Liver Disease Profiles

"The liver disease profiles provide an invaluable resource relating to one of the main causes of premature mortality nationally; a disease whose mortality rates are increasing in England, while decreasing in most EU countries. The local authority profiles will support the development of Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and work of Health and Wellbeing Boards presenting local key statistics and highlighting questions to ask locally about current action to prevent liver disease."

Liver Disease Profiles
Public Health England

Access the profiles here.

Sport and Exercise Medicine: A Fresh Approach in Practice

"The diverse range of sport and exercise services in this document highlights the opportunities to commission new services to positively improve health and health economics in the NHS." 

Sport and Exercise Medicine: A Fresh Approach in Practice: a National Health Service information document
Weiler R, Jones N et al.
Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine
July 2014

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Improving patient waiting times: obesity care

"The main focus of this study was to help prioritise planned investments in new capacity allowing the service to improve patient experience and meet future anticipated demand."

Improving patient waiting times: a simulation study of an obesity care service
AA Tako, K Kotiadis, C Vasilakis, A Miras, C le Roux
BMJ Quality and Safety, 2014; 23: 373-381

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Blood Sugar Rush: Diabetes time bomb in London

"The London Assembly Health Committee has sought to tease out what is driving the increase in Type 2 diabetes across London, and how the delivery of diabetes care is managed and where improvements can be made in providing that care."

Blood Sugar Rush: Diabetes time bomb in London 
London Assembly Health Committee
April 2014

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Commissioning guide: weight assessment and management clinics

"This Tier 3 guidance describes the role of the referring GP, what should be achieved in the clinics and who should be referred for bariatric surgery. Given the lack of consistency in the provision of medical obesity services, this guidance should provide an organised structure and evidence-base for treatment"

Commissioning guide: weight assessment and management clinics (tier 3)
Royal College of Surgeons, British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society

March 2014

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Annual Report of the CMO: On the state of the public’s health

"I strongly believe that data and scientific evidence should be at the heart of policy making and advice to government. Data should be used to inform our prioritisation of action and to evaluate the effectiveness of such action; scientific evidence should be used to determine what actions should be taken." 

Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer, Surveillance Volume, 2012: On the state of the public’s health
Department of Health
March 2014

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Joined up clinical pathways for obesity

"NHS England should in the medium term prioritise early consideration of the transfer of the majority of adult bariatric surgery to local commissioning, through CCGs, once they have been shown to be functioning well with sufficent volume of patients to justify de-specialising the service."

Report of the working group into: Joined up clinical pathways for obesity
Jamie Blackshaw, S Montel, S King, A Jarvis, J Valabhji
NHS England
March 2014

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Developing a specification for lifestyle weight management services

"The guidance has been developed by the Department of Health, working closely with public health commissioners, weight management providers, and includes input from academics with expertise in weight management."

Developing a specification for lifestyle weight management services: best practice guidance for tier 2 services
Obesity and Food Policy Branch, Department of Health
March 2013

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Clustering of unhealthy behaviours over time: implications for policy and practice

"This paper reviews the current evidence on multiple lifestyle risks and analyses data from the Health Survey for England on the distribution of these risks in the adult population and how this is changing over time."

Clustering of unhealthy behaviours over time: implications for policy and practice
D Buck, F Frosini
The King's Fund
August 2012

Read more here , with supporting methodology and data appendices available here.