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Accident Prevention Alcohol Cancer Care of the Elderly Community Safety CVD CYP Healthcare Health Protection (Emergency planning Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Healthy Settings Infant Feeding Infant Mortality Infection Control Library Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Long-Term Conditions Mortality Nutrition Obesity Respiratory Disease seasonal mortality) Tobacco & Drugs

The future of public health: a horizon scan

By RAND Europe (2014)

Public Health England (PHE) commissioned RAND Europe to undertake a horizon scanning study exploring the future of public health and related scientific services. This work was intended to help inform thinking at the strategic level within PHE, firstly in relation to the wider vision of the Agency and, secondly, in relation to the proposals for the creation of an integrated public health science hub. The report focuses on the different future public health science needs and the extent to which an integrated science hub could serve PHE as it evolves over the next twenty years.

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Cancer Care of the Elderly Commissioning CVD Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Public Health Advice to NHS Commissioners Public Mental Health Respiratory Disease

Mapping the market II: commissioning support services

By NHS England (2014)

Mapping the Market II: Commissioning Support Services, is a sixty-page report that showcases services for clinical commissioners offered by voluntary sector organisations (VSOs) and small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
The publication, launched at a reception at the NHS Expo in Manchester, contains 12 in-depth interviews with VSO leaders from charities such as MacMillan Cancer Support, Alzheimer’s Society and Turning Point.
It also features a further 15 interviews with SME leaders from organisations such as Dr. Associates and Outcomes Based Healthcare, resulting in the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the commissioning support market for anyone involved in commissioning healthcare in the UK.

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Care of the Elderly CVD Integrated Care Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Long-Term Conditions Respiratory Disease

Providing integrated care for older people with complex needs

By The King’s Fund (2014)

This report synthesises evidence from seven case studies covering Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. It considers similarities and differences of programmes that are successfully delivering integrated care, and identifies lessons for policy-makers and service providers to help them address the challenges ahead. 

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CVD Health Inequalities Health Promotion Integrated Care Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Local Government Minority Groups Nutrition Obesity Respiratory Disease

Body mass index thresholds for intervening to prevent ill health among black, Asian and other minority ethnic groups

By NICE (2014)

This briefing recommends lowering BMI thresholds as a trigger for intervening to prevent ill health among adults from minority ethnicities. Further examples of recommendations include developing an integrated regional and local plan, and promoting early intervention among minority groups. It also suggests that by reconfiguring services to meet the health needs of their local populations, local authorities can reduce health inequalities and address the costs associated with ill health.

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Care of the Elderly CVD Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Patient Experience Patient Satisfaction Respiratory Disease

Towards whole person care

By Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) (December 2013)

This paper reviews the case for change in the English health and care system and considers how to move towards a ‘whole person care’ approach. It sets out broad themes on creating a health and care system that is fit for the future. It makes a case for a number of person-centred guarantees at the heart of the vision for whole person care, focused on people with long-term conditions and older people.

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COPD CVD Good Practice Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Respiratory Disease

COPD pathway

By British Lung Foundation (2013)

This patient pathway aims to help people living with COPD, their carers and healthcare professionals identify the type of care COPD patients should be receiving, from diagnosis onwards. It also includes NICE Quality Standards and real-life best practice case studies from around the UK.

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Community Coordinated care CVD End of Life Care Integrated Care Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Respiratory Disease

Coordinated care for people with complex condition: key lessons and markers for success

By The King’s Fund (2013)

This report presents the findings from a two-year research project funded by Aetna and the Aetna Foundation. It aimed to understand the key components of effective strategies employed by studying five UK-based programmes to deliver co-ordinated care for people with long-term and complex needs. It elicits some key lessons and markers for success to help identify how care co-ordination might be transferred from the UK to the US context.

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COPD CVD Health Protection (Emergency planning Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Public Health Advice to NHS Commissioners Respiratory Disease seasonal mortality) Secondary Care Well-Being

Focus on preventable admissions: trends in emergency admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions, 2001 to 2013

By Quality Watch (2013)

This QualityWatch Focus On report examines trends in emergency
admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions. Focus On reports
provide snapshots and longitudinal analyses of aspects of quality in a
particular area or areas of care.

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Asthma CVD Healthy Settings Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Patient Experience Respiratory Disease

Compare your care: the asthma reports

By Asthma UK (2013)

Asthma UK wanted to know whether the care that people were receiving for their asthma matched up to the standards they should expect so they launched the Compare Your Care quiz. This report presents the findings and shows that there are some aspects of asthma care which many people are receiving. However, it finds that not everyone is receiving care that fully meets standards and some simple but effective aspects of care that could help prevent asthma attacks are not consistently being provided. The reports also include recommendations to help the NHS improve asthma care across the UK.

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COPD CVD Good Practice Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Respiratory Disease Safeguarding

Delivering better services for people with long term conditions

By The King’s Fund (October 2013)

This paper focuses on a co-ordinated service delivery model – the ‘house of care’ – that aims to deliver proactive, holistic and patient-centred care for people with long-term conditions.

The house of care model differs from others by encompassing all people with long-term conditions and assuming an active role for patients. This paper calls on the Department of Health and NHS England to collaborate on a coherent approach to care planning for people with long-term conditions.

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