Video case study: St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – NHS Improvements
Dr Nigel Kennea, Associate Medical Director at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, describes the work his trust has done to embed better processes for learning from deaths.

Oversight of NHS-controlled providers
NHS England has published Oversight of NHS-controlled providers: guidance.  This document provides guidance on NHS England’s oversight approach to organisations controlled by NHS trusts/ foundation trusts, and delivering significant amounts of services for the NHS.  NHS England has also published responses to the consultation that took place last year.

NHS Tax Survey
Reform has published the results from its 2018 NHS Tax Survey.  The results indicate 59% of people would be willing to pay higher income tax to fund more spending in the NHS whilst 58% somewhat agree or strongly agree  with the statement that the NHS needs reform more than it needs extra money. On average, British voters would be willing to pay £5.25 extra a month, which is 0.4 pence in the pound of income tax.

Hillingdon NHS Trust’s frailty unit gets over-65s home earlier – Chartered Society of Physiotherapy 
A frailty unit for older people at Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust is enabling more patients to be discharged early and treated at home, specialist physiotherapist Rebecca Walden told Frontline.

Promising approaches to living well with dementia – Age UK
This report outlines a number of cost-effective interventions that can support people with dementia. It includes case studies of services and projects that support wellbeing and living well for people with dementia.

NHS terms and conditions for procuring goods and services –  GOV.UK
Updated: The NHS terms and conditions for procuring goods and services guidance and related forms have been updated to reflect changes in government policy and data protection legislation. The data protection protocol and a briefing note on expert determination have also been added.

Bulletins

• Commissioning Excellence – February 2018
• NHS Workforce Bulletin – 12 February 2018

Statistics

• NHS screening programmes: KPI reports 217 to 2018 – Quarter 2
• Patient Safety Alert compliance data – February 2018

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

• How to regain positivity in the trust and boost staff morale Reading current media negativity through social media platforms is demoralising. One senior sister, Vanessa King, at Wirral University Teaching Hospital set out to bring positivity back to the trust. Being an active participant on Twitter, she tweeted: “Determined to fight current media negativity, I’m going to tweet every day 7/7 why I’m #PROUD to work […]
• Jade Wards journey to outstanding We are a 19 bedded mixed acute ward at Langley Green Hospital, Sussex partnership. In 2017 we engaged in quality improvement projects and implemented a leader leader model and achieved: Supervision from 36% – 100% Medication omissions from 34% to 0% Recruitment of 5 nurses & fully recruited HCA establishment An open door policy Reduced […]
• Buying our way to success …….. an exciting new collaboration coming soon The current NHS Supply Chain contract is coming to an end in September 2018, and to replace it we are establishing a new model that will aggregate spend across the NHS and realise benefits through using our scale to get the best prices, reducing product variation and removing profit margins from the prices paid by […]
• How well do we know each other in the work place? ‘Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn’t do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team as a family’ Jack Kemp It’s not easy starting […]
• New services help people avoid a hospital stay A new service based in West Cumberland Hospital A&E department is working to help people avoid a hospital stay and reduce pressure on health and care services. Home First sees physiotherapists and occupational therapists from Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) based in A&E, run by North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust (NCUH), to assess […]
• UHMBT awarded silver accreditation for staff health and wellbeing University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT)’s dedication to promoting the health and wellbeing of its staff has been applauded with the achievement of a Silver Better Health at Work Award (BHAWA). The BHAWA is a progression based award initiative that recognises the efforts of employers who address and embed health and wellbeing […]

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• Thousands of NHS staff to transfer to subsidiary companies 
  The employment contracts of thousands of non-clinical NHS staff could be transferred to subsidiary companies under plans being drawn up by 16 hospital trusts.
• Trusts with staff transfer plans 
  HSJ has identified 19 providers that have already established a subsidiary company to manage their estate, plus 16 that have told staff they are considering the move.
• Region risks losing £15m of healthcare funding 
  Northamptonshire is at risk of losing £15m of joint health and social care funding because of a failure to sign a contract and meet mandated NHS England targets.
• Social care rates fall as hospital admissions rise 
  Overall council performance on delayed transfers of care due to social care continued to improve as hospital admissions increased in December, despite more than half of local authorities failing to meet government targets set in July.
• Regulator seeks chief executive with ‘strong moral compass’ 
  The Care Quality Commission has advertised for a new chief executive to succeed Sir David Behan, saying the individual must have a “strong moral compass”.