Health Management and Policy Alert

Acknowledging the use of the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service

Public Health England - 
This guidance has been published as part of the commitment to raise awareness of the cancer registry and the benefits brought about by the application and use of patient-level cancer data, in accordance with the National Data Guardian Review of Informed Choice for Cancer Registration.

• Guidance
• Public Health England - publications

Investigation into preparations for potential Covid-19 vaccines

National Audit Office -
This report examines the government’s progress in securing potential vaccines and determining how they will be deployed to the public. This report looks at government’s approach to identifying potential vaccines, government’s progress to date, how government is organising itself to work at pace, and challenges government needs to manage as it deploys the vaccine. It covers the period from April to 8 December 2020.

• Report
• National Audit Office - press release

Transformation of urgent and emergency care: models of care and measurement

NHS England -
This report sets out the recommendations from the clinically-led review of NHS access standards for urgent and emergency care.

• Report
• NHS England - publications

A guide to promoting health care workforce well-being during and after the Covid-19 pandemic

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) -
This guide provides ideas and lessons learned to improve the wellbeing of the health care workforce, including actions that individuals, leaders, and organisations can take to support the health care workforce during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond. It aims to support health care leaders at all levels with actionable tools for combatting health care workforce burnout, fatigue, and emotional distress. 

• Guide

 

Reforming the finances of the NHS

The King's Fund - 
A new financial architecture for the NHS requires coherence and balance, and a recognition that any national financial strategy will be heavily mediated by the quality of local relationships. Our new long read discusses how lessons from the recent history of NHS finances can help the system plan for the future.

• Long read

What is the goal of advanced telecare provision for older people? How we define its success will affect how we view its outcomes

Housing LIN - 
This report suggests that there is a discrepancy in opinion about what telecare is for and the goals to be achieved, between telecare designers, suppliers, manufacturers, local authority commissioners, housing association managers, and the many others professionally engaged in rolling out telecare services. It highlights that here are many different goals at play in advanced telecare provision.

• Report
• Summary

Unlimited potential: report of the Commission of Gender Stereotypes in Early Childhood

Fawcett Society - 
This report warns that harmful gender stereotypes are significantly limiting children’s potential, causing problems such as lower self-esteem in girls and poorer reading skills in boys. It finds that stereotypes contribute towards the mental health crisis among children and young people, are at the root of girls’ problems with body image and eating disorders, higher male suicide rates and violence against women and girls.

• Report
• Press release

Rural, remote and at risk: why rural health services face a steep climb to recovery from Covid-19

Nuffield Trust - 
Even before the pandemic, rural and remote health services faced long-standing workforce, financial and capacity issues. So how are those same services faring in the face of the biggest health crisis in generations? This analysis assesses the outlook for these providers of care.

• Report

Income-related inequalities in affordability and access to primary care in eleven high-income countries

The Commonwealth Fund - 
To compare the health experiences of adults with lower income during the pandemic and the effect of income-related disparities, the Commonwealth Fund surveyed adults across 11 high-income countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. In nearly all countries, adults with lower income were significantly more likely than those with higher income to have multiple chronic health conditions.

• Report

Unequal impact? Coronavirus and BAME people

House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee - 
This report outlines the findings of an inquiry which aimed to explore the pre-existing inequalities facing people from ethnic minorities and how these inequalities have impacted on their vulnerability to the virus. It makes a series of recommendations to help mitigate the impacts of the pandemic on ethnic minority groups.

• Report
• Inquiry