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Positive associations between consumerism and tobacco and alcohol use in early adolescence: cross-sectional study

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date October 10, 2012

Sweeting, HN. et al. BMJ Open, 2012; 2:e001446

The authors note that while there is concern about the negative impact of modern consumer culture on young people’s mental health, very few studies have investigated associations with substance use. In those which have, positive associations have been attributed to attempts to satisfy the unmet needs of more materialistic individuals. This study examines associations between different dimensions of consumerism and tobacco and alcohol use among Scottish early adolescents.

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Children Healthy Child including NCMP & CDO Nutrition Obesity Young People

A junk free childhood 2012: The 2012 report of the StanMark project on standards for marketing food and beverages to children in Europe

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date October 10, 2012

By the International Association for the Study of Obesity (July 2012)

According to this report, advertising of junk food continues to undermine children’s health despite the food industry’s promises that they would restrict their marketing activities. The review of advertising in Europe undertaken by IASO, a not-for-profit organisation, found that the industry’s own figures show that children’s exposure to advertisements for fatty and sugary foods had fallen by barely a quarter over the last six years.

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CCGs Commissioning General Practice Guidance Library

Commissioning guides – supporting clinical service redesign

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date October 10, 2012

By NICE (2012)

NICE commissioning guides are topic-specific, web-based resources.

Each commissioning guide comprises a series of text-based web pages that signpost and provide topic-specific information on key clinical and service-related issues to consider during the commissioning process. Each guide contains a commissioning and benchmarking tool, which is a resource that can be used to estimate and inform the level of service needed locally as well as the cost of local commissioning decisions.

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Asthma CVD Liver Disease including NHS Health Checks Respiratory Disease Value

NHS atlas of variation in healthcare for people with respiratory disease: reducing unwanted variation to increase value and improve quality

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date October 9, 2012

By NHS Right Care (September 2012)

In revealing the extent of variation in clinical activity and outcomes, the indicators presented in this new Atlas underline the substantial scope clinicians and commissioners have to improve outcomes by ensuring that all patients receive the quality of care that is delivered in the best-performing localities.

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CCGs Commissioning Library Patient Experience Patient Satisfaction

Optimising medicines use in care pathways using pharmacy support

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date October 9, 2012

By East and South East England Specialist Pharmacy Services (September 2012)

Optimising medicines use in care pathways using pharmacy support and the Medicines in Commissioning Toolkit are two key interlinked resources that have been revised and updated to support commissioners to help ensure care pathways which involve medicines deliver improved patient outcomes, are safe, use clinical and cost effective treatment options, offer patient choice and the best patient experience

The resources emphasise the delivery of QIPP and the NHS Outcomes Framework, and, above all, demonstrate how to maximise patient outcomes through medicines optimisation.

Both will also be useful to service providers, helping them to identify and address medicines-related issues in service specifications and comply with Care Quality Commission (CQC) Outcome 9 (Medicines Management).

In the current, rapidly changing, NHS environment these documents will provide a valuable starting point for local discussions between pharmacists and commissioners about the benefits and practicalities of commissioning medicines management support and appropriate pharmaceutical care for patients prescribed.

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CCGs Commissioning Library Third Sector

A clinical commissioner's guide to the voluntary sector

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date October 9, 2012

by ACEVO (2012)

This guide calls for a revolution in NHS and community links. It sets out practical examples to support closer working between clinical commissioners and third sector organisations. It explores three key areas: QIPP, patient and public involvement and collaborative commissioning.

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Healthy Settings Nutrition Obesity

Standard evaluation framework for dietary interventions

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date October 9, 2012

By the National Obesity Observatory (2012)

The SEF for dietary interventions aims to describe and explain the information that should be collected in any evaluation of an intervention that aims to improve dietary intake or associated behaviour. It is aimed at interventions that work at individual or group level, not at population level.

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Alcohol Substance Misuse Substance Use Tobacco & Drugs

The role of housing in drugs recovery: a practice compendium

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date October 9, 2012

By The Chartered Institute for Housing (September 2012)

The Department for Communities and Local Government has worked with the Recovery Partnership and local drugs and alcohol treatment teams to support the development of a series of case studies which highlight local activities to assist recovery through housing support.

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CCGs Commissioning General Practice Library

Primary care for the 21st century: learning from New Zealand's independent practitioner associations

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date October 8, 2012

By The Nuffield Trust (September 2012)

The authors found that clinical commissioning groups may need to form wider networks to secure the active engagement of GPs. Giving GPs genuine (not just on paper) independence is critical and public health does not currently appear to be a natural priority for GP groups, so time and support will be needed to allow them to develop in this area of their work.

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Community Library Local Government

Local public health intelligence

Post author By Sarah Woodhall
Post date October 8, 2012

By Department of Health (September 2012)

The factsheets set out the health intelligence requirements for local authorities and the actions local areas may wish to take to support their new public health duties from an information and intelligence perspective, including addressing IT and information governance architecture issues.

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