Tuesday 14 July 2015

Frontline teams are the key to delivering better value care for patients

Frontline teams are the key to delivering better value care for patients We need to talk about patients not pounds if we are to engage clinicians in meeting the NHS productivity challenge. That means focusing on providing the best possible health outcomes at the lowest possible cost, rather than a single-minded push to save money. The King's Fund

Launch of 'Winterbourne View - Time is Running Out' Report

Launch of 'Winterbourne View - Time is Running Out' Report The 6 month review of the progress being made by the Transforming Care programme to act on the recommendations of Winterbourne View - Time for Change. ACEVO

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Health and safety competencies for NHS managers

Health and safety competencies for NHS managers This new guidance highlights the core skills managers at all levels need to manage health and safety in the workplace effectively. NHS Employers

Psychological wellbeing and work: improving outcomes for people with common mental health problems

Psychological wellbeing and work: improving outcomes for people with common mental health problems This briefing summarises key findings and recommendations from a report that explores proposals to improve employment and health outcomes for people with common mental health problems. RAND Corporation

A guide to quality improvement methods

A guide to quality improvement methods The guide brings together twelve quality improvement (QI) methods, providing an overview of each and practical advice on how and when to implement them, with illustrative case examples. QI methods covered include clinical audit; Plan, Do, Study, Act; model for improvement; LEAN/Six Sigma; performance benchmarking, process mapping and statistical process control and it is aimed at all professionals with an interest in QI. Health Quality Improvement Partnership

Decline in new Ebola cases stalls

Decline in new Ebola cases stalls Health officials leading the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone say fear, fatigue and denial are allowing the virus to continue to spread.

Cases had been falling sharply since the start of the year. But the decline has stalled and more than a year since the outbreak was first declared in Sierra Leone, new cases are still emerging every week. BBC News

Can this experiment save the NHS?

Can this experiment save the NHS? A 'revolutionary' approach to health care is being tried out in Liverpool. BBC News

Care home neglect inquiry to report

Care home neglect inquiry to report The findings of an independent report into what became the biggest UK inquiry into alleged abuse at care homes are being published. BBC News

Review of HPV vaccine side-effects

Review of HPV vaccine side-effects The European Medicines Agency begins a review of HPV vaccines, looking into possible rare side-effects. BBC News

Progress on improving services and outcomes for neurological conditions ‘mixed’

Progress on improving services and outcomes for neurological conditions ‘mixed’ Great deal more work needed to meet Public Accounts Committee recommendations, says public spending watchdog. OnMedica

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5 News investigation: Funding cut for youth mental health services

5 News investigation: Funding cut for youth mental health services Almost half of healthcare commissioning groups have frozen or slashed their children’s mental health service budgets, according to a 5 News investigation.This comes despite NHS England guidance to the Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) instructing an increase in mental health spending. Channel 5 News

Government delays publication of plans for reduction in UK's sugar intake

Government delays publication of plans for reduction in UK's sugar intake Ministers accused of ‘deplorable complacency’ in tackling UK’s obesity problem after report they commissioned from Public Health England is shelved

Ministers have shelved the publication of a report by their own health advisers on whether it is possible to tackle the obesity crisis through controversial moves such as taxing sugary drinks or banning two-for-one offers on sweet treats in supermarkets.

Public Health England was due on Friday to publish a detailed assessment of the likely success of a range of measures to curb the nation’s intake of sugar, which health experts say is too high.

The government’s scrapping of PHE’s recommendations looks like deplorable complacency in the face of a health epidemic Continue reading... The Guardian

Top cancer surgeon sacked as police probe high patient death rates

Top cancer surgeon sacked as police probe high patient death rates Sudip Sarker dismissed as a consultant colorectal surgeon amid criminal investigation into the deaths of a number of patients treated by the consultant. The Daily Telegraph