Academy of the Medical Royal Colleges on the impact on healthcare after Brexit

The impact on healthcare after Brexit - a statement from the Academy of the Medical Royal Colleges.

The challenges faced by the healthcare sector in relation to the regulation and continued supply of life-saving medicines and medical devices after the United Kingdom leaves the European Union are of great concern to those who are responsible for patient care.

Read the statement at http://www.aomrc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/TMBrexitspeech_060318-3.pdf

High impact change model Managing transfers of care

This resource supports the High Impact Change model for managing transfers of care. It contains examples for the eight system changes where there is evidence of impact, examples of emerging practice that are starting to make a difference and includes links to guidance and further information.

Growing innovative models of health, care and support for adults

This briefing from SCIE explains that innovative, often small-scale models of health, social care and support for adults could be scaled up to benefit as many people as possible. It makes a number of recommendations for the Government and national partners

Brexit - Sectoral analyses

The Exiting the European Union Committee has published 39 sectoral reports that contain analysis of the impact of Brexit on business and service sectors in the UK.

• Health and care sectoral analysis
• Life sciences sectoral analysis
• Other analyses

Making Safeguarding Personal What might ‘good’ look like for health and social care commissioners and providers?

Commissioners and providers across the health and social care sectors play a critical part in safeguarding adults, both on the front line and at a strategic level, as partners on safeguarding adults boards.

This resource is intended to support the joined up development of Making Safeguarding Personal across providers and commissioners in health and social care. The essential links between safeguarding and quality in delivering services must be emphasised.

Brexit: the implications for health and social care

Briefing from the King's Fund

Although the EU has limited legal jurisdiction over how health and care services are organised and provided in member states, the UK’s vote to leave the EU will have major implications for health and social care in England.

First, because the government has been clear that Brexit will mean the UK leaving the European single market and the customs union – arrangements that currently play an important role in facilitating the delivery of health services, via access to workforce as well as goods and services. Second, because EU directives affect many areas of UK law that impact on the delivery of health and care services. Third, because the vote has ushered in a period of significant economic and political uncertainty at a time when the NHS and social care are already facing huge financial and operational pressures.

Experiences of older people using services affected by fragmentation across local health and care systems, warns CQC

Those working within health and adult social care services are passionate about providing the best possible experience to the older people within their care.

However, their efforts can be compromised by the competing priorities, performance measures and accountabilities of their employing organisations. Collectively, this can limit choice and can make movement between services seem confusing and fragmented.

This is one the key themes the CQC has found, having completed a third of its Government-commissioned reviews that explore how well local systems work together to support and care for people aged over 65.

How the health and social care system is preparing for winter

This briefing from the NHS Confederation provides an overview of the key challenges facing health and social care over the winter period and the work being undertaken to prepare for the coming months.

Speak up: annual report 2016/17

The Healthwatch network heard from 341,000 people, carers and staff during the last year about what they think of health and social care service.

This annual report to Parliament highlights a summary of the common theme in people's good and bad experiences and what could be improved.

Cowper’s Cut: ‘The Tragedy Of The Commons’ meets ‘Only Connect’

With things looking quite dark in the NHS, we can only hope that the forthcoming Budget will improve the situation even as we try to put a quart of healthcare demand into a pint pot of healthcare resource, says Andy Cowper

‘The tragedy of the commons’ was a concept and phrase proposed in an 1833 essay by economist William Forster Lloyd. He proposed (in the context of unlimited animal grazing on common land) that within a shared resource system, self interested individual users may act against the common good by depleting or spoiling that resource through the totality of many such selfish individuals’ actions.


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Personalised Health and Care 2020: Patient Carers and Service User Vision

This DH paper outlines how the government and national health and care organisations aim to use information technology within current programmes, to improve health and social care services in England.

State of Care 2016/17

State of Care is the CQC's annual assessment of health and social care in England. The report looks at the trends, highlights examples of good and outstanding care, and identifies factors that maintain high-quality care.

This year’s report shows that the quality of care has been maintained despite some very real challenges. Most of us are receiving good, safe care and many services that were previously rated inadequate have recognised our inspection findings, made the necessary changes and improved.

The fact that quality has been maintained in the toughest climate most can remember is testament to the hard work and dedication of staff and leaders. However, as the system continues to struggle with increasingly complex demand, access and cost, future quality is precarious.

Professional regulation in health and social care

This House of Commons Library briefing describes the main functions of the UK’s health and social care professional regulators and outlines some of the prominent debates surrounding this area of policy and the case for reform.

Scrutiny: the new assurance? A good governance discussion document

As collaboration and partnership working need to become more streamlined, more strategic and more effective, organisations spending public monies should be constantly redefining their roles and responsibilities, searching for constant improvement. 

This paper from the Good Governance Institute looks at scrutiny across a number of organisations, as all four home nations are seeking better outcomes by the alignment of health, social care and other funders and providers.

What are the priorities for health and social care?

As the dust settles on the first weeks of the new parliament and ahead of the party conference season, The King's Fund assesses the state of health and social care and set out the big issues facing the government.

New framework to promote person-centred approaches in healthcare

Skills for Health, Health Education England and Skills for Care have announced a new Framework to support person-centred approaches for the health and social care workforce.

The new framework, commissioned by Health Education England, helps workers communicate meaningfully both verbally and non-verbally, tailoring the care and advice they give to suit peoples’ needs. It supports individuals to better manage their own health and wellbeing through bespoke care, planning and support. Where appropriate, the framework encourages shared decision making, outlining all reasonable options and ensuring that all information is personalised, accessible and useful.

Rebooting health and social care integration: an agenda for more person centred care

This report from Localis finds that the health and social care integration agenda has a future but it is dependent on moving away from notions of structural integration and reliance on central policy direction. It concludes that the issue of funding and financial sustainability is critical but can only be influenced locally. The authors also believe that health and social care integration can create new value locally, but it must build on its most important point of consensus; greater person centred care. The report makes four strategic recommendations and six policy recommendations to support integratio

Tackling variations in clinical care: Assessing the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme

The Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme from the King's Fund aims to bring about higher-quality care in hospitals, at lower cost, by reducing unwanted variations in services and practices.

It uses national data to identify the variations and outcomes, shares that data with all those concerned with a service – not only clinicians, but also clinical and medical directors, managers and chief executives – and monitors the changes that are implemented.

The programme began with orthopaedics and is now being rolled out to 32 different surgical and medical specialisms across the English NHS. Through an informal assessment of the programme, this paper sets out what the programme is, why it is needed, what is different about it, what it has achieved, what challenges it faces and what potential it has. It also contains vignettes illustrating hospitals’ experiences of the programme.

Digital leadership in London's NHS

For the first time, NHS providers in London have revealed the extent to which smartphones, the Internet and Bluetooth are improving patient care and look set to save the capital’s NHS millions each year.Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust expects to save £2.5 million each year by reducing missed appointments through an app called DrDoctor which gives patients much more say in selecting a date and time of their choice, resulting in “no show” rates falling by 40%.

Sustainability and transformation plans: moving towards implementation

Presentations from an King's Fund event in Manchester held on June 6th about sustainability and transformation plans.