Attitudes towards emergency care
The National Centre for Social Research has published the results from the British Social Attitudes Survey relating to attitudes towards emergency care.  These results consider whether people share policy makers’ concerns about over-use of emergency services and whether public attitudes and perceptions suggest strategies put forward to tackle this issue might be successful.  They reveal significant differences in perspectives by a range of socio-demographic factors, such as area deprivation, age, young children in the household and gender.

NICE guidance

• NICE guideline

•  Interventional procedures guidance

•  Technology appraisal guidance

Integrated Care Provider Contract
NHS England and NHS Improvement have published the following documents relating to the Integrated Care Provider Contract:

• NHS Standard Contract: Integrated Care Provider 2019/20
• CCG roles where ICPs are established
• Whole Population Models of Provision: Establishing Integrated Budgets
• Procurement and Assurance approach: ICP Contract package
• NHS Standard Contract (Integrated Care Provider) Template ICP/Local Authority Integration Agreement
• NHS Standard Contract (Integrated Care Provider) Template Integration Agreement for Partially Integrated ICPs
• ICP Contract: Questions and Answers
• GP Participation in an Integrated Care Provider
• GP Integration Agreement FAQs
• Template ICP/Local Authority Integration Agreement – FAQs
• Explanatory Notes to the Integrated Care Provider Contract
• About the Integrated Care Provider Contract – Easy Read
• Contracting Arrangements for ICPs: Equality and Health Inequalities Analysis

Complaints about the NHS in England
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has published Complaints about the NHS in England Quarter 4 2018-19. This report provides statistics on complaints about the NHS in England (Quarter 4 2018-19). It presents data about the NHS complaints received, assessed and investigated by the Ombudsman from January to March 2019, and the recommendations made.

NIHR Signals
The following research summaries have been added to the National Institute for Health Research website:

• Robot-assisted training offers little useful improvement in severe arm weakness and function after stroke
• Cardiac rehabilitation for heart failure can improve quality of life and fitness
• Reminders to assess clotting risk increase the use of preventive measures

NICE consultations

• Rucaparib for maintenance treatment of recurrent platinum-sensitive epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube and peritoneal cancer that has responded to platinum-based chemotherapy: appraisal consultation. Closing date for comments: 27 August 2019.
• Neratinib for treating early hormone receptor-positive HER2-positive breast cancer after adjuvant trastuzumab: appraisal consultation. Closing date for comments: 28 August 2019. Additional link: NICE press release
• Flu vaccination: increasing uptake: quality standard consultation. Closing date for comments: 3 September 2019.
• Rheumatoid arthritis in over 16s (QS update): quality standard consultation. Closing date for comments: 3 September 2019.
• Cannabis-based medicinal products: draft guidance consultation. Closing date for comments: 5 September 2019.

Statistics

• Screening KPI data summary – August 2019
• Antenatal and newborn screening data – Q4 2018/19
• Young person and adult screening KPI data – Q4 2018/19
• Patients Registered at a GP Practice – August 2019
• Recorded Dementia Diagnoses – July 2019
• Middle-aged generation most likely to die by suicide and drug poisoning
• Friends and Family Test data – June 2019
• NHS Performance Statistics – August 2019
• Nuffield Trust Combined Performance Summary: June to July 2019
• Palliative and end of life care: hospital deaths 2006 to 2017
• Cancer survival in England: adult, stage at diagnosis and childhood – patients followed up to 2018
• Mental Health Community Teams Activity – Q1 2019/20
• Community Services Statistics – April 2019
• Ambulance Quality Indicators: Clinical Outcomes – March 2019 data
• Ambulance Quality Indicators: Systems Indicators – July 2019
• NHS Continuing Healthcare and NHS-funded Nursing Care – Q1 2019/20
• Trends in hospital admissions for mental health and self-harm in children and young people
• Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics – Final May, Provisional – June 2019
• Mental Health Services Monthly Statistics Final – April 2019
• Out of Area Placements in Mental Health Services – May 2019
• Children and Young People Eating Disorder Collection – Q1 2019/20
• Mental Health Early Intervention in Psychosis – June 2019
• Physical Health Checks for People with Serious Mental Illness – Q1 2019/20
• Provisional Quarterly Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in England for Hip and Knee Replacement Procedures – April 2018 to March 2019
• Psychological Therapies: reports on the use of IAPT services, England – May 2019 final including reports on the IAPT pilots

Bulletins

• Provider bulletin – 7 August 2019
• NHS Improvement Costing Newsletter – 7 August 2019