No images? Click here Healthcare leaders updateFriday 20 May 2022A note from Sir David Sloman, Chief Operating Officer, NHS England and NHS ImprovementThank you for joining our webinar yesterday, which followed our announcement that the NHS has now moved across from a Level 4 (National) to a Level 3 (Regional) incident. We reflected on the extraordinary achievements that we've collectively led our way through over the last two years. It is truly remarkable that the NHS has surpassed 730,000 patients with COVID-19 treated in our hospitals, and 123 million vaccine doses delivered, as well as delivering over 140,000 treatments through our new COVID medicine delivery units. We are not setting any additional expectations or priorities on local systems beyond those in the 2022/23 priorities and operational planning guidance, the Delivery plan for tackling the COVID-19 backlog of elective care, and supporting guidance. However, we would expect your immediate focus across your systems to be on delivering timely urgent and emergency care and discharge, providing more routine elective and cancer tests and treatments, and improving patient experience. This includes full implementation of the infection prevention and control guidance, with principles on hospital visiting and maternity/neonatal services remaining in place as an absolute minimum standard. A number of your questions yesterday were on the current incident reporting arrangements following the change in incident status. These are currently being reviewed by our incident and data teams to streamline and rationalise where possible, while maintaining a degree of vigilance as new variants of the virus emerge. Colleagues on our call yesterday also had questions about Monkeypox – below you can find further information and we will keep you updated on this. Thank you again to your teams for their unwavering commitment to our patients, and to you for your continued leadership. Best wishes, David MonkeypoxMonkeypox is the latest health issue that has been in the news and while it’s an uncomfortable condition, it’s unlikely to be fatal and rare that it spreads between most people. Extremely rare and primarily found in remote parts of central and west Africa, the Monkeypox virus is transmitted from one person to another by contact with lesions, body fluids, respiratory droplets and contaminated materials such as bedding. It typically presents clinically with fever, rash and swollen lymph nodes. There is a vaccine which also works on smallpox and vaccines will be offered to connected healthcare staff and supplies are readily available. Advice to frontline clinicians and actions for the NHS were sent out via a CAS alert by UKHSA on Tuesday. UKHSA has confirmed a number of cases in three clusters in the South East, London and North East and the majority are mild cases. Both healthcare contacts and community contacts of these patients have been identified and offered vaccines where appropriate and people who suspect they have Monkeypox are being advised to call and make appointments at sexual health clinics or contact NHS 111. Thanks to all staff caring for these current patients and any further cases that come through, and we will keep you updated on this. COVID-19 latestOther updatesNational Medical Examiner reportThe 2021 National Medical Examiner report details progress with implementing the medical examiner system, milestones achieved, examples of impact, and key activity. Guidance following Control of Patient Information (COPI) expirationThe current COPI notices expire on Thursday 30 June. Our guidance on processing confidential patient information provides a step by step guide to changes. Implementing patient-initiated follow-upNew guidance provides the main considerations and best practice to supporting implementation of patient-initiated follow-up (PIFU), drawn from learning from people, clinicians, services, trusts and systems. Delivering a personalised outpatient modelOur guidance, support for delivering a personalised outpatient approach uses insights from a group of pilot trusts, national clinical directors, royal colleges and GIRFT leads. National thank you dayFrom Friday 3 June to Sunday 5 June the UK will celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, marking 70 years’ service. As part of these celebrations the Together coalition is celebrating its national thank you day on Sunday 5 June. Please join in and share your personal thanks with the hashtag #ThankYouDay. News from our partnersNMC register data reportWith nearly 600,000 nurses, midwives and nursing associates registered in England the NMC register is now at its highest level ever. The register report, published this week provides further detail. GMC - Good medical practice reviewShare your views on the updated version of the GMC’s core guidance, Good medical practice, which sets out the standards of patient care and professional behaviour expected of all GMC registered medical professionals. Consultation closes Wednesday 20 July. Getting vital health and wellbeing information to busy colleaguesVictoria Manning, from London Northwest University Healthcare NHS Trust, explains the importance of having health and wellbeing representatives in the NHS Employers blog. Events and webinarsNHS ConfedExpoWednesday 15 and Thursday 16 June, Liverpool: View the NHS ConfedExpo agenda, read the speaker biographies, and book your place. Sessions include: The future of urgent and emergency care; integration through the lens of leadership; and championing diversity and inclusion in healthcare innovation. You can use our ConfedExpo campaign resources to communicate the event to your own networks. Working with people and communitiesTuesday 24 May, 10am to 11am: This introductory session will share practical tools and resources on working with people and communities to help improve health outcomes. Improving patient outcomes through open-source applicationsThursday 26 May, 11am to 12pm: Open source applications have the potential to improve patient outcomes and reduce the burden on frontline healthcare workers. Find out more about delivering robust data and analytics in this webinar about Python-based frameworks and tools. Getting ready for patients to have access to their future dataTuesday 31 May, 12pm to 1pm: The online session will focus on what patient access to GP records means. Hypertension: Core20PLUS5 - reducing inequalitiesTuesday 24 May, 12.30pm to 2pm: This webinar focuses on how the Core20PLUS5 approach to reducing healthcare inequalities can be implemented to support hypertension case finding. 10 steps to working with people and communitiesTuesday 7 June, 9:30am to 4pm: This free, one-day online course explores a 10 step model that sets out what must be considered when developing engagement plans and building partnerships with people and communities. NICE’s real-world evidence frameworkThursday 23 June, 2pm to 3pm: This free virtual event will officially launch the real-world evidence framework. Hear how the framework will help resolve knowledge gaps and drive forward patient access to innovative treatments. Have you seen?Latest figures show that over 18,000 FTE additional staff have been recruited to Primary Care Networks (PCNs), as part of expanded community multidisciplinary teams since March 2019. This case study explores how West Leeds PCN have used the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme to introduce new roles into their PCN, pooling capacity, experience, knowledge and skills to deliver care to their patients. This bulletin is sent every Tuesday and Friday to ICS leads, CCG clinical leads and accountable officers, and NHS provider chairs, chief executives, chief operating officers, finance, medical and nursing directors, and board secretaries. |