NHS England Business Plan

"For 2015/16 NHS England will focus on ten priorities to both improve quality and services, to drive better value for money, and to build the foundations for the future health and care system."

Building the NHS of the Five Year Forward View: NHS England Business Plan 2015/16
NHS England,Transformation & Corporate Operations, Business Planning Team
March 2015

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Maximising Older People's use of Personal Budgets

"The overarching aim of the programme was to ‘improve social care outcomes for older people using personal budgets’. Within this overall aim, the programme had a number of specific objectives based on the development of an ‘innovative volunteer-delivery model’"

Maximising Older People's use of Personal Budgets (MOPPU): Project Evaluation Report
A Ellis Paine, R Taylor, C Needham, R Littlechild, H Buckingham
Age UK
October 2014

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Patient safety risks associated with telecare

"There is a need to better identify and describe patient safety risks related to telecare services to improve understandings of how to avoid and minimize potential harm to patients. This process can be aided by reframing known telecare implementation challenges and user experiences of telecare with the help of a human factors systems approach to patient safety."

Patient safety risks associated with telecare: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of the literature
V Guise, J Anderson, S Wiig
BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:588  doi:10.1186/s12913-014-0588-z

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Health Visiting Programme and 0-5 Commissioning of Public Health Services

"Local authorities know their communities and understand local need so can commission the most vital services to improve local children’s health and wellbeing. One of the benefits of councils commissioning health visitor services is that it offers opportunities to link with wider systems, such as housing, early years education providers and to enable the integration of children’s services." 

Factsheet on Health Visiting and commissioning of public health services for 0 to 5 year olds
Department of Health, Public Health England, NHS England
November 2014

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Improving the follow-up of microbiology results

"Our intervention, the Pink Book of Results, provides a simple, cost effective system to follow-up microbiology results for discharged patients. It has been extremely well received by paediatric A&E staff and is now rolled out across the general paediatric ward and special care baby unit."

Improving the follow-up of microbiology results: the origins of the Pink Book
Henry Boyle, Charlie Hunt, Catherine McIlroy, Imran Qureshi
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2014;3: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u721.w504

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Separating diagnostic neurology from management of long-term neurological conditions

"We believe that our new model of service delivery for patients with long-term neurological conditions is leading to a significant improvement in quality and efficiency"

Separating Diagnostic Neurology from Management of Long-Term Neurological Conditions: A new concept of service delivery
Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
NICE Shared Learning
September 2014

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Transforming mental health: a plan of action for London

"This report describes a vision for the future of mental health provision in London, generated through a process of engagement with key stakeholders in the capital. The vision is based on a collaborative, integrated approach towards mental health that is relevant in London and elsewhere."

Transforming mental health: a plan of action for London
H Gilburt, N Edwards, R Murray
The King's Fund
September 2014

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Improvement collaboratives in health care

"This scan suggests that collaboratives may have some potential to support improvements in the quality of health care but, like most initiatives, they are not a ‘silver bullet’ and cannot be relied upon in isolation to spread broad change." 

Improvement collaboratives in health care: Evidence scan
The Health Foundation
July 2014

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Networking between community health programs

"This case study demonstrates an example of a successful and effective network of community health programs. The development of relationships was seen to be to be an important part of promoting effective resource sharing, training opportunities, government networking and resource mobilisation and will be important for other health networks to consider."

Networking between community health programs: a team-work approach to improving health service provision
NJ Grills, R Kumar, M Philip, G Porter
BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:297

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