Large-scale general practice in England: what can we learn from the literature?

"Traditional general practice is changing. Three-quarters of practices are now working collaboratively in larger-scale organisations – albeit with varying degrees of ambition and organisational integration. Policy-makers and practitioners have high hopes for these organisations and their potential to transform services both within primary care and beyond. But can we be confident that they can live up to these expectations?"

Large-scale general practice in England: what can we learn from the literature?
L Pettigrew, N Mays, S Kumpunen, R Rosen, R Posaner
Nuffield Trust
September 2016

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Toolkit to support NHS commissioners to reduce poor experience of in-patient care

"This toolkit has been developed to support NHS commissioners to work collaboratively with patients, carers and NHS provider organisations to reduce poor experiences of in-patient care."

Toolkit to support NHS commissioners to reduce poor experience of in-patient care
NHS England
March 2015

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New care models explained: How the NHS can successfully integrate care

"Multispecialty community providers (or MCPs) and the primary and acute care services (or PACS) are new types of delivery models, integrating hitherto relatively poorly coordinated care providers into new and efficient organisations or alliances capable of delivering on the “triple aim” – a better patient experience, better population health and more efficient use of resources."

New care models explained: How the NHS can successfully integrate care
R Lewis
Health Service Journal
March 2015

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Multi-disciplinary Team Handbook

"This handbook brings together information about multi-disciplinary / integrated teams from a wide range of sources including publications, studies and operational examples for the purpose of providing a stimulus to the system to examine the type or types of teams that need to be in place to deliver integrated healthcare."

MDT Development: Working toward an effective multidisciplinary/multiagency team
NHS England
January 2015

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Personalised Care & Support Planning Handbook

"The handbook is aimed at commissioners and care practitioners (i.e. not just health and care professionals, but also other non-clinical and volunteer roles), and is intended to set out what personalised care and support planning is, and how to deliver it. It will show how personalised care and support planning fits within the wider context of person-centred care and can be used as a system enabler to help provide more proactive and coordinated care for people with long-term conditions and better support for self-management."

NHS England: Personalised Care & Support Planning Handbook
Coalition for Collaborative Care, NHS England
January 2015

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Collaborative Care and Support Planning

"The Collaborative Care and Support Planning programme aims to encourage a shift in general practice to bring the person with long term conditions (LTCs) to the centre of the decisions which are made about their care, working in partnership with the practitioner."

Collaborative Care and Support Planning
Royal College of General Practitioners
January 2015

Find out more and watch a video about the programme here.

Coalition for collaborative care: action for long-term conditions

"The Coalition brings together a growing number of people and organisations. These include those wanting to introduce person-centred, collaborative care to their lives and work, as well as those responsible for NHS delivery and development at a national level."

Visit the Coalition for collaborative care website to find out more.

Person-centred care: from ideas to action

"This report is the product of work which has sought to bring together the evidence on shared decision making and self-management support, with the aim of providing greater coherence and clarity in debates about person-centred care."

Person-centred care: from ideas to action 
N Ahmad, J Ellins, H Krelle, M Lawrie
Health Foundation
October 2014

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Scoping review of patient-centered care approaches in healthcare

"The fact that all identified approaches to patient-centered care incorporated strategies to achieve effective communication, partnership, and health promotion indicates that clinicians can select a patient-centered approach from the literature that best suits their patient’s needs"

Scoping review of patient-centered care approaches in healthcare
MK Constand, JC MacDermid, V Dal Bello-Haas, M Law

BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:271

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Collaborative pharmaceutical care in an Irish hospital

"PACT improved the quality and safety of prescribing for medical patients receiving acute hospital care: it reduced the prevalence of all medication error and potentially severe error; it improved the quality of prescribing in patients aged 65 years or older" 

Collaborative pharmaceutical care in an Irish hospital: uncontrolled before-after study
TC Grimes, E Deasy, A Allen, J O'Byrne, T Delaney, J Barragry, N Breslin, E Moloney, C Wall
BMJ Quality and Safety, 2014; 23: 574-583

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Collaborative care for depression treatment in primary care

"Depression collaborative care models designed and implemented by primary care practices using evidence based quality improvement improved antidepressant initiation."

Implementing collaborative care for depression treatment in primary care: a cluster randomized evaluation of a quality improvement practice redesign
EF Chaney, LV Rubenstein, CF Liu, EM Yano, C Bolkan, M Lee, B Simon, A Lanto, B Felker, J Uman
Implementation Science, 2011, 6:121

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