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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Three tests for a credible health policy

"

To understand whether the policies of 

the different parties will maintain and 

improve the quality of care, both now 

and in the future, it is essential for 

politicians to demonstrate how their 

proposals address the three tests for 

a credible health policy. Failing to 

meet any one of these tests would 

have serious consequences for the 

NHS and the care patients receive.

" 

Three tests for a credible health policy: The Health Foundation's policy recommendations in the run up to the 2015 general election

The Health Foundation

February 2015

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Health Policy Implications of a Three-Generation Case Study

"Conventional wisdom holds that the redesign of health care requires stepping back from the issues of individual patients and analyzing patterns of outcomes and costs for large patient populations. As practicing primary care physicians, we think a useful, complementary perspective might result from doing the opposite: looking intensely at the health and health care of an individual but widening the lens through which that patient is viewed. "

Time after Time - Health Policy Implications of a Three-Generation Case Study
C Sayer, TH Lee
New England Journal of Medicine 2014; 371:1273-1276

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A qualitative analysis of information sharing for children with medical complexity within and across health care organizations

"Information exchange is critically important in high quality care of complex patients at high risk for poor care coordination. Written care plans for children with medical complexity are an excellent test case for how well information sharing is currently occurring. The purpose of this study was to identify the barriers to and facilitators of information sharing for CMC across providers, care settings, and families."

A qualitative analysis of information sharing for children with medical complexity within and across health care organizations
L Quigley, A Lacombe-Duncan, S Adams, C Moore Hepburn, E Cohen
BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:283

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A systematic review of medical practice variation in OECD countries

"Combined with engagement from clinicians and policy makers, the continued study of the causes and consequences of variation has the potential to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of health care systems."

A systematic review of medical practice variation in OECD countries
AN Coralloa, R Croxford, DC Goodmanb, EL Bryanb, D Srivastavac, TA Stukela
Health Policy, 2014; 114: 5-14

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A new settlement for health and social care

"In our view, the weight of evidence makes it clear that the present settlement lacks transparency, is inefficient, puts too much weight on individual rather than collective responsibility, and raises a significant moral concern about the lack of equity of treatment for similar levels of need."

A new settlement for health and social care: Interim report
K Barker (Chair), Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England
The King’s Fund
April 2014

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The four health systems of the United Kingdom: how do they compare?

"Overall, this research suggests that despite hotly contested policy differences between the UK health systems since devolution on structure, competition, patient choice and the use of non-NHS providers, there is no evidence linking these policy differences to a matching divergence of performance, at least on the measures available across the four UK countries."

The four health systems of the United Kingdom: how do they compare?
G Bevan, M Karanikolos, J Exley, E Nolte, S Connolly, N Mays
The Health Foundation, Nufffield Trust
April 2014

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The changing national role in health system governance

"This study provides an overview of recent changes in the national government’s role in the governance of the health systems in 12 countries."

The changing national role in health system governance: a case-based study of 11 European countries and Australia
Edited by E Jakubowski, RB Saltman
World Health Organization (European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies)
April 2013

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How hard can it be to include research evidence and evaluation in local health policy implementation?

"Local commissioners and managers need to build the critical use of research evidence and evaluation into health policy implementation at local level in order to provide consistent and effective healthcare services."

How hard can it be to include research evidence and evaluation in local health policy implementation? Results from a mixed methods study
BA Evans, H Snooks, H Howson, M Davies
Implementation Science, 2013, 8:17

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Health policy and systems research

"The Reader provides guidance on the defining features of HPSR and the critical steps in conducting research in this field."

Health policy and systems research: A methodology
Edited by Lucy Gilson
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization
2012

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CHSRF on Call - free webinars on health service transformation

"CHSRF on Call is a series of free webinars, in English and French, featuring policy- and decision- makers as they explore existing evidence on key topics to see how it can improve the delivery of health services and the health of Canadians."

The service is provided by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation and you can read more here.

Hospitals and care systems of the future

"This report will mobilize hospital senior leadership teams to consider the strategies they must deploy throughout their individual organizations to adapt and succeed in the future."

Hospitals and care systems of the future
American Hospital Association
September 2011

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Health datasets for economists

"This Compendium of Health Datasets for Economists (ICoHDE) provides the largest collection of English specific datasets available for researchers interested in the field of economics of health and health care."


The interactive compendium of health datasets for economists
University of Oxford
2011

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