The journey to integration: Learning from seven leading localities

"The LGA has long advocated the benefits of integrated, person-centred care as a key vehicle to improve people’s health and wellbeing and experience of care, alongside bringing financial sustainability to the health and care system. The findings in this report highlight how through determined collective and collaborative leadership which engages and empowers everyone in their locality, it is possible to make great strides towards these outcomes. I hope this report informs and inspires us all to achieve the step change our communities deserve."

The journey to integration: Learning from seven leading localities
B Richardson - Carnall Farrar
Local Government Association
April 2016

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Focus on: Public health and prevention

"This QualityWatch report provides an overview of public health outcomes in recent years, examining  trends in 20 indicators across sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and HIV, substance misuse, smoking, childhood obesity and immunisations."

QualityWatch: Focus on: Public health and prevention: Has the quality of services changed over recent years?
A Davies, E Keeble, T Bhatia, E Fisher
The Health Foundation, Nuffield Trust
April 2016

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Key principles of effective prevention education

"This report summarises research into effective pedagogical principles in the field of school-based preventative education (across a range of behaviours including drug and alcohol use, healthy eating, physical activity and sexual activity) as well as school-based programmes to build skills and attributes associated with reduced risk-taking behaviour (including social and emotional skills, and resilience)."

Key principles of effective prevention education
Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) Association, Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP)
April 2016

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Opportunity costs and local health service spending decisions

"The additional cost pressure represented by a new NICE Technology Appraisals is likely to be accommodated at least partly by greater efficiency and increased expenditure rather than displacement of services."

Opportunity costs and local health service spending decisions: a qualitative study from Wales
S Karlsberg Schaffer, J Sussex, D Hughes, N Devlin
BMC Health Services Research, 2016, 16:103

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The evolution of devolution in the English NHS

"This report considers the potential implications for health and care outcomes of health care devolution in England and how policy could best evolve. While the wider devolution agenda includes many public services, which could all have an impact on health outcomes, the focus of this report is primarily on devolution in the NHS."

Catalyst or distraction? The evolution of devolution in the English NHS
F Dormon, H Butcher, R Taunt
The Health Foundation
April 2016

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Digital requirements for new primary care models

"This briefing sets out some emerging trends in primary care and describes how technology can be employed to support them."

Digital requirements for new primary care models: A briefing for clinicians and managers
S Castle-Clarke, S Kumpunen, S Machaqueiro, N Curry, C Imison
Nuffield Trust
April 2016

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How do junior medical officers use online information resources?

"Junior medical officers strongly rely upon online clinical information in their everyday practice. Importantly, provision of these resources assists JMOs in their education and clinical performance."

How do junior medical officers use online information resources? A survey
HT Chong, MJ Weightman, P Sirichai, A Jones
BMC Medical Education, 2016, 16:120

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