Hooked on Health Care: Designing Strategies for Better Health

"As dependency on health care services continues to grow in developed nations, there is an increased need to examine the prevailing model and its focus on treatment rather than the wider determinants of health. With participants from a range of disciplines, including, public health policy, business, and urban planning, Salzburg Global Fellows explored the value of wellbeing, the roles of businesses, government and civil society actors in promoting health, and health justice."

Hooked on Health Care: Designing Strategies for Better Health
E Spencelayh
The Health Foundation, Salzberg Global Seminar
July 2016

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The future of child health services: new models of care

"Different services and models of care for children and young people have been emerging around the UK, both within the Vanguard scheme and inspired by it. These models are emerging in response to a series of problems in current services for children and young people. This briefing describes the current state of child health and quality of care in the UK and how the emerging models are responding to these issues."

The future of child health services: new models of care
L Kossarova, D Devakumar, N Edwards
Nuffield Trust
February 2016

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Models of Care for High-Need, High-Cost Patients

"This brief analyzes experts’ reviews of evidence about care models designed to improve outcomes and reduce costs for patients with complex needs. It finds that successful models have several common attributes"

Models of Care for High-Need, High-Cost Patients: An Evidence Synthesis
D McCarthy, J Ryan, S Klein
The Commonwealth Fund
October 2015

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Health service review - Dorset Vision

Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group have a website detailing the extensive review of their services which have been taking place.

It can be access at: www.dorsetsvision.nhs.uk

Two particular documents of note on the website are:

• The Compendium of clinical evidence combines quality standards and clinical evidence to form recommendations for changes in practice and service delivery.
• The Case examples on models of care outlines examples of models of care which are delivering improved services.

Enabling the local implementation of sustainable urgent and emergency care models

"To break the vicious circle resulting in increased pressures on A&Es, and ensure patients have access to the right care, in the right place at the right time, efforts should focus on building an effective community offer. This will require adequate investment to transform primary, community and social care – while ensuring that acute and emergency care remains sustainable."

Rip off the sticking plaster now: Enabling the local implementation of sustainable urgent and emergency care models in 2015/16
NHS Confederation, Urgent and Emergency Care Forum
April 2015

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The future of commissioning (conference brochure)

"The Five Year Forward View has made the commissioning of new models of care a priority for meeting the unprecedented challenges ahead for the health service, both to coordinate care around the patient and deliver better value care. The next Parliament must ensure innovative and effective commissioning of these new models across the health and care sector."

The future of commissioning (conference brochure)
S Stevens et al.
Reform
March 2015

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New care models explained: How the NHS can successfully integrate care

"Multispecialty community providers (or MCPs) and the primary and acute care services (or PACS) are new types of delivery models, integrating hitherto relatively poorly coordinated care providers into new and efficient organisations or alliances capable of delivering on the “triple aim” – a better patient experience, better population health and more efficient use of resources."

New care models explained: How the NHS can successfully integrate care
R Lewis
Health Service Journal
March 2015

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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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