Transforming healthcare in England’s core cities

"The report demonstrates how commissioners in Nottingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, Newcastle, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester are addressing profound health challenges. It also highlights how clinically-led commissioning is making it possible to deliver healthcare focused on the needs of specific populations."

Transforming healthcare in England’s core cities 
NHS Clinical Commissioners
September 2015

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How elite commissioning support units can shape transformation

"This edition of the Health Service Journal supplement looks at commissioning support units and how they can support new models of care." 

How elite commissioning support units can shape transformation
HSJ commissioning
March 2015

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Case Finding & Risk Stratification Handbook

"This handbook describes current thinking and provides practitioner insights into case finding and risk stratification to support personalised care and support planning – both of which are key elements of the vision and outcomes in the NHS Five Year Forward View"

Case Finding & Risk Stratification Handbook
NHS England
January 2015

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Access the additional resources here.

Tackling health inequalities: the case for investment in the wider public health workforce

"In this report we look at the evidence for engaging the ‘wider workforce’ and particularly the role of health trainers and champions in supporting behaviour change within their own communities, providing peer-to-peer support from a position of understanding and common ground. The investment in them is, in light of the economic cost of treating illness, money well spent."

Tackling health inequalities: the case for investment in the wider public health workforce
Royal Society for Public Health
June 2014

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Supporting people to manage their health

"In the United Kingdom, patient activation has largely been considered in relation to supporting patient involvement in health care. Given the links between low levels of activation and poor outcomes, the role of the Patient Activation Model in addressing health inequalities should be considered further."

Supporting people to manage their health: an introduction to patient activation
J Hibbard, H Gilburt
The King's Fund
May 2014

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Quality Premium: 2014/15 guidance for CCGs

"The Quality Premium is intended to reward clinical commissioning groups for improvements of the quality of health services they commission and for associated improvements in health outcomes and reducing inequalities."

Quality Premium: 2014/15 guidance for CCGs
NHS England, Commissioning Development, Commissioning Policy and Primary Care
March 2014

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Race equality and health inequalities

"This paper argues that within the English health system the ‘Equality and Diversity’ and ‘Health Inequalities’ agendas remain poorly integrated at both national and local level...This paper suggests that the disconnect between Equality and Diversity and Health Inequalities work hampers progress towards better understanding of the processes that perpetuate poor health outcomes."

Race equality and health inequalities: towards more integrated policy and practice
Better Health briefing paper 32
S Salway, L Carter, K Powell, D Turner, G M George, TH Ellison
Race Equality Foundation
March 2014

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Personal health budgets: including people with learning disabilities

"Implementing personal health budgets for people with learning disabilities can improve the quality of support, and thus the quality of life, for individuals and their families."

Personal health budgets: including people with learning disabilities
S Turner, A Giraud-Saunders
Think Local Act Personal

February 2014

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Identifying key vulnerable groups in data collections

"Our report, Hidden Needs, is about making the invisible visible. It demonstrates the yawning gaps in data, information analysis and research in four of the most vulnerable populations in society." 

Hidden needs: Identifying key vulnerable groups in data collections: Vulnerable migrants, gypsies and travellers, homeless people, and sex workers 
PJ Aspinall
Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent
March 2014

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Closing the gap: priorities for essential change in mental health

"High-quality mental health services with an emphasis on recovery should be commissioned in all areas, reflecting local need."

Closing the gap: priorities for essential change in mental health
Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnership Directorate
Department of Health
January 2014

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Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health Service Standards for Commissioners and Service Providers

"The purpose of this document is to set clear minimum standards for planning, commissioning and providing health care for homeless people and other multiply excluded groups."

The Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health Service Standards for Commissioners and Service Providers (version 2)
Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health
January 2014

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Unlocking the power of information

"Part of the Smart Guides to Engagement series, this guide helps clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and service providers understand how information is the foundation for effective engagement with patients so that they can become partners in decision-making about their own health and care."

Smart guides to engagement: Unlocking the power of information
M Duman
NHS Networks
December 2013

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Improving access to health care for Gypsies and Travellers, homeless people and sex workers

"This guide aims to provide professionals with the following:

• an overview of the health needs of these three vulnerable groups in society
• practical support to help commissioners to build the understanding of local needs into the Joint
• Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) and Health and Wellbeing Strategies (HWBS)
• sample models of how services can meet needs to inform commissioning and local service
• provision, looking at both health-only and more holistic initiatives"

Improving access to health care for Gypsies and Travellers, homeless people and sex workers
P Gill, U MacLeod, H Lester, A Hegenbarth
Royal College of General Practitioners Clinical Innovation and Research Centre
September 2013

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Community engagement to reduce inequalities in health

"Community engagement has been advanced as a promising way of improving health and reducing health inequalities; however, the approach is not yet supported by a strong evidence base."

Community engagement to reduce inequalities in health: a systematic review, meta-analysis and economic analysis
A O'Mara-Eves, G Brunton, D McDaid, S Oliver, J Kavanagh, F Jamal, et al.
NHS National Institute for Health Research
Public Health Research, 4(1), November 2013

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Health Profiles

"Health Profiles provide summary health information to support local authority members, officers and community partners to lead for health improvement."

Access the Health Profiles here.

Reducing health inequalities: the challenge of public health

"Within local government, public-health teams have been tasked by public health England to achieve the following outcomes: (1) increasing healthy life expectancy and (2) reducing differences between communities in health outcomes."

Reducing health inequalities: the challenge of public health
J Craig
British Council - Innovation Unit
July 2013

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Tackling teenage pregnancy

"This briefing for councillors and officers explains the challenges facing councils and the opportunities they have to tackle teenage pregnancy and reduce health inequalities in local communities."

Tackling teenage pregnancy: local government's new public health role
Local Government Association
April 2013

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The NHS Outcomes Framework 2012/13

"This document sets out the changes that have been made to the indicators in the NHS Outcomes Framework. It builds on  The NHS Outcomes Framework 2011/12 and The NHS Outcomes 2011/12: Technical details of indicators, and is designed to help NHS organisations to  start to think through what a focus on outcomes means in practical terms."

The NHS Outcomes Framework 2012/13
Department of Health
December 2012

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