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Children General Practice Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Integrated Care Public Health Advice to NHS Commissioners

Opening the door to better healthcare: a snapshot of innovations in primary and first access care for children and young people

By The National Children’s Bureau (2014)

This report discusses some of the innovations being taken forward by GPs and others to improve children’s access to and experience of primary care. It also includes examples of broader multi-professional collaboration and innovation to ensure that more children with minor ailments are treated in the right place at the right time.

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Children CYP Healthcare Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Infant Feeding Infant Mortality

Healthy start: understanding the use of vouchers and vitamins

By The University of York et al. (2013)

This is the full report of an evaluation of the Healthy Start programme. The main aims of this study were: to look how the Healthy Start scheme works from the point of view of women using it and health professionals; and to provide evidence for how it could work better.

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Care of the Elderly General Practice Guidance Integrated Care Licensing Long-Term Conditions Planning

Transforming primary care: safe, proactive, personalised care for those who need it most

By Department of Health (2014)

This guidance sets out plans for more proactive, personalised and joined up care, including the Proactive Care Programme, providing the 800,000 patients with the most complex health and care needs with a personal care and support plan; a named accountable GP; a professional to coordinate their care; and same-day telephone consultations. The plan builds on the role of primary care in keeping patients well and independent. It explains how professionals across the healthcare system can work together to transform care to become more proactive and tailored to patients’ individual need.

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Transforming primary care: safe, proactive, personalised care for those who need it most

By Department of Health (2014)

This guidance sets out plans for more proactive, personalised and joined up care, including the Proactive Care Programme, providing the 800,000 patients with the most complex health and care needs with a personal care and support plan; a named accountable GP; a professional to coordinate their care; and same-day telephone consultations. The plan builds on the role of primary care in keeping patients well and independent. It explains how professionals across the healthcare system can work together to transform care to become more proactive and tailored to patients’ individual need.

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Library

Transforming primary care: safe, proactive, personalised care for those who need it most

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Children Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Infant Feeding Safeguarding

Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage: setting standards for learning, development and care for children from birth to five

By Department of Health (2014)

Statutory framework for the early years foundation stage (EYFS), which comes into force on 1 September 2014.

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Children Guidance Health Promotion Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO

Maximising the school nursing team contribution to the public health of school-aged children

By Department of Health (2014)

This guidance document provides a framework for local commissioners and providers of school nursing services. It aims to set out the core school nurse offer and the innovative ways that school nursing services can be commissioned and developed to meet local need to ensure effective, seamless delivery of public health for school-aged children and young people. This guidance supports the development of local service specifications.

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Minority Groups Sexual Health

Ensuring human rights in the provision of contraceptive information and services: guidance and recommendations

By WHO (2014)

These WHO guidelines provide recommendations for programmes as to how they can ensure that human rights are respected, protected and fulfilled, while services are scaled up to reduce unmet need for contraception.

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Breastfeeding Infant Feeding Statistics

Maternity and breastfeeding statistics

By NHS England (2014)

This collection reports on the number and proportion of women seen and assessed by a healthcare professional within 12 weeks and 6 days of their maternity, the number and proportion of mothers’ who have initiated or not initiated breastfeeding and the number and proportion of infants who have been fully, partially or not at all breastfed at 6-8 weeks

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Diabetes Type 2 Long-Term Conditions Nutrition Obesity

Blood sugar rush: diabetes time bomb in London

By London Assembly (2014)

This report finds that almost half a million Londoners are living with Type 2 diabetes and that the figure is set to increase exponentially over the coming years. It aims to find out what is driving the increase in Type 2 diabetes across London, and how the delivery of diabetes care is managed and where improvements can be made in providing that care.

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