NHS Future Forum reports

You can find a summary of the reports here.

Highlights from the Future Forum’s reports include:

Integration

• Integration should be defined around the patient, not the system – outcomes, incentives and system rules (ie. competition and choice) need to be aligned accordingly.
• Health and wellbeing boards should drive local integration – through a whole-population, strategic approach that addresses local priorities.
• Local commissioners and providers should be given freedom and flexibility to ‘get on and do’ – through flexing payment flows and enabling planning over a longer term.
• Download Integration report

Education and training

• The new local education and training boards must have the governance in place to deliver strong partnerships across healthcare providers, academia and education.
• Quality must be at the heart of education and training with systems in place at all levels to reward high quality education and embed continuing professional development.
• There needs to be a review of the principles and aims of the Tooke Report into medical education.
• A properly structured process to support individual nurse and midwife development in post-qualification career pathways should be developed nationally.
• Download Education and training report

Information

• Patients should have access to their online GP-held records by the end of this Parliament.
• The NHS must move to using its IT systems to share data about individual patients and service users electronically in the interests of high quality care.
• The Government should set a clear deadline within the current Parliament by which all information about clinical outcomes is put in the public domain.
• Download Information report

NHS’s role in the public’s health

• The NHS must do more to prevent poor health, so it can reduce health inequalities and continue to provide high quality care for future generations.
• Every healthcare professional should make every contact count – use every contact with the public to help them improve their health. This should be a core staff responsibility in the NHS Constitution.
• The NHS must do more to support the wellbeing of its own staff too, helping a workforce of 1.4 million to live healthily and spread healthy messages with family, friends and patients.
• Download The NHS’s role in the public’s health report

NHS criticised over woman's death

NHS criticised over woman's death: The family of an 87-year-old woman who died after falling and waiting 90 minutes for an ambulance say improvements must be made. BBC News

Nurses 'lacking ability and compassion', warns NHS Future Forum

Nurses 'lacking ability and compassion', warns NHS Future Forum: Nurses in today's NHS too often lack ability, compassion or even the simple desire to work in the profession, a damning new report warns today. The Telegraph

Patients Association responds to GP payments for commissioning work

Patients Association responds to GP payments for commissioning work:
Katherine Murphy, Chief Executive of the Patients Association said,

“From the very start of the NHS reforms the Patients Association has been saying that we were concerned that NHS money would end up in GPs’ pockets. Now it is becoming clear that that is exactly what is going to happen. It is outrageous that so much money is to be spent on sending GPs to meetings on top of their salaries for being a doctor. This money could be more effectively spent on patient care. With parts of the NHS facing deepening financial problems we cannot afford for money to frittered away like this. The Department of Health needs to return GPs to their most important role – the care and treatment of patients – instead of wasting vast sums on a reform programme that nobody agrees with.”

NHS quality accounts 2010/11

NHS quality accounts 2010/11:

The aim of this report is to help providers improve their quality accounts and support auditors in reviewing the arrangements that underpin their production. NHS Networks

VIDEO: Public healthcare "cannot work anymore"

VIDEO: Public healthcare "cannot work anymore": The Indian heart surgeon Devi Shetty tells Stephen Sackur why he believes that taxpayers' money can no longer fund healthcare. BBC News

New 'duty' to promote good health

New 'duty' to promote good health: NHS staff in England must adapt their roles to ensure they promote good health under plans being published. BBC News

QIPP and workforce productivity – new web section

QIPP and workforce productivity – new web section: A new section on our website brings together information and resources from NHS Employers and externally, to help you meet the Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) challenge. NHS Employers

Implementing 7 day working in imaging departments: good practice guidance: a report from the National Imaging Clinical Advisory Group (NICAG)

Implementing 7 day working in imaging departments: good practice guidance: a report from the National Imaging Clinical Advisory Group (NICAG):

The focus of the work programme of NICAG is to improve the quality of services and enhance the patient experience and outcomes. This document aims to contribute towards the wider work around how routine seven day working could be introduced successfully across the NHS.

• Report



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Hospital blamed for death of girl with tooth infection

Hospital blamed for death of girl with tooth infection: A hospital (Kettering General) has been guilty of failing a nine year-old girl who died after being admitted for treatment for a tooth infection. The Telegraph

£1m for NHS manager Elliot Browne who was targeted for his colour

£1m for NHS manager Elliot Browne who was targeted for his colour: A senior NHS manager who suffered a sustained campaign of racial discrimination from hospital colleagues has been awarded nearly £1 million in compensation. The Telegraph

Patients should see medical records by 2015: report

Patients should see medical records by 2015: report: All NHS patients should be able to see their GP medical records by 2015, an influential advisory body has said. The Telegraph