This case study from Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust sets out its approach to increasing staff experience and engagement for admin staff. The trust did this through running a celebratory event aimed at admin and non-regulated staff in 2017 to demonstrate to its admin staff how much they are appreciated and valued, and to seek feedback from this important staff group on the benefits for working for the Trust.
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This short guide is designed to help raise awareness of the options available to members of the NHS Pension Scheme affected by the annual allowance. The annual allowance is the amount of pension savings an individual can make in one year without paying tax.
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This case study show how CONNECT, a regional service in Yorkshire aimed at improving care for adults with eating disorders, worked in partnerships to better support people with mental health issues. The CONNECT Service offers a variety of treatment options based on a person’s needs including early intervention, home-based treatment or inpatient treatment.
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This report was funded by Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, for a research project undertaken by the IIPP and UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources. It introduces a new theoretical framework for understanding the links between fiscal policy and innovation, arguing that ‘mission-oriented’ innovation policy, which focuses on concrete societal problems that can only be solved by multiple sectors interacting in new ways, can generate very large economic returns—so called ‘supermultiplier’ impacts.
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This week’s Library bulletins are on Learning Disabilities and Dementia.
Over the past decade, successive governments have brought in a range of legislation, policies and programmes in an attempt to deliver on a vision of coordinated, person-centred care and better outcomes for children and young people with SEND. However, despite this visible drive towards integration, services for children with SEND remain fragmented. The reality of integrated working between different services and agencies, such as NHS and local authority services, children’s and adults’ services and specialist and universal services, is challenging. The report identifies key factors that are helping and hindering the integration of services around special education needs and disability (SEND). The report finds that:
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Integrated commissioning is where commissioners (those who plan, develop and purchase services) pool budgets across traditional boundaries, such as ‘health’ and ‘social care.’ The intention of this is to reduce duplication in service provision, where, typically, different bits of local government or the NHS fund or commission (purchase) similar things. This guide aims to explain it to parents and carers.
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This manifesto sets out five areas that the next Prime Minister must address in order to improve the lives of people with mental health problems and promote the mental health of the nation. By addressing these areas, the new Prime Minister will lead the way towards mental health equality and bring us closer to the ambition of a fair deal for mental health.
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Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute learning report aims to build a better understanding of the role of patient and public involvement (PPI) in research, thereby helping ensure meaningful involvement that has tangible impacts and mitigate against undesired consequences.
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Strength and balance exercise programmes are an important intervention for falls prevention. This report details of 7 quality markers for strength and balance exercise, suitable for use by local areas as criteria to help them carry out self-audits. With an intended audience of both local commissioning and strategic leads in England with a remit for falls, bone health and healthy ageing and providers involved with strength and balance falls prevention exercise, this document has been produced by Public Health England (PHE) with the National Falls Prevention Coordination Group (NFPCG) member organisations.
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