Framework for personalised care and population health for nurses, midwives, health visitors and allied health professionals

"The Framework has been developed as a resource to support nurses, midwives, health visitors and allied health professionals’ access to best evidence and support them in delivery of their public health role. It is also a tool for clinical leaders, managers and commissioners to develop services which use the knowledge and skills of healthcare practitioners to deliver the best health outcomes for the populations they serve."

A framework for personalised care and population health for nurses, midwives, health visitors and allied health professionals: caring for populations across the lifecourse 
Department of Health, Public Health England
July 2014

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Care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, commitment

"The 6Cs Live! Communication hub will offer support and help to staff to deliver the six areas of action by signposting to evidence based tools and techniques as well as examples of how colleagues from across the country have delivered improvement in these areas."

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Evidence base of the public health contribution of nurses and midwives

This guide provides evidence sources for nurses and midwives working in public health. It lists sources of good practice, innovation, evidence, and key public health domains:

1. Improving the wider determinants of ill health
2. Health improvement
3. Health protection
4. Healthcare public health and preventing premature mortality

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Innovation and improvement in maternity services

"This guide, which has been produced in association with the Involvement and Participation Association (IPA), therefore provides some timely examples of ways in which maternity services are innovating and making improvements to the care that women and families receive, and at the same time doing so within budget or even generating efficiency savings."

Innovation and improvement in maternity services
The Royal College of Midwives
July 2012

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Improving inpatient postnatal services

"A Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) approach was adopted to support a systems and process change to in-patient care and care on transfer home in a large district general hospital with around 6000 births a year."

Improving inpatient postnatal services: midwives views and perspectives of engagement in a quality improvement initiative
DE Bick, V Rose, A Weavers, J Wray, S Beake
BMC Health Services Research, 2011, 11:293

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