Service reconfiguration and the health bill

This briefing from the King’s Fund focuses on the implications of the Health and Social Care Bill for service reconfigurations and for the failure regime for providers that are financially unsustainable.

Foot Care for People with Diabetes: The Economic Case for Change

NHS Diabetes is calling on the NHS to set up specialist diabetes foot care teams as a matter of urgency. Foot care multi-disciplinary teams can generate savings for the NHS that substantially outweigh the cost of the team.

Review of the evidence on fall prevention in hospitals

This paper from Rand systematically reviews and documents the existing evidence base for interventions to prevent falls in hospitals and provides an overview of the performance of existing tools with known measurement properties. It also identifies a wide variety of tools for the prevention of falls in hospitals.

Tuberculosis case management and cohort review: guidance for health professionals

The Royal College of Nursing has published new guidance for nurses and health care professionals who case-manage patients with suspected and confirmed tuberculosis. It aims to promote standardisation of protocols and procedures, ensure accountability for delivery; and establish clear performance measures through cohort review.

Services for people with neurological conditions

The Committee for Public Accounts says that for the neurological services’ delivery model needs to work better and put patient needs at its heart if services and outcomes are to improve. It reports that the quality of services for people with neurological conditions varies around the country, health and social services are poorly integrated; and individual care is often poorly coordinated, with only 22% of people with Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease having a personal care plan.

New toolkit shows AHPs can improve care and save NHS money

A new, online, interactive system designed to take commissioners and clinicians along different patient pathways, demonstrating at each stage how interventions by AHPs improve care and patient outcomes while reducing costs.

Evaluation of integrated care pilots

The DoH has published a report on a two year independent study of integrated care pilots. The evaluation which commenced in 2009 looked at 16 sites across England who undertook different ways of integrating care, for example, between general practices, community nurses, hospitals and social services.

Join Us On Our Journey

The aims of the research were to develop a model of care that will improve care for children and young people with type 1 diabetes in England. The findings show that there are certain aspects of the care pathway that need to be addressed.

Good practice in endoscopy services

NHS Improvement has undertaken a rapid review of 14 NHS endoscopy services to understand the challenges faced when planning for increases in demand for services. It also identifies opportunities to increase capacity through productivity.

NHS Atlas of Variation in Healthcare for Children and Young People

This maps the variation in healthcare for 25 different child health issues across England, including asthma, epilepsy and diabetes, and will help hospitals, and emerging clinical commissioning groups see how their area compares to others around the country, and put plans in place to make improvements if needed.