Tackling health inequalities

"If we are to make our healthcare system more efficient and effective we need to engage people with their health and consider different approaches to preventing ill health."

Tackling health inequalities: The case for investment in the wider public health workforce
Royal Society for Public Health
June 2014

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Impact of 'Virtual Wards' on hospital use

"The costs of providing health care are highly skewed across the population, with a small number of patients accounting for a large proportion of expenditure."

Impact of 'Virtual Wards' on hospital use: a research study using propensity matched controls and a cost analysis
GH Lewis, T Georghiou, A Steventon, R Vaithianathan, X Chitnis, J Billings, I Blunt, L Wright, A Roberts, M Bardsley
National Institute for Health Research Service delivery and Organisation Programme
November 2013

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Focus on preventable admissions

"This study examined the pattern of admissions across England for people with ambulatory care sensitive conditions over the 12-year period from 2001 to 2013 as an indicator of how well primary and preventive care were working to reduce emergency admissions."

Focus on preventable admissions
I Blunt
QualityWatch
The Health Foundation, Nuffield Trust
October 2013

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The role of networks in healthcare

In this issue brief, researchers describe how networks helped community health centres to use electronic health records to improve chronic and preventive care and the barriers they faced.


The role of networks in improving quality of electronic records in community health centres.
RH Miller, CE West
The Commonwealth Fund
August 2011

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