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NHS Net Zero Building Standard
NHS England - The NHS Net Zero Building Standard provides technical guidance to support the development of sustainable, resilient, and energy efficient buildings that meet the needs of patients now and in the future. The Standard will apply to all investments in new buildings and upgrades to existing facilities that are subject to HM Treasury business case approval process and are at pre-strategic outline business case approval stage from 1 October 2023 onwards.StandardMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 27, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Environment and sustainability Source Type: blogs

Public perceptions of the NHS: a winter of discontent
This report summarises the latest wave of polling from Ipsos and the Health Foundation on the public ’s views about health and social care. It shows deepening public concern about NHS services. Across the UK, only a third (33 per cent) of the public agree that the NHS is providing a good service nationally, a fall on the finding (43 per cent) in the previous survey, published in May 2022.ReportThe Health Foundation - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 24, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Patient involvement, experience and feedback Source Type: blogs

Tackling inequality and disadvantage: key actions policy makers, commissioners and provider organisations can take when developing an approach with a digital component
National Voices -This briefing, launched by members of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance, highlights how groups of people who experience the greatest barriers to accessing health and care are often the most likely to experience digital exclusion. It also contains additional, detailed insights into how digital exclusion affects groups who experience health inequalities, including people with learning disabilities, people seeking asylum, people in contact with the criminal justice system, people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities and others. The guidance also highlights the key actions people who design h...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 24, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Digital health and data Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs

Medical Workforce Race Equality Standard (MWRES): a commitment to collaborate The First Five
This report sets out practical actions based on data and evidence to tackle existing inequalities in the medical workforce. It includes steps to reduce disproportionate representation of international medical graduates in General Medical Council referrals, improve diversity in senior medical leadership appointments, and increase ethnic minority representation in the councils of royal medical colleges to better reflect the workforce.ReportNHS England - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 24, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Equality and diversity Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs

NHS public health functions agreement 2022 to 2023
Department of Health and Social Care -This guidance contains information about NHS England's objectives and funding arrangements as it commissions public health services. It sets out the arrangements under which the Secretary of State delegates responsibility to NHS England for certain public health services. The services currently commissioned in this way are: national immunisation programmes; national population screening programmes; child health information services; public health services for adults and children in secure and detained settings in England; and sexual assault services.GuidanceDepartment of Health and...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 23, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Commissioning Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs

Dying well at home: commissioning quality end-of-life care
This report from The King's Fund, and accompanying policy brief, offer recommendations for commissioners, integrated care boards and national bodies who want to improve care for those dying at home.Summary reportFull reportThe King's Fund - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 23, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Patient involvement, experience and feedback Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs

NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES): 2022 data analysis report for NHS trusts
This report aims to provide a national picture of WRES in practice, to colleagues, organisations and the public on the developments in the workforce race equality agenda. It also seeks to enable organisations to compare their performance with others in their region and those providing similar services, with the aim of encouraging improvement by learning and sharing good practice.ReportNHS England - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 22, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs

The Department of Health and Social Care's written evidence to the NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB) for the 2023 to 2024 pay round
Department of Health and Social Care -The NHSPRB has been asked to make pay recommendations for the pay round 2023 to 2024. This written evidence aims to enable the NHSPRB to make independent recommendations, weighing all of the evidence, within the current challenging economic and fiscal context, along with recruitment and retention trends and staff motivation.ReportDepartment of Health and Social Care - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 22, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs

Fixing the foundations: why it ’s time to rethink how we support older people with health problems to stay well at home
This report provides a first-hand account of older people ’s difficulties in getting the good, joined up health and social care they need to manage at home, leaving them at risk of crisis which often results in being admitted to hospital. Yet the evidence is clear that with the right care at the right time many of these admissions could have been avoided .ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 20, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Social care Source Type: blogs

Evaluation of government commitments made on the digitisation of the NHS
This report from an independent panel of experts has found the government is making inadequate progress on vital commitments to digitise the NHS. Government commitments evaluated by the panel include the delivery of integrated health and care records, the roll-out of the NHS app and ensuring a workforce had the necessary digital skills. Despite some encouraging progress, the panel found that key government commitments on workforce and the use of patient information were either not met or were not on track to be met. It found that overall progress towards improving the digital capabilities of the NHS was too slow, and often...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 20, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Digital health and data Source Type: blogs

U.S. and global approaches to financing long-term care: understanding the patchwork
Commonwealth Fund - This briefing uses analysis of long-term care cost data in the United States and spending data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development for twelve high-income countries to understand how different countries finance long-term care.Briefing (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 20, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Source Type: blogs

Regulating healthcare professionals, protecting the public: consultation response
Department of Health and Social Care - Between 24 March and 16 June 2021, the government sought views on proposals to reform the regulation of healthcare professionals and to introduce statutory regulation for anaesthesia associates (AAs) and physician associates (PAs). In response to the feedback received and following an extended period of stakeholder engagement and policy development, the government has set out their finalised policy positions. These positions underpin the draft legislation that will give the General Medical Council the power to effectively regulate AAs and PAs and provide a template for subsequen...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 20, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs

Care data matters: a roadmap for better data for adult social care
Department of Health and Social Care - This draft document sets out the government ’s roadmap for transforming adult social care data in England and seeks views on the data needed to commission, deliver and oversee care and support. The responses should be submitted by 31 July 2023.Draft guidanceMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 20, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Social care Source Type: blogs

Additional drug and alcohol treatment funding allocations: 2023 to 2024 and 2024 to 2025
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities - This information provides a breakdown of the extra funding available to all local authorities in England for the financial year 2023 to 2024 and an indicative allocation for 2024 to 2025. The funding will help them improve their drug and alcohol treatment and recovery systems.GuidanceMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 20, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs

LGBTQ+ staff and patients deserve better from the NHS
The King's Fund - Kelly Ameneshoa, Emergency Medicine Doctor at Ashford and St Peter ’s hospital and Population Health Fellow at The King’s Fund, looks at recent data on the experience of LGBTQ+ staff and patients, and outlines how the NHS can make steps towards becoming more inclusive.Read the blog  (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 16, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Equality and diversity Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs