People performance management toolkit: communications pack

People performance management toolkit: communications pack The pack contains key messages for HR and internal comms teams to help promote the toolkit with managers in their organisations. The pack includes tips on where to start with line management, how to work with both underperforming and exceptional staff and advice on how to give constructive feedback. It also features a number of different management scenarios and can help identify solutions to the challenges most relevant to staff. NHS Employers

What's the best colour lighting for sleep?

What's the best colour lighting for sleep? The idea artificial light from screens is keeping people awake at night is flawed, say scientists who have been studying the best type of lighting to nod off to.

According to the researchers, from Manchester University, this blue light from devices is not the main problem.

They exposed mice to different light settings to study the impact.

The controversial findings, in Current Biology journal, suggest the answer lies in how warm and bright a light is. BBC News

Coroner criticises NHS after death of patient with broken neck who was shunted between hospitals three times

Coroner criticises NHS after death of patient with broken neck who was shunted between hospitals three times An 88-year-old woman with a broken neck died after being transferred three times between two hospitals in the space of just 48 hours, The Independent can reveal.

The death of Jean Waghorn, who died after contracting pneumonia in hospital, sparked criticism from a coroner who said the NHS trust had ignored earlier warnings over moving patients between hospitals.

NHS 'should not pay' for US surrogacy after cancer misdiagnosis

NHS 'should not pay' for US surrogacy after cancer misdiagnosis UK supreme court hears case of woman left infertile after cervical cancer treatment

The NHS should not have to pay for patients to have surrogate children through commercial agreements in the US, the supreme court has been told in a controversial medical compensation case.

Whittington hospital NHS trust in north London has admitted negligently failing to detect signs of cervical cancer for more than four years. That oversight led to the woman, identified only as XX, developing highly invasive malignancy, which required chemo-radiotherapy treatment and left her infertile at the age of 29. The Guardian

Doctors reveal the bittersweet stories of working over Christmas

Doctors reveal the bittersweet stories of working over Christmas Being in hospital over Christmas or New Year isn’t something most of us would welcome. But for NHS doctors and nurses on call over the festive season, going to work is just another day . . . or is it? Here, medics share their yuletide memories, from the hilarious to the profoundly sad. The Daily Mail

Scientists develop a test for sepsis in premature babies

Scientists develop a test for sepsis in premature babies Scientists have developed a rapid and reliable test for sepsis in premature babies that scours for harmful bugs in their nappies.

Children delivered before 37 weeks are at high risk of the deadly condition because of their underdeveloped immune systems.

The test works by analysing bacteria in a newborn's stool and takes just four hours to tell if they are at risk of infection. The Daily Mail

See also:

• Rapid MinION profiling of preterm microbiota and antimicrobial-resistant pathogens (open access) Nature Microbiology