A healthier life for all: The case for cross-government action

"Health experts and politicians have come together in A healthier life for all: the case for cross-government action to call on the government to tackle the drivers of poor health by making health improvement an objective in all policy areas – in recognition that it is fundamental to a prosperous and sustainable society."

A healthier life for all: The case for cross-government action
The Health Foundation and the All-Party Parliamentary Health Group
July 2016

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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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Health in the 2015 General Election: An analysis of party manifestos

"This briefing provides analysis of and commentary on the manifesto pledges of the parties that have made up the opposition or government in the most recent parliament – the Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Labour parties."

Health in the 2015 General Election: An analysis of party manifestos
Nuffield Trust
April 2015

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Health and Social Care (Safety and Quality) Act 2015

"An Act to make provision about the safety of health and social care services in England; to make provision about the integration of information relating to users of health and social care services in England; to make provision about the sharing of information relating to an individual for the purposes of providing that individual with health or social care services in England; to make provision about the objectives of the regulatory bodies for health and social care professions and the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care; to make provision about the disposal of cases concerning a person’s fitness to practise a health or social care profession; and for connected purposes." 

Health and Social Care (Safety and Quality) Act 2015, CHAPTER 28

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Priorities for the next government

"The next government must ensure that the focus on improving quality of care established in the wake of the Francis report is sustained. It will also need to set in train a transformation of services to meet the needs of patients more effectively."

Priorities for the next government
The King's Fund
September 2014

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Department of Health Improvement Plan

"The plan has been developed following an assessment of the 4 critical themes of organisational effectiveness: performance; efficiency and innovation; capability; strategic risk and leadership of change. It sets out where the department is currently, what it has achieved, where it needs to be in future and the improvements that the department needs to make to get there."

Department of Health Improvement Plan
Department of Health
April 2014

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Integration across government

"This report examines how well government identifies and implements opportunities to integrate public services or other programmes."

Integration across government
Cabinet Office and HM Treasury
National Audit Office
March 2013

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Government efficiency

In order to continue to improve efficiency in the public sector, governments should focus on four key areas:

1. pursuing innovative practices linked to efficiency; 
2. scaling the use of efficient practices;
3. improving the use of established measurement and analytical tools to generate actionable insights;
4. and strengthening management incentives to become more efficient.

This report, although focusing on efficiency in the Government of the United Arab Emirates, provides guidance for all governments around the world.

Government efficiency
United Arab Emirates in collaboration with Deloitte
February 2013

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Health and Social Care Bill

"This briefing focuses on several major amendments agreed during the Lords’ report stage relating to ministerial responsibility for the NHS, economic regulation and CCG conflicts of interest."

Parliamentary briefing: Health and Social Care Bill: Commons' consideration of Lords amendments
Nuffield Trust
March 2012

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Health and Social Care Bill explained

The Department of Health has published a series of factsheets on the Health and Social Care Bill to explain particular topics contained in the Bill, including its key themes.

Access the factsheets here.