NICE Savings and Productivity and Local Practice Collections
NICE has added three new case studies to its savings and local practice collection which show of how NICE guidance and standards have been used to improve the quality of health and care. The case studies are as follows:

• TA337 Rifaximin for preventing episodes of overt hepatic encephalopathy: costing template
• Developing an Annual Review Clinic for People with Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Improving and Maintaining Medicines Reconciliation on Admission at North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT)

Clinical audit support from NICE
NICE is developing a new tool to help health and social care organisations audit the improvements they are making to their services as part of a redesign of the audit support NICE provides.  The package of support is in its final stages of development and the first tool will be available this summer.  NICE will continue to provide baseline assessment tools for guidelines and, where identified, audit tools for interventional procedures. Existing clinical audit tools will be available on the NICE website and will only be removed should an update to guidance make them incompatible.  NICE is also developing a facility to allow organisations to publish their own audit results on the NICE website

Alert issued over injecting skin preparation solution – Nursing Times 
A safety alert has been issued by NHS England warning against accidental injection of skin preparation solution, after a string of errors that have resulted in severe harm to patients.

Trust to axe 400 jobs in £14m savings bid – Health Service Journal 
More than 250 posts have been axed during the last 12 months at a West Midlands foundation trust in a bid to save £7.5m

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Clampdown on ‘egregious’ agency staff prices, Simon Stevens to tell NHS England board – Health Service Journal
HSJ reporter Judith Welikala is at NHS England’s board meeting this morning, where chief executive Simon Stevens will say the entire NHS provider deficit of £822m can be accounted for by overspending on temporary staff.

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A coaching approach to leadership can inspire your team – Health Service Journal
Power has to be earned through moral authority rather than traditional authority, argues Darren Leech, plus the rest of today’s news and comment

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A guide for CCGs: engaging the public in difficult decisions about health service change –  NHS Clinical Commissioners
This guide draws on case studies of three different reconfiguration programmes and offers some tips on how to get your engagement right.

Breast screening programme: external review – HM Government
Independent external review to provide an expert opinion on whether film reading and current clinical practice at the assessment stage in the breast screening service provided by University Hospital of Morecambe Bay Trust (UHMBT) is operating safely and within national standards.