By Department of Health (2014)
This report outlines the progress made against the national cancer strategy. It details progress against the ambition to save an additional 5,000 lives per year by 2015; progress in screening programmes; progress in ensuring better access for all to the best possible treatment, particularly radiotherapy; and developments in the collection and reporting of new datasets and the analysis of information, particularly accurate stage at diagnosis data for England.
By McKinsey Global Institute (2014)
This discussion paper brings together a range of case studies and examples of obesity interventions from around the world and presents them with an initial assessment of their cost-effectiveness.
By National Voices (2014)
This document, produced in collaboration with UCLPartners and Age UK, sets out how integrated care and support looks and feels to older people and is written from their point of view. It outlines five themes that older people say are key to coordinated support: independence, community interactions, decision making, care and support and terminology.
By NHS England (2014)
This guidance aims to help commissioners, GPs and providers support mental health patients exercising their legal rights to choose who provides their care and treatment. This guidance has been updated to reflect suggestions from consultation which highlighted the need for further clarity and it also includes a set of clinical scenarios to illustrate how mental health patients’ legal rights should work in practice.
By Royal Voluntary Service (2014)
This report, written in association with The King’s Fund, argues that older people returning home from hospital without enough support are more than twice as likely to be readmitted within three months. It argues that older people and their families, doctors, nurses, other charities, the general public and commissioners working together we can challenge the rising readmission rates for older people, to the benefit of everyone.
By Ofsted (2014)
This thematic inspection was commissioned to evaluate the effectiveness of local authorities’ current response to child sexual exploitation. The report draws on evidence from inspection and case examination in eight local authorities and from the views of children and young people, parents, carers, practitioners and managers.
By Department for Education (2014)
A report looking at different approaches to integrating the EYFS progress check at age 2 with the HCP health review at age 2 to 2-and-a-half years.
By Public Health England (2014)
Using the same indicators as Child Health Profiles (published for each local authority), we have developed a new way of looking at national trends in issues affecting child health and wellbeing.
By NHS Improving Quality (2014)
This introductory guide aims to help cancer teams and professionals at all levels within a Trust to drive continual improvement in patient experience, using tried and tested tools and techniques.
By Transforming Care and Commissioning Steering Group (2014)
Sir Stephen Bubb, chief executive of charity leaders body ACEVO, was asked by NHS England to work with stakeholders and make recommendations for the development of a national commissioning framework to address the shortcomings in the provision of support for people with learning disabilities. The report makes a series of recommendations for the NHS, local government, regulators and the government, that include a robust NHS commissioning framework to support people with learning disabilities and autism move out of hospitals and into the community.