Positive and Proactive Care: reducing the need for restrictive interventions

"Rigorous governance is needed to ensure that positive and proactive care is the main approach within services to reduce excessive reliance on restrictive interventions and to ensure that if they are used, it is only ever as a last resort, and they are undertaken in a proportionate and least restrictive way."

Positive and proactive care: reducing the need for restrictive interventions
Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnership Directorate
Department of Health
April 2014

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Managing patients with complex needs

"The main conclusion is that the service improves health outcomes and leads to a reduction in health service use in both primary and secondary care settings. The financial savings from reduced service use are equivalent to about a third of PCPCS treatment costs."

Managing patients with complex needs: Evaluation of the City and Hackney Primary Care Psychotherapy Consultation Service
M Parsonage, E Hard, B Rock
Centre for Mental Health
March 2014

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Improving Wheelchair Services

These documents summarise the discussions at the Wheechair Summit, which brought together wheelchair users with NHS clinicians, managers and third sector organisations to improve services, both locally and nationally.

Find out more and access all the resources here.

Race equality and health inequalities

"This paper argues that within the English health system the ‘Equality and Diversity’ and ‘Health Inequalities’ agendas remain poorly integrated at both national and local level...This paper suggests that the disconnect between Equality and Diversity and Health Inequalities work hampers progress towards better understanding of the processes that perpetuate poor health outcomes."

Race equality and health inequalities: towards more integrated policy and practice
Better Health briefing paper 32
S Salway, L Carter, K Powell, D Turner, G M George, TH Ellison
Race Equality Foundation
March 2014

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Commissioning in adult social care

Between May 2013 and February 2014 the Local Government Information Unit worked in partnership with home care provider Mears to deliver a series of roundtables for the Adult Social Care Thought Leader Series, including those on:

• Market Management
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Personalisation and Co-Production
• Integration
• Workforce Issues

This document brings together the notes from the series.

Commissioning in adult social care: the LGiO and Mears thought leader series - a summary
Local Government Information Unit, Mears
April 2014

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Blood Sugar Rush: Diabetes time bomb in London

"The London Assembly Health Committee has sought to tease out what is driving the increase in Type 2 diabetes across London, and how the delivery of diabetes care is managed and where improvements can be made in providing that care."

Blood Sugar Rush: Diabetes time bomb in London 
London Assembly Health Committee
April 2014

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The reality behind improving cancer survival rates

"By addressing issues such as morbidities, delays in diagnosis and cancer recurrence, we can improve care for patients, improve their outcomes and save the NHS money."

Cancer’s unequal burden – The reality behind improving cancer survival rates
Macmillan Cancer Support
April 2014

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