Our daily Knowledge @lerts are a round up of all the latest news and publications around health management and service improvement including The Kings Fund, NHS Improvement, NHS England, the HSJ, the National Health Executive, the BMJ, Nursing Times and many more.

Second South West social enterprise to close next month – Health Service Journal A second social enterprise in the South West is to be wound down after it lost its main contract to an NHS trust. Specialist hospital rated ‘one of the best trusts in England’ – Health Service Journal…

Local plans for local people: communicating change – NHS Confederation NHS England have produced a guide for local areas to use, which is intended to support them in involving and engaging with local people in the development of Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs). Most areas should publish STPs by end…

Preventing avoidable hospital admissions – The University of Birmingham The University of Birmingham has published Who knows best? Older people’s contribution to understanding and preventing avoidable hospital admissions.  With estimates of over two  million unplanned hospital admissions per year of people aged over 65, questions are often asked such as:…

New podcast from Professor Ivan Robertson on resilience in the workplace – NHS Employers Hear Ruth Warden, assistant director at NHS Employers, catch up with Professor Ivan Robertson to talk about the importance of resilience in the NHS workforce Technology ‘must be embedded in STPs’ and IT moved away from…

Birmingham trusts to form single organisation to solve ‘unsustainable’ arrangements – NHE University Hospitals Birmingham and Heart of England NHS Foundation Trusts will form a single trust after finding that their current structure is not delivering the best care for patients. If the decision is approved by both trusts’ boards, one trust…

NICE Bites: Sepsis The August 2016 NICE Bites bulletin from the North West Medicines Information Service covers Sepsis.  The aim of this publication is to provide healthcare professionals with a clear and succinct summary of key prescribing points taken from the NICE guidance, NG51.  This guideline covers recognition, diagnosis and…