Safely home: What happens when people leave hospital and care settings?

"This report does not include recommendations; instead it poses a challenge to the health and social care sector to take action now to improve people’s experience of leaving services."

Safely home: What happens when people leave hospital and care settings?
Healthwatch England
July 2015

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Good practice in ambulance commissioning

"Ambulance commissioners recognise the importance of working in partnership across the whole health and care sector to relieve the pressures that emergency care faces. All of the case studies drew on successful partnership working between commissioners and providers of ambulance services."

Good practice in ambulance commissioning
The National Ambulance Commissioners Network
NHS Clinical Commissioners
June 2015

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Learning disabilities: good practice project

"The project is all about finding places where services for people with learning disabilities are very good. It aims to get people talking to each other to make services better."

Learning disabilities: good practice project
J Hough, K Martin
Department of Health
November 2013

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Lessons for England: integrated care in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales

"The aim of this report is to describe the approach taken to integrated care in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales with a view to drawing out the lessons for England."

Integrated care in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales: lessons for England
C Ham, D Heenan, M Longley, DR Steel
The King's Fund
July 2013

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Evidence base of the public health contribution of nurses and midwives

This guide provides evidence sources for nurses and midwives working in public health. It lists sources of good practice, innovation, evidence, and key public health domains:

1. Improving the wider determinants of ill health
2. Health improvement
3. Health protection
4. Healthcare public health and preventing premature mortality

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Raising and acting on concerns about patient safety

The GMC has published guidance on raising and acting on concerns about patient safety. The guidance sets out their "expectation that all doctors will, whatever their role, take appropriate action to raise and act on concerns about patient care, dignity and safety."

Access the guidance here.

Health Innovation Portal

The Health Council of Canada is reporting on innovative health care practices, policies, programs and services so they can be adopted elsewhere in Canada.

Access the Health Innovation Portal here.

Towards excellence in hospice care

"This publication which draws together the learning of a highly successful programme funded by the Burdett Trust for Nursing, overseen by Help the Hospices and evaluated by Cass Business School, with input from over 26 hospices across the UK who have risen to the challenge of opening their doors wider to individuals, groups and communities previously under-represented in their patient profile."

Towards excellence in hospice care
Help the Hospices
October 2012

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Sharing commissioning experiences

“Right Care enables sharing of good practice by compiling local examples of commissioning work, which demonstrate the philosophy behind Right Care or showcases the tools available through the programme.”

Sharing commissioning experiences: The Right Care Casebook Series: Volume 2
NHS Right Care
March 2012

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Generating savings by improving health and well-being

"This briefing features examples of good practice from across the NHS to help inform the planning of strategies to further reduce sickness absence and highlights the opportunities for financial savings that can be made through the introduction and implementation of new policies."


Generating savings by improving health and well-being: experiences in NHS trusts
NHS Employers
November 2011

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