By Centre for Mental Health (2013)
This report calls for every mental health service to secure specialist welfare advice to help to support recovery and to intervene early when difficulties emerge. It recommends that health and social care commissioners should ensure that their plans include welfare advice provision and that the government should consider including welfare advice in its outcomes frameworks for the NHS, social care and public health.
By Royal College of Physicians (2013)
The purpose of this booklet is to give lung cancer teams across the country an overview of the aims, activities and achievements of the Improving Lung Cancer Outcomes Project (ILCOP). It outlines the ILCOP approach to quality improvement and also contains four case studies.
By WHO (2013)
Noncommunicable diseases continue to be the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the European region. This report aims to demonstrate achievements made in the various proposed action areas, reporting the activities already undertaken and future plans. While the report reveals gaps and challenges faced in the achievement of desired objectives, it also highlights examples of innovation in contextualisation of interventions within various countries in the region.
By Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition (2013)
This report offers support and recommendations to health and wellbeing boards on how they can prioritise and address children and young people’s mental health. It is based on a review of 145 joint strategic needs assessment (JSNAs) and 142 joint health and wellbeing strategies (JHWSs).
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By NICE (2013)
This guidance aims to support smoking cessation, temporary abstinence from smoking and smokefree policies in all secondary care settings.
By Monitor (November 2013)
All providers of health care services for the NHS including independent providers, will require a Monitor licence from 1st April 2014, unless they are exempt. This document outlines the action commissioners now need to take to be ready for 1st April 2014.
By National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness (November (2013)
This report argues that mental health service providers looking after patients at risk of suicide need to reduce absconding on in-patient wards and boost specialist community services like crisis resolution to reduce deaths.
By National Institute for Health Research (November 2013)
This systematic review examines the evidence on whether community engagement helps to reduce health inequalities. The aim of the study was to identify theoretical models underpinning community engagement; to explore mechanisms and contexts through which communities are engaged; to identify community engagement approaches that are effective in reducing health inequalities, under what circumstances and for whom; and to determine the processes and costs associated with their implementation.
By Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) (December 2013)
This paper reviews the case for change in the English health and care system and considers how to move towards a ‘whole person care’ approach. It sets out broad themes on creating a health and care system that is fit for the future. It makes a case for a number of person-centred guarantees at the heart of the vision for whole person care, focused on people with long-term conditions and older people.
By Care Quality Commission (2013)
This document outlines the new approach that CQC will be taking to the inspection of mental health services. The updated inspections will put a greater emphasis on inspecting the care that people with mental health problems receive in the community.