By Improving Health & Lives: Learning Disabilities Observatory (2012)
The guide is intended to help CCGs commission high quality, cost effective general and specialist health services for people with learning disabilities; jointly commission services for people who challenge services and those with complex needs; and work with health and wellbeing boards, local authorities and others to address the social factors which affect the health of people with learning disabilities.
By The International Longevity Centre (October 2012)
This publication of evidence given to the new House of Lords Committee on Public Service and Demographic Change considers how the ageing population will affect public services, and the relationship between people and the state. In terms of health care the report recommends greater investment in preventative care through out the course of life, and argues that the cost of dementia is likely to play an increasingly important role in influencing public spending.
By Help the Hospices (October 2012)
This report is based on findings from the ‘widening access through nurse leadership’ project, which saw nurses from hospices across the UK reaching out to underrepresented groups to broaden access to palliative care. It calls for greater innovation and collaboration between providers and community groups, so that hospices across the UK can reach out to all those who are affected by terminal illness in their communities.
By Groundswell Partnership (2012)
This paper describes the working together for change process in detail and places an emphasis on generating solutions, developing robust plans to make them happen and identifying and measuring outcomes. The step by step method has been designed for use by local authorities, social care providers and individual services and can be used to improve commissioning and service provision.
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By The Royal College of General Practitioners (October 2012)
This report surveyed sessional GPs and those involved in emerging CCGs in order to find how engaged sessional GPs are with commissioning and to find examples of best practice, models of inclusion, engagement and leadership including the necessary conditions for their success, along with any barriers preventing these.
By National Voices (October 2012)
This report calls for greater urgency in improving patient safety and care quality. It warns that delays to the Francis Report could also create delays on improvements in care quality in the NHS and the report makes a number of recommendations for improving patient safety and the quality of patient care. These recommendations include greater patient and public involvement; the reorganisation of hospital services; and a drive towards integrated primary care.
By NHS Confederation (2012)
This briefing introduces the concept of joint personal budgets for health and social care and gives the context behind their development. It explains how they might work and lists some of the issues that need to be considered before they could be used at scale to assist in the delivery of integrated care. It also outlines the use of a new tool which gives individual service users control of a single joint budget.
By the Patients Association (September 2012)
Patients want to be more involved in their care but feel GPs are currently not delivering good communication or shared decision making, according to a snapshot of opinion published by The Patients Association today.
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By the GMC (2012)
Dixon-Woods, M. et al. BMJ Quality & Safety, 2012;21:876-884
Formal evaluations of programmes are an important source of learning about the challenges faced in improving quality in healthcare and how they can be addressed. The authors aimed to integrate lessons from evaluations of the Health Foundation’s improvement programmes with relevant literature.