Guidance: Five Year Forward View - The Success Regime: A whole systems intervention

Guidance: Five Year Forward View - The Success Regime: A whole systems intervention The Forward View signalled the intention by the national bodies to introduce a new regime to create the conditions for success in the most challenged health and care economies.

The ‘Success Regime’ is aimed at providing increased support and direction to the most challenged systems in order to secure improvement in 3 main areas:

• short-term improvement against agreed quality, performance or financial metrics
• medium and longer-term transformation, including the application of new care models where applicable
• developing leadership capacity and capability across the health system

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News story: Alcohol-related hospital admissions decrease among under 18s

News story: Alcohol-related hospital admissions decrease among under 18s New figures from Public Health England (PHE), published today (2 June 2015), show a repeated drop in the rate of hospital admissions due to alcohol among under 18s, evidence of a continuing decline in young people’s harmful drinking.

The figures in the latest update to the Local Alcohol Profiles for England (LAPE) data tool show that nationally, alcohol-specific hospital admissions for under 18s over the last 3 years are down to 13,725. This shows a fall of 41% against the earliest comparable figures, 22,890 between 2006 to 2007 and 2008 to 2009.

However, 59% of local authorities in England (193 out of all 326 local authorities) saw a slight increase in hospital admissions in adults where the main reason for admission was alcohol. These admissions have risen by 1.3% to 333,000, up from 326,000 last year, with a larger increase seen in women (2.1% increase while for men this was 0.7%).

There continues to be large variations between the most deprived and the least deprived areas. Hospital admissions for alcohol-related conditions were 55% higher in the most deprived. Public Health England

Eating disorders: Number of teenagers admitted to hospital nearly doubles in three years

Eating disorders: Number of teenagers admitted to hospital nearly doubles in three years The number of teenagers admitted to hospital with eating disorders across the UK has nearly doubled in three years, according to NHS figures. The Independent

See also:

• NHS reveals teens admitted to hospital with eating disorders DOUBLES in four years The Daily Mail

Simon Stevens' NHS Confederation conference speech: five key points

Simon Stevens' NHS Confederation conference speech: five key points NHS England chief executive announces steps to improve performance,tackle public health problems and reform care for people with a learning disability.

Redesigning NHS emergency care, tackling poorperformance and harnessing the health service’s purchasing power areamong the priorities of the NHS England chief executive.

SimonStevens, delivering the keynote speech on the opening day of this year’s NHS Confederation conference in Liverpool, set out his plans for how the NHS can deliver the Five Year Forward View.

I see no likelihood that the NHS will receive additional infusions of cash this year Continue reading... The Guardian

Struggling hospitals and care services in three English regions to get emergency support from regulators

Struggling hospitals and care services in three English regions to get emergency support from regulators Struggling hospitals and care services in three entire regions of England are to get emergency support from national regulators, the chief executive of the NHS has announced. The Independent

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• NHS England targets failing services  BBC News
• Huge parts of the NHS are placed into special measures after 'decades' of failure - with troubleshooters sent int o the worst hospitals The Daily Mail
• NHS regulators to take over entire regions where health services are failing The Daily Telegraph
• Regulators to take over NHS services in three English regions The Guardian

NHS may create new tier of health worker to help registered nurses cope

NHS may create new tier of health worker to help registered nurses cope ‘Nurse associates’ would care for patients under supervision of graduate staff, says head of NHS recruitment body, but unions warn that plan risks diluting skills.

The NHS is considering creating a new type of health professional to help nurses cope with their growing workloads, the head of the body that oversees recruitment and staff training has revealed.

Ian Cumming, chief executive of Health Education England (HEE), said the new staff would do some of the tasks currently done by fully qualified nurses and could become known as “nurse associates”. Continue reading... The Guardian