Category: Healthy Settings

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change Healthy Settings Licensing Patient Satisfaction Planning

The NHS belongs to the people: a call to action

By NHS England (July 2013)

In this document, NHS England calls on the public, NHS staff and politicians to have an open and honest debate about the future shape of the NHS in order to meet rising demand, introduce new technology and meet the expectations of its patients. It sets out the challenges facing the NHS, including more people living longer with more complex conditions, increasing costs whilst funding remains flat and rising expectation of the quality of care. It argues that the NHS must change to meet these demands and make the most of new medicines and technology and that it will not contemplate reducing or charging for core services.

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Care of the Elderly CVD Healthy Settings Library Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Patient Experience Public Health Advice to NHS Commissioners Respiratory Disease Secondary Care

Review into the quality of care and treatment provided by 14 hospital trusts in England: overview report

By Professor Sir Bruce Keogh KBE (July 2013)

Sir Bruce Keogh’s review into 14 hospital trusts in England is the result of a series of ‘deep-dive’ reviews into other hospitals with mortality rates which have been consistently high for two years or more. It found that all 14 trusts will have to undertake strict improvement plans and 11 will be placed into special measures to ensure that Sir Bruce’s recommendations are fully implemented and patient care improves.

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CVD Health Promotion Healthy Settings Integrated Care Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Respiratory Disease

Enabling people to live well: fresh thinking about collaborative approaches to care for people with long-term conditions

By The Health Foundation (2013)

This paper reports the results of a research project which critically analysed the ways that collaborative approaches are currently described; and started to examine what goes on in practice when clinicians and patients work together in ways they appreciate as meaningfully collaborative. It reflect on clinicians’ and patients’ experiences and draw on ideas from development economics and social justice.

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Healthy Settings Oral Health Physical Activity

Walking and cycling

By NICE (January 2013)

This briefing summarises NICE’s recommendations for local authorities and partner organisations on walking and cycling. It is relevant to many areas of local authority work, including the development of local plans, core strategies and joint health and wellbeing strategies, including several areas highlighted in the Public Health Outcomes Framework.

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Health Promotion Healthy Settings Oral Health Physical Activity

Behaviour change

By NICE (January 2013)

This briefing summarises NICE’s recommendations for local authorities and partner organisations on the general principles that should be used when considering the commissioning, planning, content and evaluation of initiatives to support behaviour change at individual, community and population levels. Behaviour change interventions are coordinated sets of activities that seek to change specific health-related behaviours.

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Alcohol Children Health Promotion Healthy Settings Tobacco & Drugs

Feeling the effects

By Demos (2012)

While the focus of alcohol policy tends to be on tackling public disorder, the worst damage done by hazardous drinking in the UK is in the home. According to the latest figures, more than 2.5 million children in the UK, including 90,000 babies, are living with a parent who is drinking alcohol ‘hazardously’. In this report think-tank Demos considers the impact of parental drinking behaviour on parenting style. Findings suggest that the more a parent drinks, the less likely they are to be a ‘tough love’ parent. This report argues for targeted information awareness campaigns aimed at parents to help them consider their parenting style and the impact of alcohol on parenting ability.

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Community Health Promotion Healthy Settings Oral Health Physical Activity

Walking and cycling: local measures to promote walking and cycling as forms of travel or recreation

By NICE (2012)

This public health guidance recommends coordinated action to identify and address the barriers that may be discouraging people from walking and cycling more often or at all. It is is aimed at schools, workplaces, local authorities and the NHS to encourage them to promote walking and cycling.

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Children Good Practice Health Promotion Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Healthy Settings Nutrition Obesity Value

Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged 5 years and under

By Cochrane Library (Novemebr 2012)

The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and associated adverse events of interventions designed to increase the consumption of fruit and/or vegetables amongst children aged five years and under.

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Health Promotion Healthy Settings Infant Feeding

Preventing disease and saving resources: the potential contribution of increasing breastfeeding rates in the UK

By Unicef (2012)

This report looks at how raising breastfeeding rates could save money through improving health outcomes. It finds that for five illnesses, moderate increases in breastfeeding would translate into cost savings for the NHS of £40 million and tens of thousands of fewer hospital admissions and GP consultations. It analyses three conditions: cognitive ability, childhood obesity, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and finds that modest improvements in breastfeeding rates could save millions of pounds.

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Child Protection Healthy Settings Local Government Young People

Intelligent procurement of placements for looked after young people caught up in gang culture: Lewisham Borough Council

By Ofsted (October 2012)

This good practice report describes how Lewisham Council and its partners build upon existing, strong placement and procurement practice to make ‘intelligent’ use of available knowledge and information on individual young people and the placements available to them. Young people are offered placements in a safe and appropriate environment, where their needs are suitably met and their connections to the gang culture can be challenged and severed.

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