Chief Medical Officer confirms cases of coronavirus in England  Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, statement about cases of novel coronavirus in England. How-to guide: non face-to-face (virtual) clinics  This guide, developed in collaboration with NHS clinicians, managers and patients, provides a comprehensive guide to setting up non-face-to-face clinics (also known…

Commissioning services for older adults Public Health England has published Return on investment resources to help local authorities and CCGs in designing and implementing services to support older people’s healthy ageing.  Resources include a main report which summarises the evidence on identified interventions to support older people, a technical report…

Improving behavioral health care in the emergency department and upstream This paper provides actionable guidance for hospital emergency departments and their community partners to create a compassionate, seamless, and effective system of care that is respectful of and works with patients with mental health conditions and substance use disorders who present…

Innovating for improved healthcare Rand Europe has published Innovating for improved healthcare: policy and practice for a thriving NHS.  This report examines the potential of innovation to help deliver an efficient and effective healthcare service.  It aims to provide actionable evidence to help policymakers and wider stakeholders to effectively engage…

How will we know if integrated care systems reduce demand for urgent care? Establishing fair benchmark levels for the blended payment system  For the 2019/20 financial year the National Tariff Payment System (NTPS) for emergency care moved from a fee-for service arrangement to a blended payment system. The blended system…

NICE guidance NICE guideline NG150 Supporting adult carers  Interventional procedures guidance IPG666 Reducing the risk of transmission of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) from surgical instruments used for interventional procedures on high-risk tissues  Technology appraisal guidance TA621 Osimertinib for untreated EGFR mutation-positive non-small-cell lung cancer  Medical technologies guidance MTG27 Virtual Touch Quantification…

Improving care by using patient feedback The National Institute for Health Research has published Improving care by using patient feedback.  This themed review features nine new research studies about using patient experience data in the NHS which show what organisations are doing now and what could be done better. The…

Healthy social media The Mental Health Foundation has published Healthy social media. This report presents the social media experiences of young people and other stakeholders that attended an engage event in May 2019 and offers their recommendations on how to maintain a healthy social media life in regards to body…

Patient safety NHS Providers has published Consequences for patient safety of the backlog of maintenance and repairs to NHS infrastructure.  This House of Lords Briefing provides information for an oral question raised in the House of Lords to ask what assessment the government has made of the consequences for patient…