Perioperative medicine in integrated care systems

The Royal College of Anaesthetists has published A teachable moment: delivering perioperative medicine in integrated care systems.  This document showcases a number of innovative and award-winning programmes in hospitals across England that are improving patient care before, during and after surgery.  The report focuses on the first-wave of 10 ICSs across England, highlighting how ICSs can facilitate the wider adoption of perioperative pathways of care.

Long Term Plan – children and young people

The National Children’s Bureau has published The NHS Long Term Plan: briefing for the children and young people’s sector.  This briefing summarises the changes proposed by the NHS Long Term Plan, with a particular focus on those commitments in the plan most relevant to children and young people.

Medical devices: patient information

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has published Medical devices: information for users and patients. This webpage provides Information and guidance on a range of medical devices for users and patients.

NIHR Signals

• No additional weight-loss reported from a lifestyle programme for people with psychosis
• A commonly-used antidepressant doesn’t improve recovery after stroke
• Delaying pushing in labour has no benefit for women with an epidural and/or spinal for pain relief
• New strategies for maintaining blood supplies from donations may be cost-effective
• Treatments for depression may help irritable bowel symptoms

NICE guidance

Quality Standard

 Medtech innovation briefing

NICE consultations

• Bladder cancer: diagnosis and management: surveillance consultation.  Closing date for comments: 25 February 2019.
• Atezolizumab in combination for treating advanced non-squamous non-small-cell lung cancer [ID1210]: appraisal consultation.  Closing date for comments: 4 March 2019.

Blueprints – digital innovation

NHS England has announced the first batch of schemes which allow hospitals to implement improvements quicker and more easily to transform care and improve services for patients and staff.  The blueprints have been created by hospitals on NHS England’s Global Digital Exemplar programme which is providing funding to 43 acute, mental health and ambulance trusts to help them digitise.

Involving NHS staff in research

The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute has published Involving NHS staff in research.  This document explores why and how NHS staff contribute to research, the factors that enable engagement, the impact of engagement on research processes and outcomes, and the implications for future engagement efforts.

NHS workforce

The Health Foundation has published A critical moment: NHS staffing, trends, retention and attrition.  This is the third annual report analysing the staff profile and trends in the NHS workforce in England in 2018.  It largely confirms the trends identified in the 2016 and 2017 reports, and shows an ongoing deterioration for some key staff groups.  This report concludes with a brief assessment of ‘where next’ in terms of health workforce policy and planning in England, in the context of ongoing NHS reforms.

NHS login pilot

NHS Digital has announced the launch of the NHS login pilot which aims to build a process to allow partner services to connect and use NHS login.  NHS login is designed to make it easier and quicker for patients to see personal health information online.  It has already been tested with 3,400 patients as part of the NHS App pilot.

Statistics

• Monthly hospital activity data – December 2018
• Provisional Monthly Hospital Episode Statistics for Admitted Patient Care, Outpatient and Accident and Emergency data – April to December 2018
• Provisional Accident and Emergency Quality Indicators for England – December 2018, by provider
• A&E attendances and emergency admissions – January 2019
• Referral to treatment waiting times statistics for consultant-led elective care – December 2018
• NHS Cancelled Elective Operations – Q3 2018/19
• Diagnostics waiting times and activity – December 2018
• Delayed Transfers of Care – December 2018
• Critical care bed capacity and urgent operations cancelled – December 2018
• Mixed sex accommodation breaches – December 2018
• Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator (SHMI) – Deaths associated with hospitalisation, England – October 2017 – September 2018
• Waiting times for suspected and diagnosed cancer patients – December 2018
• Waiting times for suspected and diagnosed cancer patients – Q3 2018/19 (Commissioner based)
• Waiting times for suspected and diagnosed cancer patients – Q3 2018/19 (Provider based)
• Monthly Legionella report – January 2019
• Patients registered at a GP Practice – February 2019
• Recorded dementia diagnoses – January 2019

Bulletins

• NHS Workforce Bulletin – 11 February 2019
• New Medicines Newsletter – January 2019
• Technology Enhanced Learning News – January 2019
• NICE in Social Care – February 2019