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Managing NHS backlogs and waiting times in England
This report finds that cancer waiting times are at their worst recorded level and NHS England will not meet its first cancer recovery target and that the wider NHS recovery plan may not be achieved on time. It argues that the NHS is still not planning properly for the staffing and other resources it needs to deliver additional diagnostic and treatment capacity, though much of it was already needed before the Covid-19 pandemic.ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 1, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 NHS performance and productivity Source Type: blogs

Tackling poverty and the cost of food
NHS Confederation  - Greater food insecurity could affect people ’s physical health and mental wellbeing, and create unmanageable pressure on already stretched NHS services. It is estimated that malnutrition costs the NHS £19.6 billion a year. The briefing calls on government to make a number of policy changes to help reduce the health impacts of the rising co st of food, particularly on those for whom rising prices have the biggest impact.BriefingMore detail  (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 1, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs

Making health for all policies: harnessing the co-benefits of health
World Health Organization (WHO) - The Health in All Policies (HIAP) movement has sought to achieve health goals through intersectoral action. This policy briefing explores solutions that have resulted in co-benefits and win-win solutions for all sectors when working on HIAP principles in order to support better health for all. Briefing (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 1, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Integrated care, collaboration and partnership Source Type: blogs

The cost of poor housing by tenure in England
This report analyses the impact of substandard housing to the NHS, broken down by tenure type (owner occupied, private rental and social housing). The research finds that over 700,000 homes in England are defined as excessively cold and that the NHS spends over £540m a year treating people affected by the worst properties. ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 1, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Integrated care, collaboration and partnership Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs

Progression of parents in NHS medical and nursing careers
This report examines how the length of parental leave and rates of progression after having children vary by specialty, gender and other staff characteristics among doctors, dentists, nurses and midwives in the English NHS.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 28, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs

PIF TICK member directory: your guide to producers of trusted health information
Patient Information Forum (PIF) - The new PIF TICK toolkit aims to help healthcare professionals provide trusted information to their patients. It includes a directory of more than 85 Trusted Information Creators, sorted by therapy area, and every organisation signposted in the directory has undergone a robust, independent-assessment of their healthcare information production process.DirectoryMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 28, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Patient involvement, experience and feedback Source Type: blogs

England Rare Diseases Action Plan 2023: main report
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) - This is England ’s second Rare Diseases Action Plan, following the DHSC's commitment to publish action plans annually during the lifetime of theUK Rare Diseases Framework. This action plan has been developed in close collaboration with delivery partners across the health system and the rare disease community. It reports on progress against the sixteen actions set out in the first Rare Diseases Action Plan and announces thirteen new specific, measurable actions for the next year under the framework ’s priority areas and underpinning themes.Policy paperMore detail (...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 28, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Commissioning Source Type: blogs

The Department of Health and Social Care's written evidence to the Senior Salaries Pay Review Body (SSRB) for the 2023 to 2024 pay round
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)  - The Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) has been asked to make a pay recommendation on the current levels of pay for very senior managers (VSMs) in the NHS and executive and senior managers (ESMs) in DHSC ’s arm’s length bodies (ALBs). The written evidence seeks to enable the SSRB to make independent observations on the levels of pay of VSMs and ESMs to form part of the wider SSRB report, which will include observations on the levels of pay for other senior public sector workers. The written evid ence includes information on NHS senior pay strategy along with re...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 28, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs

Future proof: the impact of parental and caring responsibilities on surgical careers
Nuffield Trust - Support for working parents is vital for ensuring staff currently employed by the NHS achieve work –life balance, particularly amidst a workforce crisis driven by poor retention as well as recruitment. The Royal College of Surgeons of England commissioned the Nuffield Trust to explore the impact of parental and caring responsibilities on surgical careers in order to understand the issues within that profession.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 28, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs

The NHS workforce in England
House of Commons Library - This briefing covers the NHS workforce in England, including key targets, recruitment and retention issues, workforce planning and government policy.BriefingMore detail  (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 28, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Healthcare Technologies Capability framework
Health Education England (HEE) - HEE commissioned the University of Manchester to perform a learning needs analysis and develop a framework outlining the skills and capabilities to ensure health and care professionals can work in a digitally enhanced environment.FrameworkPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 28, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Digital health and data Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs

I just want to be me: trans and gender diverse communities ’ access to and experiences of palliative & end of life care
This report, based on first-hand research with the trans and gender diverse community and those working in end of life care, explores the barriers faced by trans and gender diverse people when accessing end of life, hospice, and palliative care and sets out recommendations for how to tackle them.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 27, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Equality and diversity Patient involvement, experience and feedback Source Type: blogs

Interim bulletin 3: harm caused by delays in transferring patients to the right place of care
Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) - This third interim report for an investigation into issues around patient handover to emergency care focuses on staff wellbeing across the urgent and emergency care systems and the impact that this has on patient safety. The investigation team spoke to staff working across the urgent and emergency care system in the NHS including in emergency departments, NHS 111 call handling centres and ambulance services. As conversations progressed, HSIB saw that there was ‘significant distress’ from staff as they expressed that not being able to help the sickest of people had a...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 27, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Patient safety Source Type: blogs

Carbon reduction plan requirements for the procurement of NHS goods, services and works
NHS England - In April 2023, the NHS will require all suppliers of new contracts for goods, services, and/or works with an anticipated contract value above £5 million per year (excluding VAT) to publish a carbon reduction plan (CRP) for their emissions from the sources included in scope 1 and 2 of the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, and a defined subset of scope 3 emissions, aligning with the government’s procurement policy note (PPN) 06/21:Taking account of CRPs in the procurement of major government contracts. This document outlines how this requirement will be applied in an NHS context and is intended to be used...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 27, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS finance Source Type: blogs