Our Fabulous NHS – Academy of Fabulous Stuff
***Get involved*** –  share your fab stuff!

• Simulating Clinics #WhoseShoes – Central Manchester Foundation Trust, improving patient experience in out patient clinics.
• Mobile devices help nurses deliver healthcare at the point of care During the past 12 months, the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) Clinical Content team at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) have developed and rolled out the Digital Nursing Record across the three main hospital sites. As a result, almost 90,000 electronic notes were recorded by nurses in June. In addition, at both […]

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• Trust could be fined millions for poor cybersecurity
  The Department of Health could fine trusts up to £17m for failing to keep services running after a cyberattack or hardware failure, under new government proposals.
• CCG and council to create £105m joint executive board 
  A clinical commissioning group and local authority will set up a joint board with executive powers in a bid further integrate health and social care commissioning.
• Trust chief tells staff poor performance ‘simply cannot continue’ 
  The chief executive of one of the largest acute trusts in England has warned its 12,000 staff that its poor emergency care performance “simply cannot continue”.
• Keith McNeil resigns from NHS England role 
  The NHS’s first national chief clinical information officer Keith McNeil is leaving after just 13 months in the role.
• CQC ratings will include financial efficiency from 2018
  Acute trusts’ overall Care Quality Commission ratings are due to take into account their financial efficiency from next year, despite concerns, NHS Improvement has said.
• Cladding to be removed from new cancer centre following fire tests 
  One of the most prestigious teaching hospital trusts in London has said it will need to remove cladding from its new cancer centre after fire safety checks following the Grenfell fire disaster.

Use of Resources assessment framework

NHS Improvement and The Care Quality Commission have published Use of Resources: assessment framework.  This framework evaluates how providers are making use of resources, leadership and governance in order to provide high quality care that is efficient and sustainable.

NICE guidance

NICE guideline

• NG72     Developmental follow-up of children and young people born preterm

Clinical guidelines

• CG32      Nutrition support for adults: oral nutrition support, enteral tube feeding and parenteral nutrition
• CG160    Fever in under 5s: assessment and initial management (Updated)

Medtech innovation briefings

• MIB116 Urethrotech UCD for difficult or failed catheterisation
• MIB117 Biopatch for venous or arterial catheter sites

Technology appraisal  guidance

• TA160    Alendronate, etidronate, risedronate, raloxifene and strontium ranelate for the primary prevention of osteoporotic fragility fractures in postmenopausal women  (Updated)
• TA161    Alendronate, etidronate, risedronate, raloxifene, strontium ranelate and teriparatide for the secondary prevention of osteoporotic fragility fractures in postmenopausal women (Updated)
• TA463    Cabozantinib for previously treated advanced renal cell carcinoma
• TA464    Bisphosphonates for treating osteoporosis
• TA465    Olaratumab in combination with doxorubicin for treating advanced soft tissue sarcoma
• TA466    Baricitinib for moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis