Category: Community

Building dementia friendly communities: a priority for everyone

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date September 4, 2013

By The Alzheimer’s Society (August 2013)

This report finds that while there are some excellent examples of community provision for dementia, less than half of survey respondents think their area is set up to help them live well with dementia (42%). Results also become considerably lower the more advanced the person’s dementia is. Findings show that there is significant goodwill in the community to help people with dementia live well. The report states that not only do people feel that dementia-friendly places would be better for everyone, but that for every one person with dementia that is able to stay in their own home for a year longer, rather than entering residential care, £11,000 would be saved.

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NICE support for commissioning psoriasis

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date August 13, 2013

By NICE (2013)

This document reviews the potential cost impact and implications for commissioners and service providers of the NICE quality standard for psoriasis. Because each NHS community will have differing levels of compliance with the standard, the precise cost impact of each standard cannot be estimated at a national level. Cost impact should be assessed locally using the commentary as a guide to areas that may need to be considered.

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Coordinated care for people with complex conditions

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date August 13, 2013

By The King’s Fund (2013)

The project focuses on five case-study sites that have developed innovative approaches, and this week we publish the results from the first two sites, Midhurst Macmillan Community Specialist Palliative Care Service and the Sandwell Esteem Team.

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Counting the cuts: the impact of spending cuts on the UK voluntary and community sector

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date June 6, 2013

By NCVO (2013)

This update to the 2011 report looks at the scale of cuts so far and those still to come. It considers the impact of this on several areas, including the changing commissioning structure of the NHS, and the increased involvement of the private and voluntary sector in the delivery of public services.

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Guide to the healthcare system in England

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date June 3, 2013

By The NHS Constitution (2013)

This guide explains organisations in the healthcare system and how they work together. The accountability statement explains how decision making works in the NHS and fulfills the commitment set out in principle 7 of the NHS constitution.

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Healthy lives, healthy people: a public health workforce strategy

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date June 3, 2013

By Department of Health (2013)

This strategy sets out actions for various partners in the new public health system to support and develop the public health workforce. It will help embed public health capacity within the wider workforce to support delivery of the public health outcomes framework.

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Transforming local care: community healthcare rises to the challenge

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date April 3, 2013

By NHS Confederation (2013)

This briefing shows how the community health sector is driving the transformation of local care systems, and how innovative community healthcare providers are enabling people to stay healthy and independent and avoid crises that lead to unplanned hospital admissions. It also details the challenges that need to be overcome to build upon this work and drive forward the necessary shift of care into the community.

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Study of the use of contractual mechanisms in commissioning

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date February 27, 2013

By Policy Research Unit in Commissioning and the Healthcare System (PRUComm) (December 2012)

This interim report presents findings from research into how commissioners negotiate, specify, monitor, and manage contractual mechanisms to improve services and allocate financial risk in their local health economies, looking at both acute services and community health care.

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