Health Management and Policy Alert

Personalised care and support planning guidance: guidance for local maternity systems

NHS England - 
This guidance identifies criteria to define personalised care planning and sets out what local maternity systems need to do to ensure personalised care planning is embedded into service delivery.

• Guidance

Women's health strategy: call for evidence

Department of Health and Care (DHSC) - 
This call for evidence seeks submissions from individuals and organisations to help better understand women’s experiences of the health and care system. The evidence will be used to form the basis of a new women's health strategy which aims to set a new agenda to improve health and wellbeing and ensure health services are meeting the needs of women. The consultation closes on 30 May 2021.

• Consultation

Health creation: how can primary care networks succeed in reducing health inequalities?

The Health Creation Alliance (THCA) - 

THCA, together with the Royal College of General Practitioners Health Inequalities Standing Group, held a series of multi-stakeholder events between February and September 2020. These considered how general practice and primary care work differently with communities and local partners to reduce health inequalities and what primary care networks can do to enable and create the conditions for practices to work differently with local partners to reduce health inequalities. This report summarises the discussions.

• Report
• THCA

 

Learning disability and autism: framework for commissioner oversight visits to inpatients

NHS England -
The NHS Long Term Plan made a commitment to making sure that people with a learning disability and/or people who are autistic are safe and are getting high quality inpatient care. This guidance for commissioners and case managers aims to support the implementation of best practice in relation to commissioner oversight visits. This includes the minimum expectations for visits during the coronavirus pandemic.

• Guidance
• NHS Long Term Plan
• NHS England - publications

Communications toolkit for local maternity teams to improve communications with Black, Asian and minority ethnic women

NHS England -
This toolkit aims to provide helpful suggestions about how to communicate with women of different backgrounds, about the extra support that is available to them, as well as signposting to currently available publications, messaging, insights and templates.

• Toolkit
• NHS England - publications

What people are telling us: a summary, July - September 2020

Healthwatch - 
Between July and September 2020, over 38,082 people shared their experiences of using health and social care with Healthwatch. The briefing is a summary of the key issues that the public are telling us about, including access to NHS dental care; the support provided in care homes; and accessing COVID-19 tests.

• Briefing
• Press release

Better Care Fund: policy statement 2020 to 2021

Department of Health and Social Care -
This document confirms how local authorities and CCGs should proceed with finalising plans and pooling agreements for funding under the Better Care Fund in 2020 to 2021, and sets out the national conditions for the Fund.

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

Improving flow along care pathways: learning from the Flow Coaching Academy programme

The Health Foundation -
The Flow Coaching Academy (FCA) programme is based on a co-coaching model combined with elements of improvement science. It aims to support establishing multiple FCAs across the UK, to scale up the approach and to build a community of practice to share learning. The training focuses on both the technical and relationship skills required to deliver continuous and sustainable improvement. This learning report is based on the formative FCA evaluation completed in 2019 by RAND Europe and interviews with FCA programme leads during the Covid-19 pandemic.

• Report
• The Health Foundation - publications

Elective care in England: assessing the impact of Covid-19 and where next

The Health Foundation -
This analysis shows there were 4.7 million fewer people referred for routine hospital care – such as hip, knee and cataract surgery – between January and August 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, representing a potential hidden backlog of unmet care needs.

• Briefing
• The Health Foundation - news

NHS hospital food survey

Patients Association - 

Being offered a choice of meals is very important to inpatients, this survey of patients' experience of hospital catering has found. This survey, commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care, was designed to complement, and feed into, the work of the NHS Hospital Food Review Panel. Patients who had spent one or more nights in hospital in the past six months were asked about their experiences of hospital catering.

• Report
• More detail
• Food review