Sustainable care pathways guidance

In 2015 the Coalition for Sustainable Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices created an innovative set of guidance to allow users to consistently appraise environmental impacts of health care pathways.

The guidance has been developed to enable sustainability to be considered when designing new models of care, redesigning existing models or investigating the benefits of prevention.

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Geographic variation in unplanned hospital admission rates and length of stay for ambulatory care sensitive conditions

"Policymakers targeting a reduction in unplanned admissions could introduce initiatives to improve primary care access and quality or develop alternatives to admission."

A systematic review of the magnitude and cause of geographic variation in unplanned hospital admission rates and length of stay for ambulatory care sensitive conditions
J Busby, S Purdy, W Hollingworth
BMC Health Services Research, 2015, 15:324

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The Dementia Roadmap

"The Dementia Roadmap provides high quality information about the dementia journey alongside local information about services, support groups and care pathways to assist primary care staff to more effectively support people with dementia and cognitive impairment, their families and carers."

Access the Roadmap here.

Improving patient flow across organisations and pathways

"This scan compiled research about the methods used to improve patient flow across organisations or pathways."

Improving patient flow across organisations and pathways
D de Silva
The Health Foundation
November 2013

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Is the quality of care in England getting better?

"This paper is a summary of the first annual statement from the QualityWatch programme. It is not comprehensive but provides an overview of our initial research into the quality of publicly-funded health and social care services in England."

Is the quality of care in England getting better?
The Health Foundation, Nuffield Trust
October 2013

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Care pathways across the primary-hospital care continuum

"Care pathways across the primary-hospital care continuum enhance the components of care coordination."

Care pathways across the primary-hospital care continuum: using the multi-level framework in explaining care coordination
S Van Houdt, J Heyrman, K Vanhaecht, W Sermeus, J De Lepeleire
BMC Health Services Research, 2013, 13:296

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Managing multi-morbidity in practice

"Learning from those sites who responded to the survey suggests there is a need for multimorbid disease management templates and care pathways, and that integrated working with community teams, including pharmacists, can improve outcomes, with the potential to reduce overall consultation times, increase patient satisfaction, reduce polypharmacy and reduce hospital admissions."

Managing multi-morbidity in practice…what lessons can be learnt from the care of people with COPD and co-morbidities?NHS Improvement
March 2013

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How to measure for improving outcomes

The King's Fund has produced two slide sets to help Clinical Commissioning Groups make the best use of measurement to support them to commission for improved outcomes.

How to measure for improving outcomes: a guide for commissioners
The King's Fund
August 2012

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Sustainability of healthcare improvement: what can we learn from learning theory?

"Clinicians and leaders shared information about their everyday work and related this knowledge to how the entire clinical pathway could be improved."

Sustainability of healthcare improvement: what can we learn from learning theory?
E Hovlid, O Bukve, K Haug, A Bjarne Aslaksen, C von Plessen
BMC Health Services Research, 2012, 12:235

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