Cardiovascular disease integrated care pilot to improve patient outcomes closer to home

"Within the context of a growing elderly population and better survival of people with CVD conditions, this project aimed to support patients to remain in the community for as long as is clinically possible, avoid hospital admissions and reduce length of stay."

Cardiovascular disease: integrated care pilot to improve patient outcomes closer to home
British Heart Foundation
NICE Quality and Productivity case study
May 2016

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Moving healthcare closer to home

"Support for providers and commissioners to make evidence-based appraisals of how the benefits compare with the costs of various approaches to move care closer to home."

Moving healthcare closer to home

Monitor

September 2015

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Feasibility and impact of implementing a private care system’s diabetes quality improvement intervention in the safety net

"This study adds substantially to our understanding of whether and how QI strategies proven effective in better-resourced care settings can be translated into under-resourced clinics. Such translation and implementation could potentially yield important benefits to clinics serving low-income populations by helping them keep up with the care delivery innovations that other settings develop."

Feasibility and impact of implementing a private care system’s diabetes quality improvement intervention in the safety net: a cluster-randomized trial
R Gold et al.
Implementation Science 2015, 10:83  doi:10.1186/s13012-015-0259-4

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Enabling the local implementation of sustainable urgent and emergency care models

"To break the vicious circle resulting in increased pressures on A&Es, and ensure patients have access to the right care, in the right place at the right time, efforts should focus on building an effective community offer. This will require adequate investment to transform primary, community and social care – while ensuring that acute and emergency care remains sustainable."

Rip off the sticking plaster now: Enabling the local implementation of sustainable urgent and emergency care models in 2015/16
NHS Confederation, Urgent and Emergency Care Forum
April 2015

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Comparing the implementation of team approaches for improving diabetes care in community health centers

"Patient panel management and community-based care management may be viable strategies for community health centers to improve the quality of diabetes care for vulnerable patient populations. The objective of our study was to clarify implementation processes and experiences of integrating office-based medical assistant (MA) panel management and community health worker (CHW) community-based management into routine care for diabetic patients."

Comparing the implementation of team approaches for improving diabetes care in community health centers

PJ Van der Wees, MW Friedberg, EA Guzman, JZ Ayanian, HP Rodriguez

BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:608  doi:10.1186/s12913-014-0608-z

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Exploring the cost of care at the end of life

"The results suggest that cost savings might be available if community-based support were made more widely available to help people to die in their own homes, where that was their preference."

Exploring the cost of care at the end of life
T Georghiou, M Bardsley
Nuffield Trust
September 2014

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Commissioning to meet hearing need

"Commissioners and providers alike need to develop an overarching commissioning framework for hearing services, within which commissioners, providers and potential providers can work together at local level to achieve the best outcomes and support for patients at all points along the pathway including a flourishing hospital-based audiology and ENT services for those who need specialist referral." 

Commissioning to meet hearing need and for better access, outcomes, quality and choice: community based adult hearing services: guidance for commissioners and providers
National Community Hearing Association, British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists
June 2014

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Focus On: Social care for older people

"Given the future trends in population growth and the visible constraints to local government, which is facing further budget cuts in the coming years, it is imperative that we develop better information systems that span care providers for older people."

Focus On: Social care for older people: Reductions in adult social services for older people in England 

S Ismail, R Thorlby, H Holder

The Health Foundation, Nuffield Trust

March 2014

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Seven day consultant present care: implementation considerations

"This report, which has involved over fifty specialty organisations, is designed to be a catalyst, providing organisational and clinical leaders with further support in delivering seven day consultant-present care for patients in hospital."

Seven day consultant present care: implementation considerations
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
November 2013

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