NHS Evidence - health management

The report, which was written by the Nuffield Trust, commissioned by the National Association of Primary Care, examines the arguments for encouraging and enabling general practices to take a much more proactive role in improving the health and wellbeing of their local populations, as well as their individual patients.

• Report
• The Nuffield Trust - press release

The paper provides detailed estimates of the public expenditure costs of the government’s plans. It projects that the government’s current proposals, with a cap of £75,000, would add £2 billion (2010 prices) to public expenditure by 2030.  This is in contrast to a projected extra £3.3 billion cost of the Dilnot Commission’s proposals, which had recommended a cap of £35,000.

• Report
• LSE - health and social care

This report sets out some of the challenges facing older people in 2013. It gives a snapshot of both the over 65s and those approaching later life detailing the current challenges and opportunities facing the nation.

• Report
• Age UK - press release

This framework highlights the following five dimensions, which the authors believe should be included in any safety and monitoring approach in order to give a comprehensive and rounded picture of an organisation’s safety: past harm; reliability; sensitivity to operations; anticipation and preparedness; integration and learning. The Health Foundation is seeking the thoughts and insights of a wide range of stakeholders – from those with a specialist role in patient safety, those involved in direct care delivery, patients and carers and the public in general. Deadline for responses is 1 July 2013.

• Report
• Summary
• The Health Foundation - publications

This letter from Professor John Newton, Chief Knowledge Officer to the Chief Executive, Director of Public Health, directors, and regional directors of public health, provides helpful information on the steps being taken to provide access to health care data.

• Letter
• Department of Health - publications

This document is a summary of changes to secondary legislation as a consequence of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and is intended to highlight the relevant provisions.

• Summary
• Department of Health - publications

These resources aim to support the development of Healthwatch as well as to promote involvement with the voluntary and community sector, and the communities it works with. They include an overview of Healthwatch for the VCS, a good practice guide, and recommendations on how the VCS can act as a key partner in local healthwatch.

• Regional Voices - resources

This toolkit and appendices are designed primarily for those with responsibility for commissioning HIV testing services. It signposts readers to data and research on HIV testing, showcases best practice and offers suggestions of how to decide what sort of services are needed in different areas. It will be refreshed when new case studies of successful HIV testing initiatives or up-to-date evidence and data come to light.

• Toolkit
• NAT - press release

This report has found that the number of district nurses in England fell by 39 per cent between 2002 and 2012, while preventable emergency admissions rose by 40 per cent over the same period. It identifies areas for improvement in order to avoid a nursing crisis in the future, including boards regularly monitoring up-to-date information on their workforce and greater investment in community and specialist nurses, who manage long-term conditions and reduce consultant appointments and hospital visits

• Report
• RCN - publications

This report is the output of the independent review team that formed part of the first stage of the review into children’s heart surgery at Leeds. It looked at systems within the unit and found that there were no immediate issues that would prevent a resumption of surgery.

• Report 
• NICOR investigation of mortality from paediatric cardiac surgery in England 2009–12
• NHS England - news

This Ipsos MORI study assessed the current use of perceptions of e-learning within the sector.  The report also examines wider training practices and the adoption of ICT within the workplace, including an analysis of how ready employers and staff feel they are to e-learning. Findings will feed into SCIE’s Get Connected programme, which aims to enable providers of care for adults in England to access ICT more effectively.

• Report
• SCIE - publications

This issue of Understanding Society includes discussion of he role of behavioural economics and social psychology in public health, and the huge challenges for public health interventions, in the face of pervasive encouragement to act in less healthy ways. It also includes case studies of how the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care in Canada used behavioural approaches to re-vamp their smoking cessation and free seasonal flu vaccination programmes.

• Publication
• Ipsos MORI - publications

This report marks the end of a significant period of transition for NHS commissioning. It includes interviews with twenty leading figures from this period in an attempt to capture critical lessons and translate them into messages that are relevant to new commissioners. It is intended to be a practical and supportive product for colleagues in the new system, with resonance for commissioners in CCGs, local authorities and NHS England.

• Report
• NHS Confederation - publications

This Ipsos MORI study assessed the current use of perceptions of e-learning within the sector.  The report also examines wider training practices and the adoption of ICT within the workplace, including an analysis of how ready employers and staff feel they are to e-learning. Findings will feed into SCIE’s Get Connected programme, which aims to enable providers of care for adults in England to access ICT more effectively.

• Report
• SCIE - publications

This briefing provides advice and links to further resources, as well as summarising the School Health Service and outlining how school nurses can support its delivery now that local authorities are responsible for delivering and commissioning public health services for 5 to 19 year olds.

• Briefing
• Department of Health - publications

These instructions set out the function of approving registered medical practitioners and of approving individuals to act as approved clinicians under the 1983 Mental Health Act.

• Instructions
• Department of Health - publications

This guidance is aimed at members of boards of NHS organisations to enable them to perform their role in improving health services for patients. It is designed for use across all types of NHS providers, including existing and aspirant NHS foundation trusts in the acute, specialist, ambulance, community and mental health sectors. It may also be of use to other staff in NHS bodies, such as senior management, operational, clinical and nursing staff and those working on internal, external and clinical audits.

• Guidance
• Monitor - publications

A NICE quality standard on autism in children, young people and adults is being developed. Its focus is on referral to and delivery of autism services provided or commissioned by the NHS and social care services. Comments from registered stakeholders on areas for quality improvement are invited until the 7th May 2013.

• Email responses
• Topic overview
• NICE - project page

This paper seeks to explain this phenomenon by developing a theory of health behavior, and exploiting both lottery winnings and inheritances to test the theory. It distinguishes between the direct monetary cost and the indirect health cost (value of health lost) of unhealthy consumption. It suggests that differences in health costs may indeed provide an explanation for behavioral differences, and ultimately health outcomes, between wealth groups.

• Paper
• RAND - publications

These forms are required to request a warrant for the cross-border transfer of patients under the Mental Health Act 1983, which states that a hospital in England must obtain the authorisation of the Secretary of State for Health before it can transfer a patient to a location in Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.

• Forms
• Department of Health - publications