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NEWS - NOVEMBER and DECEMBER 2018
GPs - AMOUNT PER PATIENT
GP practices received £152.04 per patient in 2017/18, official data reveal - an increase of just 0.4% compared with the previous year.
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HEALTHWATCH ENGLISH, ANNUAL REPORT 
48 pages

Healthwatch  heard from over 400,000 people during the last year about what they think of health and social care.
 
In our Annual Report to Parliament – ‘What matters most’ - our Chair, Sir Robert Francis, asks services to look beyond their performance statistics and explore people’s real day-to-day experiences, to help make care better.
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A PARLIAMENTARY BRIEFING INTRODUCES ROBOTIC TECHNOLOGY
6 pages

This POSTNOTE introduces robotic technology and the main ways it has been developed for use in social care.


It reviews evidence on the impact of robotics on the costs and quality of social care and its workforce, and explores the main ethical, social and regulatory challenges to its use in social care.
GP APPOINTMENTS IN THE EVENING AND WEEKENDS
All patients across England can now access general practice appointments in the evening and weekends, NHS England has announced today.

The extended access means that patients will be able to see a Doctor, Nurse or other member of the Practice Team at a time convenient to them – providing an estimated nine million extra appointments per year.

The weekend and evening service is available across the country, more than three months ahead of schedule, and will help ease pressures on the NHS as temperatures drop.

NHS England has started a communications campaign for the run up to Christmas, to ensure patients are aware of the evening and weekend appointments.
GOOGLE AND NHS PATIENT DATA
11 December 2018 ... 1 page

The Government has sought a “full explanation” for why an app developed using NHS patient data has been transferred to tech giant Google, where it will receive less independent oversight.

In response to written Parliamentary questions, Health Minister, Lord O’Shaughnessy, said he had met with Google DeepMind to raise the issues.

He said: “We will seek a full explanation from Google about its plans, including why they have halted the Independent Review Panel and how they intend to replace this function.

“We will work with regulators, including the Information Commissioner’s Office, and the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation to ensure anything that happens as a result of the transfer of Streams respects patients’ privacy and complies fully with the law.”

The Government had received assurances that no identifiable patient data has been transferred from Google DeepMind as a result of the change, he said.

It comes as a new report
[https://reform.uk/the-reformer/making-nhs-data-work-everyone-i-value-nhs-data] said that revenue from selling access to NHS patient data, which could generate an estimated £10bn a year for the service, was being put at risk by “a messy patchwork” of NHS partnerships with the private sector.

THE NEW NHS ENGLAND AND NHS IMPROVEMENT TOP TEAM REVEALED
11 December 2018  ... 3 pages

​The man responsible for managing Britain’s nuclear deterrent has been handed the job of overseeing the NHS’s finances as part of a welter of appointments to the new joint executive team for NHS England and NHS Improvement.
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Julian Kelly, who has been Director General within the Ministry of Defence’s Nuclear Division since May 2017, is due to take up the Joint Chief Financial Officer post by April 2019.

Mr Kelly was previously Director General of Public Spending and Finance at the Treasury, where he led work on the 2013 spending round, and has also held senior roles at the Border Agency and HSBC.


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HALCYON BIRTHING CENTRE - Closure
Letters:

To Professor Nick Harding (Chair) Sandwell & West Birmingham CCG (SWBCCG)

From:
1.      HAPIA  - 28 November 2018
2.      Al'Nisaa Organisation - 05 December 2018
NEW STANDARD
21 November 2018
                                                           NHS Digital must be quoted as the source of this information.

A new standard that will improve sharing clinical information between community pharmacies and GP practices has been published.
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This will allow information that community pharmacists gather from patients when providing services such as vaccinations, medications and guidance with minor ailments and share that information digitally with patients’ GPs.
NHS ENGLAND TO GIVE 'SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT' TO HEALTHWATCH
 27 November 2018
  •  NHS England and NHS Improvement to provide funding to Healthwatch England, likely as a one-off sum
  • Funds will be used for patient and public engagement in the NHS long-term plan
  • Local patient network usually funded by the government
Healthwatch England is to be given “significant investment” from NHS England and NHS Improvement.
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The new money will be used to consult with staff, patients and public about how the NHS long-term plan will affect the healthcare offered in local systems.


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HEALTHWATCH REPORTS ON EMERGENCY READMISSIONS
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15 pages

New research indicates a spike in emergency readmissions to hospital over the last year.
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DELAYED TRANSFERS OF CARE
A series of practical resources to support health and social care staff to reduce delayed transfers of care can be found here:
 
https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/call-to-action-a-series-of-practical-resources-to-support-health-and-social-care-staff-to-reduce-delayed-transfers-of-care/
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11 pages
CCG IMPROVEMENT AND ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK 2018/2019

The Latest 'Must Do' for CCGs
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- see item 57, highlighted, on table at end of document.
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31 pages
NHS KEY STATISTICS - October 2018
  • Accident and Emergency . Delayed Transfers of Care  .  Waiting Times for Consultant Led Treatment
  • Cancer Waiting Times .  Cancelled Operations  .  Diagnostic Tests: Activity and Waiting Times
  • Ambulance Response Times . Doctors, Nurses and other staff . ​Hospital Inpatient and Outpatient Activity
  • Bed Availability and Occupancy
FUNDING - LOCAL HEALTHWATCH -2018 ... 17 pages
Across England, there are 152 Local Healthwatch services. Their statutory role is to find out what people want from health and care and to share these views with those running services to help make them better. Local Healthwatch also provides people with information and advice about services.
                              Check table at the end, for state of your area’s LHW cash!
​ROBERT FRANCIS ATTACKS 'PERILOUS STATE' OF LOCAL HEALTHWATCH FUNDING
01 November 2018 ... 2 pages 

Funding of Local Healthwatch services has been plunged into a “perilous state” and their effectiveness is starting to be impaired, Sir Robert Francis has warned.
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In a letter to health and social care secretary Matt Hancock, the Chairman of the Mid Staffordshire Public Inquiry warned the numbers of full time staff employed by Healthwatch had crashed by 22 per cent in two years, while this year’s funding for some local areas had been slashed by 50 per cent.
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