Sophie Black, senior practice development midwife at Ormskirk Hospital has a paper published in the British Journal Of Midwifery 
Black, S E. 2018, Obstetric emergencies: Enhancing the multidisciplinary team through simulation, British Journal Of Midwifery, 26, 2, pp. 96-102 (Login with your NHS Open Athens account)
High fidelity simulation plays a major role in training and assessing the competence of staff. Staff valued the simulation and reported that they achieved increased confidence and communication skills as a result of participating.

Sepsis Manual – Sepsis Trust UK
The new Sepsis Manual is now available to download

Pressure ulcers: productivity calculator – NHS Improvement
Tool to help NHS organisations and commissioners understand the productivity and cost elements associated with treating pressure ulcers

Brexit: medicines and medical devices
The Health Select Committee has published Brexit: medicines, medical devices and substances of human origin.  The Committee is urging UK and EU negotiators to prioritise patient safety in the next round of Brexit negotiations.

General Medical Services contract
NHS England has announced agreement of the 2018/19 GP contract.  The new contract will take effect from 1 April 2018 and will see an investment of £256.3 million in the contract for 2018/19, a 3.4% increase overall.  Other actions agreed include complete roll out of the Electronic Prescription Service, funding to support full implementation of the e-Referral Service, and widening the pilot of NHS 111 directly booking GP appointments.

The Government’s mandate to NHS England for 2018-19 – Department of Health and Social Care
The government’s mandate to NHS England sets its objectives and budget, and helps to ensure that the NHS is accountable to Parliament and the public. Building on the multi-year approach taken to setting the mandate since 2016, it continues to set objectives and goals to 2020, as well as some specific things that NHS England should be seeking to deliver in the financial year 2018 to 2019.

NICE guidance

NICE guideline

 Medical technologies guidance

 Technology appraisal guidance

 Quality Standard (updated)

Statistics

• NHS workforce statistics – December 2017, provisional statistics
• NHS sickness absence rates – November 2017, provisional statistics
• NHS staff earnings estimates – December 2017
• Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme aggregate net sales and payment information – February 2018
• National Patient Safety Incidents commentary – Final to December 2017

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• Acute and mental health trusts plan landmark merger 
  Two trusts have begun planning a merger to bring together acute, community, and mental health services into a single trust, HSJ can reveal.
• Hospital chain trust expects nearly £100m deficit 
  The founder trust of a hospital group has declared its “underlying deficit” is likely to be more than £95m this financial year.
• Trust cancels operations until Easter to ‘reset’ health economy 
  Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has cancelled all elective operations until 29 March to try to “reset” its health economy after the region declared a system wide black alert.
• Employers confident contract deal will end NHS pay drift 
  NHS Employers chief executive Danny Mortimer has said he is confident NHS trusts will implement reforms to prevent automatic pay rises following a deal on the Agenda for Change contract.
• Chief executive of struggling ambulance trust to retire 
  The chief executive of the struggling North West Ambulance Trust has announced his retirement.
• NHS mandate confirms flagship waiting targets on hold 
  The government’s instructions for the NHS in 2018-19 confirm that flagship waiting time targets for planned and emergency care remain on hold.

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

• Making connections and widening professional networks at Wirral with a Randomsied Coffee Trial We wanted to encourage people to make connections outside their own teams or departments, break down silos, collaborate and learn from each other. Our Fab Ambassador, Leeanne Lockley, and the Library & Knowledge Services team worked together to coordinate a Randomised Coffee Trial across the Trust as part of #FabChangeWeek. Participants were recruited by email […]
• Our new way of facilitating learning to support staff Fab support sessions On Scotter ward we are using a new way of meeting targets and objectives in order to: Support staff Meet targets for quarterly clinical supervision Meet targets for quarterly attendance at staff meetings as per LCHS staff charter Ensure all staff attend mandatory bespoke to the ward training Provide a forum to […]