2016 Health Profiles

Public Health England has published the 2016 Health Profiles. The Health Profiles provide a snapshot of health and wellbeing for each local authority in England using a range of charts and text. They pull together existing information in one place and contain data on a range of indicators for local populations.

Access them here.

The system-wide response to the Independent Review of the Liverpool Care Pathway

"The evidence of progress set out in this report suggests a genuine, sustained commitment across the health and care system to the principles set out in the Priorities for Care. It also bears witness to the practical work being done to deliver genuine improvements to the care dying people and those important to them receive. This includes a commitment to preventing and avoiding repetitions of the poor care identified by the Independent Review of the Liverpool Care Pathway."

One chance to get it right: One year on report: An overview of progress on commitments made in One chance to get it right: the system-wide response to the Independent Review of the Liverpool Care Pathway
Department of Health
July 2015

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Health and social care priorities for the Government: 2015-2020

"As part of our role to deliver evidence to support better health policy, the Nuffield Trust has produced this briefing, which outlines 10 key health and social care priorities for the new Government."

Health and social care priorities for the Government: 2015-2020
Nuffield Trust
June 2015

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Rationing in the NHS

"This is the second in a series of policy briefings on the issues and challenges we believe are critical to the longer‑term success of the health and social care system, and which any new administration following the election will need to prioritise."

Rationing in the NHS
N Edwards, H Crump, M Dayan
Nuffield Trust
February 2015

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Managing quality in community health care services

"This paper reports on the findings from a small primary research study exploring how community health services providers define, measure, manage and improve the quality of care."

Managing quality in community health care services
C Foot, L Sonola, L Bennett, B Fitzsimons, V Raleigh, S Gregory
The King's Fund
December 2014

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Prioritising health service innovation investments using public preferences

"The findings provide useful information on the public's valuation and acceptability of potential health service innovations."

Prioritising health service innovation investments using public preferences: a discrete choice experiment
S Erdem, C Thompson
BMC Health Services Research, 2014, 14:360

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Conditions triggering local incident reviews in UK hospital maternity units

"Future guidance concerning local serious incident review processes should include how the list of conditions triggering a review should be managed in the light of changing clinical and safety priorities."

Conditions triggering local incident reviews in UK hospital maternity units: A national survey
A Shah, O Mohamed-Ahmed, C McClymont, M Knight
The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2014, 5(7):1-5

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Right Care reading list: Priority-setting

NHS Right Care regularly publishes reading lists on specific themes relevant to the Right Care programme. The latest one is a reading list providing the best evidence on Priority-setting/Prioritisation.

Access the reading list here.

Cancer across the domains: cancer priorities for the new NHS

"The All Party Parliamentary Group on Cancer believes the five thematic Domains within NHS England have an important role to play in improving the experiences and outcomes of cancer patients. This report sets out the priorities the APPGC believes NHS England must focus on to deliver these improvements."

Cancer across the domains: cancer priorities for the new NHS
All Party Parliamentary Group on Cancer
November 2013

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Transforming our health care system

The King's Fund has outlined ten priorities for commissioning:

1. Active support for self-management
2. Primary prevention
3. Secondary prevention
4. Managing ambulatory care-sensitive conditions
5. Improving the management of patients with both mental and physical health needs
6. Care co-ordination through integrated health and social care teams
7. Improving primary care management of end-of-life care
8. Medicines management
9. Managing elective activity – referral quality 
10. Managing urgent and emergency activity

Transforming our health care system: ten priorities for commissioners
C Naylor, et al.
The King's Fund
April 2013

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Link here to read a summary of this article, from the Commissioning Elf.

Framework for sexual health improvement in England

"This document sets out the evidence base for sexual health and HIV improvement It has been developed to provide the information, evidence base and support tools to enable everyone involved in sexual health to work collaboratively at local level to ensure that accessible services and interventions are available."

A framework for sexual health improvement in England
Department of Health
March 2013

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Using patients' experiences to identify priorities for quality improvement in breast cancer care

"This paper explores the relative value of surveys and detailed patient narratives in identifying priorities for improving breast cancer services as part of a quality improvement process."

Using patients' experiences to identify priorities for quality improvement in breast cancer care
V Tsianakas, J Maben, T Wiseman, G Robert, A Richardson, P Madden, M Griffin, E Davies
BMC Health Services Research, 2012, 12:271

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Setting priorities in health

"The research reported here demonstrates that PCTs have made significant progress in establishing priority-setting processes and, although there are some key weaknesses from which we can learn, they have used many different methods, procedures and processes in seeking to prioritise health needs."

Setting priorities in health: a study of English primary care trusts
S Robinson, H Dickinson, Iestyn Williams, T Freeman, B Rumbold, K Spence
Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham and the Nuffield Trust
September 2011

Read more here.