Health Management and Policy Alert

Putting community and cooperation into care and support: community of practice for community businesses and co-operatives

Think Local Act Personal -
This report details learnings from phase one of the Community of Practice which has concentrated on sharing the ambition, opportunities, risks and barriers to developing community businesses and co-operatives. It highlights how community businesses and co-operatives have the potential to make a significant contribution to supporting people to live well at home, as well as contributing to realising the ambitions in the social care White Paper that people can access high-quality support over which they can exercise choice and control.

• Report
• Think Local Act Personal - publications

Long Covid: a framework for nursing, midwifery, and care staff

NHS England -
This framework supports nurses, midwives and care staff in ensuring care remains at a high standard, as well as demonstrating the contribution to the long Covid response. It aims to give the opportunity to embrace collective leadership in supporting people and communities served and showcase good practice as it emerges across England.

• Guidance
• NHS England - publications

Rising living costs: the impact on NHS, staff and patients

NHS Providers - 

This survey of NHS trusts leaders looks at the impact rising living costs are having on the health service, staff and patients.

• Briefing
• Press release

People first: a response from health and care leaders to the urgent and emergency care system crisis

Care Quality Commission (CQC) -
This resource was designed and developed: using outcomes from CQC's urgent and emergency care workshop, held in May 2022; and by members of the CQC National Emergency Medicine Specialist Advisor Forum. It recognises the unscheduled care pathway as a continuum, with solutions required across the artificial divides between primary, secondary, community and social care. It aims to: support the design of person-centred urgent and emergency care services; and encourage innovation across integrated care systems.

• Report
• Care Quality Commission - publications

 

Our plan for patients

Department of Health and Social Care -
This policy paper details the government’s plans for the NHS and social care to deliver for patients, this winter and next. It covers four areas: ambulances; backlogs; care; and doctors and dentists.

• Policy paper
• Department of Health and Social Care - publications

Public perceptions of health and social care: what the new government should know

The Health Foundation -
This report highlights findings from a survey of 2,068 people aged 16 years and older in the UK. It finds that the public is pessimistic about the state of the NHS. The majority (55 per cent) think the general standard of care has got worse in the past 12 months. This is echoed by concerns about social care with the majority of respondents (56 per cent) saying that standards have got worse over the past 12 months. It also finds that the public are concerned about the impacts of rising costs of living on the nation’s health. 57 per cent think rising living costs are a high or very high threat to the health of UK citizens and 72 per cent believe overall health and wellbeing has declined in the past 12 months.

• Report
• The Health Foundation - press release

Dismissed for too long: the impact of migraine on children & young people

Migraine Trust - 

An estimated one in ten children are living with migraine. This potentially limits their development and ability to take part in education, social activities, and other important parts of growing up. It can also be hard for children to understand and explain their pain, and there are fewer treatment options for them than there are for adults. Based on a variety of workshops and surveys with children and young people who have migraine, parents and carers, and education professionals, this report highlights a clear need for better understanding of how migraine impacts children and for tailored information, guidance and support for children and young people of different ages who have migraine.

• Report
• More detail

How to make change happen in general practice

The King's Fund -
The growing crisis facing general practice, where demand is outstripping available workforce, means that as integrated care systems take on responsibility for NHS resources, understanding how to make change happen in general practice is vital.

• The King's Fund - publications

Saving brains: save brains, save money, change lives

Stroke Association -
This report warns that, if the thrombectomy rate stays at 2020/21 levels, 47,112 stroke patients in England would miss out on the acute stroke treatment, mechanical thrombectomy, over the length of the newly revised NHS Long Term Plan. It finds that this year, NHS England missed its original target to make mechanical thrombectomy available to all patients for whom it would benefit – only delivering to 28 per cent of all suitable patients by December 2021. It calls for a 24/7 thrombectomy service, which could cost up to £400 million. However the report calculates that treating all suitable strokes with thrombectomy would save the NHS £73 million per year.

• Report
• Stroke Association - press release

Protecting human rights in care settings

Joint Committee on Human Rights -
This report warns that gaps remain in how vulnerable people are protected in care settings, leaving their human rights at risk of being breached. It finds that mechanisms such as Do Not Attempt Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation notices and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards are often not applied correctly, meaning treatment can be wrongfully withheld or an individual’s liberty infringed. It calls on the Government to work with the Care Quality Commission to ensure there is stringent oversight of how care providers implement safeguards designed to protect the human rights of care users.

• Report
• Joint Committee on Human Rights - news