NHS Employers workforce survey results

A workforce survey by NHS Employers  reporting current reported trends in the labour market across the NHS, including information on pay awards and affordability along with recruitment, retention, workforce supply and service demand. 

Public Health England publishes cold weather plan

With winter fast approaching, the cold weather plan for England has been published by Public Health England (PHE).

Commissioning for value data packs

These packs from Public Health England are for use by the local health community and its partners, GP commissioners and leaders and CCG senior management teams and health and wellbeing boards. They will support local discussion about prioritisation and utilisation of resources

Lessons from Europe: assuring quality through regulation

With the Francis report proposing far-reaching changes to how quality in the NHS is assured and regulated, the final Lessons from Europe seminar examined what the NHS in England can learn from how European countries assure quality in a market-based environment.

Patients unsure how to raise concerns about poor medical care

A new report has found that many patients are unsure how to raise concerns about poor medical care and more needs to be done to help them

Adopt, improve or defend - An AID for QIPP

Commissioners in Wigan have embedded a systematic approach to achieve challenging QIPP targets by identifying and addressing variations in local healthcare. This has been achieved through a three-stage process. Savings of £18m were achieved in 2012-13. 

Closing the NHS funding gap: how to get better value health care for patients

Health services will need to change radically in order to secure the future of the NHS Monitor has warned. These changes will be needed if the health sector is to close a £30 billion funding gap while providing good quality services to patients that are free at the point of use and fit for the needs of patients in the 21st century.

Patient survey highlights variation in benefit from common NHS operations

The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has published an interactive map showing the level of health benefit patients feel they gain from four common NHS operations under different providers. For the first time the map presents the annual results of the Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) programme. 

Lincolnshire Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 2013 Update Report Published

The Lincolnshire Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) 2013 Overview Update Report has just been published on the LRO. This document provides an update of this overarching Joint Strategic Needs Assessment for the health and wellbeing of the Lincolnshire population. 

Local price setting and contracting practices for NHS services

Monitor has published a new research paper which assesses just how effective local contracts have been in delivering more for patients, with the focus being on national price setting.

NHS won’t meet £20bn improvement target

The NHS will struggle to meet its target of delivering £20bn in productivity improvements by 2015 according to the latest quarterly monitoring report from the King’s Fund. 

Patients are at the centre of new ward inspection regime

NHS England has published findings from its patient-led inspections of hospitals.

Quality and safety in the NHS

This study of NHS cultures and behaviours found that the quality of care in the English NHS is too often compromised by a lack of clearly defined goals, too much regulation and highly variable staff support

Consultation on the 2014/15 national tariff

New rules will come into force next year allowing local experiments in ways of paying for NHS-funded services to develop new models of care for patients.

Monitor clarifies process on awarding foundation trust status

Monitor has reaffirmed that it will not grant foundation trust status to any further NHS trusts until it receives robust assurance from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) that applicants are providing a good quality of care for patients.

Monitor has also updated Applying for NHS foundation trust status: Guide for applicants

New EU Directive on public procurement

This briefing provides an overview of key aspects of the new EU public procurement Directive and its implications for the health service

Predicting hospital admission: an observational study

This study aimed to test the performance of new variants of models to identify people at risk of an emergency hospital admission.

NHS written complaints figures released

NHS organisations received more than 162,000 written complaints during 2012/13, the equivalent of over 3,000 complaints a week, according to figures released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.

‘Care left undone’ during nursing shifts: associations with workload and perceived quality of care

This report aims to examine the nature and prevalence of care left undone by nurses in English National Health Service hospitals and to assess whether the number of missed care episodes is associated with nurse staffing levels and nurse ratings of the quality of nursing care and patient safety environment

Tool for measuring adverse events

This tool provides an easy-to-use method for accurately identifying adverse events and measuring the rate of adverse events over time. This paper provides step-by-step instructions for using the tool to accurately identify adverse events and measure the rate of adverse events over time.