By The Rand Corporation (2012)
The overall aim of the work presented in this report was to use novel approaches to measure alcohol advertisement exposure among young people in Europe through audiovisual and online media.
Month: January 2013
By Department of Health (2012)
This three-year vision and strategy for nursing, midwifery and care staff that aims to build the culture of compassionate care in all areas of practice.
By The Social Market Foundation (2012)
This report draws on in-depth interviews with people with Alzheimer’s and their carers and a wealth of research to identify the barriers to early diagnosis, from a patient and professional perspective. New policies are proposed to better incentivise the health system to diagnose dementia earlier.
By NICE (2012)
This public health guidance recommends coordinated action to identify and address the barriers that may be discouraging people from walking and cycling more often or at all. It is is aimed at schools, workplaces, local authorities and the NHS to encourage them to promote walking and cycling.
By NICE (2012)
This public health guidance aims to support effective, sustainable and community-wide action to prevent obesity. It sets out how local communities, with the support of local organisations and networks, can achieve this.
By World Health Organisation (2012)
This action plan outlines a range of evidence-based policy options to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. It is closely linked to 10 action areas of the global strategy to reduce harmful use of alcohol adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2010.
By Department of Health (2012)
The final report into the events at Winterbourne View Hospital states that staff routinely mistreated and abused patients, and management allowed a culture of abuse to flourish. The warning signs were not picked up, and concerns raised by a whistleblower went unheeded. The report also reveals weaknesses in the system’s ability to hold the leaders of care organisations to account. In addition, it finds that many people are in hospital who don’t need to be. People with learning disabilities or autism, who also have mental health conditions or challenging behaviour can be, and have a right to be, given the support and care they need in the community, near to family and friends.
By East Dumbartonshire Council (2012)
A recent project used an Ipad drawing app to show one way of engaging people with dementia in a creative activity. This project is designed by the East Dunbartonshire Initiative for Creative Therapy & Social Care (EDICT) with support from DSDC, and is based on a digital art activity with residents in care homes and pupils from Kirkintilloch High School using tablet computers. The project aims to provide an animated record of the individuals’ work which may be used to develop understanding and awareness of dementia in the wider community and reduce stigma. The work will be used to promote intergenerational understanding of dementia and the issues that people face.
Open access online article from the Health Service Journal (2012)
Exploring the initiatives and training University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust have used to raise the standard of care for patitents with Alzheimer’s and dementia.
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Leadership in a matrix
By NHS Confederation (2012)
Drawing on his own experiences of working in a matrix system, Ciaran Devane calls on NHS leaders to build a different set of core skills, covering conflict resolution and multi-party negotiation in order to lead through influence. He also highlights the importance of leaders being able to operate across the breadth of the new system and he makes it clear that he believes the future success of the NHS will be heavily reliant on the abilities of its leaders to build trust.