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This report draws on surveys commissioned by MPS which asked patients and doctors' views on online medical records.One of the issues highlighted is the disparity between the services that patients expect they will receive through online access to their records and what doctors think is realistic in the immediate term. The report also highlights issues around security; purpose of record; vulnerable people; and sensitive information.

• Report
• Data annex
• MPS - press release

This briefing outlines information regarding new regulations implementing EU law (the Sharps Directive) which comes into force across the UK on 11th May 2013. Key changes and implications for the NHS are discussed.

• Briefing
• NHS Confederation - publications

This document outlines plans to strengthen performance in urgent and emergency care and to meet demand and tackle waiting time pressures. 

• Guidance
• Dear colleague letter
• NHS England - news

This toolkit recommends that patients admitted as emergencies should only transfer out of the acute medical unit to a ward area that has facilities to meet their clinical needs. It makes recommendations for the use of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS), launched by the RCP in 2012, in order to rapidly identify patients who are severely ill or at risk of sudden deterioration.

• Toolkit
• NEWS
• Outline clinical response to NEWS triggers 
• Systemic inflammatory response syndrome, sepsis and shock
• Factors increasing a patient's risk of acute kidney injury
• Royal College of Physicians - news

What a statutory duty of candour will mean for the NHS, Nick Seddon appointed Dowining Street’s new health and social care policy adviser, and the rest of today’s news

What a statutory duty of candour will mean for the NHS, Nick Seddon appointed Dowining Street’s new health and social care policy adviser, and the rest of today’s news

What a statutory duty of candour will mean for the NHS, Nick Seddon appointed Dowining Street’s new health and social care policy adviser, and the rest of today’s news

What a statutory duty of candour will mean for the NHS, Nick Seddon appointed Dowining Street’s new health and social care policy adviser, and the rest of today’s news

Hospital trusts are disproportionately targeting non-pay costs and seeking extra income as they embark on a £2.4bn savings drive in 2013-14, an exclusive HSJ analysis reveals.

English hospitals would have been fined £227m in 2012 if they had been subjected to the penalty regime written into their contracts for the current financial year, according to analysis shared exclusively with HSJ.

Hospital trusts are disproportionately targeting non-pay costs and seeking extra income as they embark on a £2.4bn savings drive in 2013-14, an exclusive HSJ analysis reveals.

Jeremy Hunt is seeking to announce a £300-£400m fund to “solve” the accident and emergency performance dive, but the money may not be available, according to emails seen by HSJ.

Nick Seddon, deputy director of right-leaning think tank Reform, has been appointed health and social care adviser to the prime minister.

This framework aims to help patients and the public to identify how well CCGs are performing in their role as commissioners of local services. It will also support CCGs to deliver comprehensive and high-quality care and help them transform local services and improve outcomes for all patients. 

• Framework
• NHS England - news

The government will use its forthcoming Care Bill to make it a criminal offence for NHS providers to provide false and misleading information about their performance, it said today.

Junior doctors have poor knowledge about health politics and NHS reforms, research suggests.

Junior doctors have poor knowledge about health politics and NHS reforms, research suggests.

The European Union process of assessing whether medical devices are fit for public use are “inconsistent and opaque”, researchers have claimed.

Hundreds of senior NHS managers will be taught how to be “more inclusive, compassionate and caring” as part of the response to the Francis inquiry.

Hundreds of senior NHS managers will be taught how to be “more inclusive, compassionate and caring” as part of the response to the Francis inquiry.