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 summarises the main findings of a Department of Health commissioned report on the current landscape for mental health service provision in England. It aims to provide CCGs with a clearer understanding of the way in which the market currently operates in the mental health sector, and will assist in the development of effective commissioning arrangements.
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 Housing Learning & Improvement Network (September 2012)
This publication assesses the progress of health and wellbeing boards in adopting telecare and telehealth. It also lays out opportunities that these innovations represent to local boards as they develop their role as strategic enablers and system leaders across health, care and wellbeing.
by The International Centre for Lifecourse Studies in Society and Health (2012)
This paper examined the relationship between health behaviours and young people’s well-being. Health-protective behaviours were associated with high well-being, and health-risk behaviours were associated with low well-being. Interventions to encourage healthy lifestyles among adolescents might not only benefit their future physical health but also their existing well-being. A gendered approach to targeting interventions was also recommended.
By The Young Foundation (2012)
This report looks at participation in sport and physical activity among young people in England. It sets out the reasons why participation rates are low and provides a four-point plan to get more people active.
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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