Specialised services: transforming delivery for patients.

This report shows how NHS specialised services are adapting to a changing environment to deliver world class and innovative care for patients and service users.

Ophthalmology: GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report

This report seeks to address the challenge of rising demand for ophthalmology services due to an ageing population and provides an assessment of what is good practice and identifies where improvements could be made. It makes recommendations which have the potential to deliver cost efficiencies of up to £64m.

Innovating for improved healthcare: policy and practice for a thriving NHS.

This report examines the potential of innovation to help deliver an efficient and effective healthcare service. It aims to provide actionable evidence to help policymakers and wider stakeholders to effectively engage with the opportunities (and manage the challenges) that innovation presents for supporting the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of the health system.

Treatment outcomes for depression: challenges and opportunities,

Although antidepressant medication and talking therapies are effective for some people, there is great room for improvement. This Comment highlights 10 key statistics relating to limitations of depression treatment outcomes that warrant greater attention.

The updated GP contract explained

This long read outlines the changes in the updated five-year GP contract framework published last month. It also explains what these changes mean for the future of general practice and the wider health system.

Improving the scrutiny of integrated care systems and sustainability and transformation partnerships: a guide to good practice.

The paper covers the experiences of scrutiny leads and their supporting officers in engaging with ICSs and STPs to date; the steps that ICSs and STPs could take to improve these relationship; and the way that the role of health scrutiny might evolve to support the move to whole system partnership thinking.

A liaison and diversion service involving nurses and police officers is reducing suicides following arrests. This initiative won the mental health category in the 2019 Nursing Times Awards

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tracheostomy care

Tracheostomy care is one of the basic skills a nurse should know. Learning how to do tracheostomy care is hard and complicated at first but with proper knowledge and practice, you can master this skill quickly. A tracheostomy is indicated for patients with severe respiratory problems where the breathing process is compromised.  In this procedure, […]

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Integrated Care Systems and mental health.

This briefing sets out how improving population mental health can prevent other health problems and make the whole NHS more effective and efficient. It identifies three key opportunities for system leaders to take as well as highlighting several challenges facing ICSs, such as whether mental health will get prioritised, how the workforce can be sufficiently expanded, and how well ICSs work in partnership with local authorities, voluntary and community groups and people who use health and care services.

Thinking differently about commissioning: learning from new approaches to local planning

This report aims to understand the approach being taken by some CCGs and local systems that are rethinking the role of commissioning; draw out learning for other areas as they work to change their approach; and explore the national policy implications of this new way of working and what national NHS bodies can do to support its development. It is based around two CCGs (South Tyneside and Tameside and Glossop) and one group of CCGs (Bradford district and Craven).