English Surveillance Programme for Antimicrobial Utilisation and Resistance’ (ESPAUR)

The 'English Surveillance Programme for Antimicrobial Utilisation and Resistance’ (ESPAUR) report says more than one million UTI samples were analysed in NHS laboratories across England last year (2016), and that resistance was a “common” observation.

One in three (34%) of the samples analysed were found to be resistant to an antibiotic called trimethoprim, compared to 29.1% in 2015.

Public Health England has also launched a major new campaign to help ‘Keep Antibiotics Working’.

The campaign warns people that taking antibiotics when they are not needed puts them at risk of a more severe or longer infection, and urges people to take their doctor’s advice on antibiotics.

Health & Care Women Leaders Network launches

NHS Employers is excited to launch its new-look women leaders network and announce its first full-day conference.

Formally known as the HSJ Women Leaders Network, the network now enters a new phase supported by NHS Employers and the NHS Confederation.

Book now for the Health & Care Women Leaders Conference

Occupational Therspy Week 2017

OTWeek2017, 6 - 12 November 2017, is fast approaching and our resources pack will help you to promote occupational therapy as a career and talk about your work as an occupational therapist. Last year the packs we sent to members really helped to show the #ValueofOT.

World Occupational Therapy Day 2017 will take place on Friday 27 October and this year's theme is “Inform, Inspire, Influence”.

NHS Digital launches e-nursing week campaign

NHS Digital has launched its first ever e-nursing week in support of the campaign for a digital-ready workforce.

Diversity and inclusion conference 2017

The NHS Employers annual diversity and inclusion conference is being held on 21 September at the Business Design Centre, Islington.

This year we have a fantastic programme planned for delegates and are lucky to welcome global experts and inspirational key note speakers including Peter Cheese, Chief Executive, CIPD, Michael Bach, Founder and CEO, Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion, Belinda Parmar, Chief Geek, Empathy Business and Dr Manuela Barreto from the University of Exeter.

Equality, Diversity and Human Rights Week 2017

Last week's Equality, Diversity and Human Rights Week 2017 brought a great deal of activity in organisations across the NHS, celebrating the theme 'diverse, inclusive, together.' 

NHS Employers launched a range of tools and resources throughout the week, on topics including Brexit, widening participation and intersectionality. If you missed the intersectionality twitter chat there's a Twitter moment capturing highlights from the conversation.

EQW2017 - Widening Participation

As part of Equality, Diversity and Human Rights Week, NHS Employers will be focusing on widening participation.

The NHS Employers Widening Participation programme creates a sustainable approach for employers to engage with different community groups. The programme aims to work with employers in the NHS to:

• understand the reasons why the recruitment in the NHS is not representative of the communities it serves
• support employers to change their behaviours and organisational cultures to help widen participation into employment
• provide tools and resources for employers to understand their local opportunities for engaging with and recruiting from community groups
• promote support, advice and guidance available to employers and managers across the NHS to enable local improvement in widening participation.

Mainstreaming primary and acute care systems and multispecialty community providers: Sharing the learning

This event focused on sharing the learning coming out of the multidisciplinary community providers and primary and acute care systems new care model vanguards. It looked at what is working well and what can be replicated in other areas around the United Kingdom.

Equality, Diversity and Human Rights Week 2017

The sixth Equality, Diversity and Human Rights Week #EQW2017 will take place from 15 to 19 May 2017.

Equality, Diversity and Human Rights Week is a platform for organisations to highlight their work to create a fairer, more inclusive NHS for patients and staff. This year's theme diverse, inclusive, together was chosen to reflect the move across the health and care sector towards collaboration and integration.

NHS reform at scale and pace

Reform held a major health conference on 9 March 2017 to explore the theme ‘NHS reform at pace and scale’. The conference touched on the themes of Sustainability and Transformation Plans, workplace health, and achieving better care for less.

This conference brochure contains articles covering themes from across the conference from leading figures in public services.

Learning from deaths in the NHS – Tuesday 21 March, London

This is an event for NHS board members to look at how we can better learn from the deaths of patients who received NHS care. 

In particular you'll hear more detail about the new responsibilities of boards for reviewing, investigating and sharing learning from deaths, with a chance to discuss draft guidance and feed back your views.

Each trust has 2 places allocated (excluding ambulance trusts) for:

• your nominated executive lead for patient safety – who is usually the medical or nursing director who also has responsible for mortality
• your nominated non-executive director who will lead and oversee progress on the work on learning from deaths

NHS Experience of Care week – 20-24 March

In partnership with NHS England, NHS Improvement is organising this week to put the spotlight on its work across the system to improve patient/family/carer and staff experience. This week provides you with the opportunity to:

• celebrate your work at a local level as well as sharing it nationally and internationally
• pick up ideas, inspiration and contacts for future work on experience of care

Care for older people campaign launches

The CQC has launched its 'Worked up? Speak up' campaign about care for older people.

It wants more people aged 60 and over, and their friends and families, to share their experiences of health and social care with us.

Join the conversation on Twitter using the #CareForOlderPeople hashtag, or tell us about your care through our website.

Creating a great place to work

Taking place on 23 March in London, and with a 20 per cent discount for Confed members, Great Place to Work is designed to help NHS leaders build a culture of trust and engagement that attracts and retains employees, drives creativity and maximises your organisation’s productivity.

NHSI Midlands and East masterclass: Improving bank use and reducing agency spend

This masterclass is designed to support trusts in the Midlands and East region to increase the use of bank staff and reduce the use of high cost agency staff. Using the success of Northampton General Hospitals Trust (NGH) as a live case study, the session will provide you with practical support tools to help improve your trust’s bank utilisation.

Takes place 24th February 09.30-15.00 at Northampton General Hospital

National Careers Week 2017 #NCW2017

National Careers Week 2017 will be taking place between 6 - 10 March. The national campaign is an opportunity for employers to link up with local schools, colleges and job centres to promote the wide range of careers available within the NHS.

Webinar on nasogastric (NG) tube safety issues – 2pm-3pm Monday 6 March

Incidents of misplaced NG tubes continue to be reported to the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS). In partnership with Sign up to Safety, NHS Improvement's patient safety team is organising this webinar to address NG tubes safety issues and to hear about your experiences of implementing the NG tube guidance.

A million decisions campaign

Health Education England and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals have launched a joint campaign for decisions in the healthcare sector to be fully evidence-based. Every day more than a million decisions are made that have a profound and lasting impact on people's lives and which influence the quality of healthcare and the cost of services. The #milliondecisions campaign calls for everyone involved in policy making and care delivery to use the skills of librarians and knowledge specialists in meeting their obligations under the Health and Social Care Act 2012

LGBT equality in the workplace

NHS Employers has launched its new lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality in the workplace web pages to celebrate LGBT History Month.

Developing People - Improving Care

A webinar and online discussion about Developing People - Improving Care: the national framework for improvement and leadership development in NHS-funded services.