Category: Planning

Supporting integration through new roles and working across boundaries

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date July 1, 2016

By The King’s Fund (2016)

This report looks at the evidence on new roles and ways of spanning organisational workforce boundaries to deliver integrated health and social care. Commissioned by NHS Employers and the Local Government Association, it finds increasing focus on roles which facilitate co-ordination and management of care, development of existing roles to increase the skill-mix and enable the provision of more holistic care, and a limited number of truly innovative roles, the most notable being care navigators and community facilitators, enablers or link workers. Given that many of the skills required for integrated care already exist within the workforce, it suggests the central question is how to use those skills more effectively to support boundary-spanning activities.

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Supporting the development of community pharmacy practice within primary care

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date June 28, 2016

By NHS Alliance (2016)

This paper highlights that community pharmacy in England, with approaching 11,700 pharmacies, represents health on the high street and within our communities. It calls for a community pharmacy-led model of care which fully utilises the expertise of the community pharmacist within the heart of many communities.

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Health Promotion Licensing Nutrition Obesity Planning

Building the foundations: tackling obesity through planning and development

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date March 1, 2016

By Local Government Association (2016)

This report outlines the actions and role that councils can take in helping to prevent and reduce the prevalence of obesity. It examines the role of town planning in contributing to the public health agenda and includes examples from various local authorities around the country.

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Tipping the scale: case studies on the use of planning powers to limit hot food takeaways

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date March 1, 2016

By Local Government Association (2016)

This report contains seven case studies to illustrate how the use of planning powers could be utilised as part of public health policy locally. It highlights the balance to strike between supporting growth of local businesses and promoting healthier choices and options for the population.

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Evidence Based Library Licensing Planning Research

Using research evidence: a practice guide

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date February 2, 2016

By Nesta & Alliance for Useful Evidence (2016)

This guide to aimed at decision-makers in government, charities, voluntary organisations, professional membership bodies and local authorities working in UK social policy and practice. It is not aimed at trained evaluators and researchers, but instead intends to foster intelligence demand for research evidence from wider audiences.

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Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2015

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date January 27, 2016

By Joseph Rowntree Association (2015)

This annual statistical review of poverty and social exclusion in the United Kingdom was commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and it addresses a broad range of indicators, spanning income, employment, social security, education, health, housing and homelessness. The report looks at changes over the last parliament and identifies key challenges going ahead.

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A&E Alcohol Hospital Admissions Licensing Planning Public Health Advice to NHS Commissioners

Alcohol-specific activity in hospitals in England

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date December 22, 2015

By the Nuffield Trust (2015)

Alcohol misuse costs the UK economy an estimated £7.3 billion per year. In England alone, estimates suggest that over 15,000 people die from alcohol-related illnesses each year.

The costs to the NHS of alcohol-related harm arise from a number of areas. For example, up to 35% of all Accident & Emergency (A&E) attendance and ambulance costs may be alcohol related. In 2013/14, over a million hospital admissions were as a consequence of an alcohol-related diagnosis, and this figure is increasing. The effect is not only evident in hospital care, with 22 to 35% of GP visits estimated to be related to alcohol. The true impact of alcohol on the health service is likely to be even higher than this.

This report analyses both trends in A&E visits and trends in hospital admissions that are attributable to alcohol-specific activities. Based on the findings it explores opportunities for preventative action.

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Making it better together: a call to action on the future of health and wellbeing boards

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date October 23, 2015

By Local Government Association (2015)

This call to action outlines a set of proposals to local system leaders and the government to strengthen the impact and leadership of health and wellbeing boards across the country. It also outlines the LGA and NHS Clinical Commissioners shared commitment to support boards to reach their full potential as system leaders driving forward changes that will improve the health of their communities.

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Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date September 30, 2015

Article published in The Lancet, June 22nd 2015

This final report of the Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change highlights the threat that climate change poses to public health. It argues that there is a key opportunity to invest in public health and build a resilient health system.

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