health and social care

In the five years since it became mandatory for large organisations including NHS trusts to report their pay gaps, there is good and bad news, reports this blog from the King’s Fund.

Why there’s still work to be done to close the gender pay gap in the NHS and social care | The King’s Fund (kingsfund.org.uk)

Learning Disabilities and Autism Bulletin available

The latest Learning Disabilities and Autism Bulletin produced the Evidently Better team at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is now available. If you are unable to access any of the included articles please contact academic.library@lscft.nhs.uk.

BAME patients have poorer access and outcomes from NHS talking therapies but can hugely improve with better access

A review of 10 years of anonymised patient data has found that historically, people from Black and minoritised ethnic backgrounds have experienced poorer access to, and outcomes from, NHS talking therapies. It finds that poor outcomes can be tackled and even disappear when access is improved and culturally sensitive therapy is provided.

Ethnic Inequalities in Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) (nhsrho.org)

Transitions that matter

A scoping review by the Centre for Care has looked at transitions in social care are researched.  It notes how the language of ‘transitions’ in social care is often used when talking about how people move from children’s care services into adult support when the concept of transition is much wider than this: it is about the changes that disabled people, older people and people using mental health services want to make (and are facilitated to make) in their lives.