Category: Integrated Care

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CVD Health Inequalities Health Promotion Integrated Care Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Local Government Minority Groups Nutrition Obesity Respiratory Disease

Body mass index thresholds for intervening to prevent ill health among black, Asian and other minority ethnic groups

By NICE (2014)

This briefing recommends lowering BMI thresholds as a trigger for intervening to prevent ill health among adults from minority ethnicities. Further examples of recommendations include developing an integrated regional and local plan, and promoting early intervention among minority groups. It also suggests that by reconfiguring services to meet the health needs of their local populations, local authorities can reduce health inequalities and address the costs associated with ill health.

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Guidance Health Protection (Emergency planning Integrated Care Minority Groups Public Health Advice to NHS Commissioners seasonal mortality) Sexual Health

Improving access to health care for Gypsies and Travellers, homeless people and sex workers

By RCGP (2013)

This guidance argues that radical changes are needed to meet the healthcare needs of vulnerable groups. It makes recommendations towards more communication and joined up working between health, social care and voluntary services targeted at marginalised groups; and greater integration between health and housing services to identify and treat health problems associated with poor living conditions.

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Community Integrated Care Public Mental Health

Patient suicide: the impact of service changes: a UK wide study

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.

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Integrated Care Licensing Local Government Planning Secondary Care

The power of partnership: how to seize the potential: a practical guide to forming and maintaining cross-sector partnerships in healthcare

By Sodexo (December 2013)

This report explores the case for partnership working, helps define partnership and highlights the things to consider when navigating the procurement process. It looks at three phases of the partnership process: getting started, procurement and delivery.

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Community Coordinated care CVD End of Life Care Integrated Care Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Respiratory Disease

Coordinated care for people with complex condition: key lessons and markers for success

By The King’s Fund (2013)

This report presents the findings from a two-year research project funded by Aetna and the Aetna Foundation. It aimed to understand the key components of effective strategies employed by studying five UK-based programmes to deliver co-ordinated care for people with long-term and complex needs. It elicits some key lessons and markers for success to help identify how care co-ordination might be transferred from the UK to the US context.

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Good Practice Healthy Settings Integrated Care Licensing Planning Secondary Care Social Care

Four nations united: critical learning from four different systems for the successful integration of social care and health services

By Association of Directors for Adult Social Services (2013)

This paper originated from discussions on best practice which took place at an ADASS seminar. It aims to provide staff across key services with an accessible and practical overview of best approaches to the challenge of successful integration.

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Community Healthy Settings Integrated Care Licensing Planning Social Care

Leading improvement across the continuum: skills, tools and teams for success

By Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence (October 2013)

This guide provides two frameworks for conceptualising and planning improvement activities. The improvement continuum describes four categories of improvement activities: topic or microsystem, care co-ordination, defined population and community health. For each of these categories, the framework describes the skills, tools and teams that lead to successful improvement efforts. The guide also includes a leadership action model and a framework for how to use the improvement continuum.

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Healthy Settings Integrated Care Licensing Planning Public Health Advice to NHS Commissioners Social Care

Principles for health and social care reform

By Solace (September 2013)

This report outlines the views of SOLACE members on the shape that health and social care reform should take going forward, outlining ten key principles which should underpin future reform. It places an emphasis on a move towards integrated care; shared commissioning; and shared management.

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Integrated Care Public Mental Health

Crossing boundaries: improving integrated care for people with mental health problems

By Mental Health Foundation (September 2013)

This report sets out the findings from the Mental Health Foundation’s inquiry into integrated health care for people with mental health problems, which ran from April 2012 to June 2013. The aim of the inquiry was to identify good practice, generate discussion, and draw up key messages on integrated healthcare for people with mental health problems.

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Community Good Practice Health Promotion Healthy Settings Integrated Care Local Government Well-Being

Health 2020: a European policy framework and strategy for the 21st Century

By WHO (2013)

Health 2020 is a value- and evidence-based health policy framework for health and well-being among the people of the WHO European Region. Health 2020 focuses on improving health for all and reducing health inequalities, through improved leadership and governance for health. It focuses on today’s major health problems. It identifies four priority areas for policy action and is innovative in terms of responses across all levels and sectors of government and society, emphasizing developing assets and resilience within communities, empowerment and creating supportive environments. It details the strengthened roles of public health services and the health system.

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