By Bowel Cancer UK (2012)
This briefing shows that despite the Government’s aspiration to diagnose people earlier, groups or individuals who need to undergo regular endoscopic procedures because they are at higher risk of bowel cancer (for example, because of a genetic condition or an inflammatory bowel condition) are not getting the timely surveillance they require.
By The Nuffield Trust (September 2012)
This report examines how, in an era of financial challenge, NHS trusts can make better use of cost information at the patient level, as the first step towards greater efficiency. The challenge faced by the NHS of achieving major efficiency savings highlights the desirability of improving the availability and scrutiny of data on the costs and outcomes of health care. Patient-level costing systems (or ‘PLICS’) were introduced in the NHS in the mid-2000s. This report highlights the key findings of a full report looking at the use of these computerised information systems in hospitals that were set up to track and enable analysis of the costs of care incurred by individual patients. The report examines whether the implementation of information systems for patient-level costing might lead to greater efficiencies.
By 2020Health (September 2012)
The findings of this report are the result of a roundtable which brought together health policy-makers, GPs, politicians and senior academics. One in seventeen people will be affected by a rare condition in their lifetime, a number that is projected to mushroom in the coming years. This report demonstrates how wrong or late diagnosis wastes vital NHS funds, and costs considerably more than early diagnosis, requiring expensive and invasive medical treatment.
By Save the Children (September 2012)
The report finds that parents choose to go hungry in order to feed their children, missing regular hot meals, unable to afford warm coats and new shoes and suffering enormous emotional strain. The charity highlights children’s – as well as parents’ – experiences living in recession-hit Britain and the extent to which poverty is blighting young lives. 1 in 8 of the poorest children in the UK go without at least 1 hot meal a day, and 1 in 10 of the UK’s poorest parents have cut back on food for them to make sure their children have enough to eat, the report reveals.
By Department of Health (2012)
A factsheet detailing local governement requirements for public health intelligence capacity and services and outlining steps that need to be taken to secure such capacity and services incliuding addressing IT and information governance architecture issues.
By Department of Health (2012)
This page provides a brief introduction to the statutory bodies making up the new health and care system, explaining how they will work together in the interests of patients and communities.
By UNISON (2012)
This guide offers help and advice on working within the new NHS structure to influence key decisions about cuts or privatisation. It shows where there are opportunities for UNISON members and members of the public to get involved in foundation trusts at a number of different levels, how some of the work of clinical commissioning groups might be influenced, and how the role of local authorities in the NHS can be shaped, both by citizens and by councillors.
By Houses of Parliament (September 2012)
This briefing summarises the latest international research on measuring national wellbeing at the individual, social group and national levels; its components and causes; and the policy implications of such research.
By Royal College of Psychiatrists (September 2012)
This report will help commissioners, providers, regulators, policy makers, doctors and those seeking recovery from drug or alcohol use to ensure that drug and alcohol services make the best use of resources to deliver the highest possible standard of care across the entire pathway and that all doctors working with people using drugs and alcohol have the right level of competency for the roles and responsibilities they undertake.
By Adfam (2012)
In 2011 Adfam and AVA began working together on a new project, looking at the experiences of parents who were victims of domestic abuse from their substance using children. In September, October and November 2011 focus groups were held around England consulting 88 parents on how child to parent violence (CPV) was manifest in their lives and which services they had turned to for support. The findings from these focus groups were used for the writing of this report.