Author: Sarah Woodhall

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Community CVD Health Promotion Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Respiratory Disease

Measurement properties of a novel survey to assess stages of organizational readiness for evidence-based interventions in community chronic disease prevention settings

By Stamatakis, K.A. et al. Implementation Science, 2012; 7: 65

There is a great deal of variation in the existing capacity of primary prevention programs and policies addressing chronic disease to deliver evidence-based interventions (EBIs). In order to develop and evaluate implementation strategies that are tailored to the appropriate level of capacity, there is a need for an easy-to-administer tool to stage organizational readiness for EBIs.

The lack of adequate measurement tools hinders progress in dissemination and
implementation research. These preliminary results help fill this gap by describing the reliability and measurement properties of a theory-based tool; the short, user-friendly instrument may be useful to researchers and practitioners seeking to assess organizational readiness for EBIs across a variety of chronic disease prevention programs and settings.

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Alcohol Illegal Drugs Smoking Tobacco & Drugs

Smoking, drinking and drug use among young people in England in 2011

By The NHS Information Centre (2012)

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CCGs Commissioning Library

The new structure of the NHS in England

By The Nuffield Trust (2012)

The Health and Social Care Act (2012) introduced far-reaching reforms to how the NHS in England is organised, many of which are now underway. This slideshow details the main changes to management, accountability and funding structures resulting from the Act.

The first slides show the old and new structure in overview, together with a slide detailing the current transitional arrangements. Further slides compare the earlier arrangements that were in place for funding, regulation and monitoring, advice and performance management, and patient and public participation, with the new system at both the national and local level. The final slide outlines the new medical education and training arrangements

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Cancer Children Commissioning COPD CVD Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Public Mental Health Respiratory Disease

The way forward: strategic clinical networks

By NHS Commissioning Board

The NHS Commissioning Board Authority has set out its plan for a small number of national networks to improve health services for specific patient groups or conditions. Called strategic clinical networks, these organisations will build on the success of network activity in the NHS which, over the last 10 years, has led to significant improvements in the delivery of patient care.

Strategic clinical networks, hosted and funded by the NHS Commissioning Board (NHS CB), will cover conditions or patient groups where improvements can be made through an integrated, whole system approach. These networks will help local commissioners of NHS care to reduce unwarranted variation in services and encourage innovation.

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Library

The safer management of controlled drugs

By The Care Quality Commission (2012)

We report how CQC and our partners have continued to work to improve the safer management of controlled drugs and we look at how changes in healthcare legislation are affecting the arrangements for safer management of controlled drugs. We also report on the progress that has been made with the recommendations that were set out in the 2010 report. As the safe handling of controlled drugs remains an essential part of good quality care, we have made further recommendations to assure the safety of people who use health and social care services.

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Library

Structure of public health England

By Public Health England Transition Team  (2012)

This document sets out how Public Health England will be structured to deliver its vision. It aims to provide a helpful guide for staff who will join the new agency and for the partners it works with.

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Children Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Young People

Report of the children's and young people's health outcomes forum

By The Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Forum (2012)

The independent Forum, which was asked by the Secretary of State to help develop a new strategy for improving care for children and young people, identified several themes that it says are key to making the improvements needed:

  • putting children, young people and their families at the heart of what happens
  • acting early and intervening at the right time
  • integration and partnership
  • safe and sustainable services
  • workforce, education and training
  • knowledge and evidence
  • leadership, accountability and assurance
  • incentives.

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Library Secondary Care Third Sector

Guides to monitoring quality during transition published

By The Department of Health (2012)

A series of “How to” guides to assist current NHS organisations, and their supervisory and regulatory bodies, to respond to quality risks and failures within a simple and single framework during this transition year has been produced.

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Library Secondary Care Third Sector

Preparing for the francis report: how to ensure quality in the NHS

By The King’s Fund (2012)

This paper examines how the system of quality assurance, including regulation, needs to evolve, the principles on which it should be built and how it should operate. The authors argue that the system of quality assurance must support the actions and effectiveness of those working at the front line and of those who manage and lead organisations that deliver care. It is intended to help to shape the debate about how quality can be assured in future and inform how organisations at every level of the system including government, professional and other regulators, local providers and individual professionals will respond to the challenges that the events at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust have highlighted.

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Public Mental Health

No health without mental health: implementation framework

By NHS Confederation (2012)

This framework has three central aims. Firstly, it sets out how progress will be monitored through outcomes, and how the range of outcome measures currently available will be built upon in future. Secondly, and most importantly, it makes a series of recommendations for local and regional organisations to take forward. Thirdly, it details a series of national commitments to support
implementation. This Briefing provides an overview of the framework, focusing on those areas that are most relevant to providers of NHS mental health services.

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