Literature review: the economic costs of lung disease and the cost effectiveness of policy and service interventions – British Thoracic Society 
This report, conducted by York Health Economics Consortium on behalf of the British Lung Foundation and British Thoracic Society, identifies published evidence on the economic costs of lung disease and the cost-effectiveness of different NHS activities, programmes and campaigns to combat lung problems.

Urgent and emergency care vanguards
Rand Europe has published Transforming urgent and emergency care and the vanguard initiative: learning from evaluation of the Southern Cluster.  This evaluation examined the impacts of three urgent and emergency care vanguards, the processes underpinning delivery, and implications for future policy and practice.  The report makes recommendations concerning building capacity in the workforce; local/national coordination around transformation; collaboration across localities; support for an end-to-end pathway; cost and outcome data; an interoperable data infrastructure; and capacity for evaluation and learning.

Stroke pathway
NHS England has published NHS RightCare Pathway: Stroke. The pathway defines the key components of an optimal service for people who have had stroke or at risk of stroke.  It defines an optimal system for prevention and management and the priority higher value interventions that systems should focus on.  Accompanying resources include examples of best practice from across England.

NMC announce changes to language competency requirements – NHS Employers
The changes affect English language requirements for nurses and midwives trained outside the UK.

National apprenticeship awards recognise NHS talent – NHS Employers
NHS trusts come top in regional awards recognising apprenticeships.

Trust becomes first in the country to reach 75 per cent flu uptake – NHS Employers
Find out how Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospital became the first trust to reach 75 per cent.

Beyond Places of Safety
The Department of Health has launched the Beyond Places of Safety scheme which will provide £15 million to improve support services for those needing urgent and emergency mental healthcare. This includes conditions such as psychosis, bipolar disorder and personality disorders that could cause people to be a risk to themselves or others.

GP practices face wave of criticism on unofficial Facebook pages – GP Online 
GP practices should set up their own official Facebook pages to prevent un-moderated, unofficial pages being set up without their knowledge, researchers have warned.

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• Struggling teaching hospital buddied with best performing A&E 
  University Hospitals of Leicester Trust has been buddied with Luton and Dunstable University Hospital Foundation Trust as it looks to “rapidly redesign” its emergency care service.
• NHS England leaders’ decisions not ‘consistent with values’ 
  NHS England’s annual staff survey, which has been obtained by HSJ, reveals significant concerns that decisions made by leaders are not consistent with its values.
• ‘Worrying’ staff survey reveals impact of NHS Improvement merger on morale 
  The negative impact of continued organisational change on employees at NHS Improvement has been revealed in damning staff survey results obtained by HSJ.
• 18 week waits, August 2017: explore the maps 
  NHS waiting lists around England, updated for August 2017
• Patient died after being discharged with pencil inside them 
  An inquest will be held after a hospital discharged a patient despite staff knowing he had a 17cm object inside him, which turned out to be a pencil that later killed him.
• Consultancy firm avoids prosecution over use of restricted NHS data 
  A large consultancy firm has escaped prosecution over the use of restricted NHS data to win contracts, HSJ can reveal.
• Dalton rules himself out of NHS Improvement chief executive job 
  Sir David Dalton has said he is committed to leading the newly structured “group” of five hospitals in Greater Manchester and does not want to be the next chief executive of NHS Improvement.
• Trusts plan ‘ambitious’ merger in under six months 
  Two Bedfordshire hospital trusts intend to merge by April – a timeframe that both organisations admit is “ambitious”.

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• Video saves 10 minutes in 250 podiatry appointments every month Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust have redesigned their pathway of patient care relating musculoskeletal injuries in order to reduce the number of secondary care appointments, prevent surgical interventions and reduce hospital admissions. One of the biggest changes in the redesign has been redirecting referrals from the acute to community services. This has resulted […]