Health Management and Policy Alert

AMHP Competency - mapping tool

The College of Social Work -
This tool aims to demonstrate how competencies required by social workers working as Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) meet professional development requirements for regulatory registration. The tool is designed to enable social worker AMHPs to map their continuing professional development targets within The College’s Professional Capabilities Framework to the standards of proficiency they need to meet for registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.

• Mapping tool
• The College of Social Work - press release

State innovation models: early experiences and challenges of an initiative to advance broad health system reform

The Commonwealth Fund -
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and states are partnering to transform health care systems by creating and testing new models of care delivery and payment. Interviews with officials from states participating in the State Innovation Models (SIM) Initiative reveal that the readiness of providers and payers to adopt innovations varies, requiring different starting points, goals, and strategies.

• Briefing
• The Commonwealth Fund - publications

Real-life leaders: closing the knowing-doing gap

Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) -

This report aims to open a debate on the barriers preventing organisations from getting closer to the desired state of effective leadership, and to help employers – and in particular those responsible for talent strategy, learning and development in an organisation – to bridge the gap between simply understanding what leadership is and ‘doing’ it in practice.
Please note: free registration is required in order to access this document.

• CIPD - publications

Local price setting and contracting practices for NHS services without a nationally mandated price

Monitor -
This research paper assesses how effective local contracts have been in delivering more for patients.

• Research paper
• Monitor - publications

District nursing - who will care in the future?

National Nursing Research Unit -
This Policy+ reviews data on the district nursing workforce, looks at the issues to be considered in planning, and considers whether the workforce needed to provide district nursing care in the future will be available.

• Report
• National Nursing Research Unit - publications

Social and emotional wellbeing for children and young people

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) -
This briefing summarises NICE's recommendations for local authorities and partner organisations on social and emotional wellbeing for children and young people, specifically, vulnerable children aged under 5 years and all children in primary and secondary education.

• Briefing
• NICE - press release

Tuberculosis in vulnerable groups

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) -
This briefing summarises NICE's recommendations for local authorities and partner organisations on identifying and managing tuberculosis in vulnerable people who may find it difficult to access services for diagnosis and treatment in traditional healthcare settings.

• Briefing
• NICE - press release

Transforming participation in health and care

NHS England -
This guidance aims to support commissioners to improve individual and public participation and to better understand and respond to the needs of the communities they serve. It highlights a range of ways in which NHS commissioners can fulfil their statutory responsibilities and seize the opportunity to deliver personalised and responsive care to all. It includes a range of tools, resources and case studies that commissioners will find useful when developing their own responses.

• Guidance
• NHS England - news

Vaccination of health and social care workers against flu, 2013/14

Department of Health -
This letter contains guidance to NHS and local authorities on how to improve flu vaccination uptake rates among staff.

• Letter
• Department of Health - publications

The National Health Service (Performers Lists) (England) Regulations 2013: payments to medical practitioners suspended from the Medical Performers List

Department of Health -
GPs providing NHS services in England must be on the performers list that is managed by NHS England. The Performers List Regulations 2013 provide for GPs on the list to be suspended in certain circumstances. Suspension from the list is a neutral act (ie it is not a punishment, nor a final decision about the GP’s conduct). The Secretary of State has determined that suspended GPs may be entitled to payments by NHS England.

• Regulations
• Department of Health - publications