Health Management and Policy Alert

Improving staff experience and staff engagement at QEH

NHS Employers - 

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust is a rural district general hospital in West Norfolk. In 2019, QEH had the worst NHS Staff Survey results in the country. This case study explores what the organisation did and how it applied staff engagement methods to improve its NHS Staff Survey scores.

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Minimum service levels in event of strike action: ambulance services in England, Scotland and Wales

Department of Health and Social Care - 

The DHSC is seeking views during passage of the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill on, subject to Parliamentary approval, introducing regulations on minimum service levels in England, Scotland, and Wales to support minimum service levels in the health service during strike action to protect patient safety. The consultation closes at 11:45am on 9 May 2023.

• Consultation document
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Expanding volunteer support in the allied health professions to start an NHS career

NHS Employers - 

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust used volunteers to support their allied health professionals, offering a first step into an NHS career.

• Case study

Expanding volunteer support in the allied health professions to start an NHS career

NHS Employers - 

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust used volunteers to support their allied health professionals, offering a first step into an NHS career.

• Case study

Supporting clinical leadership in virtual wards: a guide for integrated care system clinical leader

NHS England - 

This guidance supports integrated care system clinical leadership to create and develop their virtual ward service.

• Guidance
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Delayed hospital discharges and adult social care

House of Commons Library - 

This explainer sets out what the government is doing to reduce the number of people staying in hospital longer than necessary.

• Explainer

The state of community health services in England

Nuffield Trust - 

Community health services help people to stay healthy and live independently at home, but it has proved difficult to realise a long-standing ambition to deliver more services out of hospital. This explainer describes what community services are, who uses and provides them, who pays for them, and some of the challenges they face.

• Explainer

10 steps hospitals can take to tackle ethnic inequalities in elective waiting lists

NHS Race & Health Observatory - 

Across England, hospital activity continues to be seriously impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic with large falls in routine care resulting in millions of patients now subject to vast backlogs. Data analysis shows people from Asian groups faced larger falls in planned hospital care – both before and during the pandemic – than people from White, Black or Mixed ethnic groups. This infographic resource, designed in collaboration with the Nuffield Trust, aims to support the healthcare system by highlighting ten key ways to tackle these disparities, and to take practical actions to address the ethnicity gap in care provision.

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Guide to adopting remote consultations in adult musculoskeletal physiotherapy services

NHS England - 

This guide supports adult musculoskeletal (MSK) physiotherapy services – delivered by providers across primary community and/or secondary care – to implement evidence informed remote consultations.

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Both, and: population health and public health professionals need to make the most of distinct contributions to better health

The King's Fund - 

New population health roles in integrated care systems need a clear partnership with public health partners to succeed. In this blog, Toby Lewis and David Buck from The King's Fund explore steps to make that happen.

• Blog