‘New model’ of care needed says The King’s Fund
The King’s Fund in its response to the government’s listening exercise on the Health and Social Care Bill, calls for the NHS to be re-orientated to deliver a new model of ‘integrated’ care, based on stronger collaboration between health professionals and more effective co-ordination of services.
New competence framework launched to help deliver quality, patient-centred respiratory care
Skills for Health have launched a new competence framework to help commission, manage and deliver improved patient-centred respiratory care. This will support the delivery of the forthcoming National Outcomes Strategy for COPD.
Guide on palliative care commissioning for children and young people
This document from ACT s designed to assist commissioners in identifying the types of services they should consider when commissioning provision for children and young people with life-limiting and / or life-threatening conditions.
Transforming our health care system: ten priorities for commissioners
This publication from the King’s Fund sets out ten priorities to help commissioners transform the health care system.
National Sentinel Stroke Audit 2010
The final report of the National Sentinel Stroke Audit shows that care for patients with stroke is still improving. It also says that patients on stroke units have better outcomes than those admitted to and treated on general wards.
Self-review tool for young people’s health services
Quality Criteria for Young People-friendly Health Services (2011) has been designed by the DoH for providers of health services to help them improve NHS health services. The quality criteria provide good practice guidance based on local practice and evidence of what will improve patient experience and health outcomes for young people.
Care coordination model: better care at lower cost for people with multiple health and social needs
This report from the Institute of Healthcare Improvement outlines methods and opportunities to better co-ordinate care for people with multiple health needs, and ways that organisations have allocated resources to better meet the range of needs in this population. Although targeted at US healthcare, may provide models of care co-ordination that could be applied to care in the UK.
Helping people help themselves
This literature review from The Health Foundation shows that proactive, behaviourally focused self-management support designed to increase self-efficacy can have a positive impact on people’s clinical symptoms, attitudes and behaviours, quality of life and patterns of healthcare resource use.
Evaluation of nurse and pharmacist independent prescribing
The DoH document concludes that nurse and pharmacist independent reports that nurse and pharmacist independent prescribers are operating safely and prescribing appropriately and that there are high levels of satisfaction among patients being treated by them.
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