Integration across government

"This report examines how well government identifies and implements opportunities to integrate public services or other programmes."

Integration across government
Cabinet Office and HM Treasury
National Audit Office
March 2013

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Fit enough for patients?

"Physiotherapy services play a vital role in improving staff health and wellbeing, and many of the trusts highlighted in this report are already putting physiotherapy at the heart of wellbeing services for staff."

Fit enough for patients? An audit of workplace health and wellbeing services for NHS staff
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
March 2013

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Framework for sexual health improvement in England

"This document sets out the evidence base for sexual health and HIV improvement It has been developed to provide the information, evidence base and support tools to enable everyone involved in sexual health to work collaboratively at local level to ensure that accessible services and interventions are available."

A framework for sexual health improvement in England
Department of Health
March 2013

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Using aggregate measures to assess the quality of NHS hospitals

"Quality in the NHS is complex, with information often resting in different places in different formats, with little or no linkage or context."

Quality at a glance: using aggregate measures to assess the quality of NHS hospitals
MHP Health Mandate
March 2013

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Making health care safer

The Annals of Internal Medicine have published a special edition reviewing the evidence supporting strategies to improve patient safety. The articles included in this issue are:

1. The top patient safety strategies that can be encouraged for adoption now promoting a culture of safety as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
2. In-facility delirium prevention programs as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
3. Patient safety strategies targeted at diagnostic errors: a systematic review 
4. Inpatient fall prevention programs as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
5. Medication reconciliation during transitions of care as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
6. Nurse–patient ratios as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
7. Preventing in-facility pressure ulcers as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
8. Rapid-response systems as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
9. Simulation exercises as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review
10. Hospital-initiated transitional care interventions as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review

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Transforming local care

"This Briefing shows how the community health sector is driving the transformation of local care systems and how innovative community healthcare providers are enabling people to stay healthy and independent and avoid crises that lead to unplanned hospital admissions."

Transforming local care
NHS Confederation
March 2013 Issue 258

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Putting QIPP and Francis at the heart of commissioning support

"Implementing QIPP and the Francis report and the need to help commissioners drive transformational change emerged as the key themes of a brainstorming event about developing effective commissioning support."

Putting QIPP and Francis at the heart of commissioning support
Commissioning Excellence
March 2013

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