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An improvement framework to reduce community musculoskeletal waits while delivering best outcomes and experience
NHS England - Integrated high quality community musculoskeletal (MSK) services are integral to a productive high-performing healthcare system supporting the management of MSK conditions. This framework will support integrated care systems (ICSs) to reduce commissioned community MSK waiting times while delivering best outcomes and experience for patients. It includes defining principles, recommended actions across primary, community and secondary care and further resources.FrameworkMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 10, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Primary and community care Source Type: blogs

The health policy year in review 2022
The King's Fund - Just when you thought things couldn ’t get any stranger, 2022 happened. Here's The King ’s Fund’s Chief Analyst, Siva Anandaciva's, annual look at what the health policy year had in store.Blog (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 9, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Source Type: blogs

Consultation on 2023/25 NHS payment scheme and standard contract
NHS Providers - This briefing summarising the key points from NHS England's formal consultation on changes to theNHS payment scheme andstandard contract.BriefingMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 9, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Consultations NHS finance Source Type: blogs

Our support for adult social care this winter
Department of Health and Social Care - This document sets out how the Department of Health and Social Care is supporting the adult social care sector during winter 2022 to 2023. It is aimed at care providers, local authorities, integrated care systems, carers and social care staff.Policy paperPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 9, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Social care Source Type: blogs

Gender identity ideology in the NHS
This report exposes a letter written by North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) that states the Trust will not guarantee same-sex intimate care for patients, putting staff preferences above the needs of patients. It also highlights the wider context and climate on the sex and gender debate within the NHS.ReportPolicy Exchange - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 5, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Patient involvement, experience and feedback Source Type: blogs

Get in on the Act: Mental Health Act 2022
Local Government Association -In June 2022 the government published the draft Mental Health Bill. The Bill is currently going through parliament and is at the Joint Committee Inquiry stage. Councils have several existing statutory duties under the Mental Health Act 1983 and will continue to have responsibilities under the new Act. This briefing examines the role and responsibilities of Councils under the new Act.Local Government Association - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 5, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Mental health Source Type: blogs

2023/24 NHS priorities and operational planning guidance: what you need to know
NHS Confederation - This briefing gives an overview and analysis of NHS England ’s operational planning guidance and priorities for the service in 2023/24.Briefing (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 3, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs

Guidance on developing the joint forward plan
NHS England - This guidance supports integrated care boards (ICBs) and their partner NHS trusts and foundation trusts (referred to collectively in this guidance as partner trusts) to develop their first 5-year joint forward plans (JFPs) with system partners.GuidanceMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 3, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Source Type: blogs

2023/24 priorities and operational planning guidance
NHS England - The 2023/24 priorities and operational planning guidance reconfirms the ongoing need to recover our core services and improve productivity, making progress in delivering the key NHS Long Term Plan ambitions and continuing to transform the NHS for the future.GuidanceMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 3, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs

Hard times: the latest chapter in the story of local government public health spending
The King's Fund - How much did local government spend on public health in 2021/22, and what did they spend it on? David Buck, Senior Fellow in Public Health and Inequalities at The King's Fund, explores.Blog (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 3, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs

Technology in social care: spotlight on the English policy landscape, 2019-2022
Centre for Care - This paper explores policy developments relevant to care and technologies between 2019 and 2022, analysing recent changes to funding structures, strategic priorities and government organisations.Working paperMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 22, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Digital health and data Social care Source Type: blogs

Connected: remote technology in mental health services
Centre for Mental Health - This briefing summarises evidence from six studies on the use of digital and telephone technology to deliver mental health services. It finds that using remote technology can improve access to mental health support for rural communities, disabled people or people needing a specialist service far from home. It has the potential to increase access and choice in mental health care. But it also risks exacerbating inequalities for people who are digitally excluded.BriefingMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 21, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Digital health and data Mental health Source Type: blogs

Recovering elective waits inclusively: where to start?
The King's Fund - In this blog, Beth Sutherland (NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme trainee at The King's Fund) shares early findings from a new project looking at how the NHS can combine the aims of clearing the elective backlog and tackling health inequalities.Blog (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 21, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Source Type: blogs

Understanding the fundamental role of racism in ethnic inequities in Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy
Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity - The briefing from the Runnymede Trust and the University of Manchester ’s Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity uses data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study to show that institutional and community-level factors, driven by structural and institutional racism, explain the large majority of ethnic inequities in vaccination rates.BriefingPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 21, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs

Unfair to care: understanding the social care 2022 —23 pay gap and how to close it
This report finds that social care workers would need a 41 per cent pay rise – equalling £8,036 – to have parity with their direct equivalents within the NHS – Band 3 Healthcare Assistants. It demonstrates that modern frontline social care requires complex technical and emotional skills, to effectively support people who commonly have complex medical and behavioural n eeds, proving that social care is significantly undervalued. With the cost-of-living crisis meaning that many people are no longer able to accept a job that is vocationally rewarding for significantly less pay than they could immediately command elsewh...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 20, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Social care Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs