By NICE (2012)
This public health guidance aims to support effective, sustainable and community-wide action to prevent obesity. It sets out how local communities, with the support of local organisations and networks, can achieve this.
By World Health Organisation (2012)
This action plan outlines a range of evidence-based policy options to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. It is closely linked to 10 action areas of the global strategy to reduce harmful use of alcohol adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2010.
By Department of Health (2012)
The final report into the events at Winterbourne View Hospital states that staff routinely mistreated and abused patients, and management allowed a culture of abuse to flourish. The warning signs were not picked up, and concerns raised by a whistleblower went unheeded. The report also reveals weaknesses in the system’s ability to hold the leaders of care organisations to account. In addition, it finds that many people are in hospital who don’t need to be. People with learning disabilities or autism, who also have mental health conditions or challenging behaviour can be, and have a right to be, given the support and care they need in the community, near to family and friends.
By East Dumbartonshire Council (2012)
A recent project used an Ipad drawing app to show one way of engaging people with dementia in a creative activity. This project is designed by the East Dunbartonshire Initiative for Creative Therapy & Social Care (EDICT) with support from DSDC, and is based on a digital art activity with residents in care homes and pupils from Kirkintilloch High School using tablet computers. The project aims to provide an animated record of the individuals’ work which may be used to develop understanding and awareness of dementia in the wider community and reduce stigma. The work will be used to promote intergenerational understanding of dementia and the issues that people face.
Open access online article from the Health Service Journal (2012)
Exploring the initiatives and training University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Trust have used to raise the standard of care for patitents with Alzheimer’s and dementia.
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Leadership in a matrix
By NHS Confederation (2012)
Drawing on his own experiences of working in a matrix system, Ciaran Devane calls on NHS leaders to build a different set of core skills, covering conflict resolution and multi-party negotiation in order to lead through influence. He also highlights the importance of leaders being able to operate across the breadth of the new system and he makes it clear that he believes the future success of the NHS will be heavily reliant on the abilities of its leaders to build trust.
By Department of Health (2012)
This document gives an overview of the three Outcomes Frameworks, their purpose and the way they work together to support the health and care system to meet the challenges it faces.
By NHS Improvment – Lung (2012)
This guide is based on learning from COPD and asthma service improvement projects. It aims to help future sites get started; make progress in improving quality; understand their use of resources; and measure improvement. It covers acute and primary care, home oxygen services, and asthma care.
By The Nuffield Trust (2012)
This report highlights the funding challenges facing the NHS and social care system in England over the next decade. It focuses on the portion of the total NHS budget in England that is currently spent by PCTs on commissioning services for the population of England, which makes up around 80% of the total budget for the NHS in England. It also examines funding pressures on social care services, and examines options for achieving the current QIPP challenge of £20 billion in productivity savings by 2014/15.
Bentley, GF. et al. BMC Pediatrics, 2012; 12: 180
Establishing healthy physical activity (PA) behaviours in early childhood is important for future PA behaviours. Parents play a central role in young children’s PA. However, there is currently little research on parenting interventions to increase child PA. This study was formative work to inform the content of a pilot randomised-controlled trial.