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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By WHO (2013)
These atlases are a tool to assess inequalities in social determinants of health, as well as the resources, outputs, outcomes and effects of health care at the subnational level in countries of the EU, candidate countries and some other countries. WHO has updated the atlases with the most recent data available from the EUROSTAT database in November 2012.
By NHS Commissioning Board (January 2013)
This document describes the processes that will be used to support planning for the next financial year. It aims to support the NHS Commissioning Board’s national, regional and area teams to ensure that every plan is as strong as it can be, by designing an approach that achieves national consistency and improves quality and equity of access to services. This should be in the context of local priorities and in conjunction with CCGs and local health and wellbeing boards.
By NHS Commissioning Board (Januray 2013)
This final report from the National Quality Board sets out how quality will be maintained and improved in the new health system. It focuses predominantly on how the new system should prevent, identify and respond to serious failures in quality.
By Health Foundation (January 2013)
In 2011, the Health Foundation launched an improvement programme to support networks in healthcare. It linked selected networks with a faculty of experts, and with each other, to provide an exchange of ideas, advice, support and training in network leadership and development. This report captures the experiences of the programme participants as they began working together; highlights key learning and early insights; and examines how all this relates to what the research evidence tells us about running networks. It also provides an informal overview of the literature on networks and a glossary of commonly used network terms.
By NHS Confederation (January 2013)
The NHS Confederation has for many years emphasised the need to tackle the bureaucratic burden in the NHS. But our members are still often asked for unnecessary information, to give the same information multiple times, or to gather data in poorly designed and cumbersome formats.This paper assesses progress since our 2009 report, sets out where the risks of new burdens may lie, identifies what should be done now and suggests issues for discussion.
By National Council for Palliative Care et al. (2012)
This guidance aims to provide commissioners with the key information that they need to help them commission specialist palliative care, as a specific component of the whole spectrum of palliative and end of life care service provision.
By the National Audit Office (2012)
“The NHS has made a good start in making substantial efficiency savings in the first year of the four-year period when it needs to achieve savings of up to £20 billion. To build on these savings and keep pace with the growing demand for healthcare, it will need to change the way health services are provided and to do so more quickly.”
Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, 13 December 2012
By the Steering Group on Improving the Use of Medicines (2012)
This report looks at ways of improving the use of medicines and tackling avoidable wastage in primary and community care, secondary care, and in care homes and end of life care. It also looks at how patients can be better engaged in decisions about their medicines as well as how information can be better provided to patients and health and care professionals. The action plan outlines how best practice could be shared across the NHS in the future.
By NHS Confederation (2012)
This report discusses the foundations for integrated care for adults, children and young people, with a focus on implementing out of hospital care, and connecting primary, community and social care. It highlights key evidence and draws on learning from partners across health and social care.