By NHS Institute of Innovation and Improvment (2012)
This resource is for commissioners of health services, it sets out what is required of you when engaging patients, carers and the public in the decisions you will make about health service provision and provides practical advice, case-study examples and links to other vital information.
By Midlands and East Quality Observatory
The practice profiles aim to enable commissioners to compare the relative quality of their providers, to enable providers to benchmark their performance against the national average, and to share with patients and the public information on the quality of the services being provided. Quality profiles have also been published for CCGs. They fit into the new commissioning architecture of the NHS, and aim to support the patient information revolution by putting this information freely and transparently into the public domain.
By National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (NAVCA) (August 2012)
This guide focuses on black and minority ethnic (BME) voluntary and community organisations (VCOs), which are designed and delivered by and for the users and communities they aim to serve, and often have to address complex needs. This guide outlines how specialist services can offer a means through which to deliver the holistic approach required to meet the multiple needs of a group of individuals.
By The Institute for Government (August 2012)
This publication is based on sessions reviewing attempts to create markets in public services in four key areas: welfare-to-work, social care, health care and local government. It highlights high level lessons aimed at those either currently operating public service markets, or those seeking to extend them. It forms part of the broader work on political transitions, policy successes and recent work with The King’s Fund on the lessons of the coalition’s legislative process to reform the NHS.
By Department of Health (August 2012)
This publication highlights the data sources available to help NHS organisations assess patient experience of integrated care locally, as no single bespoke measure is currently available. This comes in response to the NHS Future Forum’s recommendations that new patient experience measures should be developed to evaluate patients’ experiences across whole journeys of care.
By The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (August 2012)
Following the findings of an audit of data returns, which identified troubling discrepancies in performance between individual residential rehabs in England, the NTA is to step up its engagement with the residential rehab sector in order to challenge commissioners who inappropriately restrict access and help under-performing providers.
By The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (August 2012)
A unique analysis of drug treatment data shows more people are overcoming dependency and services are getting better at getting people into recovery.
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Lomundal B.K. et al. International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 2012; 7: 87-93
This article investigates the long-term effects 4 years after the end of a 1-year self-management program (SMP) with 30 hours of education and 16 hours of physical activity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Glaab T. et al. International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 2012; 7: 101-108
Little is known about the role of guidelines for the practical management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by office-based pulmonary specialists. The aim of this study was to assess their outpatient management in relation to current guideline recommendations for COPD.
Jaakkola M.S. et al. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2012; 12:22
Asthma is among the most common chronic diseases in working-aged populations and occupational exposures are important causal agents. Our aims were to evaluate the best methods to assess occurrence, public health impact, and burden to society related to occupational or work-related asthma and to achieve comparable estimates for different populations.