Health Management and Policy Alert

Employing workers overseas: key employment related considerations

NHS Employers - 
As the working landscape has altered due to the Covid-19 pandemic, more employees are now requesting to work flexibly and from agile locations. This may extend to employees choosing to move overseas and work remotely if their role permits this. This briefing was commissioned in response to questions raised from NHS workforce leaders about the legalities and practicalities of overseas remote working arrangements.

• Briefing
• NHS Employers - news

Housing our ageing population

Local Government Association -
This report makes a number of recommendations to government on how we can best meet the needs of people in later life with case studies demonstrating how councils are addressing the housing needs of an ageing population. It highlights how the suitability of the housing stock is of critical importance to the health of individuals and impacts on public spending, particularly adult social care, and the NHS.

• Local Government Association - publications

Digital transformation in the NHS

NHS Confederation -
This document contains views from across the NHS about progress on digital innovation and what more is needed to facilitate full digital transformation.

• Briefing
• NHS Confederation - publications

Whistleblowing disclosures report 2022: healthcare professional regulators

Nursing & Midwifery Council -
This report is part of a coordinated effort with seven other regulators to address serious issues that health and care professionals in the UK have raised. The most common themes of the disclosures this year related to patient safety and care; leadership and management; health and safety; and behaviour.

• Report
• Nursing & Midwifery Council - press release

Ipsos Global Health Service Monitor 2022

Ipsos - 

This annual study explores the biggest health challenges facing people today and how well-equipped people think their country’s healthcare services are to tackle them. The survey was run in 34 countries between 22nd July and 5th August 2022. Key findings include: for a third year, Coronavirus remains the biggest health problem facing people around the world (47 per cent globally, down from 70 per cent in 2021); and mental health (36 per cent) has experienced a five-point increase from 2021, making it the second biggest concern — for the first time, it is ahead of cancer (34 per cent) which is now third.

• Report
• More detail

Autistic people’s healthcare information strategy for England

NHS England - 

This document sets out an initial strategy for the development of information about the health of, and healthcare received by autistic people in England, from sources already collected or in the process of being established.

• Strategy
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Always there for us: evaluating Project Future's work at Bruce Grove youth club

Centre for Mental Health - 

This report finds that reaching out to youth clubs can enable mental health services to support young people who they might otherwise not reach. It evaluates Project Future’s work at Bruce Grove Youth Club in Haringey, North London where psychologists worked for two days a week. They supported young men who went to the club with their mental health and wellbeing and provided training, advice and support to the youth workers there.

• Report
• More detail

Reimagining health: a framing paper

Reform - 

In its early years, the National Health Service proved visionary. It provided high-quality care to meet the dominant needs of the population it served: timely, universal access to episodic, acute treatment. However, the structures and institutions designed to meet the challenges of the post-war world are not equipped to deal with current and future health challenges. Reform's new programme of work on 'Reimagining health' seeks to explore how to transform our approach to health. This framing paper sets out the case for change and identifies areas Reform wishes to explore in its research programme.

• Paper
• More detail

People first: a response from health and care leaders to the urgent and emergency care system crisis

Care Quality Commission (CQC) -
This resource was designed and developed: using outcomes from CQC's urgent and emergency care workshop, held in May 2022; and by members of the CQC National Emergency Medicine Specialist Advisor Forum. It recognises the unscheduled care pathway as a continuum, with solutions required across the artificial divides between primary, secondary, community and social care. It aims to: support the design of person-centred urgent and emergency care services; and encourage innovation across integrated care systems.

• Report
• Care Quality Commission - publications

 

Rehabilitation, recovery and reducing health inequity: easing the pain

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy -
This report outlines how people in marginalised groups and communities, such as those from ethnic minorities, are not only more likely to live shorter lives but spend a greater proportion of their lives struggling with health difficulties and disabilities. It highlights how some vital services that could tackle those inequities are either unavailable or poorly equipped to meet their needs.

• Report
• Chartered Society of Physiotherapy - news

Our plan for patients

Department of Health and Social Care -
This policy paper details the government’s plans for the NHS and social care to deliver for patients, this winter and next. It covers four areas: ambulances; backlogs; care; and doctors and dentists.

• Policy paper
• Department of Health and Social Care - publications

The good childhood report 2022

The Children's Society -
This report aims to show the latest trends in children's well-being. This year’s report shows that around 1 in 16 children (6 per cent) aged 10 to 15 in the UK are unhappy with their lives, and almost 1 in 8 (12 per cent), an estimated 562,000 of 10-15 year olds, are unhappy with school. It finds that the current cost of living crisis is having a significant effect on families, with 85 per cent of parents and carers surveyed in 2022 saying they are concerned about how it will affect their families in the next year, especially as over a third of parents and carers reported they already struggled with costs of school trips and uniform over the last year.

• Report
• The Children's Society - publications

A new way of working: ending rough sleeping together - progress report

The Kerslake Commission on Homelessness and Rough Sleeping -
This report assesses the steps made towards ending rough sleeping in England and considers the impact of the current economic crisis. It tracks the progress against its original recommendations made last September - grading them as green, amber or red – as well as providing an updated set of recommendations reflecting the present cost of living emergency.

• Report
• The Kerslake Commission on Homelessness and Rough Sleeping - press release

Outcome delivery plans: the case for keeping and improving the government’s performance framework

Institute for Government - 

New governments often scrap the performance framework of their predecessor. This report sets out why the new government would be wise to retain outcome delivery plans (ODPs) and provides recommendations on how the ODP framework can be strengthened.

• Report
• More detail

New horizons: what can England learn from the professionalisation of care workers in other countries?

Nuffield Trust -
This report finds that perceptions of care work as low skilled continue to persist, despite the pandemic highlighting just how vital care workers are. In recent years there has been increased debate around the ‘professionalisation’ of this staff group, which generally refers to the creation of a statutory register of staff and their professional regulation. This report reviews what the evidence shows about the professionalisation of care workers in other countries.

• Report
• Nuffield Trust - publications