By NHS Commissioning Board (2012)
This operating model sets out how a single, national system will ensure patients are offered consistent, high quality services across the country. Alongside the specialised intentions document, it signposts a clear move away from regional commissioning to a single national approach to both commissioning and contracting.
By National End of Life Care Programme (November 2012)
This resource pack has been developed to be a practical tool to help GPs identify those patients who may be in their last year of life and talk to them about their preferences. It contains information on: identifying people at the end of life; having end of life care conversations; putting plans in place; managing and co-ordinating care; and space for GPs to include local information such as the telephone numbers of hospices, palliative care teams and pharmacies which stock palliative care drugs.
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By The Nuffield Trust (November 2012)
This report examines the effect of patient choice and the independent sector on treatment location in England, specifically the extent to which patients (or their referring doctors) have been choosing a different location of care since 2006. It is the first output from a three-year joint programme of work between the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and the Nuffield Trust: ‘understanding competition and choice in the NHS’, which will establish a long-term expertise in the use of competition and market mechanisms in health care both in England and internationally.
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By Policy Research Unit (September 2012)
This report presents the findings from a study of developing Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England. It explores the early experiences of emerging CCGs as they set themselves up as ‘pathfinders’ and moved towards authorisation, investigating the factors that had affected their development and looking at lessons for the future. The specific research questions addressed in this report cover: the experiences of pathfinder CCGs over the past year; factors which have affected progress and development; and approaches taken to being a membership organisation, developing external relationships, and commissioning and contracting.
By Department of Health (November 2012)
This mandate is the first between the government and the NHS Commissioning Board. It sets out the ambitions for the health service for the next two years. It will be used to measure the NHS on key objectives, including: better standards of care for elderly patients; better diagnosis, treatment and care for people with dementia; more personalised care for women throughout pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period; gathering of patient feedback through the friends and family test; online booking and other GP services by 2015; and greater transparency around the performance of local NHS services.
By Department of Health (November 2012)
This progress report provides an update on the dementia challenge and outlines the aims, achievements and ambitions of the challenge’s three champion groups. The accompanying annex summarises the progress made by the champion groups on the key commitments and actions included in the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia document.
By Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (November 2012)
These standards, which apply to NHS England, cover three domains: personal behaviour, technical competence, and business practices, and put compassion and respect at the heart of NHS leadership.They were developed through extensive engagement with NHS board members, experts in leadership and management, and patients and the public. We also spoke to many organisations with an interest in the work, such as NHS Employers, the Institute for Healthcare Management, and the King’s Fund.
By The King’s Fund (2012)
Using data from more than 8,000 general practices in England, this paper examines the association between patients’ perceptions about the non-clinical aspects of care and practice performance on measures of clinical quality. It identifies clinical effectiveness and patient experience as key domains of health care quality; that there is a correlation between positive patient experiences and higher QOF outcome scores; and that patients’ experience of using their GP services can affect their use and interaction with those services.
By the Institute for Innovation & Improvment (2012)
The Better Care, Better Value Indicators have been updated to include GP practice level data for the commissioning indicators.
The tool includes:
By the Alzheimer’s Society (2012)
This report provides a broad overview of the key issues relating to end of life planning and end of life care as experienced by people with dementia. The report summarises existing evidence and presents new evidence from current carers, bereaved carers and people with dementia. It makes recommendations about planning for end of life and to improve co-ordinated care through to the end of life.