Month: June 2014

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End of Life Care Mortality Patient Experience

National care of the dying audit for hospitals, England: National report 2014

By The Royal College of Physicians (2014)

This report has found significant variations in care across hospitals in England.  The audit shows that major improvements need to be made to ensure better care for dying people, and better support for their families, carers, friends and those important to them. While previous audits had been based on the goals of care within the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP), the new audit sampled the care of dying people in hospital, regardless of whether they were supported by the LCP or other care pathways or frameworks, and included more hospitals than the previous audits.

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Health Protection (Emergency planning Healthy Settings Long-Term Conditions Mortality seasonal mortality) Self-Management Well-Being

Supporting people to manage their health: an introduction to patient activation

By The King’s Fund (2014)

With 60 to 70 per cent of premature deaths caused by detrimental health behaviours, it is vital that people engage more with improving their own health. This paper introduces a way of conceptualising and measuring that engagement known as ‘patient activation’. Patient activation can be used to reduce health inequalities and deliver improved outcomes, better quality care and lower costs. Drawing on US and UK-based evidence, the paper describes the robust patient-reported measure used to gauge patient activation.

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Library

Supporting people to manage their health: an introduction to patient activation

By The King’s Fund (2014)

 

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Infant Feeding Maternal

Breastfeeding and lactation research: exploring a tool to measure infant feeding patterns

Noel-Weiss. J.  et al. International Breastfeeding Journal. 2014; 9(5)

The goal of this research project was to develop and test a tool to measure patterns of infant feeding for breastfeeding and lactation research.

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Children CYP Healthcare Infant Mortality Mortality Young People

Why children die: death in infants, children and young people in the UK

By Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health (2014)

This report published by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) reviews existing UK evidence on child mortality. It finds that many of the causes of child death, including perinatal deaths and suicides, disproportionately affect the most disadvantaged in society. In response to the report, the College in partnership with the National Children’s Bureau have developed a suite of recommendations to tackle child mortality in England. These recommendations cut across the three domains of government and civil society, health systems and organisations, and health care and public health.

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Good Practice Health Protection (Emergency planning Healthy Settings seasonal mortality) Social Care

Horizon 2035: international responses to big picture challenges: a review of changing global models of care and the workforce of the future

By Centre for Workforce Intelligence (2014)

This paper considers how other countries are responding to big picture challenges in health, social care and public health. It addresses the key question of whether there are examples of models of care in other countries that are similar to the challenges facing the health and care workforce in England, and therefore should be considered in plausible scenarios for Horizon 2035?

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Children Guidance Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO

National child measurement programme operational guidance

By Public Health England (2014)

This guidance advises local commissioners and providers of the national child measurement programme on its implementation.

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Asthma CVD Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Long-Term Conditions Mortality Respiratory Disease

Why asthma still kills: the national review of asthma deaths (NRAD)

By Royal College of Physicians (2014)

This report looked into the circumstances surrounding deaths from asthma from 1st February 2012 to 30th January 2013. The primary aim was to understand the circumstances surrounding asthma deaths in the UK in order to identify avoidable factors and to make recommendations to improve care and reduce the number of deaths.

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