Transforming general practice

"Financial incentives are most likely to stimulate transformational change if they are large scale and high profile – with finances and reputations at stake if they fail"

Transforming general practice: what are the levers for change?
R Rosen
Nuffield Trust

June 2015

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Health and social care priorities for the Government

" it is essential that we move to a more empowering, bottom-up approach while at the same time holding health care leaders to account for the care their organisations deliver to patients and service users."

Health and social care priorities for the Government: 2015–2020
Nuffield Trust
June 2015

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Spreading improvement ideas

"This evidence scan summarises empirical research about what works to spread ideas in health care in order to advance improvement."

Spreading improvement ideas: tips from empirical research (evidence scan)
D de Silva
The Health Foundation
May 2014

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Effective networks for improvement

"This report will help those who want to use networks as a mechanism for change, and guide improvement leaders to ensure their networks are designed and run in line with what works best."

Effective networks for improvement: Developing and managing effective networks to support quality improvement in healthcare
The Health Foundation
March 2014

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The NHS belongs to the people

"Better management by patients will mean fewer hospital visits and lower costs to the NHS overall."

The NHS belongs to the people
NHS England
July 2013

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Flat lining: lack of progress on NHS reform

"One of the consequences of reduced public spending in this Parliament has been innovation and change in the public services affected."

Flat lining: lack of progress on NHS reform
T Cawston, C Corrie, C Fraser, T Macpherson
Reform
June 2013

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Role of complaints in transforming public services

"Getting complaints is much better than not getting complaints – they show that people think it’s worth complaining and that they will be listened to, and that they believe that they have power to influence the system."

Grumbles, gripes and grievances: the role of complaints in transforming public services
R Simmons, C Brennan
NESTA
April 2013

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Health care lessons from Japan

"This paper is part of a series that examines the way health services are funded and delivered in other nations."

Health care lessons from Japan
N Esmail
Fraser Institute
April 2013

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40 ways to support patient leadership

"Patient Leaders are patients, service users and carers, who work with others at strategic level to influence change in health and healthcare. Patient leadership is more than patient and public engagement and can make a unique contribution to improving services. This Guide - the first of its kind - explains what patient leadership means and the role and purpose of patient leaders."

Bring it on - 40 ways to support patient leadership
Centre for Patient Leadership
April 2013

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Transforming our health care system

The King's Fund has outlined ten priorities for commissioning:

1. Active support for self-management
2. Primary prevention
3. Secondary prevention
4. Managing ambulatory care-sensitive conditions
5. Improving the management of patients with both mental and physical health needs
6. Care co-ordination through integrated health and social care teams
7. Improving primary care management of end-of-life care
8. Medicines management
9. Managing elective activity – referral quality 
10. Managing urgent and emergency activity

Transforming our health care system: ten priorities for commissioners
C Naylor, et al.
The King's Fund
April 2013

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Lessons for the new NHS from departing health leaders

"Time. Time and transparency, and clinical engagement. These are the three issues that come roaring out of these interviews with ‘the dear departed’ – a clutch of recent NHS chief executives and other health leaders who were asked what advice they would deliver to their successors as the new NHS structures go live in April 2013."

Changing of the guard: lessons for the new NHS from departing health leaders
Edited by Nicholas Timmins
Nuffield Trust
Issue 3 - March 2013

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Commissioning high-quality care for people with long-term conditions

"This study explored what commissioners actually do to commission care for people with long-term conditions, and how this might be improved."

Commissioning high-quality care for people with long-term conditions
J Smith, A Porter, S Shaw, R Rosen, I Blunt, N Mays
Nuffield Trust
March 2013

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Creating change: Innovation, Health and Wealth one year on

This is a progress report in response to last year's Innovation Health and Wealth, accelerating adoption and diffusion in the NHS (IHW). "The only way we will improve outcomes and quality for patients in a tighter economic climate is through innovation – both incremental and disruptive."

Creating change: Innovation, Health and Wealth one year on
Department of Health
December 2012

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Cumbria Partnership Journal of Research, Practice and Learning

The Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust publishes an academic journal, the Cumbria Partnership Journal of Research, Practice and Learning, in both print and electronic format. The electronic version is freely available on their website at this link:

The content is grouped under the following headings:

• Research reports
• Education and learning
• Quality/organisational change
• Reflective practice/case studies

The growing role of Emergency Departments in hospital admissions

"Growing use of U.S. emergency departments (EDs), cited as a key contributor to rising health care costs, has become a leading target of health care reform."

The growing role of Emergency Departments in hospital admissions
JD Schuur, AK Venkatesh
New England Journal of Medicine, 2012, 367(5):391-393

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Innovation health and wealth

"This report sets out the actions we must now take to make innovation and its spread central to what we do."

Innovation health and wealth: accelerating adoption and diffusion in the NHS
Department of Health
December 2011

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