New Books for June 2008

The Library's New Books list for June has just been published. This shows the latest selection of resources available to you from the library. To see more, visit our catalogue at NewhamCat from any Newham University Hospital NHS Trust or Newham PCT networked computer.

We now have the new 17th edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine and the 9th edition of The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines. For obstetricians & gynaecologists there are the latest editions of Progress in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Yearbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

And we have purchased a copy of Evans & Tippins Foundations of nursing: an integrated approach, for which Newham's very own Andrew Frazer has written a chapter.

You will also find links from NewhamCat to the final report of Lord Darzi's NHS Next Stage Review High quality care for all and to other key new NHS documents. The King's Fund SeeSaw Report on Shifting the Balance of Care to Local Settings, and Under One Roof, their report regarding Polyclinics, are also linked from NewhamCat.

We are in the process of adding titles to NewhamCat from the nationally available NHS Core Content electronic book collection, eg Cardiology in Family Practice, Clinical Handbook of Pediatric Infectious Disease, Adult Psychopathology and Diagnosis to name a few, and we will add more over the coming weeks. These titles are accessed with your NHS Athens log-in, and can also be accessed from the National Library for Health.

Do contact us if you need help with Athens registration, or have any comments or suggestions for new titles.

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Darzi Next Stage Review - knowledge update

Yesterday saw the publication of the Next Stage Review - High Quality Care For All. This entry will gather together the main documents and a selection of the coverage. The coverage includes a number of good summaries.

There were three main documents published at this point

1) High quality care for all: NHS Next Stage Review final report (30th June 2008) Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham KBE

The final report of Lord Darzi's NHS Next Stage Review. It responds to the 10 SHA strategic visions and sets out a vision for an NHS with quality at its heart. This link includes the full document and a summary version. For a very brief summary Darzi review: At-a-glance BBC or Main points of the Darzi report FT.

2) The National Health Service Constitution - a consultation paper (30th June 2008)

The proposed NHS Constitution published today, marking 60 years of the NHS, is about safeguarding its core principles and values for the next generation, whilst setting a clear direction for the future. It reaffirms rights to NHS services, free of charge and with equal access for all, and it enshrines patient rights to choice and to NICE-approved drugs recommended by clinicians. A selection of documents related to the consultation are presented.

3) A high quality workforce: NHS Next Stage review (30th June 2008)

More detail on the workforce recommendations in the NHS next stage review.


The main publications from the next stage review are gathered here. This includes the current documents, visions for better healthcare from the 9 SHAs outside London and interim guidance.

London was already covered by Healthcare for London: A framework for action (paper copies in library)

Responses

The King's Fund

Related materials from King's Fund
- Follow up Briefing (added 14 July 2008)


The NHS Confed
- Follow up Briefing (added 14 July 2008)

Related materials from NHS Confed

The British Medical Association

Royal College of Nurses

Democratic Health Network - registration required
This briefing provides an initial summary and commentary on these documents with particular reference to local accountability and the interface between the NHS and local authorities.

Picker Institute - Added 5 July

Conservative Party - no comment yet on website but likely to appear at this link

Labour

Liberal Democrats

Unison - no comment yet on website likely to appear here


Media coverage

BBC
Quality ranking key to NHS funds
Cash-for-quality in new-look NHS
Darzi review: At-a-glance


Viewpoints: Darzi review of NHS

BMJ - updated 5 July
Reward hospitals for improving quality, Darzi review says
Government publishes a constitution for the NHS
Up to 500 patients with long term conditions will have their own personal budgets next year
Right of patients to drugs recommended by NICE is strengthened
NHS must pioneer public health drives if it is to survive
GPs face more competition after Darzi's review
Annual "quality accounts" will help improve services and increase choice for patients, says Lord Darzi
Darzi backs new body to oversee medical education in England

HSJ

Specific Darzi coverage

Daily Mail
General
Prof Karol Sikora - stop treating NHS like a national religion
Comment: A wasted Chance

Financial Times
NHS plans to raise quality of care
Main points of the Darzi report
Broad welcome from business

Guardian
Summary
NHS review: Darzi plan offers patients more choices and more information
Editorial: a promising prescription
Much more coverage

Independent
Pick your own surgeon
Leader: The right medicine, but far too mild a dose
Comment: Well-informed patients will make better decisions

The Telegraph
Bonuses for NHS hospitals and GPs that are highly rated by patients
Comment: does review live up to expectations

The Times
NHS review: hospitals that provide poor care to be fined
Analysis: a classier NHS, but choice still an illusion
Leader: The NHS: World Class Care Costs
More health news coverage

E-health insider - Darzi review stresses choice and information

Lighter comment

Simon Hoggart in the Guardian on Jargon
Simon Carr in the Independent on administrative drivel

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