Reducing agency spend through a collaborative mobile app – NHS Employers 
This case study describes how Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has maximised the take up of bank shifts through development of a mobile app allowing clinicians to self select shifts.

The state of hospice services in England: 2014 to 2017 – Care Quality Commission (CQC)
This report presents findings from CQC’s hospice inspection programme and finds that hospice care across England has the highest percentage of health and social care services that are rated outstanding (25 per cent), and a further 70 per cent are rated good. The inspections found that hospice leaders and frontline staff displayed a strong commitment to providing truly person-centred, compassionate care and support to people using their services, and their loved ones.

PHE Cancer Board plan: 2017 to 2021 – Public Health England (PHE)
This plan outlines the approach to co-ordinating PHE’s cancer work for the next five years. It is aligned with the Five year forward view and the Independent Cancer Taskforce report and highlights how we will work in partnership with others to achieve the recommendations and enhance PHE’s role in the fight against cancer.

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• Competition regulator orders hospital sale 
  The Competition and Markets Authority has said a merger of mental health providers would be anti-competitive unless one of the organisations’ hospitals is sold.
• Trusts to invest millions in new children’s mental health model 
  A partnership of mental health trusts is investing £3m a year into community provision as part of a pilot scheme to improve children and young people’s services.
• Landmark legal case could save trusts millions in business rates 
  A “landmark legal case” is set to be launched which could dramatically reduce the business rates paid by NHS trusts, according to a trust’s board papers.
• NHS app used by 500,000 patients suspended over quality concerns 
  An NHS developed app and website used by half a million patients has suspended its service after clinical assurance concerns were raised at NHS England.
• Adolescents self-harmed while under supervision at ‘inadequate’ private hospital 
  Some of the country’s most vulnerable and troubled young people were able to significantly self-harm and were allegedly sexually assaulted despite being under “constant observation” at a regional psychiatric intensive care unit.
• ‘Bin’ DTOC warning letters, says local government leader 
  Local government’s national representative has advised councils to “throw in the bin” warning letters over care delays, amid fresh warnings that relationships are being fractured by the funding row.
• ‘No systematic bullying’ of NHS finance staff, says second professional body 
  A second body representing NHS finance staff has described reports of senior managers feeling bullied into reporting unachievable numbers “disturbing”, but does not believe there is a “systematic” problem.

Our Fabulous NHS – Academy of Fabulous Stuff
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• Burton Hospitals backs high-profile ‘Green bag’ campaign The Pharmacy department at Burton Hospitals is supporting the NHS ‘My Medicines, My Health’ initiative by providing patients with easily-identifiable green bags to be used to transport prescription medicines into hospital. The medication bags are being given to patients who require regular trips to the hospital, who suffer from respiratory problems and for people attending […]
• Always Events – participating in the national pilot Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust are proud to be part of the national Always Event (AE) pilot which was funded as part of the Compassion in Practice Strategy by NHS England working in partnership with Picker (Europe) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) – Always Events® is registered trademark and ‘owned’ by IHI. AEs […]