Personalisation for people from black and minority ethnic groups

"This briefing looks at how personalisation can increase access to healthcare for people from black and minority ethnic communities, but also considers some of the challenges that it may bring."

Personalisation for people from black and minority ethnic groups: Better Health Briefing Paper 34
J Moriarty
Race Equality Foundation
July 2014

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Inequalities, health behaviours and incentives

The latest issue of Eurohealth contains articles about:

• Inequalities and health behaviours
• Effectiveness and ethics of health incentives
• Political strategies in public health
• Nudging and solidarity

Eurohealth: Quarterly of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2014, 20(2)

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Scoping review of patient-centered care approaches in healthcare

"The fact that all identified approaches to patient-centered care incorporated strategies to achieve effective communication, partnership, and health promotion indicates that clinicians can select a patient-centered approach from the literature that best suits their patient’s needs, and be confident that it will satisfy the three core elements of patient-centered care provision."

Scoping review of patient-centered care approaches in healthcare
MK Constand, JC MacDermid, V Dal Bello-Haas, M Law
BMC Health Services Research, 2014, 14:271

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Putting quality on the global health agenda

"Although there is no single definition of high-quality care, the Institute of Medicine describes it as having six key features: it is safe, effective, patient-centered, efficient, timely, and equitable."

Putting quality on the global health agenda
KW Scott, AK Jha
New England Journal of Medicine, 2014, 371(1):3-5

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Variations and inter-relationship in outcome from emergency admissions in England

"Hospital-level risk-standardised outcomes for emergency admissions across a range of specialties vary considerably and cross traditional speciality boundaries. This suggests that global institutional infra-structure and processes of care influence outcomes. "

Variations and inter-relationship in outcome from emergency admissions in England: a retrospective analysis of Hospital Episode Statistics from 2005-2010
PJ Holt, S Sinha, BA Ozdemir, A Karthikesalingam, JD Poloniecki, MM Thompson
BMC Health Services Research, 2014, 14:270

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Rethinking the patient

"Burden of Treatment Theory is a structural model that focuses on the work that patients and their networks do. It thus helps us understand variations in healthcare utilization and adherence in different healthcare settings and clinical contexts."

Rethinking the patient: Using Burden of Treatment Theory to understand the changing dynamics of illness
CR May, et al.
BMC Health Services Research, 2014, 14:281

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How to take charge of improvement

"Leading improvement work across the NHS is a practical pursuit. It requires a clear, unambiguous goal that will push you to do things differently. It requires making intricate connections across all parts of the health and social care system, as well as agile working from policy to boards, wards, patient pathways and commissioning."

No more leaving it to chance: How to take charge of improvement
J Williamson
Health Service Journal, 2nd July 2014

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Commissioning for outcomes

"The purpose of this document from the Quality and Outcomes Working Group is to stimulate discussion amongst Clinical Commissioning Group members on the practical tools we now require to be developed for all 211 CCGs, as well the barriers that need to be removed, to support our commissioning for outcomes."

Commissioning for outcomes: A narrative from and for clinical commissioners
NHS Commissioning Assembly
June 2014

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Conditions triggering local incident reviews in UK hospital maternity units

"Future guidance concerning local serious incident review processes should include how the list of conditions triggering a review should be managed in the light of changing clinical and safety priorities."

Conditions triggering local incident reviews in UK hospital maternity units: A national survey
A Shah, O Mohamed-Ahmed, C McClymont, M Knight
The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2014, 5(7):1-5

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Translation of cancer research

"This service configuration case study shows that the gains actually realised in the NHS may differ from those observed in trials – in this particular instance suggesting a situation where trial gains may underestimate what is now being achieved, though the reverse may be true in other cases."

Investigating time lags and attribution in the translation of cancer research: A case study approach
S Guthrie, S Hanney, J Grant
RAND Europe
2014

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Understanding the impact of improved access to primary care

"Inadequate capacity in general practice not only leads to unmet health needs, but to an increase in demand for A&E and walk-in centres."

Meeting need or fuelling unncessary demand? Improved access to primary care and supply-induced demand
R Rosen
Nuffield Trust
June 2014

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Closing the Gap through Changing Relationships: evaluation

"The Health Foundation’s Closing the Gap through Changing Relationships programme was launched in 2010. The programme funded seven projects, which aimed to change one or more of three types of relationships:

1. between the individual using a service and those who work in healthcare provision
2. between people using services and the wider healthcare system
3. between communities and the wider healthcare system."

Read the report and supporting material here.

ROMA: A guide to policy engagement and influence

"ROMA (RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach) is an approach to improving your policy engagement processes, to influence change."

ROMA: A guide to policy engagement and influence
Overseas Development Unit
2014

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Adaptation of health care for migrants: whose responsibility?

"Health care professionals do not consider it to be their responsibility to adapt to ethnic diversity. If health professionals do not feel a responsibility to adapt, they are less likely to be involved in culturally competent health care."

Adaptation of health care for migrants: whose responsibility?
M Dauvrin, V Lorant
BMC Health Services Research, 2014, 14:294

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A team-work approach to improving health service provision

"The development of relationships was seen to be to be an important part of promoting effective resource sharing, training opportunities, government networking and resource mobilisation and will be important for other health networks to consider."

Networking between community health programs: a team-work approach to improving health service provision
NJ Grills, R Kumar, M Philip, G Porter
BMC Health Services Research, 2014, 14:297

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Framework for integrating health and social services

"This issue brief describes three essential components for integrating health, including physical and behavioral health services and public health, and social services:

1. a coordinating mechanism
2. quality measurement and data-sharing tools, and
3. aligned financing and payment"

A state policy framework for integrating health and social services
T McGinnis, M Crawford, SA Somers
The Commonwealth Fund
July 2014

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A commissioner's guide to primary care mental health

"Ten lessons have been derived from 108 international, national and regional case studies. Lessons which cover community based care, proactive wellbeing, accessible services and coordinated mental healthcare."

A commissioner's guide to primary care mental health
NHS London Strategic Clinical Networks
July 2014

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Read a summary from the Commissioning Elf here.

Medical engagement: A journey not an event

"The organisations we profile in this report share a common goal of achieving and exceeding their current levels of medical engagement so that it becomes core to the culture of the organisation."

Medical engagement: A journey not an event
J Clark, V Nath
The King's Fund
July 2014

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Identifying unwarranted variation across mental health and wellbeing indicators in England

"Within the health and social care system in England, there is a major challenge to deliver value at low costs, whilst reducing unwarranted variation in outcomes, quality, safety and costs and working to prevent disease. Despite data being available, this is the first Atlas of Variation to focus solely on unwarranted variation in mental health in England."

The CentreForum Atlas of Variation: Identifying unwarranted variation across mental health and wellbeing indicators in England
H Taggart
CentreForum
July 2014

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First edition of the Specialised Commissioning Stakeholder Newsletter

"This newsletter has been developed by NHS England primarily to update you about the work of the specialised commissioning task force, which was established in order to make some immediate improvements to the way in which we commission specialised services, and also to develop longer-term plans for the commissioning of these important services."

Read more here.

Into the red? The state of the NHS' finances

"Commissioners found it harder to balance their budgets in 2013/14 than the previous financial year."

Into the red? The state of the NHS' finances: An analysis of NHS expenditure between 2010 and 2014
S Lafond, S Arora, A Charlesworth, A McKeon
Nuffield Trust
July 2014

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Advancing the case for free social care at the end of life

"Last autumn Macmillan exposed the fact that every day around 100 people with cancer die in hospitals in England having said they wanted to die at home."

Can we live with how we're dying? Advancing the case for free social care at the end of life
Macmillan Cancer Support
June 2014

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The new era of thinking and practice in change and transformation

"This new White Paper from NHS Improving Quality examines leading trends in change and transformation from multiple industries across the world."

The new era of thinking and practice in change and transformation: A call to action for leaders of health and care
H Bevan, S Fairman
NHS Improving Quality
July 2014

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Commissioning mental health services for people from black and minority ethnic communities

"Regardless of their ethnic background, everyone who uses a mental health service (or cares for someone who does) should have equitable access to effective interventions, and equitable experiences and outcomes. Commissioners have a legal duty to ensure this."

Guidance for commissioners of mental health services for people with black and minority ethnic communities
Joint Commissioning Panel for Mental Health
July 2014

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Read a summary from the Commissioning Elf here.

Integrated health and social care in England

"The paper offers an overview of the current call for integrated health and social care services in England, the rationale behind the push for integration, the facilitators and barriers to this way of working, and the related workforce and funding issues."

Integrated health and social care in England: the story so far
Royal College of Nursing
May 2014

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Framework for personalised care and population health

"This framework has been developed to underpin our national programme to maximise the impact of nurses, midwives, health visitors and allied health professionals on improving health outcomes and reducing inequalities."

A framework for personalised care and population health for nurses, midwives, health visitors and allied health professionals
Department of Health, Public Health England
July 2014

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Future organisational models for the NHS

"The Dalton review will include an exploration of different ways in which high-performing organisations might help those providers in difficulty – including buddying arrangements, franchising, turnaround and the creation of hospital chains."

Future organisational models for the NHS: Perspectives for the Dalton review
The King's Fund, Foundation Trust Network
July 2014

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Managing the care of people with long-term conditions

"Effective management of long-term conditions (LTCs) is widely recognised to be one of the greatest challenges facing the 21st-century National Health Service in England."

Managing the care of people with long-term conditions: Second report of session 2014-15
House of Commons
July 2014

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Local authority health scrutiny

"The primary aim of health scrutiny is to strengthen the voice of local people, ensuring that their needs and experiences are considered as an integral part of the commissioning and delivery of health services and that those services are effective and safe."

Local authority health scrutiny: Guidance to support local authorities and their partners to deliver effective health scrutiny
Local Government Team, Department of Health
June 2014

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Understanding the new NHS

"In reading this guide, we hope that the structures of the NHS, and your place within it, become a little clearer."

Understanding the new NHS: A guide for everyone working and training within the NHS
NHS England
June 2014

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Focus on....the health and care of older people

"This publication provides a compilation of information on older people living in England to give a broad picture of their health, care and wellbeing."

Focus on....the health and care of older people
Health & Social Care Information Centre
June 2014

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Local conversations on health inequalities

"Everyone is a stakeholder in their local community; some have an expert or professional view, others report their lived experience."

Local conversations on health inequalities
Public Health England
June 2014

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Tackling health inequalities

"If we are to make our healthcare system more efficient and effective we need to engage people with their health and consider different approaches to preventing ill health."

Tackling health inequalities: The case for investment in the wider public health workforce
Royal Society for Public Health
June 2014

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Allowing new models of healthcare to be provided for NHS patients

"Most clinicians and managers within the NHS continue to defend the service models and organisations they have grown up with, believing that the model that they work within is the only way of delivering safe health and social care."

Going with change: Allowing new models of healthcare to be provided for NHS patients
P Corrigan, M Parish
Reform
June 2014

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European cross border healthcare: Information for commissioners

"This document sets out the implications for commissioners of the European Union (EU) Directive on patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare, which became UK law on 25 October 2013."

European cross border healthcare: Information for commissioners
NHS England
June 2014

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NHS 111 commissioning standards

"This document sets out the Commissioning Standards for the NHS 111 service in England which has been jointly developed between CCGs and NHS England."

NHS 111 commissioning standards
NHS England
June 2014

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Prioritising person-centred care - the evidence

"Person-centred care involves placing people at the forefront of their health and care. It ensures people retain control, helps them make informed decisions and supports a partnership between individuals, families and services." National Voices has produced these documents which contain "the evidence from 779 systematic reviews of ways to make person centred care happen."

Access the documents here.