An overview of clinically and healthcare related apps in Google and Apple app stores: connecting patients, drugs, and clinicians. [Samuel Ken-En GanEmail author, Cornelius Koshy, Phi-Vu Nguyen and Yu-Xuan Haw. Scientific Phone Apps and Mobile Devices 2016] Successful clinical outcomes involve both clinician and patient factors such as good decision making, accurate diagnosis, patient compliance, effective monitoring of the condition, and accurate interpretation of clinical results. With a general trend in healthcare towards personalized medicine, the smartphone holds great potential to play a role in personalized care and aid in the above mentioned factors. Through the use of apps, the increasingly powerful smartphone may be a useful aid in the healthcare and clinical industries. This review surveys the currently available apps in Google and Apple app stores that are purposed for aiding healthcare and clinical use, and discusses how they may also help transform the smartphone in a medically relevant device.

New Brexit and the NHS workforce web section – NHS Employers
A new web section containing the latest information you need to know about Brexit and the NHS workforce is now live. The web pages will be updated regularly to provide you with the most up to date news, useful resources and expert thinking.

Oversight of new care models: your questions answered – NHSI
The new care models programme is delivering a key element of the Five Year Forward View and we’re working to support innovative change. With our national partners and a number of vanguards, we’re identifying potential issues and developing and testing solutions for providers.

National tariff: policy proposals for 2017/18 and 2018/19 – NHSI
We’re seeking feedback on our policy proposals for the 2017/18 and 2018/19 national tariff.
In partnership with NHS England we’ve launched our policy proposals for the 2017/18 and 2018/19 national tariff. This page contains all the relevant documents along with links to supplementary material.

Dalton urges NHS to adopt two-year tariff as consultation opens – NHE
New proposals from NHS Improvement (NHSI) for a two-year tariff system could help stabilise the health service’s finances, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation has said. NHSI opened a consultation today into proposals, developed in collaboration with NHS England, to set national tariffs two years in advance, for 2017-18 and…

The Better Care Fund operating guidance for 2016/17 –  NHS England
This document provides guidance to partners for local Better Care Fund plans – such as CCGs, local authorities and health and wellbeing boards – on the operational requirements for these plans in 2016-17.

Marginal rate for specialised services shelved again – Health Service Journal
Regulators have again shelved plans for a marginal rate for specialised services under new tariff proposals covering a two-year period between 2017 and 2019.

Tariff proposal would see maternity spend increase by 8 per cent – Health Service Journal
Spending on maternity services could rise by £221m next year, an increase of 8.3 per cent, under national tariff proposals published yesterday by NHS Improvement.

NHS England ‘not holding Capita to account’ for support contract failings – Health Service Journal
Problems with primary care support services provided by Capita are “regularly played down” and NHS England is not doing enough to hold the firm to account, the body representing local optometrists and opticians has claimed.

Bedford trust’s deficit could grow even with £13m loan – Health Service Journal
FINANCE: Bedford Hospital Trust has agreed a loan of £13.2m from NHS Improvement to cover its deficit in the current financial year, according to its latest annual report.

Junior doctor specialty recruitment increases despite contract dispute – NHE
There has been a small increase in the rate of junior doctors being recruited into specialist training posts, despite the ongoing contract controversy. The latest data from Health Education England (HEE) shows that 89.94% of specialty training posts starting in August 2016 have been filled, compared to 89.75% in August…

Board member: NHS Improvement using CQC’s name ‘indiscriminately’ – Health Service Journal
A senior Care Quality Commission board member has raised concerns about the regulator’s relationship with NHS Improvement, saying it “throws around [the CQC’s] name relatively indiscriminately”.

Helping in hospitals: a guide to high impact volunteering in hospitals –  Nesta
The Helping in Hospitals programme was founded on the belief that much more can be achieved through well-designed and implemented volunteering in hospital settings – that we are only scratching the surface of what volunteering can do for hospital life. With funding from the Cabinet Office and the Department of Health, Helping in Hospitals worked with ten hospital trusts from 2014 to 2016 to help them build significant impact volunteering programmes. This included increasing both the scale and scope of impact volunteering in hospitals. This guide provides further details on how the hospital trusts developed their volunteering programmes.

Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust uses online platform to engage with all staff – NHS Employers
Find out how Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust introduced an online engagement platform to reach out to all staff within its large geography.