Find out how you can contribute to shaping the NHS Leadership Academy or register for the upcoming web seminars. This edition also outlines how you can respond to the Consultation on the Fundamental Review of Data Returns.
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On the agenda
Consultation on the Fundamental Review of Data Returns
This consultation builds on the Government’s commitment in the NHS White Paper Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS to undertake a fundamental review of data returns. The consultation proposes that 25 per cent of returns are discontinued.
NHS chief executives and their colleagues who wish to respond should note the closing date is 22 November 2011. For further information, contact fundamentaldatareview@dh.gsi.gov.uk
Policy news
No news this week
Consultations and evaluations
1. The NHS Leadership Academy – a call for your input
Publications
2. National Mobile Health Worker Project
Conferences and events
i. what’s new
3. Expert on Call: Energise for Excellence
4. Expert on Call: Productivity in Challenging Times Excellence
ii. places still available
No news this week
Patient safety alerts
Refer to website below
Extra notes
Chief executives are reminded that all communications requiring the attention of NHS and local authority management must include a Gateway reference number. In order to streamline the number of communications issued by the Department, these will continue to be summarised in ‘the week’ every Thursday.
Policy news
No news this week
Consultations and evaluations
1. The NHS Leadership Academy – a call for your input
(Gateway reference number: 16573)
The wider leadership community is asked to inform current thinking around the new Leadership Academy. Four key questions are being posed, and the deadline for responses is 5 September. Feedback will be provided to the Reference Network that is helping to shape arrangements.
Action: NHS chief executives who wish to take part in this opportunity can email their responses to NHSLeadership@dh.gsi.gov.uk by 5 September.
Read more about a call for your input
Publications
2. National Mobile Health Worker Project
(Gateway reference number: 16382)
This project set out to capture quantifiable evidence to support the case for investment in the use of mobile devices in clinical care. The national clinical lead for Mobile Solutions led a team of technical and clinical specialists and selected 11 pilot sites examining the technical and business change aspects of mobile working deployment.
Action: NHS chief executives will wish to review the report and consider the evidence to support their organisations with mobile working deployments.
Read the report Mobile Health Worker Project progress report
Conferences and events
i. what’s new
3. Expert on Call: Energise for Excellence
(Gateway reference number: 16570)
In the next Expert on Call session, Michelle Mello, National Lead for Energise for Excellence (E4E), will talk about the E4E Call to Action. E4E brings together a range of tools, approaches and measures under one umbrella to help nurses and midwives make changes and ensure patients receive the best possible care.
Action: NHS chief executives and their colleagues who wish to register for this free web seminar on 15 September can do so at event information
4. Expert on Call: Productivity in Challenging Times
(Gateway reference number: 16571)
This is an extra Expert on Call session. Helen Bevan, Chief of Service Transformation at the NHS Institute, will share how to build a platform of engagement for delivering quality and cost improvement in challenging times.
Action: NHS chief executives and their colleagues who wish to register for this free web seminar on 19 September can do so at event information
ii. places still available
No news this week
Patient safety alerts
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has sent the NHS the latest medical device alerts in the link below. Trusts are expected to take the specified action by the date given.
MHRA Medical Device Alerts
Unless otherwise stated, guidance referred to in the bulletin has not been commissioned or endorsed by the Department of Health – it is evidence that organisations and professionals may find helpful in improving practice. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is the Department’s provider of accredited evidence and guidance, which can be found on the Institute’s website