By Department of Health (2012)
This guidance provides a structured approach on common issues associated with maternal mental health and wellbeing, from pregnancy through the early months after the birth. It focuses on the role of the health visitor but also recognises the contributions of partners in midwifery, mental health, general practice and the third sector. It aims to strengthen the consistent provision support and care through enhanced partnership working.
By Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (2012)
This report describes the development and implementation in Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, one of nine showcase hospitals, and the National Centre for Infection Prevention and Management of a smartphone application for the trust’s antibiotic prescribing policy. The aim of the report is to help directors of infection prevention and control and other staff decide whether they should consider using smartphone technology as a cost-effective means of disseminating policy and guidelines to improve practice at the point of care.
By NHS Institute for Innovation & Improvement (2012)
This free web based resource is available to help you engage patients, carers and public in decisions about healthcare provision.
Refreshed for a new NHS landscape, it offers a structured framework with online access to information, resources and case studies.
By Neurological Alliance (2012)
This report identifies a range of neurology outcomes and highlights concerns that, without their inclusion in the quality and accountability architecture of the reformed NHS, the new system may not be capable of delivering urgent improvements in neurology services and outcomes.
By The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (2012)
These standards aim to underpin patient experience and the safe, effective management of medicines within and across organisations. They aim to enable patients to experience a consistent quality of service within and across healthcare providers, that helps protect them from incidents of avoidable harm and enables them to get the best outcomes from their medicines.
By The King’s Fund (2012)
These two slide sets aim to help CCGs make the best use of measurement to support them to commission for improved outcomes. The first set of slides introduces general concepts about approaches to measurement in health care, the uses of structure, process and outcome indicators, and how to achieve a good mix of indicators for commissioning. The second set looks specifically at how commissioners can build up sets of measures along whole pathways of care.
By Foundation of Nursing Studies (2012)
This evaluation report looks at a programme which aimed to enable clinically based project teams to implement a strategy for developing, changing and evaluating practice to reduce and prevent healthcare associated infections. It identified clinical leadership; effective strategic support; clinical team involvement; and use of practice development methods as key to successfully reducing healthcare associated infections.
By The Royal College of Midwives (2012)
This study looks at examples of innovative practice across England and shows how midwives are leading on improving services for women and families and generating savings. It concludes that it is possible to deliver high quality, safe and effective care when midwives are engaged and lead on innovation and emphasises the important role that clinical leadership plays in enabling innovation and improvement to take place.
By New Economics Foundation (2012)
This guidebook is designed primarily for voluntary organisations and community groups delivering projects and services and aims to improve the design and delivery of services through the use of wellbeing outcome measures.
By Department of Health (2012)
The Department has published two reports on the investment on mental health services.
The eleventh annual working age adult (WAA) report presenting the results of the finance mapping exercise that provides details of the level of investment in mental health services for WAA (aged 18-64) in England for 2011/12 and compares it with the reported results in previous years.
The older adult mental health (OPMH) report provides details of the level of investment in mental health services covering people aged 65 and above, in England for 2011/12 and compares it with the reported results in previous years since 2006/07.