Monitor: regulating NHS foundation trusts
This report finds the number of NHS foundation trusts in difficulty is growing, possibly casting doubt on Monitor’s effectiveness as their regulator. It suggests that responsibility for overseeing the provision of healthcare is fragmented, and there is a strong risk of regulatory overlaps and gaps between Monitor’s role and those of other bodies, including the Care Quality Commission, the NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS England and the Department of Health. The report makes several recommendations for improvement.
Report
House of Commons Public Accounts Committee - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 4, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
NHS foundation trusts: survey on the NHS provider licence
Monitor - This survey focuses on the impact of the licence conditions on NHS foundation trusts during its first full year of operation. Monitor would like to hear from NHS foundation trusts and other interested parties in the healthcare sector. The survey will be open until 31st August 2014.
Survey
Monitor news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 30, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Commissioning Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Seizing the opportunity - ten new perspectives from healthcare leaders
Foundation Trust Network (FTN) -This publication sets out the achievements of the foundation trust model over the last decade, as well as some ideas for its future. It includes contributions from healthcare leaders across the sector.
Report
FTN - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 29, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Changing configuration of health services Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
How to make the NHS payment and pricing system work more effectively in 2015/16?
Foundation Trust Network -This briefing looks ahead at the changes NHS foundation trusts and trusts need in next year's payment and pricing system to help them better manage the financial risks expected in 2015/16. It highlights ten issues NHS England and Monitor need to take into account in setting this year's payment and pricing system and five enablers for ensuring this process works effectively.
Briefing
Foundation Trust Network - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 8, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs
A guide to special measures
Care Quality Commission (CQC) -This guide, developed jointly by CQC, Monitor and NHS Trust Development Authority, describes how the special measures programme works for NHS trusts and foundation trusts. It explains: why trusts are placed in special measures; what will happen to trusts during special measures; the roles and responsibilities of key organisations involved; and when and how trusts will exit special measures.
Guide
CQC - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 7, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
How much does high quality care cost?
Foundation Trust Network (FTN) - This briefing outlines the results of an FTN members' survey and reveals the full scale of extra investment that NHS foundation trusts and trusts are making to improve patient care following the Francis and Keogh reviews and the introduction of the new CQC inspection regime. It calls for a new approach to funding service developments and improved financial risk sharing.
Briefing
Infographic
FTN news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 29, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Patient safety Quality of care and clinical outcomes Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Procurement transparency
Department of Health - This document provides guidance to all NHS foundation and non-foundation trusts on the actions to be taken to increase openness and clarity about NHS procurement. Although this document is not applicable to independent sector providers of NHS healthcare, such providers may wish to consider the benefits of adopting the guidance in this document.
Guidance
Department of Health - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 1, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Commissioning Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Antibiotics: 'national threat' from steep rise in patients who are
resistant to drugs
A steep rise in the number of patients who do not respond to antibiotic treatment risks causing a “national health threat”, NHS officials have warned.Experts say the explosion in the use of antibiotics in the Western world to treat common ailments could become a “catastrophic threat” because increasingly bacteria have become resistant to the drugs, so they do not work when they are really needed.Officials said the scale of such infections had become a matter of “national concern” with 600 cases reported last year, compared with just five in 2006.Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer for England has previ...
Source: PharmaGossip - March 7, 2014 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Monitor: regulating NHS foundation trusts
National Audit Office (NAO) -According to this report, Monitor has achieved value for money in regulating NHS foundation trusts, and has generally been effective in helping trusts in difficulty to improve. It highlights Monitor's processes and standards, which it has adapted and strengthened, for assessing NHS trusts applying for foundation trust status.
Report
Executive summary
NAO - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 26, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
NHS foundation trusts: review of nine months to 31st December 2013
This report summarises key trends drawn from foundation trusts’ individual reports. It looks at operational performance, financial performance and regulatory performance.
Report
Monitor - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 21, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS measurement and performance Source Type: blogs
Public expenditure on health and social care: seventh report of session 2013-14
This report concludes that the health and care system needs fundamental change so that services are joined up and focussed on the needs of patients. It recommends that the current level of real terms funding for social care should be ring-fenced. It also recommends that the role of Health and Wellbeing Boards should be developed to allow them to become effective commissioners of joined-up health and care services. It also considers other issues such as competition, pay restraint and trusts and foundation trusts.
Report
House of Commons Health Select Committee - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 12, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Changing configuration of health services Commissioning NHS finances and productivity Social care Source Type: blogs
Reference costs collection guidance for 2013-14
Department of Health - This document sets out requirements for the collection of 2013 to 2014 reference costs from NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts between 23rd June and 1st August 2014. It follows feedback from the NHS on draft collection guidance.
Guidance
Department of Health - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 7, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
The Francis report: one year on - the response of acute trusts in England
This report explores how acute trusts are responding to the Francis Inquiry report, one year on from Robert Francis QC’s original report into the failings in Mid Staffordshire hospitals. It finds that many of the themes from the Francis Inquiry Report, including the importance of openness, adequate staffing levels and a patient-centred culture, have resonated with leaders of the hospitals responding to the survey and interviews. Four in five of the hospitals responding to the online survey said they were taking new action in response to the report, and an even greater proportion said they already had work underway on man...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 6, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS measurement and performance Patient safety Quality of care and clinical outcomes Regulation, governance and accountability Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
NHS finance - the fundamentals post 2012 reforms
Foundation Trust Governors' Association (FTGA) - This is part of a series of briefings which is written and structured for foundation trust governors. The aim of this briefing is to enable governors to navigate around the financial reports provided to governors and identify the key information within these reports.
Briefing
FTGA - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 21, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Governance reviews: consultation document
Monitor - This draft guidance represents a starting point for NHS foundation trusts to structure reviews of their governance. It is designed to support NHS foundation trusts in gaining assurance that they are well led and, therefore, to help them to continue to meet patients’ needs and expectations in challenging circumstances. This consultation closes on 7th March 2014.
Consultation document
Online response form
Monitor - consultations (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 14, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Consultations Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
