By Royal College of General Practitioners (2014)
This inquiry concluded that clinicians must work with patients in a different way, providing personalised care and empowering patients to play an active role in managing their health. The report also calls for a shift in the way that general practice is delivered, so that practices come together as federations or networks and work with a range of other services to deliver coordinated and proactive care in the community.
By Royal College of Nursing (2014)
This special report seeks to highlight the issues facing the mental health nursing community and puts the case forward for greater investment in this vital service in conjunction with Rethink Mental Illness.
By NHS England (2014)
The purpose of the document is to give CCGs the opportunity to choose afresh the co-commissioning model they wish to assume. It clarifies the opportunities and parameters of each co-commissioning model and the steps towards implementing arrangements.
By Public Health England (2014)
This paper presents recent evidence on the relationship between obesity, cardiovascular fitness and mortality, and briefly explores the main public health implications.
By Public Health England (2014)
In this guidance the National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP) outlines ways to improve the effectiveness and value for money of chlamydia screening in a local authority’s population of 15 to 24 year olds.
The guidance suggests a number of activities to support local authorities to work towards achieving the Department of Health recommended chlamydia detection rate of 2,300 chlamydia diagnoses per 100,000 15 to 24 year olds, a Health Protection indicator within the Public Health Outcomes Framework.
By NHS England (2014)
NHS England is committed to giving CCGs and area teams practical support in gathering data, evidence and tools to help them transform the way care is delivered for their patients and populations.
Working with Public Health England and NHS Right Care, NHS England is providing a suite of materials to support effective ‘commissioning for value’. This includes a range of comprehensive data packs and online tools.
The first packs – released in October 2013 – clearly showed CCGs and area teams ‘where to look’ as a first stage to identify real opportunities to improve outcomes and increase value for local populations.
The ‘Pathways on a Page’ packs – published in November 2014 – provide in depth data for 13 patient conditions, within those programmes that were most commonly identified as offering the greatest potential improvements in the first pack.
The use of this localised information as part of the annual planning cycle is encouraged. It will support discussions about prioritising areas for change and utilising resources, and will help local leaders make improvements in healthcare quality, outcomes and efficiency.
The information in the packs will be of particular interest to CCG clinical and management leads with responsibility for finance, performance, improvement and health outcomes; to area team leads; and to commissioning support teams who are helping CCGs with this work. A range of additional free support to accompany the data is set out within each pack.