Month: April 2014

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Care of the Elderly CVD Healthy Settings Integrated Care Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Long-Term Conditions Patient Experience Respiratory Disease

Accountable care organisations in the United States and England: testing, evaluating and learning what works

By The King’s Fund (2014)

The health system in England is facing a number of challenges including an ageing population, an increasing number of people with multiple, long-term conditions and a difficult financial climate. To meet these challenges, more integrated approaches to care delivery are needed to improve both the quality of care and patients’ experience. In the United States, ACOs – a group of providers that take responsibility for providing all the care for a given population for a specified period of time – have been developed to provide a more integrated approach to care.This paper describes the different types of ACOs emerging in the United States; presents some early evidence on their performance; assesses the future for ACOs; and discusses the implication of these developments for integrated care initiatives in England.

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Alcohol Good Practice Guidance Illegal Drugs Safeguarding Substance Use Tobacco & Drugs

Quality standards for effective alcohol and drug education

ADEPIS (Alcohol & Drug Education & Prevention Information Service) (2014)

The standards – comprising statements explaining the criteria for meeting each requirement – are coupled with the following supporting tools: further reading and resources; examples of how standards might be evidenced; self assessment forms. These standards have drawn on existing national and international guidance as well as examples of good practice in alcohol and drug education and prevention. The set of standards include: delivering effective alcohol and drug education in the classroom as part of a planned PSHE programme; school context for effective alcohol and drug education; staff policies and safeguarding.

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Nutrition Obesity

Associations between exposure to takeaway food outlets, takeaway food consumption, and body weight in Cambridgeshire, UK: population based, cross sectional study

Burgoine, T. BMJ 2014;348:g1464

The Independent reports that “encountering too many takeaway outlets near our homes, workplaces and even on the daily commute to work could be increasing our risk of obesity”. The headline is based on a new study looking at whether the density of fast food outlets in some areas is contributing towards the obesity epidemic. This ‘Behind the headlines’ article examines the evidence behind the reports.

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Alcohol Smoking Tobacco & Drugs

Smoking, plain packaging and public health

By Adam Smith Institute (2014)

This briefing is the first in a series which aims to analyse policies towards tobacco harm reduction and looks at the effectiveness of plain packaging policies.

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Children Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Statistics

Child health profiles

By Public Health England (2014)

Child Health Profiles provide a snapshot of child health and wellbeing for each local authority in England using key health indicators, which enables comparison locally, regionally and nationally.

By using the profiles local organisations can work in partnership to plan and commission evidence-based services based on local need. The profiles allow you to compare the outcomes in your local population with others in order to identify and learn from better performing areas.

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Commissioning Nutrition Obesity Public Health Advice to NHS Commissioners

Commissioning guide: weight assessment and management clinics (tier 3)

By Royal College of Surgeons of England (2014)

The guide is intended to assist clinical commissioning groups in commissioning these services and reduce variation in access to weight-loss clinics across the country.

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Children Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Nutrition Obesity

Summary of the National Child Measurement Programme and nutrition and healthy weight regional events

By Public Health England (2014)

In winter 2013, PHE held 6 regional events focused on child obesity, the NCMP, healthy weight and nutrition. The child obesity and NCMP workshops enabled PHE to get a better insight to current child obesity and NCMP implementation. This document summarises the events and their outcomes.

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Accident Prevention Alcohol Cancer Care of the Elderly Community Safety CVD CYP Healthcare Health Protection (Emergency planning Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Healthy Settings Infant Feeding Infant Mortality Infection Control Library Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Long-Term Conditions Mortality Nutrition Obesity Respiratory Disease seasonal mortality) Tobacco & Drugs

The future of public health: a horizon scan

By RAND Europe (2014)

Public Health England (PHE) commissioned RAND Europe to undertake a horizon scanning study exploring the future of public health and related scientific services. This work was intended to help inform thinking at the strategic level within PHE, firstly in relation to the wider vision of the Agency and, secondly, in relation to the proposals for the creation of an integrated public health science hub. The report focuses on the different future public health science needs and the extent to which an integrated science hub could serve PHE as it evolves over the next twenty years.

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Children Nutrition Obesity Young People

Attitudes to weight and weight management in the early teenage years: a qualitative study of parental perceptions and views

Wills, W.J. et al. Health Expectations, 2014; doi: 10.1111/hex.12182

This paper explores parents’ perceptions of, and views about, their teenage children’s weight and the factors that influence parents’ weight management strategies.

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Cancer Children CYP Healthcare Good Practice Guidance Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Infant Mortality

Children and young people with cancer

By NICE (February 2014)

This quality standard covers the provision of all aspects of cancer services for children and young people with cancer. For this quality standard, children are defined as aged 0–15 years and young people as 16–24 years, though this is not a formal upper age limit because the needs and circumstances of individuals will vary, including their need to access age-specific services.

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