Health Management and Policy Alert

Local general practitioners retention fund: guidance for NHS England regional and local office teams

NHS England - 
This guidance sets out the availability of new funding in 2018/19 to further support delivery of the commitment set out in the General Practice Forward View to ensure an additional 5,000 extra doctors working in general practice by 2020.

• Guidance

Corporate records retention and disposal schedule and guidance

NHS England - 
This document outlines the policy for the retention and disposal of records held by NHS England. It provides guidance for all NHS England staff on managing corporate information and records. 

• Guidance

Local health and care record exemplars: a summary

NHS England - 
This guidance provides a summary of the Local Health and Care Records Exemplars programme. It outlines the aims and requirements of the programme and sets out potential future developments. 

• Guidance

Transforming care: the challenges and solutions

Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) -
This report outlines the challenges and solutions to moving people with learning disabilities, autism and/or mental health conditions out of long-stay inpatient care. It offers insight from a pilot project and provides recommendations for future steps.

• Report
• Press release

Using data in the NHS: the implications of the opt-out and GDPR

The King's Fund - 
Our new long read explores the use of data in the NHS, the systems in place for protecting data and what GDPR and the opt-out might mean for the future. 

• Report

Hypothecated funding for health and social care: how might it work?

The King's Fund - 
Hypothecated funding for health and social care is back on the political agenda. This paper sets out the problems hypothecation is meant to solve - and the conditions under which it might do so - and provides a brief history of hypothecation in the UK.

• Report

NHS operational productivity: unwarranted variations - mental health services, community health services

NHS Improvement -
Lord Carter's review identifies unwarranted variation in the delivery of mental health and community health services, as well as the potential savings of nearly £1 billion that could be made in efficiencies by 2020/21.

• Report
• NHS Improvement - publications

Health matters: preventing Type 2 Diabetes

Public Health England -
This guidance outlines how to optimise the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme in order to identify those already found to be at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes and offer support that will help them reduce their risk of developing the disease.

• Guidance
• Public Health England - publications

Securing the future: funding health and social care to the 2030s

Institute for Fiscal Studies -
This report is a collaboration between the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Health Foundation, in association with NHS Confederation. It aims to understand how and why spending on health and social care has risen over time, where the money is spent, how costs are likely to develop in the future, and how these costs might be met.

• Report
• Institute for Fiscal Studies - press release

Under pressure: safely managing increased demand in emergency departments

Care Quality Commission -
This report features practical solutions from staff. It identifies what needs to change to keep services safe when facing surges in demand. It calls for wider action for health and social care services to work together. It concludes that a joint approach will help the whole health and care system to manage capacity as demand grows.

• Report
• Care Quality Commission - press release