Brexit: NHS managers warn about impact of no deal – BBC News
The group representing hospitals and ambulance services in England has warned of a lack of “contingency planning” to deal with the impact of a no-deal Brexit on the health service.

NHS trusts lost almost 10,000 patient records last year – NHE | NEWS
Almost 10,000 vital patient documents were either lost or stolen from 68 hospitals last year, according to a damning new report. Data compiled by thinktank Parliament Street found 9,132 instances of stolen or missing documents from trusts around the UK— prompting major concerns about patient data security. University Hospital…

Adult safeguarding
The Royal College of Nursing has published Adult safeguarding: roles and competencies for health care staff.  This intercollegiate document has been designed to guide professionals and the teams they work with to identify the competencies they need in order to support individuals to receive personalised and culturally sensitive safeguarding. It sets out minimum training requirements along with education and training principles.

Measles in Europe
The World Health Organisation has announced over 41,000 children and adults in the WHO European Region have been infected with measles in the first 6 months of 2018.  The total number for this period far exceeds the 12-month totals reported for every other year this decade.

NHS Digital remit
The Department of Health and Social Care has published The Department of Health and Social Care remit to NHS Digital for 2018 to 2019.  This report sets out the context in which NHS Digital operates and the objectives it expects to see in NHS Digital’s business plan.

More than 1,600 extra trauma victims alive today says major new study – NHS England
The NHS in England has saved an additional 1,600 patients with severe injuries since major trauma centres were established in 2012. New findings show the creation of major traumas centres has led to the survival of more than 1,600 patients who have suffered some of the most severe and complicated injuries thanks to top teams […]

Atlas of Shared Learning
The following case studies have been added to NHS England’s Atlas of Shared Learning:

• Improving asthma and COPD in primary care – Northumberland general practice
• Durham Weight Management Group – the Old Forge Surgery
• Safeguarding Administrator’s Network for General Practice – Cambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG
• Development and implementation of a holistic hydration care assessment tool (RoC) – Cornwall
• Nurse-led intervention in the Neutropenic Sepsis Pathway at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Statistics

• Monthly legionella report – July 2018
• Direct access audiology waiting times – June 2018
• Unexplained deaths in infancy, England and Wales – 2016

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• Falls Prevention Fuel Tank video The Falls Prevention Fuel Tank video is an educational resource for raising awareness of risk factors for falls and things that can be done to reduce them. It emphasises prevention and early intervention by using the analogy of a car fuel tank, focusing on the importance of ‘topping your tank up regularly’ to prevent […]
• Improving patient experience through the international #hellomynameis campaign Staff at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust celebrated  an international campaign aimed at improving patient experience through providing compassionate care. The international “hello my name is” campaign was created by Dr Kate Granger, a registrar in elderly medicine who was diagnosed with terminal cancer. The campaign started back in 2013 when Dr Granger was […]
• Above and Beyond – staff recognition At University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) feedback given in our NHS Staff Survey and our quarterly ‘pulse check’ results were telling us that staff didn’t feel recognised for the great work that they do, and, as with many NHS organisations, these are challenging times. We felt that staff deserved to be thanked for their work, […]