Managing the hospital and social care interface
The Nuffield Trust has published a report – Managing the hospital and social care interface Interventions targeting older adults. This report explores the actions and strategies that providers and commissioners have put in place to improve the interface between secondary and social care, with a focus on what hospitals can do.

Sustainability and transformation in the NHS
The parliamentary Public Accounts Committee has published its report Sustainability and transformation in the NHS, looking at financial sustainability and partnership working across the NHS

Health and care workforce
NHS Providers has published its response to Public Health England’s draft health and care workforce strategy for England to 2027

MRSA: post-infection review
NHS Improvement has published Update on the reporting and monitoring arrangements and post-infection review process for MRSA bloodstream infections.  This update describes the detailed requirements for the reporting and review of bloodstream infections caused by MRSA from April 2018 and includes lists of the trusts and CCGs that will need to carry out post-infection reviews. It will support commissioners and providers of care to deliver zero tolerance on MRSA BSI.

Ophthalmology audits feasibility reports
The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership has published the following feasibility reports relating to ophthalmology audits:

• Ophthalmology National Electronic Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Audit: Feasibility report
• Ophthalmology National Electronic Glaucoma Surgery and Visual Field Preservation Audit: Feasibility report
• Ophthalmology National Electronic Retinal Detachment Surgery Audit: Feasibility report

Communities of practice
The RAND Corporation has published System change through situated learning: pre-evaluation of the Health Innovation Network’s Communities of Practice.  This document reports on a scoping study looking at Communities of Practice (CoP) set up in association with the Health Innovation Network. The CoPs cover: medicines safety; maternity; duty of candour; medicines optimisation; sepsis; acute deterioration; and delirium. The study aimed to collect data to assess the feasibility of, and best approach to, a full-scale evaluation of CoPs.

Patient safety reviews
NHS Improvement has published Patient safety review and response: April to September 2017.  This report summarises how NHS Improvement has reviewed and responded to patient safety incidents reported to them.

Newborn and infant screening
Public Health England has updated the Newborn and infant physical examination programme standards valid for data collected from 1 April 2018.  These documents present the national standards for the NHS newborn and infant physical examination (NIPE) screening programme.

Bulletins

• Conceptions in England and Wales – 2016
• Conceptions to women aged under 18 in England and Wales – October to December 2016
• Deaths registered by area in England and Wales, monthly provisional – February 2018
• Provider bulletin – 21 March 2018
• NICE Update for Primary Care – February 2018
• NICE In Social Care – March 2018
• NICE News – February 2018

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• Shelford Group trust will run deficit for ‘at least three more years’ 
  A Shelford Group teaching hospital trust will run an underlying deficit until at least 2021-22, it predicts.
• Chief Executive Interview: Roger Spencer, The Christie FT 
  This is the latest in a series of interviews with provider chief executives, which are available exclusively to HSJ Membership subscribers. Each month in 2018 a member of the HSJ expert team will conduct a challenging, candid and in-depth interview with a provider trust boss to uncover their personal insights …
• STP leader steps down 
  The sustainability and transformation partnership leader for the Black Country and west Birmingham is stepping down.
• Hunt to unveil new midwifery support role and training routes 
  The health and social care secretary will announce new training routes into midwifery today as well as a new voluntary register and education standards for maternity support workers.
• Trust fined £2m for failings leading to two patient deaths 
  A trust has been fined £2m for “serious systematic” management failings that led to the deaths of two vulnerable and disadvantaged patients.
• Single accountable officer to lead six CCGs 
  Six clinical commissioning groups in Sussex are to share an accountable officer from next week – at the request of NHS England.
• Trust invests in major changes to ‘disaster’ IT system 
  Nottingham University Hospitals Trust has rolled out major software updates and invested £500,000 upgrading IT equipment for a system senior clinicians previously called a “disaster”.
• The 24 CCGs predicting a cut in mental health spending 
  The proportion of clinical commissioning groups whose mental health spending will fall in cash terms is predicted to double this year to one in 10, HSJ can reveal.
• Hunt hints at backing for NHS tax rise 
  Health and social care secretary Jeremy Hunt has hinted at possible government support for tax rises to fund the NHS, and called for a long-term funding settlement.
• Former trust chief ordered to repay £11,000 after conviction 
  A former hospital chief executive has been ordered to repay around £11,000 to the NHS or go to prison.