System-wide approach to turn around a struggling health economy

"Faced with a growing older population, one struggling health economy created a strategy and a no blame culture to improve their services."

The system-wide approach to turn around a struggling health economy
J Inglesfield, J McEvoy
Health Service Journal
February 2015

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Transfer of 0 to 5 children’s public health commissioning to local authorities

"Planning and paying for public health services for 0 to 5 year olds, including health visiting, transfers from the NHS to local authorities in October 2015."

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A simple approach to assessing potential health emergency interventions

"Using Ebola as an illustrative example, RAND has developed a simple, practical, proof-of-concept policy analysis tool that aims to fill gaps in a decision-maker's ability to systematically assess proposed interventions in a public health emergency, whether for planning and preparedness purposes or for decision-making during an ongoing response."

A simple approach to assessing potential health emergency interventions: a proof of concept and illustrative application to the 2014-2015 Ebola crisis
M Chamberlin, S Efron, M Moore
RAND Corporation
February 2015

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Moving services out of hospital

"‘Scaling up’ primary and community services in order to provide more care outside hospitals will require general practices and their community service colleagues to work together in new ways."

Moving services out of hospital: Joining up general practice and community services?
D Bramwell, K Checkland, P Allen, S Peckham
Policy Research Unit in Commissioning and the Healthcare System, Department of Health
August 2014

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Public consultation: NHS Bodies and Local Authorities Partnership Arrangements (Amendment) Regulations 2015

"The proposed change will make it possible for pooled budgets to include funding for primary medical care. This will encourage greater integration across community health, social care and primary care."

This consultation closes at 8 March 2015 11:45pm.

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The value of health information technology

"Healthcare organizations all over the United States are adopting health information technology (HIT), yet recent studies of HIT are often unhelpful to these organizations or to those making policy decisions. Most studies fail to use adequate measures of value or to report key contextual and implementation characteristics. In this commentary, we:

• Demonstrate the problem in a sampling of published articles.
• Propose a conceptual framework and principles for measuring value in HIT.
• Present a checklist of key study characteristics."

The value of health information technology: Filling the knowledge gap
RS Rudin, SS Jones, P Shekelle, RJ Hillestad, EB Keeler
American Journal of Managed Care,
January 2015

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Parliamentary briefing: Building sustainable GP services

"Some key points on English GP funding, workforce, satisfaction and reform."

Parliamentary briefing: Building sustainable GP services
Nuffield Trust
February 2015

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Read the related paper, "Is general practice in crisis?" here.