Category: Integrated Care

Patients' experience of integrated care

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date December 14, 2012

By Cancer Campaigning Group (Novemebr 2012)

This report highlights the need for improvements in integrated care for cancer patients and calls for greater assessment of the experience of patients and carers when developing solutions and improvements. Five key areas where patients thought improvements could be made to deliver integrated care were: securing quicker referral from GPs to hospitals for testing and diagnosis; ensuring patients find out the results of their tests as quickly as possible; providing patients with access to a named clinical nurse specialist or other ‘key worker’ throughout the care pathway; supporting patients to feel involved in key decisions about their treatment and care; and putting systems in place to make sure records and test results are available to all clinicians and staff involved in patients’ care.

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The abandoned illness: a report by the Schizophrenia Commission

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date December 12, 2012

By The Schizophrenia Commission (November 2012)

This report is the result of a year-long inquiry into the delivery of care for patients affected by schizophrenia and psychosis. Recommendations include: a radical overhaul of poor acute care units, including better use of alternatives to manage the transition between hospital and community services; greater partnership and shared decision making with service users; extending general practitioner training in mental illness to improve support for those with psychosis managed through primary care; extending the ‘Early Intervention for Psychosis’ services rather than cutting or diluting them; action to address inequalities and meet the needs of disadvantaged groups; and greater use of personal budgets, particularly for those with long-term care needs.

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Government and the voluntary sector: investigating funding and engagement

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date November 27, 2012

By Compact Voice (October 2012)

This report details the responses of Freedom of Information requests from 14 government departments. The requests aimed to determine the way government is supporting the voluntary sector by looking at levels and changes to funding, and also engagement through consultation and impact assessment. However, the responses suggest that there are no systems in place to enable government departments to collect and compare this information.

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Integrated ambulance commissioning in the new NHS

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date November 27, 2012

By NHS Confederation (2012)

This briefing explains how ambulance commissioning currently works for clinical commissioners who may be new to this area. It is designed to support the smooth and efficient transition of ambulance commissioning responsibilities from PCTs to CCGs.

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Open public services: experiences from the voluntary sector

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date November 20, 2012

By The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (2012)

This report published by NCVO and 14 partner organisations, highlights examples of innovation in practice where the voluntary sector has worked in new ways with statutory authorities to develop specialist services. It argues that there needs to be greater openness and flexibility in commissioning services to capitalise on the contribution from charities. It also highlights new opportunities emerging from social investment and open data which could ease contract risks and make services more accountable to their users if adopted. It is aimed at those involved in improving services: government; local authorities; voluntary organisations; and social investors.

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Building an integrated system of care: key factors for success

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date November 12, 2012

By The King’s Fund (2012)

The King’s Fund has assembled pages related to building an integrated system of care, including presentations from their recent conference on implementing integrated care, including international perspectives from Singapore and the US. You will also be able to hear from Martin McShane on the role of the NHS Commissioning Board and watch case studies from organisations that are putting the theory into practice.

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Joint personal budgets: a new solution to the problem of integrated care

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date October 18, 2012

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.

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