Ambulatory emergency care: reimbursement under the national tariff – Healthcare Financial Management Association
This briefing aims to create a better understanding of the current approaches taken to the recording and reimbursement of ambulatory care. HFMA surveyed its members to establish some basic benchmarking information to see how the guidance is currently applied.

Antimicrobial resistance
Health Education England (HEE) has published Combatting antimicrobial resistance: educational approaches for the responsible prescribing of antimicrobials. This report presents the results of survey of higher education institutions about the extent to which antimicrobial prescribing and stewardship competencies have been embedded into their curricula.  It also sets out recommendations for HEE, employers and healthcare providers to ensure that staff are well-trained in how to combat antimicrobial resistance.

New guidance on consultant job planning – NHS Employers
NHS Improvement has published a new best practice guide for consultant job planning.

NIHR Signals
The National Institute for Health Research regularly publishes signals.  Signals are summaries of recently published research and intended to provide decision makers in health and social care organisations with evidence they can use.

• MRI scans help confirm ultrasound diagnosis of fetal brain abnormalities
• Antibiotics by injection into the eye can prevent severe infection following cataract surgery
• The “BabyClear” programme helped pregnant women stop smoking in North East England
• Counselling services help expectant mothers quit smoking

Statistics

• Direct access audiology waiting times – February 2017
• NHS Continuing Healthcare Activity – England, Quarter 3, 2016 to 2017
• Birth cohort tables for infant deaths – England and Wales: 2014
• Diagnostic imaging dataset – December 2016
• Mixed sex accommodation breaches – March 2017
• Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics– final January, provisional February 2017
• Pregnancy and ethnic factors influencing births and infant mortality – 2014
• Child mortality in England and Wales – 2015

Bulletins

• Provider bulletin – 19 April 2017