Reducing the impact of serious infections CQUIN 2018/19 – NHS Improvement
Resources to support delivery of reducing the impact of serious infections (antimicrobial resistance and sepsis) CQUIN, parts 2c and 2d for 2018/19.

Aspiring chief operating officer programme  – NHS Improvement
We’ve designed this programme with Ashridge Executive Education to help develop up to 25 senior professionals from inside or possibly outside the NHS to be ready to take on a chief operating officer (COO) role within the next 12 to 18 months.

Improving cardiothoracic surgery
The Getting It Right First Time (GRIFT) programme has published Cardiothoracic surgery: GRIFT Programme National Specialty Report.  This report is the result of an outcomes data review of cardiothoracic surgery combined with insight from clinicians and managers who deliver the service.  It suggests smarter bed management and using designated specialist teams for key cardiothoracic surgery procedures will help deliver better outcomes.  The report makes 20 recommendations to improve practice, process and outcomes.

Infectious diseases in pregnancy screening standards
Public Health England has updated Infectious diseases in pregnancy screening standards.  These revised national standards for the NHS infectious diseases in pregnancy standards programme (IDPS).  The IDPS supports health professionals and commissioners in providing a high quality screening programme.

Dementia support guide
The Local Government Association has published Dementia: post diagnosis support.  This publication highlights examples of good practice by local authorities and their partners relating to post diagnostic care for people with dementia.

COPD National Audit Programme
The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership has published the following documents relating to the National Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Audit:

• COPD: time to integrate care – presents the results from a snapshot audit of the organisation and resourcing of COPD care that was undertaken in hospitals in England and Wales in the spring of 2017.
• Pulmonary rehabilitation: an exercise in improvement – summarises findings of the second round of pulmonary rehabilitation component of the National COPD Audit Programme.

Integrated commissioning for better outcomes
The Local Government Association and NHS Clinical Commissioners have published Integrated commissioning for better outcomes: a commissioning framework.  This framework is intended as a practical tool in the support of improving outcomes through integrated commissioning.  The four domains (building the foundations; taking a person-centred place-based and outcomes focused approach; shaping provision to support people, places and populations; and continuously raising the ambition) contain 22 standards setting out what should be in place to support a dynamic process of continuous improvement.

Statistics

• Friends and Family Test data – February 2018
• Emergency presentations of cancer – data up to September 2017
• Monthly hospital activity data – February 2018
• Mental health services monthly statistics – Final January, provisional February 2018
• Diagnostics waiting times and activity – February 2018
• Delayed transfers of care – February 2018
• Mental health early intervention in psychosis – February 2018
• NHS 111 Minimum Data Set – March 2018
• Ambulance Quality Indicators: Systems Indicators – March 2018
• Ambulance Quality Indicators: Clinical Outcomes – November 2017
• A&E attendances and emergency admissions – March 2018 and Q4 report
• Provisional Accident and Emergency Quality Indicators for England – February 2018, by provider
• Waiting times for suspected and diagnosed cancer patients – February 2018
• Referral to treatment waiting times statistics for consultant-led elective care – February 2018
• Provisional Monthly Hospital Episode Statistics for Admitted Patient Care, Outpatients and Accident and Emergency Data – April 2017 to February 2018

HSJ Roundup (contact the Library for further details)

• NHS Improvement rejects trust’s bid for extra beds funding 
  A trust with a bed deficit of more than 100 has had its bid for funding to open more beds rejected by NHS Improvement, HSJ has learned.
• Trust could seek cash from council pension fund for hospital rebuild 
  A large acute trust is considering seeking funding from a local authority pension scheme to carry out much needed redevelopment work.
• MPs criticise ‘entirely inappropriate’ sharing of patient data with Home Office 
  MPs have warned the government is leaving the door open to widespread sharing of patients’ confidential details beyond the NHS without their consent or knowledge.
• CCGs left with £15m bill following dispute with acute trust 
  Commissioners have been left with a £15m bill after losing a dispute with their local acute trust over procedures which they said had been costed wrongly.
• Trust board urged to spend £1.5m on ‘essential’ A&E nurses 
  An acute trust board is being asked to spend more than £1.5m on extra nursing staff for its emergency departments to try to improve four hour performance and ensure patients get safe care.
• Exclusive: Advanced health economies reject terms of ‘system control totals’ 
  Leaders in the most “advanced” health economies have rejected national bodies’ terms for signing up to system-wide financial control totals, HSJ understands.

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

• FrailtySIM – using the virtual world to improve the real one for older people living with frailty. FrailtySIM is a Virtual Reality workforce development tool that improves person-centred care for older people living with frailty. Through a set of immersive experiences, it increases awareness of frailty, develops understanding and empathy, enhances observational skills, and deploys assistive technology.               The prototype was developed as part of the […]
• Anticoagulation Achievement Awards Anticoagulation UK is pleased to Announce that entries are now being accepted for the 2nd year of the prestigious Anticoagulation Achievement Awards. Celebrating outstanding practice across healthcare services involved in the management and care of anticoagulation therapy, applications are now invited for the 2018 Anticoagulation Achievement Awards. Whatever your role is in secondary care, primary […]
• Our Consultant Physiotherapist is nominated for a national award A member of staff at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been shortlisted for a national award for her work to improve outcomes for patients. Rachael Moses, Consultant Physiotherapist at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, has been shortlisted for the Northern Ireland award for “maximising resources for success” in the Advancing Healthcare Awards 2018. Rachael has […]
• West Sufolk NHS Trust Patient Profile Form Helen Whiting works on the Critical Care Unit at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. She identified a gap in the documentation available within the Critical Care Unit and created a Patient Profile Form to help provide more patient-centred care. The Profile is a simple paper document that requires no additional work for the nursing team […]