Providers deliver: resilient and resourceful through Covid-19 – NHS Providers
This report showcases eight examples of great ideas put into action by trusts through the dedication and ingenuity of staff. One of the main themes in the report is the value of staff empowerment, where trust leaders support ideas and approaches developed within their workforce. Other themes such as innovation and collaboration also emerge.

Understanding LGBT+ employee networks and how to support them –  NHS Employers
This report looks at how LGBT+ employee networks operate within the NHS. It presents a picture of what they do and some of the challenges that networks face. Recommendations made within the report are aimed at helping NHS organisations develop the long term capacity for networks to flourish and add value.

Project reset in emergency medicine: patient FIRST – Care Quality Commission
This resource shares practical examples from emergency department staff to help trusts harness the learning from the Covid-19 pandemic. The resource focuses on five key areas: flow, infection control, reduced emergency department attendances, staffing and treatment.

Early detection and diagnosis of cancer: a roadmap to the future – Cancer Research UK
This roadmap aims to unite fragmented efforts across the UK to drive progress in early detection and diagnosis of cancer. It articulates a shared vision, from discovery to implementation, for a long-term future where early detection and diagnosis of all cancers is a routine reality. It also highlights the current challenges impeding progress and makes recommendations for research, development, health system delivery and government policy on how to overcome these challenges.

Diagnostics: recovery and renewal -NHS England
This report recommends that community diagnostic hubs or ‘one stop shops’ should be created across the country, away from hospitals, so that patients can receive life-saving checks close to their homes. It argues that these proposals will help save lives and improve people’s quality of life including for cancer, stroke, heart disease and respiratory conditions.

So what now?: supporting students through a global pandemic and beyond – Royal College of Midwives
This report finds that many student midwives are struggling under the weight of financial concerns, poor mental health and an unpredictable job market. It finds that 96 per cent of student midwives reported having mild or moderate mental health problems since the pandemic began. The survey shows that by the end of July just 36 per cent of students in their final year of midwifery training had been offered a job in the NHS. At the same time, midwifery educator numbers are not keeping pace with the rise in student midwife numbers, potentially leaving students less supported throughout their training.

Delivering core NHS and care services during the pandemic and beyond – Health and Social Care Select Committee
This report aims to catalogue the impact and unprecedented challenge caused by Covid-19 to the provision of essential services. It calls for urgent action to assess and tackle a backlog of appointments and an unknown patient demand for all health services, specifically across cancer treatments, mental health services, dentistry services, GP services and elective surgery. It also looks at the case made for routine testing of all NHS staff.

Creating the workforce of the future: a new collaborative approach for the NHS and colleges in England – NHS Employers
This report follows a November 2019 roundtable held by the NHS Confederation and the Independent Commission on the College of the Future. It focused on the relationship between colleges and the NHS through the lens of integrated care systems. The report argues that by better embedding colleges into core NHS workforce development, and better using local recruitment and training power, a sustainable, agile and innovative future health and care workforce can be assured.

Worst hit: dementia during coronavirus – Alzheimer’s Society
Since the coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown on 23 March, this investigation found family and friends have spent an extra 92 million hours caring for loved ones with dementia, due to the double impact of lockdown making dementia symptoms worse, and the chronically underfunded social care system leaving them nowhere else to turn. It states that government must fix social care now, learning lessons to avoid further winter tragedy, as dementia carers struggle with depression, insomnia and exhaustion.