NHS Networks

If you will excuse a little self-indulgent, self-congratulatory ballyhoo, NHS Networks has reached a significant milestone. This month we are three years old.

The NHS Networks pandemic flu page has been updated with several new guidance documents for acute hospitals, ambulance trusts, hospices and other health and care bodies.

I can remember first coming across the term "knowledge worker" about 10 years ago at a conference and assumed it was the latest management buzzphrase imported from a consultancy or Ivy League professor.  

A new risk prediction network has been established to engage health and social care groups - including commissioners, clinicians, community matrons and NHS and social care managers - to share ideas, experiences and knowledge on different methods of predicting and stratifying risk of local health populations.  

The 2008 national critical care networks conference will be held at the Royal Armouries in Leedson 15 April under the banner One Step Beyond: quality critical care beyond comprehensive critical care.  

The 2008 Race for Health progress report is out. Recipes for Success is published as a calendar and cookbook. The calendar combines 12 recipes celebrating food and culture from black and minority ethnic communities with 12 case studies of good practice from Race for Health primary care trusts. A faith calendar and useful facts about race, health and inequality are also included.  

The Tayside managed care network for dementia has produced the first issue of its new quarterly newsletter, available now on the network's page in the register.  

The first batch of presentations from Social Enterprise - A World Class Solution?, a conference held inLondonon 15 November, are now available online. Further presentations will be added in due course.

There are 80,000 hip fractures in England every year and this number is rising. Anaesthetic management of these patients is challenging and there are vast variations in the care delivered across the NHS.Richard Griffiths explains how a new network is helping to overcome these difficulties