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BMJ Quality & Safety – March 2016, Volume 25, Issue 3
This issue includes: (all available full text with your NHS Athens Account or by requesting articles from the Library & Knowledge Service)

Editorials:

• Assessing patient-centred care through direct observation of clinical encounters
• Swimming ‘upstream’ to tackle the social determinants of health

Original research:

• Providers contextualise care more often when they discover patient context by asking: meta-analysis of three primary data sets
• Addressing basic resource needs to improve primary care quality: a community collaboration programme
• Reliable implementation of evidence: a qualitative study of antenatal corticosteroid administration in Ohio hospitals
• Patient and family engagement: a survey of US hospital practices

Systematic review:

• What methods are used to apply positive deviance within healthcare organisations? A systematic review

Making it safer to cross professional boundaries ‏@TheKingsFund Twitter feed
Julia Cream on potential of new @NHSFFF toolkit for improved finance & clinical team collaboration: #NHScollabor8

Why you despise the Business Case & How to make it the most thrilling part of your Role – linkedin.com,  Anthony Lawton, Director at OPE Solutions
Your boss calls you in first thing Monday morning and announces that she has an important job for you – you  have to write a business case on “Reducing A&E attendances by 10%” or some other equally pressing issue. Do your spirits rise with anticipation and excitement or does your stomach turn and loop with anxiety? If the latter… why is this?

Using computer simulation to test impact of commissioning decisions – the NHS Academy of Fabulous NHS Stuff
A computer simulation model is now available, designed to help commissioners and providers to predict the impacts of service changes before they are made. The tool – called the Commissioning Simulation Model – has been launched by NHS England’s Long Term Conditions Year of Care Commissioning Programme, together with Simul8 Corporation, following testing with care economies around the country.

Free app to support Culture Change & Workforce Transformation – the NHS Academy of Fabulous NHS Stuff
Do OD is the expert resource on Organisational Development for the NHS, delivered by NHS Employers in partnership with the NHS Leadership Academy. The NHS OD community came together to create a new tool to support Culture Change in organisations. To maximise access, we turned the tool into a free app for smartphones and tablets. The app now contains two tools:

1) The OD Culture Change Tool

This tool aims to help you on your culture change journey. It will prompt thinking and action and provides support and advice on culture change. The tool asks key questions to help you to think about what you might need to do to change culture. It will help you identify areas of strengths and areas of development. It offers pointers and practice resources which provide help and advice on culture change. At the end of each section you will be given a visual representation of your responses as well as an invitation to share any thoughts that the app has sparked for you.

2) Space To Think

The Space To Think cards have been created to support you to make workforce changes to deliver better quality care for patients. We’ve put together these cards for you to use as a digital toolkit to explore your ideas. You can use them to think about how to make change happen. Follow a particular path or shuffle the cards to help you think brighter about workforce change.

You can find out more about the app at www.nhsemployers.org/DoODapp

The Power of Reflective Digital Stories – DNA of Care Project – NHS Employers
NHS England has launched it’s new DNA of care project The project is to recognise that NHS staff carry knowledge, experience and expertise that can be useful to other staff members. They are offering free workshops for staff to create and share their own digital stories.

Junior Doctors 2016 contract –  ‏@nhsemployers Twitter feed
Read our summary booklet which includes facts about the #juniorcontract

Department of Health declares its top priorities – Health Service Journal
The government has published the Department of Health’s priorities for the four remaining years of this parliament, including its high level key performance indicators. In a “shared delivery plan” published on Friday afternoon, the DH identifies 10 objectives, including better out of hospital care, achieving financial balance and improving services through technology.

• Department of Health publishes “shared delivery plan” for the next four years
• Department to judge performance on metrics including reduction of emergency bed days
• NHS leaders warned against cutting national bodies “to the bone”

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Private provider considers ‘pop up’ urgent care centres – Health Service Journal
A company which provides out of hours care across England has said it is considering setting up a network of “pop up” urgent care centres.
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Bulletins

• Drug Safety Update  – February 2016
• NHS foundation trust bulletin – 17 February 2016

NICE case studies

• Liverpool Healthy Homes programme: 7 years of pre-empting NICE Guideline NG6 ‘Excess winter deaths and morbidity and the health risks associated with cold homes’

• Smokefree LCFT: implementing a nicotine management policy in a community and mental health foundation trust