Better use of care at home

"This quick guide provides case studies, ideas and practical tips to commissioners, health professionals and care providers on how to improve the relationships, processes and use of homecare and housing support to help people home from hospital."

Quick guide: Better use of care at home: Transforming urgent and emergency care in England
NHS England
November 2015

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Half of Americans think expensive medical care is better. They're wrong.

"Research doesn't show a connection between higher medical prices and better outcomes."

Half of Americans think expensive medical care is better. They're wrong.
S Kliff
Vox, 21 July 2014

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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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Time to act: severe sepsis: rapid diagnosis and treatment saves lives

"Better care could lead to savings in 8 Time to act - Severe sepsis: rapid diagnosis and treatment saves lives terms of reduced length of hospital stay and less intensive care and renal dialysis."

Time to act: severe sepsis: rapid diagnosis and treatment saves lives
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
September 2013

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More for less 2009/10

"This briefing reviews primary care trust (PCT) spending in 2009/10, how trust income changed and whether the NHS made progress in becoming more efficient by providing as good or better care more cheaply. It updates More for Less, published in November 2009, which reviewed spending in 2008/09."

More for less 2009/10
Audit Commission
December 2010

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