Health service redesign: from structure to function

"The findings suggest that large scale redesign projects are difficult to sustain because of changing circumstances, staff turnover, and the challenge of maintaining momentum. A more realistic approach centres on building teams, with local leadership, focussed on clinical/patient concerns and engagement with services provided outside hospital."

Theme 1: Health service redesign: from structure to function: the impact of change
A Hewison
Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care: Birmingham and Black Country
University of Birmingham, National Institute for Health Research
2014

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Free access to special issue of Journal of Integrated Care

This special issue of Journal of Integrated Care focuses on commissioning and the third sector, and can be freely read until 14th December 2013 by visiting Emerald Publishers using the following login details:
username: integrated
password: emerald2013

Articles include:

• Evaluating a third sector community service following stroke
• Co-producing care services in rural areas
• Singing from the same hymn sheet? Commissioning of preventative services from the third sector

Sustaining and spreading self-management support

"Changing the way healthcare is delivered so that patients are supported to more effectively manage their longterm condition is also hard – it involves redefining the role of professionals and patients and putting in place processes and infrastructure that support new ways of working."

Sustaining and spreading self-management support: lessons from Co-creating Health phase 2
Health Foundation
September 2013

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