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the latest overview of key papers and publications from the past quarter that
impact on the NHS and healthcare service delivery.
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Abstract: This study proves that organizational
attractiveness is vital for hospital managers to focus on, as it affects
employees' perception of whether the organization is a great place to work. It
reveals the need for those same managers to develop an internal market-oriented
culture (IMOC) directed toward hospital frontline employees, as it has both a
direct effect on organizational attractiveness and an indirect effect on
employees' engagement, turnover intention, and service quality.
Source: BMC Health Services Research 2019; 19(1): 307
Abstract: This briefing looks at differences
in basic pay between men and women based on NHS electronic staff record data
for December 2017, revealed among other findings that the median gender pay
gap for directly employed staff was 8.6% in favour of men – equivalent to an
earnings gap of £207 over that month.
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Source: Nuffield
Trust; 2019 [Freely available online]
Abstract:
This report
presents two years of workforce race equality data and enables organisations to
compare their performance with others providing similar services, with the aim
of encouraging improvement by learning and sharing good practice.
Source: NHS England; 2019
[Freely available online]
Abstract: This
toolkit aims to educate and empower staff to improve professionalism within
their workplace, helping organisations move towards making the NHS the best
place to work. The toolkit is based on tried and tested work undertaken by Hull
University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and is designed to help staff embed the
PACT programme in their organisation. It contains practical information, advice
and solutions to equip staff to deal with unprofessional attitudes and behaviours
in the workplace.
Source: NHS Employers; 2019 [Freely available
online]
Abstract: In this article and video, we'll look at why making personal and
organizational change can be so difficult, and how to make it easier.
Source: Mind Tools; 2019
[Freely available online]
Abstract: This report examines the arrangements for the recruitment
and appointment of chairs and non-executives within the NHS. As the report
demonstrates, the progress and gains made in the early 2000s towards a more
diverse board leadership in NHS trusts has gone into reverse or made no
progress.
Source: NHS Confederation; 2019 [Freely
available online]
Abstract: This interim plan,
developed collaboratively with national leaders and partners, sets a vision for
how people working in the NHS will be supported to deliver care and identifies
the actions that NHS England will take to help them.
Source: NHS Improvement;
2019 [Freely available online]
Abstract:
This report contains the observations of nine new NHS chief executives, with
tenures from 18 months to 2.5 years. It outlines the views of the new NHS chief
executives on the changes in leadership approach and culture that they believe
will be required if the NHS is to meet the ambitions of the long-term plan.
Source: NHS
Confederation; 2019 [Freely available online]
Abstract: Commissioned
by Health Education England, this framework has been produced by Tavistock and
Portman NHS Foundation Trust's national workforce skills development unit to
help organisations minimise the impact of workforce stress.
Source: Health Education
England (HEE); 2019 [Freely available online]
Abstract: This
briefing offers some top tips for maximising use of data from the NHS Staff
Survey.
Source: NHS
Employers; 2019 [Freely available online]
Abstract: No one has a fool
proof vision of the future, and even if your instincts are good, the outcomes
that you predict could be disrupted by a range of different factors. On the
other hand, things may turn out far better than you expected! In this article,
we explore how Scenario Analysis can bring these hopes and fears into the open,
give you a rational framework for exploring them, and enable you to make the
best possible choices.
Source: Mind
Tools; 2019 [Freely available online]
Abstract: Our new report,
supported by NHS Property Services, outlines the findings of research on the
impact of technology on the NHS estate. The purpose of our work was to
understand how technological developments in the NHS are affecting the estate
currently, and to identify opportunities for planning technology and the estate
together in future.
Source: The King’s Fund, 2019 [Freely available online]
Abstract: The NHS treats
more and more people each year, and patients have a right to expect to receive
treatment within the timescales set out by the NHS Constitution. This report
finds that increasing numbers of patients are being let down by the NHS’s
failure to meet deadlines for waiting times. The percentage of patients treated
within waiting times standards continues to get worse for both elective
(non-urgent care) and cancer treatment. The report finds that less than half of
trusts meet the 18-week waiting time’s standard for elective treatment, and
only 38 per cent meet the 62-day standard from referral to treatment for cancer
patients.
Source: Public Accounts
Committee, 2019 [Freely available online]
Abstract: What
was the real story of winter for trusts, their patients, and hard-pressed
frontline staff? This briefing examines winter 2018/19 for the provider sector.
It urges health leaders not to draw false comfort from the noticeable absence
of stories about ‘winter pressures’ in the media earlier this year.
Source: NHS Providers, 2019 [Freely available online]
Abstract: Following the publication of the NHS
long-term plan, NHS England and NHS Improvement committed to publishing an
implementation framework, setting out further detail on how it would be
delivered. Local systems are developing their five-year strategic plans, which
will describe the population needs and case for change in each area, then
propose practical actions that the system will take to deliver the commitments
set out in the NHS long-term plan. The framework summarises these commitments
alongside further information to help local system leaders refine their
planning and prioritisation. This includes detail about where additional
funding will be made available to support specific commitments and where
activity will be paid for or commissioned nationally.
Source: NHS England,
2019 [Freely available online]
Abstract: This report
looks into how the private hospital sector uses financial incentives to attract
NHS consultants to work for them. It argues that this could result in a
potential conflict between consultants' income and patients’ best interests.
The report was compiled between May 2018 and May 2019 using publicly available
data from the websites of private hospitals, NHS trusts and Companies
House.
Source: Centre for Health and the Public Interest, 2019 [Freely available
online]
Abstract: Patient safety is about maximising the
things that go right and minimising the things that go wrong. It is integral to
the NHS’s definition of quality in health care, alongside effectiveness
and patient experience. This strategy sets out what the NHS will do to achieve
its vision to continuously improve patient safety.
Source: NHS England,
2019 [Freely available online]
Abstract: This guidance
highlights the need for the NHS to involve users of care services and staff in
safety investigations. It aims to help the NHS to create an environment to
better support staff when things go wrong and to encourage learning from
incidents. Key challenges include fear, equity and fairness, and bullying
and harassment.
Source: NHS Resolution,
2019 [Freely available online]
Healthcare
for people leaving an immigration removal centre: guidance for NHS providers Abstract: This guidance is for NHS providers,
including immigration removal centre (IRC) health care staff. It explains
the entitlements and access to NHS care for people who are leaving an IRC and
moving into the community.
Source: Department of
Health and Social Care, 2019 [Freely available online]
Abstract: This report
argues that action must be taken in the next ten years to prevent the
collapse of ecosystems, to recover and regenerate nature, and to restore
people’s health and wellbeing. It looks at the costs of diet-related illness to
the NHS, and in lost work and benefits.
Source: Food, Farming and Countryside
Commission, 2019 [Freely available online]
Abstract: This briefing, compiled by the NHS
Confederation and its networks, sets out seven key challenges for the NHS in
2019 and beyond including funding, social care and the NHS in a
post-Brexit world.
Source: Nuffield Trust,
2019 [Freely available online]
Abstract: This briefing
provides an analysis of UK health care spending relative to comparable
countries, such as the G7 group of large developed economies or member nations
of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It finds
that the UK spends an average of £2,989 per person on health care, which
is around the median for OECD countries
Source: Office for
National Statistics, 2019 [Freely available online]
Abstract: The guidance accessing health care
after Brexit has been updated. It covers access to health care for UK residents
visiting or living in the EU and Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland
after Brexit.
Source: Department of Health and Social Care,
2019 {Freely available online]
Abstract: In an open
letter to MPs, The King's Fund, the Health Foundation and Nuffield Trust summarise
the four major areas where the impact of a no deal Brexit could be felt most
sharply in health and care.
Source: The King’s Fund,
2019 [Freely available online]
Abstract: This report shows that once the UK is
outside the Article 50 framework it will be far harder, and take far longer, to
get a deal with the EU. It discusses how health care will be affected,
including how the co-ordination of social security will
immediately cease. Cross-border health care rests on this, which means planned
treatment in other member states will be disrupted. In addition to this, the
European Health Insurance Card for emergency treatment will no longer function.
Source: The UK in a
Changing Europe, 2019 [Freely available online]
Abstract: This report ranks which
services have been outsourced successfully and which need reform. It also
shows that consecutive governments have overstated the benefits of outsourcing.
Senior politicians regularly claim outsourcing can still deliver 20–30 per cent
savings, but there is no evidence to support this.
Source: Institute for
Government, 2019 {Freely available online]
Abstract: According to this report, if the
global health care sector were a country it would be the fifth-largest
greenhouse gas emitter on the planet. The report finds that health care’s
footprint is equivalent to 4.4 per cent of global net emissions and that fossil
fuel combustion makes up well over half of health care’s global climate
footprint. The report makes the case for a transformation of the health care
sector that aligns it with the Paris Agreement goal of limiting climate change
to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Source: Health Care Without Harm, 2019 [Freely
available online]
Abstract: This report
draws on the experience and expertise of BMA members across all branches of
medical practice in the UK. It outlines where the BMA believes changes are
needed to ensure patient care is safe, to make the NHS a great place to
work and to transform services for the better.
Source: British Medical
Association (BMA), 2019 [Freely available online]
Abstract: This report reviews the Department
of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC’s) preparations to make sure the UK has
a steady flow of supplies for the health and social care sector when it leaves
the EU. It finds that of the 12,300 medicines used in the UK, DHSC estimates
that around 7,000 come from or via the EU. The report examines the progress
made – working with other government departments, NHS and social care
providers, and with private sector suppliers – in implementing the Continuity
of Supply Programme. It sets out the DHSC’s plan and records the progress made.
Source: Department of Health & Social
Care, 2019 [Freely available online]
