Patients as partners

"More collaborative relationships among health and care professionals, patients, service users, carers and communities are essential for the future of the NHS, but what helps to build effective relationships? This guide stems from an evolving body of the Fund's work focused on exploring and supporting shared leadership. This work is reinforced by a growing consensus that health services, agencies, patients and communities need to work together more – and differently."

Patients as partners: Building collaborative relationships among professionals, patients, carers and communities
B Seale
The King's Fund
July 2016

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Growing healthy communities: The Health and Wellbeing Index

"The purpose of this report is to help stakeholders – NHS providers and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), local authorities, health and social care providers, housing associations, fire authorities and the police – to improve collaboration through a better understanding of the correlation between the economic, social and environmental health determinants and health outcomes within their locality."

Growing healthy communities: The Health and Wellbeing Index
Grant Thornton
October 2015

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Inequalities in life expectancy

"The persistence of low life expectancy in some areas means that the state, centrally and locally, has not tackled inequalities in health adequately. Inequalities in health are not self-correcting, and the role of wider determinants, lifestyles and services need to be addressed together rather than in isolation from – or in opposition to – each other."

Inequalities in life expectancy: Changes over time and implications for policy
D Buck, D Maguire
The King's Fund
August 2015

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Guide to community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing

"Communities that are involved in decision-making about their area and the services within it, that are well networked and supportive and where neighbours look out for each other, all have a positive impact on people’s health and wellbeing."

A guide to community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing: Full report
Public Health England, NHS England
February 2015

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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.

Working with communities, developing communities

"This report sets out the background and evidence for the mutual benefits that Community Development can bring for local citizens, primary care practitioners and Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs)."

Working with communities, developing communities: guidance for primary care
Royal College of General Practitioners
March 2013

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