Knowledge @lert for Friday 9th May
Leadership – easier said than done – Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
This report explores general leadership issues and looks at the capacity of individuals at all levels of an organisation to buy into and lead on the organisational agenda, highlighting how misaligned organisational structures and processes can get in the way of leadership.
How to make the NHS payment and pricing system work more effectively in 2015/16? – Foundation Trust Network
This briefing looks ahead at the changes NHS foundation trusts and trusts need in next year’s payment and pricing system to help them better manage the financial risks expected in 2015/16. It highlights ten issues NHS England and Monitor need to take into account in setting this year’s payment and pricing system and five enablers for ensuring this process works effectively.
Health professional mobility in a changing Europe: new dynamics, mobile individuals and diverse responses – World Health Organization (WHO)
This book is grouped into three parts: the changing dynamics of health professional mobility, the mobile individual and policy responses in a changing Europe. It presents practical tools such as a yardstick for registry methodology, a typology of mobile individuals, qualitative tools for studying the motivation of the workforce and a set of concrete policy responses at EU, national and organizational level including bilateral agreements, codes and workplace responses.
Government response: Improving food in hospitals and schools – HM Government
The government fully recognises the importance of providing sustainable, high quality, nutritious food across every area of the public sector. It is a priority for each of the 3 main Departments of State involved in procuring food. However, the government does not agree with Sustain’s view that legislation is necessary for improvement.
Whatever happened to the Department of Health’s plan for vulnerable older people? – The King’s Fund Blog
Back in the summer of 2013, the Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt announced a public consultation on a new plan to improve care for vulnerable older people This appeared to be very much his personal mission – indeed he went on to say in a speech at The King’s Fund that vulnerable older people would be his ‘primary focus for the next 12 months’ The key themes in the plan included improving care co-ordination for patients aged over 75 through ‘named accountable clinicians’, promoting healthy active ageing and wellbeing, and improving ‘information and choice’ backed by more transparent information and IT solutions. Some details around delivery were imprecise (for instance, how ‘accountability’ would work and how fit-for-purpose NHS IT systems would be). The use of the word ‘vulnerable’ with its connotations of dependency and abuse was also unfortunate.
NICE issues final draft guidance recommending enzalutamide for prostate cancer
People with hormone-relapsed prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of the body and have been treated with the cytotoxic drug docetaxel, should be given access to enzalutamide through the NHS, NICE has confirmed in final draft guidance. Enzalutamide is also known as Xtandi and manufactured by Astellas Pharma.
HSCIC to host IG Alliance
The Health and Social Care Information Centre will host a new Information Governance Alliance group which aims to bring together “specialist knowledge” on IG issues.
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