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Reconfiguring NHS services: ministerial intervention powers
Department of Health and Social Care -This guidance sets out the process for ministerial intervention in reconfiguration of NHS services, including when and how NHS commissioning bodies must notify the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care of NHS service changes.GuidanceDepartment of Health and Social Care - publications (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - January 10, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Legislation and reform Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: news

Commissioner guidance for adult mental health rehabilitation inpatient services
NHS England - This guidance supports the planning and commissioning of local mental health rehabilitation inpatient services as part of a whole pathway, to meet the identified need of local populations.GuidanceMore detail (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - January 9, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Mental health Source Type: news

Improving the mental health of babies, children and young people: a framework of modifiable factors
Department of Health and Social Care - The mental health of babies, children and young people (BCYP) influences their future mental health, as well as their current and future physical health, affecting their wider life chances and outcomes. The early part of the life course, from birth to young adulthood (0 to 25 years), provides important opportunities for promoting and protecting mental health. The purpose of this document is to: highlight the wide range of modifiable factors that interact to influence the mental health of BCYP; summarise these in a framework; and convey opportunities across the BCYP life course f...
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - January 8, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Mental health Source Type: news

Advanced nursing practice for gynaecology and women ’s health
Royal College of Nursing - Gynaecology and women ’s health care has many sub-specialties, including hysteroscopy, general gynaecology, early pregnancy, emergency gynaecology, colposcopy, urogynaecology, menopause, endometriosis and gynaecology oncology. This publication has set out pathways for advanced nursing practice and advanced clinical pra ctice roles, which will enhance clinical care, the patient experience and enable progression career development for nurses.GuideMore detail (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - January 8, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: news

Recruiting and promoting specialist grade doctors
NHS Employers - This case study describes how Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust by recognising doctors who are showing excellence in specialty or locum consultant roles increased the number of specialist grade doctors.Case study (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - January 8, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: news

Rest, rehydrate, refuel project
NHS Employers - Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was keen to introduce the Royal College of Nursing'sRest, rehydrate and refuel initiative, and did so through a project led by one of the chief nurse clinical fellows. First, staff were surveyed to understand the current situation and any barriers they may face. This was followed by a trial on two pilot wards, before roll out of a trust-wide campaign.Case study  (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - January 8, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: news

Health inequalities, lives cut short
This report confirms that a million people in 90% of areas in England lived shorter lives than they should between 2011 and the start of the pandemic. Using several published Office for National Statistics data sources, the IHE made these calculations from the number of excess deaths (the increase in the number of deaths beyond that would be expected) in the decade from 2011 in England.ReportPress release (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - January 8, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: news

Beyond the average: making fairer decisions for public health
This report outlines the potential for the use of these tools across the NHS and other public services, helping reduce health inequality by modifying decisions about screening and vaccination and investments in facilities as well as new medicines.ReportPress release (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - January 3, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: news

Great government: public service reform in the 2020s
This report examines the state of the state by focussing on the challenges facing the NHS, schools, and the justice system in the UK, which the next government will need to address, and sets out a plan for progress. It suggests that even if the next government matched previous rates of improvement, it would take nearly ten years to recover levels of access in the NHS, up to seven years to return to our previous performance on the education attainment gap and a decade to clear the courts backlog.Report (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - January 3, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 NHS performance and productivity Source Type: news

Primary care provider collaboratives: what you need to know
NHS Confederation -In response to the changing health and care system, primary care providers are coming together within systems to form collaboratives. These collaboratives are supporting integrated care systems ’ strategic objectives and creating a voice for primary care at system level. This briefing explores the role of primary care provider collaboratives in detail.NHS Confederation - publications (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - December 22, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Integrated care, collaboration and partnership Primary and community care Source Type: news

Role of incentive schemes in general practice: consultation
Department of Health and Social Care -In England, general practices are incentivised through two main schemes, the Quality and Outcomes Framework and the Investment and Impact Fund. These schemes aim to enhance health care delivery and patient outcomes by incentivising continuous improvement in clinical care and public health delivery. This consultation seeks views on the role of incentives in general practice. The closing date for comments is 7 March 2024.ConsultationDepartment of Health and Social Care - consultations (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - December 21, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Consultations Primary and community care Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: news

Moving to healthy homes
The Health Foundation -This briefing examines the problems caused by'non-decent' housing, overcrowding and access to housing. It sets out the health case for change, outline the principles to create healthy homes (including through the Decent Homes Standard) and calls for a long-term strategy to ensure healthy homes for all.The Health Foundation - publications (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - December 21, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: news

Care data matters: a roadmap for better adult social care data
Department of Health and Social Care -This guidance outlines priorities for how social care data is collected, shared and used, and how the quality and availability of adult social care data is improved, at both national and local levels.GuidanceDepartment of Health and Social Care - publications (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - December 21, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Digital health and data Social care Source Type: news

What ’s driving increasing length of stay in hospitals since 2019?
The Health Foundation -For over two decades before the Covid-19 pandemic, there were sustained reductions in the average length of patient stays in hospital, allowing the NHS in England to deliver more inpatient care while gradually reducing the number of hospital beds. However, as shown by previous analysis, 2022 broke this trend. This analysis aims to examine the extent to which changes in clinical needs, including Covid-19, might explain the increase in the length of stays and to explore the possible implications for health services and policymakers.Report (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - December 20, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Patient involvement, experience and feedback Source Type: news

Bold action or slow decay? The state of NHS dentistry and future policy actions
Nuffield Trust -This analysis of routine and publicly available data on funding, activity, access and staffing finds that the pandemic, austerity and the cost of living crisis have affected NHS dentistry. It concludes that the service is at its most perilous point in its 75-year history and radical action will be needed to prevent its further decline: either through further means testing, extensive reforms to dental contracts combined with a huge boost in staffing, or a large injection of funds.Policy briefingNuffield Trust - policy briefing (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - December 19, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Primary and community care Source Type: news