Podiatry education to empower patients to self-care

"This project was designed to identify and train patients suitable for self-care, so they can be discharged from the service. This helped to ensure that podiatry care is targeted at those with the greatest need. "

Podiatry education to empower patients to self-care
Quality and productivity collection example
Community and Primary Services, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
July 2015

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Transforming our health care system: Ten priorities for commissioners

"We have identified ten priorities for action. A striking feature of all the priorities is the degree to which they call for change within primary care and the way in which primary care relates to the rest of the system. "

Transforming our health care system: Ten priorities for commissioners
C Naylor et al.
The King's Fund
April 2015

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Cancer across the domains: cancer priorities for the new NHS

"The All Party Parliamentary Group on Cancer believes the five thematic Domains within NHS England have an important role to play in improving the experiences and outcomes of cancer patients. This report sets out the priorities the APPGC believes NHS England must focus on to deliver these improvements."

Cancer across the domains: cancer priorities for the new NHS
All Party Parliamentary Group on Cancer
November 2013

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Transforming our health care system

The King's Fund has outlined ten priorities for commissioning:

1. Active support for self-management
2. Primary prevention
3. Secondary prevention
4. Managing ambulatory care-sensitive conditions
5. Improving the management of patients with both mental and physical health needs
6. Care co-ordination through integrated health and social care teams
7. Improving primary care management of end-of-life care
8. Medicines management
9. Managing elective activity – referral quality 
10. Managing urgent and emergency activity

Transforming our health care system: ten priorities for commissioners
C Naylor, et al.
The King's Fund
April 2013

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Framework for sexual health improvement in England

"This document sets out the evidence base for sexual health and HIV improvement It has been developed to provide the information, evidence base and support tools to enable everyone involved in sexual health to work collaboratively at local level to ensure that accessible services and interventions are available."

A framework for sexual health improvement in England
Department of Health
March 2013

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Using patients' experiences to identify priorities for quality improvement in breast cancer care: patient narratives, surveys or both?

"This paper explores the relative value of surveys and detailed patient narratives in identifying priorities for improving breast cancer services as part of a quality improvement process."

Using patients' experiences to identify priorities for quality improvement in breast cancer care
V Tsianakas, J Maben, T Wiseman, G Robert, A Richardson, P Madden, M Griffin, E Davies
BMC Health Services Research, 2012, 12:271

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