By Mental Health Foundation (August 2012)
This briefing paper provides an overview of peer support in mental health (including dementia) and learning disabilities, based on some of the recent literature. It looks at how peer support can help people to recover, or get more control over their condition, and to live fulfilling lives in their communities.
By The Royal College of Nursing (2012)
This guide analyses how needs are assessed and how services are introduced to meet these needs. It considers how to achieve equality through knowledge, timeliness, consideration and review. It provides an overview of The Equality Act 2010 and what it means for the public sector and also gives advice for service providers to develop a framework on which to measure their equality outcomes.
By Department of Health (August 2012)
This letter sets out the agreement between the Department of Health, Public Health England and the NHS Commissioning Board on their roles and respective accountabilities in relation to national screening and immunisation programmes after April 2013. It gives details on the future operations of the programmes and covers models of local leadership and coordination functions for screening and immunisation services.
By The King’ s Fund (August 2012)
People’s lifestyles – whether they smoke, how much they drink, what they eat, whether they take regular exercise – affect their health and mortality. It is well known that each of these lifestyle risk factors is unequally distributed in the population. Less is known about how these behaviours co-occur or cluster in the population and about how these patterns of multiple lifestyle risk have been evolving over time. This paper considers this in the context of the English population and sets out the implications for public health policy and practice that flow from the findings. It reviews the current evidence on multiple lifestyle risks and analyses data from the Health Survey for England on the distribution of these risks in the adult population and how this is changing over time.
By The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (August 2012)
This study examined the lives of young people who drink little or no alcohol, and found that:
By National Institute for Health Research (2012)
This guide is aimed at helping the general public, service users, and carers gain access to the results of mental health research. It explains how research is published as research papers, what the different sort of papers are, how they are structured, how to identify a particular research paper and, finally, how to get hold of it. Many useful links are also provided.
By NHS Commissioning Board (2012)
By The Health Foundation (June 2012)
This report explores the main form of interaction between a patient and a clinician – the consultation. It uncovers the anxieties that both parties may feel, with doctors and patients each having their own concerns.
By Centre for Innovation in Health Management (July 2012)
This report forms stage one of a two– part inquiry. Here, we bring together a number of discussions with doctors, managers, policy–makers and academics
to give a detailed picture of what good relationships look like and how they work. Stage two will explore what these findings mean for policy, the design of health services and the wider healthcare system.
By The Information Centre for Health and Social Care (August 2012)
This statistical report presents a range of information on smoking which is drawn together from a variety of sources. The report aims to present a broad picture of health issues relating to smoking in England and covers topics such as smoking prevalence, habits, behaviours and attitudes among adults and school children, smoking-related ill health and mortality and smoking-related costs.