Sustainable care pathways guidance

In 2015 the Coalition for Sustainable Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices created an innovative set of guidance to allow users to consistently appraise environmental impacts of health care pathways.

The guidance has been developed to enable sustainability to be considered when designing new models of care, redesigning existing models or investigating the benefits of prevention.

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Shared principles for redesigning the local health and care landscape

"This document builds on previous work by NHS England’s Planning and Delivering Service Changes for Patients which offered good practice guidance to health commissioners on developing proposals for major service changes and configuration. Our five key principles are for use by the whole system. It aims to provide local system leaders – local authorities, health and wellbeing boards, clinical commissioning groups, NHS and care providers and patients and the public – with shared principles to ensure that service redesign meet a number of fundamental requirements to assure themselves, their partners and their communities that proposals are focused on improving services and health and wellbeing outcomes."

Shared principles for redesigning the local health and care landscape
Local Government Association
September 2015

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Improving quality in general practice

"The most significant and sustainable changes are likely to take time to embed, especially where more complex service redesign and culture change is required."

Improving quality in general practice
D de Silva, J Bamber
The Health Foundation
November 2014

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From structure to function: the impact of change

“The original overarching aim of this five year project was to investigate how three hospitals redesigned their services to meet the changing health needs of the people they serve.”

From structure to function: the impact of change
University of Birmingham, National Institute for Health Research
March 2014

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Primary care quality improvement from a practice facilitator's perspective

"Practice facilitation has been pivotal in materializing the transformation in the way primary care practices deliver care."

Primary care quality improvement from a practice facilitator's perspective
CE Liddy, V Blazhko, M Dingwall, J Singh, WE Hogg
BMC Family Practice, 2014, 15:23

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Service redesign case studies

NHS Confederation is publishing a series of service redesign case studies:

• Healthier together - the Greater Manchester
• The Southern Health acquisition of Ridgeway

Get e-QIPP-ed for neurology

"This booklet illustrates examples of innovative service delivery, prevention of unnecessary interventions, and initiatives that simultaneously improve service efficiency and cost effectiveness alongside quality of patient care."

Get e-QIPP-ed for neurology: positive practice in service redesign
Neurological Commissioning Support Limited
March 2012

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Cholecystectomy services redesign: reducing length of stay in hospital

"The benefit of reducing the length of stay by 1 day for patients undergoing laparascopic cholecystectomy saves more than 17,000 bed days across the NHS."

Cholecystectomy services redesign: reducing length of stay in hospital
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
March 2012

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Strengthening health systems through innovation

"The purpose of this white paper is to examine the progress made within the health systems of seven comparator countries so we may learn how they have been able to help meet population health needs more effectively and make progress in health system redesign and transformation."

Strengthening health systems through innovation: lessons learned
A Snowden, J Cohen
International Centre for Health Innovation

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