Month: August 2012

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Guidance Library

Keeping patients safe when they transfer between care providers: getting the medicines right

By The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (2011)

Taking a medicine is the most frequent intervention that patients will use to improve their health. In particular, older people and those with long term conditions rely heavily on medicines as a way of managing their illnesses.  These patients, often taking multiple and complex regimens are some of the most vulnerable to problems with their medicines when they transfer care settings. Whether it’s from care homes or primary care to hospitals, or mental health hospitals to the community, or from hospitals back to primary care, these are times when the risk of things going wrong with medicines tends to increase.

It is the responsibility of all the professionals involved in the care of a patient to ensure the safe transfer of information about medicines. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society, in collaboration with other royal colleges, patients, health and social care professionals has developed professional guidance that is closely mapped to a range of related national initiatives and guidance.

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Children Crime Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO

Tackling health inequalities through developing evidence-based policy and practice with childbearing women in prison: A consultation

By Hallum Centre for Community Justice (2012)

A study mapped the health needs and healthcare of childbearing women in prison. Childbearing women in prison and their babies were more likely than the general population to experience perinatal and maternal mortality and morbidity, and might also suffer separation and distress that could be alleviated.

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Community Library

The impact of the economic downturn and policy changes on health inequalities in London

By UCL Institute of Health Equity

The UCL Institute of Health Equity was commissioned by the London Health Inequalities Network to look at the impact of the economic downturn and the government’s welfare reforms on health inequalities in London to 2016, with a particular focus on the employment, income and housing impacts of the changes. A report containing a literature review of the potential impacts of the changes along with a set of recommendations of what local authorities and other actors can do to mitigate any negative impacts was published on 19 June 2012. A set of indicators for local authorities to use to measure the impacts of the changes in their area is currently in development and will undergo local testing before being published early in 2013.

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CCGs Commissioning Library

The functions of clinical commissioning groups

By Department of Health (2012)

This document is an update to ‘The Functions of GP Commissioning Consortia: A Working Document’ published in March 2011, to reflect the final content of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, and act as a helpful summary to which busy GPs and emerging CCGs can refer.

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Library Patient Satisfaction Secondary Care

Clinicians in management: does it make a difference?

By Centre for Innovation in Health Management, University of Leeds (2012)

Despite the Government’s best efforts over the last ten years to get more doctors and nurses onto the boards of NHS Trusts, this research (the first survey of its kind) has found that the boards remain dominated by non-clinicians, such as accountants and managers. Clinicians make up an average of just 26% of board members in English hospital trusts, with major variations around the country.

The research, led by Professor Ian Kirkpatrick, looks at the relationship between having doctors on the boards of trusts and patient satisfaction rates, patient morbidity rates and how highly the hospital’s management is regarded. Essentially, having more doctors on the board increases patient satisfaction rates, and lowers patient morbidity rates.

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Commissioning Guidance Library

Securing excellence in primary care commissioning

By NHS Commissioning Board (2012)

This document outlines the single operating model for the commissioning of primary care services within the NHS. It describes the system by which the NHS Commissioning Board will use the £12.6bn that is spent on commissioning primary care to secure the best possible outcomes for patients.

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Commissioning Library

Clinical commissioning in action

By NHS Clinical Commissioners (2012)

This publication shares learning from CCGs around England in the form of case studies. Each case study illustrates an example of successful outcomes and service provision.

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Commissioning Guidance Library

Guidance to support the provision of healthcare public health advice to CCGs

By Department of Health (2012)

The revised guidance provides an explanation of how the healthcare public health advice service from local authorities to CCG commissioners will work. It is to help Directors of Public Health and their public health teams who are to transfer from PCTs to local authorities and CCG commissioners prepare for April 2012 when the new system architecture goes live.

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Commissioning General Practice Library

Clinical commissioning groups HR guide

By NHS Commissioning Board (2012)

This guide is designed to support CCGs as they move towards establishment and authorisation, whilst reflecting the high-level principles governing the changes affecting staff across the NHS. It provides practical advice about how CCGs can approach the main HR issues that they are likely to encounter as they become established, beginning with the senior appointments process, transfers of staff and remuneration.

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Commissioning Library

CCG authorisation: the role of medicines management

By Primary Care Commissioning (2012)

This toolkit supports CCGs in their journey towards authorisation, focusing on one of the major elements of healthcare expenditure – prescribing – and the essential associated medicines management and optimisation functions that underpin its safe, effective and financial management. In this toolkit each of the NPC indicators that underpin the six overarching competencies is allocated to one of the six CCG domains central to the authorisation process. Alongside each competency statement are one or more suggestions for the type of evidence the CCG should have, or be developing, to demonstrate it is meeting that competency and therefore supporting the overall aims of the domain in which it sits.

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