Closing the Gap through Changing Relationships: evaluation

"The Health Foundation’s Closing the Gap through Changing Relationships programme was launched in 2010. The programme funded seven projects, which aimed to change one or more of three types of relationships:

1. between the individual using a service and those who work in healthcare provision
2. between people using services and the wider healthcare system
3. between communities and the wider healthcare system."

Read the report and supporting material here.

The puzzle of changing relationships

"We hope that both the framework and the evidence in this report will, with further research and development, be valuable in informing: 

• better policy
• better service commissioning and planning
• a professional identity built around relationships as well as around tasks
• a research agenda that focuses far more attention on providing the evidence of how changing roles and relationships can raise quality."

The puzzle of changing relationships
JS Pedersen, L Brereton, J Newbould, E Nolte
The Health Foundation
March 2013

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Improved NHS services through new perspectives

"This toolkit offers a way of improving productive working between doctors and managers in your Trust."

Improved NHS services through new perspectives
Centre for Innovation in Health Management
University of Leeds
July 2012

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A qualitative study of stakeholder views of the conditions for and outcomes of successful clinical networks

"This study provides new knowledge on the conditions needed to establish successful clinical networks and on desirable outcomes arising from network projects and initiatives that are considered to be valuable by those working in or associated with clinical networks."

A qualitative study of stakeholder views of the conditions for and outcomes of successful clinical networks
E McInnes, S Middleton, G Gardner, M Haines, M Haertsch, CL Paul, P Castaldi
BMC Health Services Research, 2012, 12:49

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Personal experiences, public value: changing relationships in the NHS

"Intended to stimulate discussion, this paper is the first in a series looking at interactions between the NHS, individuals and communities. A further four papers in the run up to the 2012 NHS Confederation annual conference and exhibition will explore:

• putting people first through shared decision-making
• information and the power paradigm
• micro-enterprises and building community assets
• building social value within the system and society."

An uneasy consensus: patients, citizens and the NHS: Paper 1: Personal experiences, public value: changing relationships in the NHS
NHS Confederation
February 2012

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New medical professionalism

The report reviews the ways in which doctors’ relationships with evidence, society, patients, teams, regulators and employers have changed, are changing or may need to change, and the implications for medical professionalism.


New medical professionalism: a scoping report for the Health Foundation
S Christmas, L Millward
The Health Foundation

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