Health Management and Policy Alert

NHS data: maximising its impact for all

Imperial College London - 

This paper identifies strategic and technical recommendations to move towards developing a health data policy ecosystem that is designed so that value, either clinical, societal or financial, is more readily extracted from patient data.

• Paper
• More detail

NHS England business continuity management toolkit

NHS England - 
This document highlights the need for Business Continuity Management (BCM) in NHS organisations so that they can maintain continuity of key services in the face of disruption from identified local risks. Under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (as amended), all NHS organisations have a duty to put in place continuity arrangements. The toolkit is driven by the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) cycle along with being updated in line with both ISO 22301 principles, as well as the Business Continuity Good Practice Guidelines 2018.

• Toolkit
• NHS England - publications

Urgent and emergency care improvement guide to contact hubs for primary, ambulance and clinical calls

NHS England -
This guide has been designed for providers and systems to consider embedding as good practice to reduce ambulance handover delays. The contents have been drawn from the Winter Improvement Collaborative which was set up to identify solutions to the problems facing the system over the winter period. Members of the collaborative were asked to co-design a series of plans and potential improvement measures, to be adapted and trialled at local level.

• Guidance
• NHS England - publications

Urgent and emergency care improvement guide to direct access

NHS England - 
This guide has been designed for providers and systems to consider embedding as good practice to reduce ambulance handover delays. The contents have been drawn from the Winter Improvement Collaborative which was set up to identify solutions to the problems facing the system over the winter period. Members of the collaborative were asked to co-design a series of plans and potential improvement measures, to be adapted and trialled at local level.

• Guidance
• NHS England - publications

Care workforce pathway for adult social care: call for evidence

Department of Health and Social Care -
This call for evidence will inform the development of a new care workforce pathway for adult social care. The Department of Health and Social Care, in partnership with Skills for Care, is consulting to gather views on what should be included within the pathway. These views will be considered when developing the first iteration of the pathway, which is scheduled to be published in autumn 2023. The closing date for comments is 31 May 2023.

• Call for evidence
• Department of Health and Social Care - consultations

Deaths at home during the Covid-19 pandemic and implications for patients and services

Nuffield Trust - 
Statistics show that, since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a third more people have died at home in England. This research sheds light on the services used by people who died at home in England, both before and during the first year of the pandemic, including looking at variation between socioeconomic and ethnic groups, and by cause of death. This report includes a perspective on the findings from a patient and public involvement group based on their own experiences of end-of-life care.

• Report
• Nuffield Trust - publications

Urgent and emergency care improvement guide same day emergency care flow

NHS England -
This guide has been designed for providers and systems to consider embedding as good practice to reduce ambulance handover delays. The contents have been drawn from the Winter Improvement Collaborative which was set up to identify solutions to the problems facing the system over the winter period. Members of the collaborative were asked to co-design a series of plans and potential improvement measures, to be adapted and trialled at local level.

• Guidance
• NHS England - publications

Urgent and emergency care improvement guide same day emergency care pathways

NHS England -
This guide has been designed for providers and systems to consider embedding as good practice to reduce ambulance handover delays. The contents have been drawn from the Winter Improvement Collaborative which was set up to identify solutions to the problems facing the system over the winter period. Members of the collaborative were asked to co-design a series of plans and potential improvement measures, to be adapted and trialled at local level.

• Guidance
• NHS England - publications

Urgent and emergency care improvement guide specialty support to the urgent and emergency care pathway/internal professional standards

NHS England - 
This guide has been designed for providers and systems to consider embedding as good practice to reduce ambulance handover delays. The contents have been drawn from the Winter Improvement Collaborative which was set up to identify solutions to the problems facing the system over the winter period. Members of the collaborative were asked to co-design a series of plans and potential improvement measures, to be adapted and trialled at local level.

• Report
• NHS England - publications

NHS delivery and continuous improvement review: recommendations

NHS England -
This report contains the findings and recommendations of the delivery and continuous improvement review conducted by Anne Eden. It looked at how improvement-led delivery can enhance the quality of outcomes for our patients, communities and our health and care workforce. It recommends establishing a national improvement board to agree a small number of shared national priorities on which NHS England, with providers and systems, will focus improvement-led delivery work. It also recommends launching a single, shared ‘NHS improvement approach’ and co-designing and establishing a Leadership for Improvement programme.

• Report
• NHS England - publications