Knowledge @lert for Tuesday 24th July
Governance Leadership of Quality: Confronting Realities and Creating Tension for Change – American Hospital Association
Leadership of quality is a key responsibility of governance and, done well, serves as an exceptional gift: engaged boards produce better outcomes. For all the progress made over the last 20 years, however, many boards, trustees, and executives continue to struggle with quality oversight. A new diagnostic tool, constructed around six key drivers of board engagement, is designed to help boards and leaders identify challenges that may be impeding efforts to improve quality.
Leadership in today’s NHS: delivering the impossible – The King’s Fund
In 2014, work by The King’s Fund assessed the level of leadership vacancies in NHS provider organisations. As pressures on services have increased and NHS organisations are called on to work more collaboratively, levels of leadership vacancies and leadership churn continue to pose problems. This report is based on a survey of NHS trusts and foundation trusts carried out by NHS Providers in late 2017, qualitative interviews and a roundtable event with frontline leaders and national stakeholders.
The survey showed that leadership vacancies are widespread, with director of operations, finance and strategy roles having particularly high vacancy rate and short tenures.
Government publishes strategy on UK’s future relationship with EU – NHS Confederation
Find out the key proposals relevant to employers in the NHS from the government white paper on the UK’s future relationship with the EU.
NHS priorities
The Department of Health and Social care has published a speech by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to hospital staff in which he outlined his priorities for the NHS: the workforce, technology and prevention.
Options for funding the NHS and social care
The Health Foundation has published Identifying options for funding the NHS and social care in the UK: international evidence. As part of a larger project to identify a range of feasible options for the future funding of health and social care in the four countries of the UK, this working paper explores how 16 other high-income countries have thought about and implemented changes to their funding systems for health and social care to better meet the challenges ahead.
Public perceptions of the NHS
The Health Foundation has published NHS at 70: Public perceptions, the results of a poll conducted in partnership with The Kings Fund, Nuffield Trust and the Institute of Fiscal Studies to mark the 7oth anniversary of the NHS.
Preconception care
Public Health England has published resources relating to preconception care to help in planning and preparation for pregnancy and to improve outcomes for mothers and babies.
NHS England case studies
Calderdale: Integrating mental health therapy in primary care – illustrates the positive impact of integrated mental and physical health services have had in a primary care settings.
Hospital vending machines
Public Health England has published Hospital vending machines: helping people make healthier choices. This report presents findings from research into how changes to vending machine product availability and positioning across Leeds Teaching Hospital altered purchasing choices.
Health care expenditure growth
The Centre for Health Economics has published The determinants of health care expenditure growth. This paper considers changes in hospital inpatient expenditure (a key component of health care expenditure) over time and how these relate to changes in the determinants of such expenditure using individual-level administrative data.
Diversity and the NHS
The Good Governance Institute has published Diversity: the new prescription for the NHS. This report aims to reframe the debate about diversity in the NHS, for boards and executives of trusts, in terms of the dividends it can deliver for patient health and staff success.
Teenage pregnancy
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service has published Social media, SRE and sensible drinking: understanding the dramatic decline in teenage pregnancy. This report explores the factors which may have contributed to a sharp decline in teenage pregnancy rates.
Weight management services
Public Health England has published Uptake and retention in group-based weight management services. This is a literature review and behavioural analysis designed to identify how weight management programmes can maximise uptake and retention.
NICE consultations
- People’s experience using adult social care services: Quality standard consultation. Closing date for comments: 16 August 2018.
- Pancreatic cancer: Quality standard consultation. Closing date for comments: 16 August 2018.
- Renal and ureteric stones: assessment and management: Draft guidance consultation. Closing date for comments: 29 August 2018.
Bulletins
- Provider bulletin – 18 July 2018
- Centre for Health Economics newsletter – issue 32
- Talkback – Mental Health Foundation – July 2018
- NHS Workforce Bulletin – 16 July 2018
- NHS Managers’ Bulletin – 12 July 2018
Statistics
NHS England publications:
- Clinical commissioning policy: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for soft tissue radiation damage in patients with a history of pelvic irradiation for malignant disease (all ages)
- Clinical Commissioning Policy: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for necrotising soft tissue infections (adults)
- Clinical commissioning policy: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for malignant otitis externa (all ages)
- Clinical commissioning policy: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for decompression illness/gas embolism (all ages)
- Clinical commissioning policy: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for carbon monoxide poisoning (all ages)
- Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) Closure Commissioning through Evaluation Report
- Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Commissioning through Evaluation Report
- Proton Beam Therapy NHS Service (All ages)
Annual reports
The following annual reports have been published: