Why Always Events matter – Neil Churchill – Neil Churchill, NHS England Blog
The beginning of 2017 brings an ideal opportunity to challenge ourselves. In this blog, Neil Churchill, Director for Patient Experience at NHS England asks what are the things that we ALWAYS want to happen when we access healthcare either for ourselves or our families or friends? Imagine if there was a programme to help us […]

A new online resource from allied health professionals  – NHS Employers
Find out more about the new online resource and how it can be used to inspire AHPs, leaders and decision makers across the health and care system.

Taking revalidation forward: improving the process of relicensing for doctors: Sir Keith Pearson’s review of medical revalidation – General Medical Council (GMC)
This report details the findings of a review of the medical revalidation process so far. The review gathered feedback from a wide range of individuals and finds that revalidation has delivered benefits in terms of clinical governance and driving changes in doctors’ practice. The review highlights concerns around the added workload of revalidation and makes recommendations for better ways to support doctors who are undergoing the revalidation process. The GMC have responded to the recommendations in the review in their formal response document.

HSJ roundup: (contact the library for further details on any of these HSJ articles)

• CCGs to impose temporary ban on prescribing expensive medicines 
  Commissioners in Yorkshire have approved an 18 month moratorium on prescribing expensive, non-routine medicines as part of plans to save more than £1m.
• Trust forced to axe fifth of its community nursing team  
  An east London trust is being forced to cut a fifth of its community nursing staff in a move experts have described as “logically unsustainable” and a “risk to the quality of patient care”.
• STPs forecast NHS will employ thousands fewer staff  
  The NHS’s unpublished proposals for dealing with extreme funding pressure suggest it will employ thousands fewer nurses and other staff in the next few years, and treat tens of thousands fewer emergency patients in hospital.
• Emergency care demand must fall for three years under STP plans  
  The health service will have to reduce the number of patients admitted to hospital as an emergency for three years running, according to official proposals for how it can survive despite its funding constraints.
• Community and primary care grow fastest as acute spend held down 
  Community and primary care would see the fastest increases in funding, at the expense of slow growth in mental health and general acute spending falling in real terms, under detailed STP forecasts analysed by HSJ.