FOI request: whether fire safety issues exist at Peterborough and Stamford NHS foundation trust
Monitor - The issue raised in this FOI request centred on there is a safety risk of fire from the buildings at Peterborough and Stamford NHS foundation trust, and the action being taken and when the buildings will be safe if there is a risk.
FOI request
Monitor publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 3, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Patient safety Source Type: blogs
Freedom of information (FOI) request: foundation trusts' contract and agency spend by staffing group
Monitor - This request was for foundation trusts’ aggregate spend on contract and agency staff by staffing group for quarter one of financial year 2015-16.
FOI request
Monitor publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 3, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Freedom of information (FOI) request: quarterly report on performance of NHS foundation trusts: Monitor’s board
Monitor - This FOI request asked for any records, including emails, relating to the presentation of the quarterly report on the performance of NHS foundation trusts for the first quarter of 2015/16, at the board meeting of Monitor on 30 September 2015, and the scheduling of this presentation within the meeting.
Monitor's response
Related documentation (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 2, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS measurement and performance Source Type: blogs
NHS trust and foundation trust special administration: a guide for unsecured creditors
Department of Health (DH) - The document gives an overview of the special administration process and explains how the liabilities of NHS trusts and foundation trusts will be treated in the event that these organisations are put into special administration.
Guidance
DH publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 2, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs
Freedom of information release: surplus/deficit financial data: acute NHS foundation trusts
Monitor - This document is the response to a freedom of information request for the current surplus/deficit (in this financial year to date) for all acute foundation trusts in England; and the projected surplus/deficit for the financial year 2015/16 for all acute foundation trusts in England.
FOI release
Monitor publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 23, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs
Performance of the foundation trust sector: 3 months ended 30 June 2015
This report finds that NHS foundation trusts (FTs) are providing the widest ever range of services to patients in order to protect their health and wellbeing. However, the report warns of the need to continue to improve how FTs operate - including making radical changes to how care is delivered - if they are to counter the intense pressure they’re under from an increased demand for care and a worst in a generation financial position.
Report
Associated documentation
Press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 9, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs
Foundation trust and NHS trust mergers 2010 to 2015
This report looks at 20 mergers between 2010 and mid-2015 and finds that significant sums of money are being spent on such mergers (£2 billion on just 12 mergers over this period), often based on faulty argumentation and a lack of evidence that mergers offer lasting solutions. It concludes that the Department of Health, Monitor and the Trust Development Authority should support service improvement and transformation where possible, rather than instigate merger. If a merger is contemplated, there needs to be a more realistic assessment of the costs and benefits.
Report
Blog
The King's Fund - publications (Source: Heal...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - September 24, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Changing configuration of health services Competition and choice NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs
Nursing agency rules
Monitor -This guidance outlines the new rules on nursing agency spend from Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority for NHS foundation trusts and NHS trusts. The rules come into effect on 1 September 2015 and apply to agency spend on registered nursing, midwifery and health visiting staff only.
Guidance
Monitor - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - September 2, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Consultation on changes to the NHS foundation trust annual reporting manual 2015/16
Monitor -This consultation document summarises the main changes to the NHS foundation trust annual reporting manual 2015/16. The manual 2015/16 will be republished once consultation responses have been received and reviewed, subject to approval by the Department of Health. The consultation closes on 31 July 2015.
Consultation
Monitor - consultations (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 3, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Consultations Source Type: blogs
Review of the contingency planning team/trust special administration procedure at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust: lessons learned
This report describes the lessons Monitor learned from the regulatory procedure at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, the actions taken to apply these lessons, and how that experience is informing the pre-emptive approach now followed to help organisations in struggling local health economies avoid chronic difficulties.
Report
Monitor - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 3, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Foundation Blogs Round-up: Retail Clinics, E-Cigarettes, and More
Here is a sampling of foundation blog posts that recently caught my eye.
Health Care Delivery
“Retail Clinics Are Expanding Their Role within the Health Care System,” by Tara Oakman, on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF’s) Culture of Health blog, May 6. In this interesting post, Oakman writes about “doc-in-a-box” clinics. They are convenient and cost much less than a trip to a hospital emergency department and even less than a visit to a physician’s office, she notes. Oakman discusses a recent RWJF-funded study from Manatt Health that says that retail clinics can even assist in addressing some noncli...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - June 2, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Lee-Lee Prina Tags: GrantWatch Health Professionals Organization and Delivery Health Care Delivery Health Philanthropy Health Reform Smoking Prevention Substance Use Prevention Workforce Source Type: blogs
Performance of the foundation trust sector: year ended 31 March 2015
This report summarises the performance of the NHS foundation trust sector for the final quarter of the year ending 31 March 2015. It found that foundation trusts treated 10.7 million emergency inpatients between April 2014 and March 2015, a 574,000 increase on the previous year. However, this increase in demand for care, combined with an over-reliance on expensive agency staff and the need to make cost savings, is putting trusts under sustained and exceptional pressure. The sector ended 2014/15 in deficit (-£349 million) for the first time, a sign of the increased pressures upon services.
Report
Executive summary
Press r...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 26, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity NHS measurement and performance Source Type: blogs
Inertia of Clinical Practice: Impact of Tracey on DNACPR Discussions
It has been nearly ten
months since the UK Court of Appeals handed down its
judgment in Tracey v. Cambridge University
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Some predicted that the decision would have "far-reaching im... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 29, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
Procurement and competition rules: can the NHS be exempted?
The King's Fund -This briefing seeks to clarify whether a new government could extract the NHS from European Union procurement and competition rules. It aims to clarify the current situation and assess what policy changes would be required should a new government wish to insulate the NHS from the application of the rules. It concludes that it is not possible to exempt the NHS from EU procurement and competition law. It does, however, suggest that the same aim could be achieved by making broader changes to policy, including bringing foundation trusts clearly back under the direct control of government.
Briefing
Blog
Th...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 18, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Commissioning Source Type: blogs
Representing the interests of members and the public: examples and guidance for NHS foundation trusts and governors
Monitor -This guidance aims to help governors represent the interests of NHS foundation trusts members and the public. It gives the context for governors’ work and describes examples of what governors could do to promote communication between foundation trusts, their members and the public. It also includes case studies of the practical experiences of foundation trusts and governors.
Guidance
Monitor - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 12, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Patient involvement, experience and feedback Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
