The reconfiguration of clinical services

"This paper aims to help those planning and implementing major clinical service reconfigurations ensure that change is as evidence-based as possible. It investigates the five key drivers – quality, workforce, cost, access and technology"

The reconfiguration of clinical services: What is the evidence?
C Imison, L Sonola, M Honeyman, S Ross
The King's Fund
November 2014

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Community mental health survey 2014

"While there were some positive findings, particularly for questions asking about contact with staff, survey results show that improvements are needed across many other areas asked about in the questionnaire. This includes:

communication and information.
reviewing care.
involvement in decisions.
support and understanding with other areas of life."

Community mental health survey 2014
Care Quality Commission

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Community services: How they can transform care

"The ambition to move care closer to home has resulted in some reduction in lengths of stay in hospital, but further significant changes are needed in the way care is delivered."

Community services: How they can transform care
Nigel Edwards
The King's Fund
February 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

Implementation of a hospitalist programme in a community hospital

"Compared to traditional family physicians, hospitalists appear to improve measures of quality and resource utilization."

Does implementation of a hospitalist program in a Canadian community hospital improve measures of quality of care and utilization? an observational comparative analysis of hospitalists vs. traditional care providers
V Yousefi, CAKY Chong
BMC Health Services Research, 2013, 13:204

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Older people and emergency bed use

"There is significant variation in the use of hospital beds by people over 65 admitted as an emergency."

Older people and emergency bed use: exploring variation
C Imison, E Poteliakhoff, J Thompson
The King's Fund
August 2012

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Celebrating early implementer achievements - one year on

This report presents the outcomes of twenty-six Early Implementer Sites (EISs), which were established in March 2011 with the aim of delivering the full health visiting service vision and helping lead a step-change in the way these services are provided across the country.

Celebrating early implementer achievements - one year on
Department of Health
June 2012

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