New Commissioning for Value packs

"The information in the packs will be of particular interest to CCG clinical and management leads with responsibility for finance, performance, improvement and health outcomes; to NHS England regional team leads; and to commissioning support teams who are helping CCGs with this work."

Commissioning for Value – comprehensive data packs to support CCGs and NHS England in the regions
NHS England
January 2016

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Self-management support interventions to reduce health care utilisation without compromising outcomes

"Self-management support interventions can reduce health service utilization without compromising patient health outcomes, although effects were generally small, and the evidence was strongest in respiratory and cardiovascular disorders. Further work is needed to determine which components of self-management support are most effective."

Self-management support interventions to reduce health care utilisation without compromising outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
M Panagioti et al.
BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:356

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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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Report of the Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Forum

"If we compare ourselves with the country with the lowest mortality for children and young people, Sweden (after controlling for population size among other variables), we find that in the UK every day five children under the age of 14 die who would not die in Sweden."

Report of the Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Forum 2013/14
I Lewis, C Lenehan
April 2014

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Action to reduce premature avoidable mortality

"Living Well for Longer provides a national road map of the actions we will take across the health spectrum. It also provides complementary ideas for local action with case studies that demonstrate local innovation and good practice, encouraging local areas to learn from the best, and sharing the learning from their own successes." 

Living well for longer: national support for local action to reduce premature avoidable mortality
Department of Health
April 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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Financial mechanisms for integrating funds for health and social care

"Compared with ‘usual care’, schemes that integrated funds and resources to support integrated care seldom led to improved health outcomes. Although some schemes succeeded in shifting care closer to home, and some achieved short term reductions in acute care utilisation, no scheme demonstrated a sustained and long term reduction in hospital use." 

Financial mechanisms for integrating funds for health and social care: an evidence review 
A Mason, M Goddard, H Weatherly
Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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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Modelling factors in primary care quality improvement

"High-quality primary care, including aspects of access to and continuity of care, detection and management, appears to be associated with reducing coronary heart disease mortality."

Modelling factors in primary care quality improvement: a cross-sectional study of premature CHD mortality
K Honeyford, R Baker, MJG Bankart, D Jones
BMJ Open, 2013, 3:e003391

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Liaison psychiatry - the way ahead

"The study set out to identify how liaison psychiatry can most effectively contribute to the Government’s quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) challenge of improving health outcomes while also reducing healthcare costs."

Liaison psychiatry - the way ahead: issue 249
Mental Health Network
NHS Confederation
November 2012

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