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Southern Health leaders ‘not proactive’ in identifying risks to patients – Health Service Journal
PATIENT SAFETY: The leadership of Southern Health Foundation Trust has shown “little evidence” of being proactive in identifying and addressing risks to patients, according to the Care Quality Commission.

Private providers make case for bigger role in STPs – Health Service Journal
The new chair of the NHS Partners Network expects to see greater engagement with independent providers in the NHS’s sustainability and transformation plans.

Electronic health records
The House of Commons Library has published a briefing A paperless NHS: electronic health records.  This briefing provides information regarding the Government’s decision to commit to making all patient and care records digital, real-time and interoperable by 2020. There will be a staged approach to electronic health records – by 2016 all patients should be able to access their own GP electronic record online in full, seeing not just a summary of their allergies and medication but blood test results, appointment records and medical histories. By 2018 this record will include information from all their health and care interactions. By 2020, the NHS has committed to be “paper-free at the point of care”.

Integrated care: seven localities experiences
The Local Government Association has published The journey to integration: learning from the seven leading localities.  This report details the experience of seven localities in developing integrated care.  It examines each against a range of factors, including care model, leadership, workforce, payment model and information flow.  It concludes that it is possible to have significant impact in terms of improved health outcomes and financial sustainability, and sets out the key lessons for other localities to consider in embarking on integration themselves.

Care Quality Commission business plan
The Care Quality Commission has published Business plan: April 2016 to March 2017.  This business plan sets out two main objectives: the completion of the delivery of rating inspections for health and care services begun in 2014; and preparation for the further development of the approach to regulating health and care over the life time of the five year strategy for 2016 to 2021.

NICE consultations

•  Preventing suicide in the community: draft scope consultation. Closing date for comments: 25 May 2016
• Patient experience in adult NHS services: improving the experience of care for people using adult NHS services: Surveillance consultation. Closing date for comments: 10 May 2016
• Older people with social care needs and multiple long-term conditions: Quality Standard consultation. Closing date for comments: 24 May 2016.
• Intravenous fluid therapy in children and young people in hospital: Quality Standard consultation. Closing date for comments: 24 May 2016.

Bulletins

• SCIE ebulletin – 28 April 2016
• PHE Bulletin – 28 April 2016
• Eurohealth – April 2016