CCG Knowledge @lert for Tuesday 30th June

June 30, 2015 CCG

Better Knowledge, Better Care
The Library & Knowledge Service is developing a report for publication that will look at the use of knowledge and learning within the Trust and the benefits it can offer to staff and patients. Our aim is to learn from real-life examples, spreading best practice and uncovering advocates for knowledge and learning across the Trust.

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Which CCGs are paying GP practices to form federations – Health Service Journal 
A third of clinical commissioning groups with control of their primary care budgets plan to fund member GP practices to get them to form federations.  HSJ asked all 63 CCGs that have taken delegated responsibility for general practice in 2015-16 whether they had in place, or plan to introduce, measures to incentivise or facilitate GP practices forming federations. Encouraging practices to scale up is a priority for NHS England under the new models of care programme. Among the 59 groups that responded, 21 said they did have plans, while 23 said they did not. In 15 CCG areas, all or a significant majority of practices were already federated

New duty of candour guidance for nursing staff – Royal College of Nursing 
Joint guidance from the General Medical Council (GMC) and Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), published today, sets out professional standards on what nursing staff in the UK should do if something goes wrong during patient care.

Paperless NHS: How to transform hospital IT – Health Service Journal
Progress towards the goal for a paperless NHS by 2020 has been too slow in the acute sector. Shaun O’Hanlon looks at the challenges and solutions for transforming hospital IT. Health secretary Jeremy Hunt wants the NHS to have a digital revolution by 2020 – with electronic care records for every patient and interoperable digital systems replacing paper records across all care providers.

Fines for breaching final elective target to be boosted – Health Service Journal 
The penalty imposed on providers who breach the remaining elective waiting time target is to be increased, regulators have told all NHS providers and clinical commissioning groups.

Major nurse recruitment drive launched on Wirral – Nursing Times
Wirral University Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust has launched a major nurse recruitment drive

Traineeships: new guidance for employers in the NHS – NHS Employers
Traineeships can help you to manage workforce supply, find out how in our new guidance.

What is an ‘acceptable’ deficit for the NHS provider sector in 2015-16? – Health Service Journal
The NHS provider sector is in straits similar to those of Greece at the moment but there is no Grexit for those that cannot cope. Most sector projections suggest the shortfall will be north of £2bn. “That OK?” provider sector representatives have nervously asked the powers that be, receiving the answer: “No, not in a million years.”

More than 60 managers have faced fit and proper complaints – Health Service Journal
A total of 65 NHS chief executives and senior board directors have been subject to complaints under fit and proper person regulations, HSJ can reveal.

Robot wars in Lancashire as trusts compete to be specialist site -Health Service Journal
A hospital trust in Lancashire has ignored national guidance by spending £1.5m on a surgical robot.

How information prescriptions work – Health Service Journal
Information prescriptions – individual notes for patients to follow – make patients better informed, enabling them to work with doctors and nurses to improve their health.  If there is one frustration among clinicians caring for people with diabetes it is that it so often feels like a tick-box exercise. So says Amy Rylance, head of healthcare professional engagement with Diabetes UK and an advocate for supporting clinicians, so that they in turn can support patients.

Elective care: how trusts are recovering from poor performance – Health Service Journal
In the first of three reports into performance, HSJ explores the problems trusts are facing in meeting elective care targets. The 90 per cent target to treat elected admitted patients within 18 weeks that has been the gold standard for the NHS for more than a decade has been abolished by NHS England this month in favour of an overall waiting target of 92 per cent. It has always been a challenging target and one that many organisations have missed. In March, for example, six acute trusts were performing at lower than 70 per cent against the target.

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