HSJ Roundup

• Hospital group launches review over ‘higher than expected’ mortality
  Three Essex acute trusts establishing a new “group” model to run their hospitals have launched a mortality review in a bid to address “higher than expected” ratios and “sustained” rises across its sites, HSJ has learned.

Our Fabulous NHS – Academy of Fabulous Stuff

• Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust revolutionises patient transport safety with the Patient Pump Bridge 
  Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust (PHNT) in collaboration with Luminati Waycon Ltd, have designed and developed a Patient Pump Bridge engineered […]
• Community Stroke Microsystem – Sheffield Teaching Hospitals  
  Sheffield Teaching Hospital’s Community Stroke Service team is comprised of Administrators, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Pharmacists, Psychologists, Physiotherapists, Rehabilitation Assistants […]
• MDT FIT THE BEST TEAMWORKING TOOLKIT IN THE NHS  
  Situation analysis -The highest cost in Healthcare is Staffing. One way to save money and improve efficiency is to help […]
• Safety Thermometer App 
  The Safety Thermometer App, built by the NHS Quality Observatory and supported by Haelo, has been introduced to Mid Yorkshire […]
• ECIP Quick Guide – Maximising Ambulatory Emergency Care (AEC) services  
  Ambulatory emergency care services have become the norm in recent years. AEC can have a positive impact on patient flow […]
• Virtual Dementia Clinics  
  Dementia diagnosis in Cumbria now four times faster thanks to ‘virtual clinics’ New virtual clinics in the Memory Matters team […]

New workforce supply resource from NHS Employers
Our new workforce supply web pages help employers to address the challenges they face in terms of planning for, educating, recruiting, developing and retaining their staff

Excellence by design: standards for postgraduate curricula – General Medical Council (GMC) 
These newly developed standards aim to make postgraduate training more flexible for doctors and they provide a framework for the approval and provision of postgraduate medical education and training across the UK. All medical colleges and faculties are required to update all 103 existing postgraduate medical curricula against the GMC’s new standards, with a target to complete the process by 2020.

The value of occupational health
The Society of Occupational Medicine has published Occupational health: the value proposition. This report highlights the value that occupational health services can give in reducing long term sickness and promoting a healthy workplace culture. This report is aimed at policy makers and commissioners of services.

Warning of faulty defibrillators
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has issued a press release warning people and organisations to check if they have the defibrillator model, LIFEPAK 1000 Automatic External Defibrillators (AED), because a technical fault with some of them means they may not deliver an electric shock to the heart of someone who is in cardiac arrest. This issue could potentially affect all LIFEPAK 1000 devices

Statistics

• Recorded Dementia Diagnoses  April 2017