All National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) articles – Page 11
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HSJ LocalCCGs ration hip and knee surgery for obese patients
North West CCGs introduce restrictions on hip and knee surgery for obese patients South Cheshire and Vale Royal CCGs have financial problems NICE chair concerned about increase in CCGs rationing elective surgery Commissioners in Cheshire have introduced new restrictions to hip and knee replacements for obese patients, which ...
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HSJ KnowledgeRoundtable: Jumping the hurdles to better care in rare diseases
An HSJ roundtable sponsored by Shire brought together experts to ask whether the NHS was taking advantage of all the factors that could improve outcomes for patients with rare diseases. By Alison Moore
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NewsNew guidance on ward staffing levels revealed
NHS Improvement has published the first of seven new safe staffing guidance documents The work follows the suspension of NICE’s work in 2015 following the Francis Inquiry Guidance warns trusts against relying only on professional judgement to set staffing levels Decisions about how many nurses work on hospital ...
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NewsPHE chief: Smoking should be banned from all hospital sites
Public Health England chief executive calls for blanket smoking ban on NHS grounds Said only a few acute hospitals had achieved it so far Duncan Selbie said it was an important action for the NHS in prevention The chief executive of Public Health England has called for a ...
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NewsExclusive: Chief nurse 'will intervene to back nursing directors on staffing levels'
NHS Improvement says safe staffing guidance will be evidence based Ruth May says she will intervene to support directors of nursing in decisions Work follows the suspension of safe nurse staffing work by NICE in 2015 NHS Improvement’s chief nurse will intervene to back nursing directors where they ...
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CommentThe cutting edge - and why the NHS is falling behind it
Patients in the UK will miss out on new life saving drugs without a sustainable long term financial settlement for the NHS
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NewsNHS England sets out new tariff plans
Devices and apps in six categories included in new effort to accelerate access to innovative treatments Products will be included in a new “innovation and technology tariff” from April NHS England says process will cut red tape and bring innovative products into the health system faster Move welcomed by ...
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CommentThe mutual benefit of clinical fellows to arm's lengths bodies
The benefits of leadership fellows to trainees and their host organisations are many, as Nick Aresti, Sir Mike Richards, David Behan and Rishi Duggal explain
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NewsGovernment review reveals plan to speed NHS innovations uptake
Four years can be cut off up to estimated 12 years it takes to get some innovative treatments to patients, says review Transformation will require investment, including in ‘new, strengthened’ AHSNs An ‘accelerated access partnership’ should bring together key national health bodies Recommendations also include call for new NHS ...
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Expert BriefingFollowing the Money: NHS England moves its tanks
HSJ’s weekly email briefing on NHS finances, savings and efforts to get the health service back in the black
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HSJ KnowledgeWebinar on demand: Making tough decisions on anti-cancer therapies
How can we best make difficult decisions about patient value and financial cost?
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NewsDrugs to face new NHS affordability test
NICE and NHS England consult on “budget impact test” for new treatments Test designed to mitigate impact of cost effective but highly expensive drugs on NHS England’s budget NICE also proposes cost effectiveness threshold for assessment of drugs for rare conditions The National Institute for Health and Care ...
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NewsNICE criticised for 'missed opportunity' with PTSD guidance
NICE has rejected considering postpartum PTSD as a specific category in forthcoming review Birth Trauma Association and RCGP say this is a “missed opportunity” BTA says postpartum PTSD affects 10,000 new mothers a year Mothers who suffer post-traumatic stress disorder after giving birth will not be specifically considered ...
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HSJ KnowledgeRoundtable: Cutting the rate of surgical site wound infections
A roundtable by HSJ and Nursing Times during the Patient Safety Congress focused on how to reduce the high toll on health and finances caused by complications in post-operative care
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NewsExclusive: Charity loses legal challenge to NHS England drug decision
Hepatitis C Trust loses legal challenge to NHS England’s decision to cap access to new drugs for the disease Judge rules decision to roll out treatments via “monthly run rate” is “legitimate” and “rational” Charity argued that capping therapy approved as cost effective went against NICE rules The ...
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HSJ KnowledgeMemory test showed value of keeping it local
The results of a pilot memory assessment service showed the value of delivering dementia services within primary care
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CommentWe need emotional humans, not employee automatons
NHS staff need a sense of psychological safety in order to overcome the fear to question, take risks and fail
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CommentSome suggestions for the Patients Association about elective waiting times
The Patients Association’s waiting times report had a big impact, but NHS England was still justified in calling it “misleading and statistically flawed”. How could future reports avoid the pitfalls?
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NewsTrusts may face financial penalties for over-recruiting staff
Sixty-three provider trusts identified for excess pay bill growth since 2014 and face potential cuts of £356m This has been calculated by halving the excess growth above the level of inflation since 2015-16 One chief executive says NHS Improvement’s figures ignored the historical baseline of poor staffing More ...
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HSJ KnowledgeThe collaborative approach to tackling diabetes
A collaborative in south London gave participating trusts the tools and techniques to streamline patient pathways and improve services for type 1 diabetes sufferers