Knowledge @lert for Tuesday 23rd May

May 23, 2017 CCG Daily News Uncategorized

 

HSJ Roundup

  • HEE to review training at trust following complaints
    Complaints made by a trainee has triggered a review by Health Education England of junior doctors’ training at a struggling West Midlands trust.
  • Investigation: Why are some babies dying in the NHS?
    New data obtained by HSJ reveals babies are dying or being left with life-long disabilities because of mistakes being replicated across the NHS by midwives and doctors.
  • The provider sector deficit due to be hidden until after election
    NHS trusts will report a combined deficit for 2016-17 that significantly breaches the maximum control total set by national leaders at the start of the year, HSJ research had revealed.
  • Theresa May pledges £10bn capital funding for NHS
    The Prime Minister has promised an extra £10bn of capital investment during the next Parliament if she wins the general election.
  • Nine out of 10 requests to pay trust managers more than PM approved
    The vast majority of requests to pay managers more than the prime minister’s salary over the past year were approved, HSJ can reveal.
  • Theresa May backtracks on care funding policy
    The prime minister has promised a future Conservative government would introduce a cap on care costs, following widespread criticism of her proposals for the funding of social care announced in last week’s Conservative manifesto.
  • Errors revealed at NHS-private pathology venture
    Errors at a north London pathology laboratory saw blood samples mislabelled and patients had to give second samples after delays in getting test results, a document released under the Freedom of Information Act reveals.
  • Jeremy Hunt warned over deaths risk after scan results missed
    A coroner has called on the health secretary to examine a trust’s systems for reviewing scans after a patient died of an aneurysm that was spotted but not acted upon for four years.
  • ‘Amazon-style’ procurement system may be brought forward
    A new procurement platform which aims to bring millions of pounds worth of savings to the NHS is expected to be rolled out to trusts by summer 2018 “at the latest”.

Our Fabulous NHS – Academy of Fabulous Stuff

NHS staff respond superbly to Manchester attack – NHS Confederation
Our thoughts are with everyone affected by this shocking tragedy, says the head of the NHS Confederation following an attack in Manchester.

NHS estates: Review of the evidence, 22 May 2017 – The King’s Fund. 
This evidence review was commissioned by the Department of Health as part of the independent review of NHS estates and property being undertaken by Sir Robert Naylor.

Enabling professionalism in nursing and midwifery practice – Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) 
This guide is aimed at all nurses and midwives and sets out what professionalism can look like in everyday practice. It demonstrates how applying the values of the code of conduct should be at the centre of all nursing and midwifery practice. For employers, it identifies key principles which will help them to provide practice environments that support and encourage professionalism among nurses and midwives.

Safe and effective staffing: the real picture – Royal College of Nursing (RCN) 
This report calls for the rest of the UK to follow the example of Wales and enshrine safe staffing levels in law following analysis which shows that there is approximately 40,000 unfilled nurse posts in England with a further 12,000 health care support worker vacancies. The report finds that care providers are increasingly hiring fewer registered nursing staff and that four in five NHS nursing directors have reported concerns that their hospital relies on the goodwill of staff to keep services running.

Revalidation quarterly report: year 1, quarter 4 – January to March 2017 – Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
This report comes at the end of the first year of revalidation and it demonstrates that revalidation has been successful with over 48,000 nurses and midwives who have continued to renew their registration over 2016-17. Throughout the final quarter of the year, 93 per cent who were due to revalidate have done so successfully.

State of child health: Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships – Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)
Following analysis of STPs, this report argues that the plans are failing to take into account the needs of infants, child and young people. It finds that while most STPs set out the case for change well and cover important key themes such as prevention, early intervention, more care delivered in the community, better mental health services and integrated working, there is a lack of detail underpinning the vision. It concludes that the lack of profile given to infants, children and young people (who comprise 25 per cent of the UK population) by the majority of STPs, is a cause for concern.

GPFV – one year on – BMA 
Analysis of what was promised in the first year of the GP Forward View and what has been delivered so far around investment, workload, care design, practice infrastructure and workforce.

Three Election Briefings from the Health Foundation ahead of the general election June 2017:

Manifesto for Health Creation  – New NHS Alliance (NNHSA) (formerly NHS Alliance)
The Manifesto for Health Creation sets out 10 high impact recommendations to create a wellness-based health system, aimed at tackling the continuing problem and social injustice of health inequalities.

Bolton delivers one of the largest PAS mergers – Digital Health
Digital Health Bolton NHS Foundation Trust have merged its hospital and community patient administration systems (PAS), in one of the largest merges of its kind in the UK. The merge, which took place in May, combined 300 million rows of data and 60 million …

Avoiding another cyberattack will take human and technical solutions, say experts –  BMJ News
Protecting against a cyberattack of the sort that paralysed at least 47 NHS trusts on 12 May123 will not be simple, experts have warned. Vulnerability is likely to increase rather than diminish as more and more IT systems are linked and patients’ access to them is made easier. Bryan Hurcombe, of the accountancy and consulting company Deloitte, told a Westminster Forum meeting in London on 18 May that the problem was both human and technical. “Many NHS organisations have legacy IT systems that were never designed with cyber-risks in mind,” he said. “It’s very hard to get rid of these systems—they’re engrained in the DNA of organisations. It’s not just a case of lifting and shifting them.

Cyber attack security guidance – NHS Digital 
This suite of guidance provides technical support on patching to protect against cyber attacks and on reconnecting to networks following precautionary disconnection. It is accompanied by an FAQ on the recent cyber attack which affected the NHS.

Protecting your organisation from ransomware – National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) 
This guidance outlines how to prevent a ransomware incident and what to do if your organisation is infect. It suggests simple steps to help organisations prevent a cyber attack. In response to the recent ransomware campaign, the NCSC has also published guidance for IT systems administrators which outlines responses to this specific cyber attack.

Pharmacy and medicines optimisation benchmarking project – The NHS Benchmarking Network
The NHS Benchmarking Network has announced that data collection for the 2017 pharmacy and medicines optimisation benchmarking project is now open.  The project is open to all commissioners in the UK; data collection will run until 21st July 2017.

Authorisation of independent healthcare provider PGDs – The Specialist Pharmacy Service
The Specialist Pharmacy Service has published Authorisation of Independent Healthcare Provider (IHP) PGDs for NHS and public health commissioned services.  This document provides guidance for IHPs and commissioning organisations where the IHP agrees to take responsibility for development and authorisation of Patient Group Directions, prior to the necessary authorising organisation sign off by the commissioning organisation for NHS and public health services.

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