Emergency general surgery: Challenges and opportunities

"The Nuffield Trust was commissioned by The Royal College of Surgeons of England to explore the challenges facing emergency general surgery (EGS) and to identify opportunities to overcome those challenges."

Emergency general surgery: Challenges and opportunities
R Watson, H Crump, C Imison, C Currie, M Gaskins
Nuffield Trust
April 2016

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Joined up clinical pathways for obesity

“The working group expressed their view that NHS England should in the medium term prioritise early consideration of the transfer of the majority of adult bariatric surgery to local commissioning, through CCGs, once they have been shown to be functioning well with sufficent volume of patients to justify de-specialising the service.”

Report of the working group into: Joined up clinical pathways for obesity
J Blackshaw, S Montel, S King, A Jarvis, J Valabhji
NHS England
March 2014

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Dementia Prevalence Calculator (v2)

"This tool enables health and care communities to:

• calculate local dementia diagnosis rates
• forecast local dementia prevalence
• view trajectories and set ambitions for improvement in diagnosis rates
• compare diagnosis rates with other localities
• view and compare diagnosis rates on the Ambition Map
• link to the Knowledge Portal to access a wealth of resources to improve dementia diagnosis rates, and diagnosis pathways."

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The Hospitals Pathways Programme - lessons learned

"This article tells the story of the Hospital Pathways Programme (HPP), a collaborative programme in which five acute trusts worked with The King’s Fund and the Health Foundation to apply techniques, not widely used in the NHS, to improve both processes of care and interactions between staff and patients."

The Hospitals Pathways Programme - lessons learned
The King's Fund
December 2012

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NICE Pathways: guidance at your fingertips

"NICE Pathways is an online tool provides quick and easy access, topic by topic, to the range of guidance from NICE, including quality standards, technology appraisals, clinical and public health guidance and NICE implementation tools."

Access the pathways here.

Effective pathways for long term conditions

"There is a need to shift from an organisational model of delivery to a pathway approach which focuses on the needs of individual patients."

Effective pathways for long term conditions
NHS Improvement
April 2012

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Delivering stepped care: an analysis of implementation in routine practice

"The application of core principles of implementation science (such as targeted planning, implementation strategies and clear activity specification) around service organisation is urgently required."

Delivering stepped care: an analysis of implementation in routine practice
DA Richards, P Bower, C Pagel, A Weaver, M Utley, J Cape, S Pilling, K Lovell, S Gilbody, J Leibowitz, L
Owens, R Paxton, S Hennessy, A Simpson, S Gallivan, D Tomson, C Vasilakis
Implementation Science, 2012, 7:3

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Value based clinical commissioning of elective surgical care

"The aim of this report has been to make recommendations for consideration by the NHS Operations Board with regard to effective commissioning of elective surgical procedures."

Right Care Elective Surgery Project: Phase 1 report: Value based clinical commissioning of elective surgical care: emerging views of commissioners and surgeons and production of high value care pathways
M Gray, S Swift, M Suleman, N Beasley, D Hakes, M Qualie, A Mitchell, S Dutch
Right Care
November 2011

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The best of clinical pathway redesign

The examples in this report, demonstrate innovative solutions to major health challenges such as cancer, heart disease, stroke and chronic respiratory conditions.

The best of clinical pathway redesign : practical examples delivering benefits to patients
NHS Improvement
July 2011

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