By The King’s Fund & The Nuffield Trust (July 2012)
This week we published new research into the early development of clinical commissioning groups, the cornerstone of the coalition government’s NHS reforms. The report focuses on six CCGs and reveals that many GPs don’t currently have a strong sense of ownership of their local CCGs. This is the first output from our three-year partnership with the Nuffield Trust.
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By NICE (June 2013)
This guide encourages commissioners to work with clinicians and managers to commission high-quality evidence-based care for people who self-harm.
By Public Health England (2013)
This guidance sets out PHE’s expectation that support should be available in every area for people with a dependency on prescription or over-the-counter medicines, based on a full assessment of local need. It has been produced with input from experts on addiction to medicines, and outlines a number of sources that commissioners can use to identify the scale of misuse or dependence, and in relation to what medicines in their area.
By Professor Sir Bruce Keogh KBE (July 2013)
Sir Bruce Keogh’s review into 14 hospital trusts in England is the result of a series of ‘deep-dive’ reviews into other hospitals with mortality rates which have been consistently high for two years or more. It found that all 14 trusts will have to undertake strict improvement plans and 11 will be placed into special measures to ensure that Sir Bruce’s recommendations are fully implemented and patient care improves.
By The King’s Fund (July 2013)
At a time when policy-makers in England have made a commitment to bring about closer integration of care both within the NHS and between health and social care, what can the health and social care system in England learn from the experiences of the other countries of the United Kingdom?