Gardens and health: Implications for policy and practice

"This report looks at the impact of gardens and gardening on health and wellbeing, and explores what the NHS and the wider health and social care system can do to maximise this impact."

Gardens and health: Implications for policy and practice
D Buck
The King's Fund
May 2016

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Key concepts in consumer and community engagement (CCE)

"This study describes CCE-related key concepts and provides new insight into their relationship with different CCE-related terms."

Key concepts in consumer and community engagement: a scoping meta-review
P Sarrami-Foroushani, J Travaglia, D Debono, J Braithwaite
BMC Health Services Research, 2014, 14:250

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How collaborative are quality improvement collaborative

“Individual organizations should assess the costs and benefits of collaboration as a means of attaining quality improvement.”

How collaborative are quality improvement collaborative: a qualitative study in stroke care
P Carter, P Ozieranski, S McNicol. M Power, M Dixon-Woods
Implementation Science, 2014, 9:32

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COPD commissioning toolkit: a resource for commissioners

"The COPD Commissioning Toolkit aims to make it easier to commission better services for people with COPD by bringing together the clinical, financial and commercial aspects of commissioning in one place."

COPD commissioning toolkit: a resource for commissioners
NHS Medical Directorate
August 2012

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Provider-level risk-adjusted quality measurement for inpatient rehabilitation facilities

"This report should be of interest to researchers involved either in inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF) or the development of IRF quality reports or in outcomes studies that require risk adjustment."

Provider-level risk-adjusted quality measurement for inpatient rehabilitation facilities
AW Dick, PJ Huckfeldt, H Liu, H Yu, A Mehrotra, SL Lovejoy, JS Ashwood
RAND Corporation
2012

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Stroke rehabilitation in the community

"An information resource for providers and commissioners of stroke rehabilitation and early supported discharge services in the community"

Stroke rehabilitation in the community: commissioning for improvement
NHS Improvement - Stroke
July 2012

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Getting care right for patients after a heart attack

"Not all providers offer all four phases of cardiac rehabilitation which are set out in the National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease."

After the event: getting care right for patients after a heart attack
Heart UK
January 2012

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