Our Fabulous NHS – Academy of Fabulous Stuff

• Dermatology team scoops top accolade
  The Dermatology Outpatients team at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) was awarded Team of the Year […]
• Do you want to learn more about the effects of diabetes?
  University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust is opening the doors of its Diabetes Centre at the Royal Lancaster […]
• Trust launches biggest wave of Listening into Action
  University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) has launched 19 Wave 8 schemes under the Listening into Action(LiA) […]
• Children’s Hospital Passport
  Although widely used within the Adult sector, a hospital passport this is relatively new to paediatrics. The Hospital Passport is […]
• Lancashire Teaching Hospitals dementia conference- Walking in our patients’ shoes
  Being given a hospital gown to wear and a name-band is not the usual expectation when attending a conference, but […]
• Our Healthcare Assistant has created a dementia patient wristband that will be nationally trialled
  Allyson Rigby, one of our Emergency Department Senior Healthcare Assistants at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, has introduced new wristbands to make […]

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• ‘Model ambulance’ to be created to achieve Carter savings
  A “model ambulance” is to be created to tackle variation across England’s 10 ambulance trusts.
• CQC’s new chief inspector of hospitals revealed  
  The Care Quality Commission has appointed a new chief inspector of hospitals.
• Top FT challenges CCG over ‘unsafe’ urgent care  
  A leading foundation trust rated outstanding has accused one of its commissioners of a potentially “unsafe and unsustainable” procurement, and has launched a legal challenge to the process.
• NHS England restructures its national teams  
  NHS England has restructured its national senior management teams, the organisation has confirmed.
• Workforce ‘is the challenge of the next decade’  
  Making the NHS an attractive employer as part of efforts to tackle workforce shortages “is the challenge of the next decade”, NHS Employers has warned.
• Keogh: Chief execs need support not ‘frightening and suppressive’ behaviour  
  The NHS risks “a drift into…risk aversion and blame”, Sir Bruce Keogh has said, criticising the “terrible statistic that the life expectancy of a chief executive in our NHS is only two and a half years”.
• Single bid for biggest ever NHS contract  
  A single bid – from a consortium of existing providers – has been received for an enormous integrated care contract which would be the largest ever let in the NHS, HSJ can reveal.

New models of care
The NHS Confederation has published briefings on new models of care and how they are working in practice:

• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG – support for people experiencing mental health crisis
• Tower Hamlets Together – community kidney service using technology to identify and treat kidney disease
• Royal Free London – working across organisational boundaries to improve quality of care and reduce costs
• North East Hampshire and Farnham vanguard – bringing local primary, community, acute, mental health and social care services together to work as one team
• Mid Nottinghamshire Better Together – reducing unnecessary hospital admissions for high risk patients
• Wellbeing Erewash  – new group of services closer to home supported by professionals working together to prevent ill health
• East Midlands Radiology Consortium – saving money and improving clinical care within major trauma, stroke and acute surgical centres
• Connecting Care – Wakefield District – improving the wellbeing of local care home residents
• Better Care Together (Morecambe Bay) – self-care and prevention to avoid hospital admissions

Best practice case studies
The NHS Confederation has published a series of case studies highlighting examples of best practice:

• Communicating the painful truth – a study to understand the experience of people living with chronic pain (Patient Client Council, Northern Ireland)
• Improving patient care through better data – understanding factors driving patient demand in general practice to improve patient experience and health outcomes (The Practice Group)
• Reducing delayed transfers of care in community hospitals – implementation of initiatives to reduce delayed transfers of care (Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust)
• Raising the quality of MSK community service provision – three boroughs in London are now working to the same MSK community service specification (Connect Health)
• Understanding and managing spend on prescribing – creation of a prescribing dashboard (NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU)
• Redesigning care pathways for frequent attenders – a multidisciplinary and multi-agency team provide a collaborated response to the needs of frequent attenders (Cardiff and Vale University Health Board)
• Improving bone health and fracture prevention – identifies ‘at risk’ patients at GP practice level (AHSN for the North East and North Cumbria)
• Developing a culture of innovation and compassionate leadership – developing a culture of bottom-up change (Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust).

Linking and sharing routine health data for research in England – PHG Foundation
This briefing discusses how the use of research using de-identified routine health data can provide unique insights to improve population health. It identifies the barriers and challenges to the wider use of routine health data.

Where next for commissioning? – NHS Providers
This report is the first in a series which promotes the views of leaders from a range of trusts and other parts of the service on some of the key issues facing the NHS today. The report includes eight interviews that address concerns including the role of STPs and accountable care systems, the challenge of integrating health and care commissioning, and the future of the purchaser-provider split. Contributors include leaders of hospital, mental health and community trusts and ambulance services, with additional perspectives from a CCG and local government.

Bite-sized guides – NHS England
These guides are part of a series of short guides to help providers and commissioners understand the use of patient insight better and to use it effectively in delivering local services. These two new guides focus on helping people with a learning disability to give feedback and building greater insight through qualitative research.

Carer’s Allowance and the Retirement Pension – House of Commons Library
Carer’s Allowance cannot be paid in addition to the Retirement Pension because of the “overlapping benefits” rule. This briefing looks at the rationale for this rule, and at the position of successive governments on payment of Carer’s Allowance to people over state pension age.

Driving improvement: case studies from eight NHS trusts – Care Quality Commission (CQC)
This report contains case studies of eight trusts that have shown significant improvement since a previous inspection. It explores what these trusts have done to become ‘well-led’. The CQC asked people in those trusts how they had achieved improvements, looked at the steps their leaders had taken and the effect of those actions on staff and patients.

NHS expenditure – House of Commons Library
This briefing documents NHS expenditure since 1948. It also contains a summary of the structure of the NHS and how it is financed.

Acting without delay – how the independent sector is working with the NHS to reduce delayed discharge – NHS Confederation
This report from the NHS Partners Network highlights examples where the independent sector is working with the NHS to avoid delayed discharges of care.

Returning to practice – Health Care & Professions Council (HCPC)
This guidance aims to help people who have taken a break from practice, or are considering doing so, to understand the requirements for coming back on to the HCPC Register. It helps to ensure that registrants who have been out of practice for more than two years, and wish to return, update their knowledge and skills in order to resume safe and effective practice.

Reforming the consultant contract webinars  – NHS Employers
We are holding two webinars aimed at medical directors, HR directors and medical workforce leads, to share current details on the reform of the consultants’ contract.

New podcast on the impact of resilience training – NHS Employers
Find out more about Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s resilience training programme.