Updated revalidation standards and guidance – NHS Employers
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has published updated standards and guidance for revalidation. Learn about the key changes.

• New £2bn training supplier framework created for NHS – Health Service Journal  
  NHS Shared Business Services is creating a new framework for suppliers of apprenticeship training with a potential market value of £2bn by 2021.
• Staffordshire still unsustainable after ‘failed’ Mid Staffs dissolution – Health Service Journal
  NHS organisations in Staffordshire are facing huge deficits after the Mid Staffordshire trust special administration process did not deliver a sustainable solution for the health economy.
• STPs to be told how to make integrated care savings – Health Service Journal 
  All 44 sustainability and transformation partnerships will be sent a tailored report on how to integrate physical and mental health in their region and what savings the changes can make.

Why training and development has an important role to play in NHS finance – NHE | NEWS 
Paul Briddock, director of policy at the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA), discusses the benefits of training and development in NHS finance for health professionals. The news agenda has been awash with headlines about the current state of NHS finances. The sector is facing severe pressure and the most recent results…

Naylor Review: £10bn needed now to fully finance STP reforms – NHE | NEWS
A total of £10bn is required to properly fund England STPs and maintain health facilities in the future, an independent report written for the Department of Health has revealed. The report, drawn up by Sir Robert Naylor, former CEO of University College London Hospitals NHS FT, warned that without actual new investment in the NHS…

Inclusive leadership in the NHS part two – NHS Employers
Listen to the second in our series of podcasts on inclusive leadership, hear how University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay employees are working together to achieve an inclusive and values based organisation.

Integration and the development of the workforce – Skills for Health Working Paper
The move to integrated care describes the shift away from traditional top-down, command-and-control health care to a future where both health and social care services are delivered in a seamless fashion, shaped around the needs of the patient. This paper details how workforce development plays a crucial role in successful integration. [Register with the Skills for Health website to access the full document]

Improving accountability in the provision of new models of care – National Primary Care Network
Report of a meeting focused on testing ideas described as accountable care systems, specifically concentrating on whole population budgets and metrics that may be used in the new care models that are prioritising primary care provision.

Contents include:

• Population budgets
• A whole system approach to providing care
• New metrics for new care
• Primary Care Home programme updatemetri