HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• Regulator action against hospitals more than doubles in a year
  The number of enforcement actions taken against hospital providers in England by the Care Quality Commission increased by 133 per cent over last year.
• ‘Outstanding’ finance director joins teaching trust
  A finance director who turned around the fortunes of a struggling foundation trust is to join a teaching trust with a turnover of more than £1bn.
• Workforce app targets agency fees costing NHS up to £600m
  A social networking app is aiming to cut into the hundreds of millions of pounds NHS trusts pay to temporary staffing agencies.
• Rouse: Manchester NHS recently tested terror attack response
  Manchester’s emergency services practised dealing with a scenario “not too dissimilar” to last night’s terror attack about one month ago, Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership’s chief officer Jon Rouse has said.
• NHS England admits ‘flaw’ in flagship patient choice scheme
  A “flaw” in a GP patient choice scheme may have resulted in patients being given the wrong advice, NHS England has admitted.
• Management redundancies signed off by NHSI committee
  NHS Improvement’s provider leadership committee approved nine compulsory redundancies at senior level over nine months in 2016-17, documents obtained by HSJ reveal.
• CCG and council tender £620m alliance contract
  South London commissioners have tendered a new alliance contract for adult mental health services worth up to £650m over 10 years, which aims to eventually generate efficiency savings worth 15 per cent.

Our Fabulous NHS – Academy of Fabulous Stuff  

• Loud and Proud at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals – Development of Pre-Nursing Apprenticeship  
  Shortage of staff within the NHS seems to be a national problem; Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHTR) took charge […]
• Abingdon GP Federation’s COACH website – Supporting residents with 24/7 health and wellbeing advice  
  Abingdon GP Federation is signposting patients to their new health advice website ‘COACH’ which has been built as part of […]

Costing for value  
The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) has published Report on the value challenge pilot. This report describes how clinical and finance staff in three acute trusts in England set about translating the theory of value into practice.  The aim was to test how easy it is in practice to link costs and outcomes at a patient level, and explore whether there is any correlation between them. The focus was on two areas: fractured neck of femur and inpatients with diabetes.

NICE shared learning: rheumatology
NICE shared learning has published a case study Integrating service, audit and research data to improve patient care.  The rheumatology department at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust has developed the ‘Earth’ database to facilitate clinical management, audit and research activities.

Guidelines aim to help identify and treat stroke in children – BMJ   
New guidelines on recognising and managing stroke in children have been launched by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the Stroke Association to help prevent the potential damage that can occur if symptoms go unrecognised.

Patching up NHS cybersecurity: five lessons to be learned. Matthew Honeyman, Harry Evans – King’s Fund Blog
Earlier this month, the NHS was hit by the largest cyber incident in its short digital history. The incident led to significant disruption of services for several days, with networks and email shut down as a precaution to contain the spread to vulnerable PCs. Ambulances were diverted from some trusts struggling to cope without IT systems in their emergency departments.
In the days following the attack, many have been quick to point the finger: at managers, at the national bodies, and at government. Laying blame is easy, but the harder task is to learn from the errors so that we can reduce the likelihood and limit the damage of similar incidents in the future. So what lessons are there for the NHS and government?

Statistics
NHS Workforce Statistics – February 2017
General and Personal Medical Services – England High-Level March 2017
Conceptions to women aged under 18 in England and Wales – January to March 2016