Our Fabulous NHS – Academy of Fabulous Stuff

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• Royal Liverpool Improvement Academy
  The words improvement, quality, transformation and change are used almost daily when patient care is considered; it is therefore timely to offer a one day awareness session on improvement which will be the first learning day brought to our staff from the Royal Liverpool Improvement Academy. This awareness day is open to all our staff, […]
• Excellence in healthcare the focus of a national event
  A one-day event to celebrate Learning from Excellence (LfE) and support growth of an appreciative community of practice, will be taking place in November 2017. Taking place at The Vox Conference Centre on 16 November, the event will enable attendees to share their experiences of Learning from Excellence, connect with fellow members from the LfE […]
• Electronic patient record is making care delivery better for staff and patients
  Over the past six months University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) has undergone a large-scale change programme, led by clinicians, to improve and enhance the main Electronic Patient Record (EPR) used within the Trust. The comprehensive EPR makes care delivery better for staff and better for patients in the following ways: • […]
• Imperial makes communicating easier for patients
  Communication aids folders containing the BSL alphabet, Makaton signs and a range of charts and pictures, have been distributed to every ward and department at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The folder also includes a hospital passport template and an essential ‘reasonable adjustments’ chart, and will support communicating with patients with specific learning / communication […]
• New programme launches to help NHS tackle growing demand for services
  Despite real improvement against waiting list and waiting times, the NHS faces a challenge in managing services in the face of an unprecedented rise in demand for its services. To assist organisations take control of these challenges, NHS Improvement and NHS England are launching a three year Demand and Capacity Trainer Programme which will help […]

HSJ Roundup

• Accountable care systems will make ‘pathway’ for STPs to follow
  The first NHS “accountable care systems” must develop a “pathway” for STPs in other areas to follow, according to their agreement with NHS England, seen by HSJ.
• NHS England loses secret contract dispute with teaching trust
  NHS England attempted to keep secret the loss of a contract dispute with a teaching hospital trust, fearing it would encourage other challenges, HSJ can reveal.
• Trust with ‘multiple concerns’ likely to face first whistleblowing review
  An NHS trust has had “multiple concerns” raised about it to the national whistleblowing guardian and is likely to face the first ever case review by the office.
• Daily Insight: What’s bugging the NHS about beds?
  HSJ’s essential round up of the day’s biggest health stories
• More managers improves trust performance, research finds
  Having more staff with decision making powers leads to fewer infections and better overall patient experiences, new research has concluded.
• NHS seeks to reclaim thousands from nursing bursary fraud
  The NHS’s anti-fraud organisation has launched a bid to reclaim almost £89,000 from a mature student who invented children to claim nursing bursaries.
• Trust chief urges staff ‘speak to me directly’ following bullying claims
  The interim chief executive of a trust in special measures has said staff can “speak to me directly” over any safety concerns.
• Vanguard funding ‘should not be stopped next year’
  Funding for new care model vanguards should not be stopped next March as planned, because the project needs more time to provide models for other areas to use, NHS Providers has said.
• NHS needs 5,000 more beds, warn leading A&E doctors
  The NHS needs at least 5,000 more beds to achieve safe bed occupancy levels and hit the four hour waiting time target, according to a report by senior medics shared exclusively with HSJ.
• CCG gives green light to service switch in breach of procurement law
  Commissioners have agreed to help an acute trust access more incentive funding through changing the way its accident and emergency performance is reported – despite the decision breaching procurement regulations.
• Trusts receiving biggest cut of £300m STF ‘bonus’
  Several community and mental health trusts have received significant extra investment funding that was originally intended for the acute sector.

Improving Digital Literacy – Health Education England and the Royal College of Nursing 
The evidence suggests that people who have better digital literacy tend to have more positive attitudes and behaviours to adopting new technologies. With the fast pace of change in technologies that are developed to support and improve individual care and outcomes, everyone needs to be ready to support and lead on change and innovation. This report looks at the following six domains.

• Digital identity, wellbeing, safety and security
• Communication, collaboration and participation
• Teaching, learning and personal/professional development
• Technical proficiency
• Information, data and media literacies
• Creation, innovation and scholarship.

The capped expenditure process explained – The King’s Fund
In response to significant financial pressures in the NHS, a capped expenditure process has been introduced to provide tighter controls on spending. We explain how the process works and what it involves.

Survey of medical clinical academic staffing levels 2017 – Medical Schools Council
This report raises concerns over the falling number of clinical academic staff in UK medical schools. It finds that since 2010, the number of medical clinical academics has declined by 4.2 per cent with the reducing occurring disproportionately at the senior lecturer level. The survey results also highlight the need for a rapid expansion in the number of clinical academics in general practice in order to meeting the growing demands for primary care.

The state of the NHS provider sector – NHS Providers
This report details the results of an annual survey of NHS trust chairs and chief executives and it sets out how the provider sector is performing, the challenges trusts are facing, and the support they need as we face another five years of constrained funding and rapidly rising demand. This year’s survey focuses on mental health and finds that despite government commitment to address long-standing inequalities in care for people with mental health needs, trust leaders report that the position of core mental health services is deteriorating.

NHS financial temperature check: finance directors’ views on financial challenges facing the NHS in England – Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)
This is the seventh in the HFMA’s series of briefings setting out finance directors’ views on the financial issues facing the NHS in England. The briefing draws on the responses of 73 finance directors of trusts and foundation trusts and chief finance officers of 100 CCGs. The NHS financial temperature check provides a national picture of finance directors’ views of the financial outlook and the challenges NHS finance staff are facing.

Reducing delays for people moving from hospital to social care – Department of Health
In a written ministerial statement Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced (on 3 July 2017) measures to support the NHS and local government in reducing delays for people being discharged from hospital to local social care services.

Updated sickness absence calculator released  – NHS Employers
We have updated our sickness absence calculator to help you calculate your sickness absence rates and find out how much money you could save.

Research for all – The Royal College of Physicians
The Royal College of Physicians has published Research for all: sharing good practice in research management.  This document outlines the conditions needed to support research directors, managers, clinical and non-clinical staff and, ultimately, patients. It includes examples of good practice from NHS organisations around the country which aim to help build the knowledge base for all involved or wanting to be involved in research.

NICE guidance

Medtech innovation briefing

MIB111    L-Dex U400 for lymphoedema after breast cancer treatment

Technology appraisal

TA452       Ibrutinib for untreated chronic lymphocytic leukaemia without a 17p deletion or TP53 mutation (terminated appraisal)

TA453       Bortezomib for treating multiple myeloma after second or subsequent relapse (terminated appraisal)

TA454       Daratumumab with lenalidomide and dexamethasone for treating relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (terminated appraisal)