Enhancing Junior Doctors’ Working Lives: annual progress report 2022 – Health Education England
This is the sixth report that looks at the achievements over the past year of the Enhancing Junior Doctors’ Working Lives programme in providing improved support for doctors in training. The programme was established in March 2016, to address a range of issues that were having a significant negative impact on the quality of life of doctors in postgraduate training. Led by Health Education England (HEE), it is a cross-system collaboration to drive and deliver system improvements and meaningful change to postgraduate medical training. HEE worked collaboratively with system partners in the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, the GMC, NHS Employers and the BMA as well as individual Medical Royal Colleges and the devolved nations to address those issues and provide trainees and stakeholders with yearly updates on progress.

Protecting human rights in care settings – Joint Committee on Human Rights
This report warns that gaps remain in how vulnerable people are protected in care settings, leaving their human rights at risk of being breached. It finds that mechanisms such as Do Not Attempt Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation notices and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards are often not applied correctly, meaning treatment can be wrongfully withheld or an individual’s liberty infringed. It calls on the Government to work with the Care Quality Commission to ensure there is stringent oversight of how care providers implement safeguards designed to protect the human rights of care users.

Expert panel: evaluation of government’s commitments in the area of the health and social care workforce in England – House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee
This evaluation by a panel of independent experts considered how the government had progressed overall against seven commitments it has made in three policy areas across the NHS and social care: planning for the workforce; building a skilled workforce; and wellbeing at work, including reducing high rates of bullying in the NHS. The panel rated the government’s overall progress ‘inadequate’ in meeting these targets.

Tackling inequalities in healthcare access, experience, and outcomes: actionable insights – NHS England
This guide aims to support NHS systems in reducing healthcare inequalities and compliments the Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Dashboard and Actionable Insights tool. Based on analysis of 32 case study examples for tackling inequalities in healthcare, four themes emerged. These are proposed as necessary foundations for sustained service level action: creating an enabling system context; building clear and shared understanding; maintaining a sense of urgency and commitment to act; and focusing on implementation, impact and evaluation. The guide was commissioned by the Health Foundation and NHS England and co-written by the Yorkshire and Humber Academic Health Science Network with an expert reference group.

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• Leak reveals 1,300 confirmed cancer patients still waiting after 104 days More than 1,000 people are still waiting for cancer treatment 104 days after referral, despite having received a confirmed cancer diagnosis and having been referred with ‘urgent suspected cancer’, leaked data shows.
• ‘Arrogance and bullying’ persist from ‘less understanding’ regulators, say trusts NHS England and the Care Quality Commission are becoming less understanding of the pressures on trusts, their leaders report, with one CEO complaining “the arrogance and bullying continues to get worse”.
• Revealed: Best and worst areas for GP patient satisfaction Analysis of a major patient survey suggests wide variation between GP services in different health systems.
• ‘Command and control’ leadership still ‘has a place’, say top trust CEOs A command and control leadership style still has its place in an NHS focused on working as a system, the service’s leading provider chief executives have declared.
• Ambulance trust to hand back key NHS 111 contract An ambulance trust which took on running NHS 111 services to provide consistent care quality is handing back a major contract for the service.
• Pritchard’s NHSE different in ‘tone, intent and accessibility’, say top CEOs NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard has been praised for transforming the organisation’s relationship with local leaders by the NHS’s most highly regarded chief executives.

NHS Employers

• Episode 2: Nudging systems forward with Sheena Cartwright Sheena Cartwright on the practice of OD through the lens of Gestalt Theory.
• Enhancing Junior Doctors’ Working Lives 2022 progress report published HEE has published it’s sixth report that looks at the achievements over the past year in providing improved support for doctors in training.
• New medical doctor degree apprenticeship approved A new medical doctor degree apprenticeship has been approved by The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education and Department of Education.
• Join the International Recruitment Forum Join the Workforce Supply team’s forum for employers focusing on overseas recruitment.
• Settlement agreements – guidance for employees This guidance helps to outline key considerations to help employees understand their rights when entering into a settlement agreement.
• Settlement agreements – guidance for employers Outline of the legal boundaries which employers need to think about when considering the use of settlement agreements when terminating employment.