NHS workforce
The Health Foundation has published Rising pressure: the NHS workforce challenge.  This report analyses the profile and trends of the NHS workforce, in particular focusing on the impact of the removal of the NHS bursary on student nurse numbers and staff retention.  The report highlights that national policy and planning for the NHS workforce in England is not fit for purpose, reinstating the need for a sustained and nationally focused approach to workforce policy and planning.

Lifting the NHS pay cap
The Institute for Public Policy Research has published Lifting the cap: the fiscal and economic impact of lifting the NHS pay cap.  This briefing examines the impact of two alternative scenarios for NHS pay over the next two years: increasing pay in line with the Consumer Price Index inflation, and a ‘catch-up’ rate of increasing NHS pay in line with private sector earnings plus one per cent.

Cyber attack on the NHS
The National Audit Office has published Investigation: WannaCry cyber attack and the NHS.  This report investigates the NHS response to the cyber attack in May 2017 and the impact it had on health services.  The report concludes that the attack could have been prevented if the NHS had followed IT security best practice.

Accounting and auditing for NHS charities
The Healthcare Financial Management Association has published Accounting and auditing for NHS charities: the legal requirements.  This document sets out the different arrangements affecting the auditing, accounting and independent examination requirements for various types of NHS charity in England and Wales.

NICE guidance
NICE guidelines

Medtech Innovation Briefings

Statistics

• Fit notes issued by GP practices, England – June 2017
• Critical care bed capacity and cancelled urgent operations – September 2017
• Chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgical tumour resections in England – 2013-2014
• 2014 Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme: aggregate net sales and payment information – September 2017

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• Backlog of 30,000 reports after vanguard IT system failure 
  The rollout of a multimillion pound vanguard project imaging system to University Hospitals Leicester Trust led to a 30,000 backlog in image reports, HSJ has learned.
• Chief executive of hospital trust to retire next year 
  The chief executive of a multisite hospital trust is retiring next year, HSJ can reveal.
• Exclusive: More than 50 trusts yet to carry out post-Grenfell fire checks 
  More than 50 NHS trusts have confirmed they have not had a fire service inspection since the Grenfell Tower disaster – despite all providers being ordered to arrange them just days after the fire.
• Bed capacity issues hold up hospital safety improvements 
  High bed occupancy is making it harder for hospitals to carry out fire safety work – because they have nowhere to put patients if wards need to be closed.
• NHS England to ‘strongly resist’ legal case against accountable care contract 
  A judicial review has been launched against NHS England, claiming its accountable care contract is “unlawful”, HSJ has learned.
• Procurement specialist sought by AHSN after bid ‘win’ 
  An academic health science network has advertised for a procurement specialist to work with a consortium it claims has won four major contracts to buy goods for the NHS.