Health and homelessness

"This report is based on consultation with six services providing health care to homeless people, 17 case studies showing the range of presenting health issues and use of health services by homeless people, and analysis of five case studies illustrating the financial impact of this pattern of service use."

Health and homelessness: understanding the costs and role of primary care services for homeless people
St Mungo's
July 2013

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Consumer engagement initiatives to improve health and health care

"In this article we identified the need for a framework to classify the wide array of consumer engagement interventions to help “make sense” of them as an important step to advancing knowledge of their value in improving the quality of health care through community-based efforts, or otherwise."

Making sense of “consumer engagement” initiatives to improve health and health care: a conceptual framework to guide policy and practice
JN Mittler, GR Martsolf, SJ Telenko, DP Scanlon
Milbank Quarterly, 2013, 91(1):37-77

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Fit enough for patients?

"Physiotherapy services play a vital role in improving staff health and wellbeing, and many of the trusts highlighted in this report are already putting physiotherapy at the heart of wellbeing services for staff."

Fit enough for patients? An audit of workplace health and wellbeing services for NHS staff
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
March 2013

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Better use of information and technology in health and social care

"This report this highlights additional actions that could be taken to drive the  more efficient and effective use of information and technology, and identifies the benefits that could potentially be achieved by doing so."

A review of the potential benefits from the better use of information and technology in health and social care: final report
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
January 2013

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Joining up health and social care

"Improving joint working across the boundary between health and social care has the potential to make significant savings and has been a priority for many years."

Joining up health and social care: improving value for money across the interface
Audit Commission
December 2011

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