This bulletin highlights recently produced documents that have appeared on websites. The aim is to trawl the web and produce a fortnightly review of what is found (coverage may not be comprehensive). If you have any comments or suggestions regarding this Bulletin, please send an email to library.pct@sthk.nhs.uk. All links are correct at time of publishing. Some documents are large and may take time to open so please be patient when waiting for links to open. If a link is incorrect please email me and I will correct the link and send you the document.For those that are receiving this through an email or through a third party you can view the original Bulletin at http://www.newdocumentsbulletin.blogspot.com/ and also sign up to receive the Bulletin by RSS.
Preventing child accidents in the home (18th March 2009)Accidents in the home are the biggest cause of injury to children under five. Tragically, around 500,000 under fives every year are admitted to hospital after an accident at home. More tragically, many of these accidents could have been prevented by taking simple steps.
To help parents of young children and the practitioners who work with them keep children safe from accidents at home the Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) has produced:
- Accidents and Child Development, an easy-to-use guidance booklet for any practitioners involved with the safety, or care of children
- How Safe is Your Child at Home?, a short leaflet for parents and carers, covering common risks to children in the home and how they can be reduced.
Accidents and Child Development
How Safe is Your Child at Home?
The impact of alcohol in Greater Manchester: quarterly report. Report number 3 February 2009 (12th March 2009)This report identifies available alcohol intelligence across Greater Manchester.
Report
150 years of the Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer: On the state of public health 2008 (16th March 2009)The Chief Medical Officer’s Annual Report 2008 draws attention to major health challenges requiring immediate action, and details progress made in key areas identified in previous annual reports.
The report calls for a new focus on 'passive drinking', and that it should be taken seriously. It also draws attention to the quality of advice and support given to men diagnosed with prostate cancer. Additionally, it highlights the extent of chronic pain, antimicrobial resistance and the use of simulation to prepare doctors for the real world.
Report
SCIE Guide 15: Dignity in Care - Nutritional Care (20th March 2009)As part of the Nutrition Action Plan, Department of Health (DH) and Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) agreed to update their online Dignity in Care Practice Guide with new information on nutritional care. The revised guide draws on the latest evidence base and practice in this area. It covers nutritional care and hydration.
Guide
The Protection of Children in England: A progress report (12th March 2009)This document, and its recommendations by Lord Laming, are aimed at making sure that good practice becomes standard practice in every service. This includes recommendations on improving the inspection of safeguarding services and the quality of Serious Case Reviews as well as recommendations on improving the help and support children receive when they are at risk of harm.
The document aims to: evaluate the good practice that has been developed since the publication of the report of the Independent Statutory Inquiry following the death of Victoria Climbié; identify the barriers that are now preventing good practice becoming standard practice; and recommend actions to be taken to make systematic improvements in safeguarding children across the country.
Report A Children's Environment and Health Strategy for the UK (24th March 2009)The Health Protection Agency today publishes a Strategy to improve the health and well-being of children in the United Kingdom by changing the environment in which they live. The Agency was commissioned to write the report by the Department of Health.
Report
Tackling Concerns Locally: report of the Working Group (20th March 2009)This report sets out the principles of best practice on how local systems for clinical governance could be strengthened to promote continuous improvement in the quality of care and enable healthcare organisations to identify and deal with those healthcare professionals whose performance, conduct or health could put patients at risk.
Report
Commissioning Services and support for people with learning disabilities and complex needs (16th March 2009)The Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI), the Healthcare Commission and the Mental Health Act Commission (MHAC), today published a joint report reviewing how councils and PCTs commission services on behalf of people with a learning disability. The watchdogs conducted the review following a series of reports over the past decade that point to poor care for people with a learning disability, particularly those with complex needs. This is the first review to focus specifically on how councils and PCTs commission services.Report Health Poverty Index (March 2009)The Health Poverty Index (HPI) is a web based tool that allows geographical areas and different ethnic groups to be compared in terms of their health poverty.
A group's health poverty is a summary measure of both their present state of health and future health potential or lack of it. The latest update of the HPI was released in conjunction with a new HPI workbook, which guides the user through some of the features of the tool and demonstrates how the index can be used to provide a single visual summary of an area's health poverty.
Information Commissioning healthcare for people with learning disabilities (16th March 2009)This briefing, from NHS Confederation, is intended to raise awareness of issues in the commissioning of services for people with learning disabilities that meet their specific needs and enhance the development of mainstream services that are fit for purpose.
Briefing
Young people, and gun and knife crime: a review of the evidence (16th March 2009)This report, from the Children's Commissioner, is the outcome of an extensive review of English language evidence about the effectiveness of interventions designed to tackle children and young people's involvement in gun and knife crime. It also examines the research evidence about what factors in the lives of children and young people make them more or less likely to become involved in weapon-carrying and violent behaviour and considers the perceptions, values and motivations of the children and young people involved.
Report Solutions to gun and knife crime. Final report (15th March 2009)This report presents the findings from a survey of a representative sample of over 1,700 young people aged between 8 and 17 years old. The subject of the survey was chosen by consulting with young people about what issue they thought should form the basis of 11 Million's main project for 2008/09.
Report
Response to the consultation on the extension and revision of Direct Payments Regulations (19th March 2009)The Health and Social Care Act 2008 extended direct payments to adults who lack the capacity to consent to their receipt. From August to November 2008, the Department of Health consulted on regulations implementing the extension. This document summarises the responses to the consultation and outlines what subsequent action the Department proposes to take.
Consultation Response Developing the quality and outcomes framework: proposals for a new independent process; consultation response and analysis (19th March 2009)The Consultation, Developing the Quality and Outcomes Framework: proposals for a new, independent process, set out proposals for how a new, NICE-led, independent process for reviewing and developing QOF indicators should work. This document provides an analysis of submissions to the consultation and sets out the Government response.
Consultation Response Guidance on NHS patients who wish to pay for additional private care: consultation response (23rd March 2009)Following a 12 week consultation, from 4 November 2008 to 27 January 2009, the Department of Health has now published final guidance on NHS patients wishing to pay for additional private care, alongside a Government response to the consultation.
Consultation Response and Guidance
Pacesetters Programme equality impact assessment: draft for consultation (17th March 2009)Pacesetters is a collaboration between DH, the NHS and local communities that aims to address patient and workforce inequalities that arise from discrimination and disadvantage. The Equality Impact Assessment (EqIA) is issued for consultation, and all comments and criticisms will be taken into account as the programme moves forward. Closing date for comments is 2nd June 2009.
Consultation The Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator Regulations 2009: a paper for consultation (20 March 2009)These draft regulations set out a proposed composition for the Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator (OHPA). They provide details of the composition of the board, and requirements applying to persons appointed as a member of OHPA (including aggregate terms of office of members in respect of the Chair or Non-Executive Directors) and criteria for disqualification from appointment as a member. Closing date for comments is 19th June 2009.
Consultation Safeguarding children and young people who may be affected by gang activity (18th March 2009)The Government is committed to publishing good practice guidance for agencies on safeguarding children and young people affected by gang activity. The guidance is supplementary to, and should be used in conjunction with, the Government’s statutory guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children (2006). This supplementary guidance is intended to help agencies and professionals ensure that the safeguarding process responds effectively to the needs of children and young people who are at risk of gang-related violence and harm. Closing date for comments is 19th June 2009.Consultation Fitness to Practice Rules (19th March 2009)The General Medical Council (GMC) has launched a two-month consultation into a package of proposed changes to its Fitness to Practise Rules. The proposed changes to the Fitness to Practise Rules form part of the GMC’s ongoing and regular review of its procedures. It is one of several planned consultations on proposed changes in fitness to practise policy for 2009. Closing date for comments is 22nd May 2009.
Consultation
Dentistry review update (18th March 2009)As part of the independent review of NHS Dentistry Professor Jimmy Steele will be providing regular updates on the emerging key themes and issues. These updates will reflect on the responses that people have been sending into the review mailbox and Professor Steele's observations as he engages with key stakeholders around the country.
Update NHS dental charges from 1 April 2009 (23rd March 2009)This poster outlines the charges applicable from 1st April 2009.
Poster
Cooking up health (18th March 2009)In the age of the ready meal, many people have forgotten how to cook. But Coventry City Council is helping people rediscover the joys of cookery. The council’s Food and Nutrition service is providing one-to-one home help on cooking and healthy eating.
Information Community food initiatives (11th March 2009)Differences in income and wealth create inequalities in terms of opportunities to make healthy choices about where and how we live.
In particular, higher prices for healthy food have the greatest impact on those least able to bear them. Worse still, the gap, particularly in fruit consumption and in overall nutrient intake, has widened over the past two decades.
Following a member-led Best Value Review of its role in Public Health, Greenwich Council has developed an ambitious Healthier Communities Strategy. It is based on a thorough understanding of local people’s health needs and the drivers of poor health and health inequalities.
Report
AskSARA (25th March 2009)The Disabled Living Foundation (DLF)has relaunched it's award-winning, innovative online guided advice tool AskSARA with a new improved, user friendly design, along with added features and updated content.
Tool
The Coronary Heart Disease National Service Framework: Buidling on excellence, maintaining progress - progress report for 2008 (20th March 2009)This report details the progress which has been made in implementing the Coronary Heart Disease National Service Framework in the eight years since its publication.
Report UK Iinflammatory Bowel Disease 2nd Round (2008) Report (March 2009)The second national audit of patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) has found that many services for patients with IBD have improved; however, there was still wide variation in the provision of care and many services had not improved at all. Success stories include the provision of prophylactic heparin, more designated specialist ward areas and specialist nurses, and more nursing sessions, but toilet facilities and provision of psychological support still remain very poor and do not meet patients' needs.
Report
Tackling Concerns Nationally: establishing the Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator (20th March 2009)This report makes recommendations to Ministers on the establishment of an independent body to adjudicate (i.e., to judge and make final decisions) on medical fitness to practise cases brought before the General Medical Council (GMC). An independent adjudicator is being established because the Government believes that the final decision making body in medical fitness to practise cases should be independent of both the GMC and of the doctor in question to ensure absolute fairness.
Report
Drug Treatment at the Crossroads (18th March 2009)This report, from DrugScope, reflects on the results and prospects of drug treatment in the UK ten years on from the introduction in 1998 of the national drug strategy. The report concludes that investment in drug treatment is delivering real and substantial benefits for individuals, communities and society at large.
Report
Dignity Leaflet and Guidance (17th March 2009)The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) have published new guidance for nurses and an advice leaflet for the public in response to stastitics on public perceptions of dignity for older people using care services.
Guidance
Accounting for LIFT schemes under International Financial Reporting Standards (13th March 2009)The Audit Commission has issued this guidance to its auditors on accounting for LIFT schemes in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards. In the Commission's view, LIFT schemes are service concession arrangements as defined by IFRIC 12: Service Concession Arrangements and, as such, the assets will need to be recognised on the balance sheets of PCTs when they restate their accounts in accordance with IFRS. The guidance explains the issues that need to be taken into account when considering the accounting treatment for LIFT schemes.
Guidance
