Working together to deliver the Mandate: strengthening partnerships between the NHS and the voluntary sector
This report, commissioned by the Foundation Trust Network (FTN) and
the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO),
pulls together a wide range of innovative partnerships and projects
between health trusts and voluntary sector providers across the country
to consider how the barriers to effective partnership working can be
overcome. It draws on these innovations as well as discussions at a
roundtable event hosted by The King’s Fund to present recommendations
addressed to different parts of the health and care system so that each
can play their part in supporting trusts and voluntary sector...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 3, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Library Service Tags: Integrated care Source Type: blogs
Consultation: a new start
This consultation asks for feedback by the 12th August 2013 on the
CQC plans for: inspecting all care services, NHS trusts and foundation
trusts and independent acute hospitals; developing clear standards of
care; making better use of information and evidence received;
introducing Chief Inspectors to lead national teams of expert
inspectors; developing a ratings system to help people choose between
services and to encourage services to make improvements; and making sure
that directors or leaders of organisations have made legal commitments
to provide safe and high-quality care, and are personally held to
account f...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 27, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Library Service Tags: Consultations Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Confidentiality clauses and special severance payments
This report suggests that there is a lack of transparency,
consistency and accountability in the use of compromise agreements in
the public sector, and that little is being done to change this
situation. It cites the whistleblowing over emergency care in the
Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust and other NHS bodies as examples.
Report
Executive summary
NAO - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 24, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Library Service Tags: Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Monetary losses and layoffs from EHR expenses and EHR mismanagement
More on monetary losses and layoffs from EHR expenses and EHR mismanagement:1. Layoffs to balance the budget...http://www.news-record.com/news/local_news/article_da765340-d912-11e2-9eac-001a4bcf6878.html... Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center [Winston-Salem, NC] said in November 2012, that it would cut 950 jobs — 6 percent of its total staff.Electronic records programs continue to push costs higher. The Winston-Salem Journal reported that Wake Forest’s Epic [EHR] program caused $8 million in work interruptions during the 2012-2013 year alone. Wake Forest is cutting costs at least through June 30 to make...
Source: Health Care Renewal - June 21, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Healthcare IT failure cerner millenium UPMC Ed Donald NPfIT Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center layoffs healthcare IT cost Source Type: blogs
NHS foundation trusts: review of 2012/13 performance
These presentation slides provide an overview of the key trends drawn
from the individual reports of NHS foundation trusts in England. It
provides topline information on governance risk ratings; A&E
performance; financial performance; and hospital acquired infection
control.
Slideshow (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 10, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Library Service Tags: NHS measurement and performance Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
MVNHS© Back in the News
Thanks to alert IB reader Peter K, we have two new items to add to our Much Vaunted National Health System© database. Last month, we noted that "[MVNHS©] doctors are prematurely ending the lives of thousands of elderly hospital patients because they are difficult to manage or to free up beds;" this was one side of the coin. It only gets worse, though, when one considers the other side of it:"Patients undergoing planned operations on the NHS are far more likely to die if they have their operations towards the end of the week ... those who had surgery on a Friday were 44 per cent more likely to die following the procedure ...
Source: InsureBlog - May 29, 2013 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Source Type: blogs
The NHS Friends and Family Test (FFT): guidance for maternity services
This guidance outlines the background and requirements for
implementing, reporting and publishing the national FFT within
NHS-funded maternity services from the 1st October 2013. It aims to
support those who will be establishing and implementing the test, and is
relevant to NHS trusts, foundation trusts and independent sector
organisations that provide NHS-funded maternity services.
Guidance
NHS England - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 29, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Library Service Tags: Patient involvement, experience and feedback Source Type: blogs
NHS foundation trust model core constitution
This updated constitution reflects provisions of the Health and
Social Care Act 2012 which are relevant to NHS foundation trusts'
constitutions and which are now in force.
Updated constitution
Monitor - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 21, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Library Service Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Providing value: the economic value generated by the foundation trust model
This report examines the economic benefits generated by NHS
foundation trusts and finds that they deliver £30 billion in economic
value annually. The analysis looked at foundation trusts broader
contributions to communities, arguing that trusts deliver social value
in a variety of ways through trust governance arrangements, sourcing
local goods, environmental reduction schemes, and employee and patient
health promotion initiatives and through international work.
Report
Foundation Trust Network - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 21, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Library Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs
Bringing trial data out of the shadows
All sectors have their own mood music, unobtrusive much of the time, but occasionally brought to startling effect into the foreground, dominating all else. The pharmaceutical industry is no different, and at present there is one insistent theme: transparency.And if there is one area of this debate behind which chords are starting to swell loudly it is the availability of clinical trial data. Unflattering or disappointing trial outcomes have been routinely unpublished, pharma's critics claim, which means patients taking part in trials can be exposed to ineffective or even dangerous products because previous negative researc...
Source: PharmaGossip - May 13, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Quality governance: how does a board know that its organisation is working effectively to improve patient care?
This guidance is aimed at members of boards of NHS organisations to
enable them to perform their role in improving health services for
patients. It is designed for use across all types of NHS providers,
including existing and aspirant NHS foundation trusts in the acute,
specialist, ambulance, community and mental health sectors. It may also
be of use to other staff in NHS bodies, such as senior management,
operational, clinical and nursing staff and those working on internal,
external and clinical audits.
Guidance
Monitor - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 23, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Library Service Tags: Leadership and leadership development Quality of care and clinical outcomes Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
The Countess of Chester Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: empowering, innovating and transforming using Electronic Service REcord (ESR) self service
This case study details the Countess of Chester Hospital’s
experiences of rolling out the functionality of manager self service.
From the outset, the Trust has utilised the full functionality of Self
Service, in addition to integrating the OLM/e-Learning functionality,
and this has positioned them as one of the leaders across the North West
region.
Case study
NHS Employers - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 22, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Library Service Tags: New technologies Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Clinical audit: statutory and mandatory requirements
This table provides a summary of the current statutory and mandatory
requirements imposed on healthcare providers working in the NHS in
England. It includes the 2013/2014 NHS Standard Contract, the
introduction of the NHS provider Licence by Monitor, changes to the
Foundation Trust Annual Report, and the review of the NHSLA Clinical
Negligence Schemes.
Table
HQIP - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 11, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Library Service Tags: Changing configuration of health services NHS measurement and performance Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
An email from Colette
Being public about my dance with cancer can have low moments. It’s depressing to be misconstrued, and sometimes it’s hard to be supportive of others without getting sucked in to grief and difficulties that I can’t help with.
But these things are nothing compared to the positive messages and stories that come my way. It’s one of the lovely things about putting the old breast cancer out there (as it were).
For example: a little while ago I had this, from Colette. It will surely lift your heart as much as it lifted mine.
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I had a very strange thought the other day ….. what would I say to someone...
Source: Bah! to cancer - April 2, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: Life is Good Recovery From Breast Cancer Source Type: blogs
Draft statutory guidance for Trust Special Administrators appointed to NHS foundation trusts
This draft guidance is aimed at Trust Special Administrators who may
in future be appointed to run NHS foundation trusts where the provision
of quality services is threatened. Views on how individuals who take on
the duties of a Trust Special Administrator will be appointed and carry
out their statutory roles are sought from from providers, commissioners
and other interested parties until the 11th March 2013.
Email response
Draft guidance
Monitor - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 28, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Library Service Source Type: blogs
