Our Fabulous NHS – Academy of Fabulous Stuff

• The role of a band 7 Nurse coordinator on the medical take. 
  Acute medicine is a challenging and demanding specialty not just in terms of high turnover of patients but also the […]
• Wellbeing Norfolk and Waveney 
  Based on the Bio-Psycho- Social model the Wellbeing Service in Norfolk and Waveney offers a number of social interventions provided […]

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• Special measures trust rejects 14 per cent savings target
  An NHS trust that is trying to address serious concerns over staffing levels and patient safety has rejected a financial target from NHS Improvement that would require efficiency savings of 14 per cent of its costs.
• Trust seeks partner to fund major hospital shake-up
  A struggling West Midlands trust intends to go out to procurement for a partner to help fund a major reconfiguration of its acute services.
• ‘Severe harm’ to patients at teaching trust after records failure
  A patient suffered a stroke that might have been prevented and another received late treatment for cancer after record keeping failures at a teaching hospital.

Recent additions to West Lancashire CCG Website 

• Mental wellbeing advice following the Manchester Arena incident
  This guidance is aimed at anyone exposed to the incident at Manchester Arena that took place on 22 May 2017. The emotional effects will be felt by survivors, bereaved families, friends, emergency services, health care […]
• Tier 2 ophthalmology service
  NHS West Lancashire CCG is testing the market for a Ophthalmology triage and tier 2 service.  The procurement process has now started and as part of this process the CCG invites potential providers to input into the direction of this service. Details of how providers […]
• Information for patients registered with Viran Medical Centre
  NHS England (Lancashire & South Cumbria) and NHS West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) have been working to put arrangements in place to ensure patients have continued access to primary medical care services. We are continuing to work to identify a provider[…]
• Be prepared if you get sick over the Spring Bank Holiday
  With the Spring Bank Holiday (Monday 29 May 2017) fast approaching, local health professionals are reminding people to examine their options should they or their family members become unwell over the long weekend.  […]

Recent additions to Southport & Formby CCG Website 

• Local NHS Services thanked for hard work during ‘cyber attack’
  We would like to thank clinical and IT staff for their hard work to make sure patient services were maintained without any disruption following the recent cyber attack.
• Be prepared if you’re unwell over the bank holiday
  With the second bank holiday in May fast approaching, we are reminding people to examine their options should they or their family members become unwell over the long weekend.

Survey of directors of public health suggests that STPs may be falling short of ambition – BMJ 

The Faculty of Public Health supports sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) and their reflection of a renewed commitment to “integration, collaboration, and planning” and “improving…

Flexible and user-led – why NHS trusts are switching to open source software – The Guardian Healthcare Professionals Network
Electronic patient record systems are expensive – could open source be the way forward for the NHS? Many NHS trusts have started implementing electronic patient record (EPR) systems to improve efficiency and reduce paper waste. At a time of budget cuts, however, the multimillion pound price tag attached to an EPR implementation can be off-putting. As an alternative, some are looking at open source software, in which the underlying code is made available for free, and users are able to tailor it to their own needs for no extra cost. This is different from proprietary software, where the supplier controls the source code and may charge licence fees.

Workplace health promotion 
The RAND Corporation has published The return of investment for preventive healthcare programmes.  This report outlines the divers of successful workplace health promotion programmes, provides an overview of health and wellbeing interventions offered by pharmaceutical companies, and develops a framework to analyse the return on investment of such projects, applying it to GSK’s P4P programme.

New standards for doctors’ training
The General Medical Council has published Excellence by design: standards for postgraduate curricula. This document provides a framework for the approval and provision of postgraduate medical education and training across the UK. The standards should be used along with GMC guidance about assessment and generic professional capabilities, and a guide to making changes to curricula.

NICE guidance 

• Clinical guideline

CG163 Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in adults: diagnosis and management(update)

• Interventional procedures guidance

                IPG580 Endoscopic full thickness removal of non-lifting colonic polyps

• Medtech innovation briefing

MIB105 Permacol for treating anal fistulae

• Technology appraisal

TA444    Afatinib for treating advanced squamous non-small-cell lung cancer after platinum-based chemotherapy (terminated appraisal)

TA445    Certolizumab pegol and secukinumab for treating active psoriatic arthritis after inadequate response to DMARDs

Statistics

• Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics final February– provisional March 2017
• Cancer registration statistics – England 2015

Bulletins

• NHS Workforce Bulletin – 22 May 2017