A qualitative study of how hospital innovations become routine

"Hospitals have an opportunity to promote the integration of new practices by planning for the extended effort required to hold a new practice in place while integration mechanisms take hold. By understanding how integrating mechanisms correspond to innovation characteristics, hospitals may be able to foster integrating mechanisms most likely to work for particular innovations."

Integrating new practices: a qualitative study of how hospital innovations become routine
AL Brewster, LA Curry, EJ Cherlin, K Talbert-Slagle, LI Horwitz, EH Bradley
Implementation Science 2015, 10:168  doi:10.1186/s13012-015-0357-3

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What does the future hold for the NHS

"The contributions gathered here address some of the most complex or controversial debates in healthcare – such as decommissioning, integration, engagement, and leadership." 

This collection from Birmingham University's Health Services Management Centre contains the following articles:

• Decommissioning and the leadership challenge in health care
• System leadership in a fragmented system
• Strengthening Communities to Deliver the Better Care Fund
• The role of leadership and collaboration in the development of a social impact measurement system for use in healthcare
• The NHS and Diversity: research on the real lives behind the differences
• Moving upstream: The case for prevention
• Telehealth and the NHS: are we asking the right questions?
• Learning lessons from other countries 
• A Health Workforce that’s fit for the Twenty-First Century
• Keep schtum or whistle: what makes some health and care managers resist corruptions to practices
• Nursing is hard emotional work - why is that ignored?
• Developing a culture of compassionate care: lost in translation
• Evaluating the future of healthcare: where does the truth lie?

What does the future hold for the NHS
Health Services Management Centre
University of Birmingham
June 2014

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Commissioning in adult social care

Between May 2013 and February 2014 the Local Government Information Unit worked in partnership with home care provider Mears to deliver a series of roundtables for the Adult Social Care Thought Leader Series, including those on:

• Market Management
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Personalisation and Co-Production
• Integration
• Workforce Issues

This document brings together the notes from the series.

Commissioning in adult social care: the LGiO and Mears thought leader series - a summary
Local Government Information Unit, Mears
April 2014

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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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Improving integrated care: modelling the performance of an online community of practice

"Public policies promoting the use of information and communication technologies in the field of medicine in general, and in communities of practice in particular, should go beyond the purely technological dimension and consider other professional and social determinants, as well as those of a contextual and organisational nature."

Improving integrated care: modelling the performance of an online community of practice
Á Díaz-Chao, J Torrent-Sellens, D Lacasta-Tintorer, F Saigí-Rubió
International Journal of Integrated Care, 2014; Jan–Mar

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International trends and initiatives in primary health care

"Evidence is presented from countries perceived as comparable to Australia in terms of the organisation, funding and delivery of primary health care."

International trends and initiatives in primary health care
Research Roundup
Issue 23, August 2012

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Rewiring public services: adult social care and health

"The next phase of development in social care and health services must be towards integration: integrated services are much more likely to improve people’s health and wellbeing in ways which treat them with dignity and respect, and it makes financial sense to get rid of duplication and waste."

Rewiring public services: adult social care and health
Local Government Association
June 2013

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Breaking boundaries: a manifesto for primary care by the NHS Alliance

"This manifesto calls for all of us – patients, professionals, managers and policy makers – to break the boundaries that too often disable people from caring for themselves and prevent clinicians from delivering high quality, cost effective, integrated care with a new focus on health and wellbeing and prevention."

Breaking boundaries: a manifesto for primary care by the NHS Alliance
NHS Alliance
March 2013

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Integration across government

"This report examines how well government identifies and implements opportunities to integrate public services or other programmes."

Integration across government
Cabinet Office and HM Treasury
National Audit Office
March 2013

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Right Care Casebooks - new additions

Right Care compiles local examples of commissioning work in a series of "Right Care Casebooks". Three more of these casebooks have just been added to the series:

1. Somerset community-based self-care support service for adults with persistent pain 
2. What organisation is necessary for commissioners to develop outcomes based contracts?  The COBIC case study
3. Integrated GP led diabetes care in Bexley – The role of ‘an active integrator’ in developing integration in NHS services

International profiles of health care systems, 2012

"Each overview covers health insurance, public and private financing, health system organization, quality of care, health disparities, efficiency and integration, care coordination, use of health information technology, use of evidence-based practice, cost containment, and recent reforms and innovations."

International profiles of health care systems: Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States
The Commonwealth Fund
November 2012

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Competitive integration in the NHS

"Greater integration in healthcare will result in better outcomes for patients and a more seamless patient experience."

All together now: competitive integration in the NHS
H Featherstone, D Skelton, D Prior
Policy Exchange
October 2012

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Interim measures for patient experience at the interfaces between NHS services

"The NHS Future Forum report on Integration1 recommended that new patient experience measures should be developed to evaluate patients’ experiences across whole journeys of care."

Interim measures for patient experience at the interfaces between NHS services
Department of Health
August 2012

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Health and Social Care Act explained

The Department of Health has prepared a series of factsheets on the Health and Social Care Act 2012, explaining particular topics contained in the Act, including its key themes. There are cases studies of the policy in action and answers to frequently asked questions about the topic.

Access the leaflets here.

Delivering the Information Revolution

"A framework for delivering the Information Revolution."

Delivering the Information Revolution: from vision to reality
SK Patel, S Ash
Public Sector Research Centre
Price Waterhouse Coopers
November 2011

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The quest for efficiency in the English NHS

"A competitive, flexible approach to health care delivery will promote innovation, making it possible to learn from health care providers that adopt diferent approaches to delivery."

Competition, integration and incentives: the quest for efficiency in the English NHS
AM Garber
The Nuffield Trust
December 2011

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