Higher Quality Dementia Care

"In a programme of 3 linked studies, we investigated the impact of the QOF [quality and outcomes] dementia review on the quality of care received by those with dementia, focusing particularly on the interface between primary and secondary care."

Higher Quality Dementia Care: Policy & Research Briefing
P Kasteridis, A Mason, M Goddard, R Jacobs, R Santos
Centre for Health Economics
February 2016

Read more here.

Managing hospital doctors and their practice

"The findings of this study have implications for management of clinicians in NHS secondary care that are perceived as ineffective and leading to disengagement and resistance to effective performance measurement, evaluation and improvement"

Managing hospital doctors and their practice: what can we learn about human resource management from non-healthcare organisations?
TM Trebble, N Heyworth, N Clarke, T Powell, PM Hockey
BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:566  doi:10.1186/s12913-014-0566-5

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Implementing the NICE guideline on gallstone disease

"The guideline may have resource implications at a local level as a result of variation in clinical practice across the country. Therefore, we encourage organisations to evaluate their own practices against the recommendations in the NICE guideline and assess costs and savings locally. "

Costing statement: Gallstone disease: Implementing the NICE guideline on gallstone disease (CG188)
NICE
October 2014

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Multiple sclerosis: costing statement (NICE)

"This costing statement considers the cost implications of the recommendations made in Multiple sclerosis: management of multiple sclerosis in primary and secondary care"

Costing statement: Multiple sclerosis: management of multiple sclerosis in primary and secondary care
NICE
October 2014

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Bipolar disorder: costing and clinical audit tools

NICE have published an audit tool and costing statement to assist organisations in assessing for and implementing guidance for bipolar disorder assessment and management.

Bipolar disorder: the assessment and management of bipolar disorder in adults, children and young people in primary and secondary care
NICE
September 2014

Access the costing and audit tools here.

The NHS payment system: evolving policy and emerging evidence

"This research report takes a comprehensive look at different approaches to payment and how they function in the English NHS. It then brings together and summarises the available evidence on whether recent payment initiatives have met their goals."

The NHS payment system: evolving policy and emerging evidence
L Marshall, A Charlesworth, J Hurst
Nuffield Trust
February 2014

Read more here.

Patient initiated clinics for patients with chronic or recurrent conditions managed in secondary care

"Patient initiated clinics fit the models of care suggested by policy makers and so further research into long term outcomes for patients and service use in this area of practice is both relevant and timely."

Patient initiated clinics for patients with chronic or recurrent conditions managed in secondary care: a systematic review of patient reported outcomes and patient and clinician satisfaction
R Whear, AK Abdul-Rahman, J Thompson-Coon, K Boddy, MG Perry, K Stein
BMC Health Services Research, 2013, 13:501

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Commissioning effective and efficient services to reduce avoidable sight loss

"This paper was developed by Achieving Commissioning Excellence to help commissioners understand how they can commission more efficient eye care services that support care closer to home where appropriate, and release capacity within secondary care in order to reduce avoidable sight loss."

Commissioning effective and efficient services to reduce avoidable sight loss
Achieving Commissioning Excellence (a partnership between NHS Alliance and Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Limited)
November 2013

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The cost of our health: the role of charging in healthcare

"With the NHS facing a significant funding challenge in the short term, building on existing systems of copayment, in particular prescription charges, could generate valuable additional revenue."

The cost of our health: the role of charging in healthcare: Reform Ideas No 9
T Cawston, C Corrie
Reform
November 2013

Read more here.

NHS in transition: key questions

"The most costly care – typically hospital based care – should ideally be used only when necessary, and non-hospital based alternatives should be encouraged, provided that they can help patients for less cost."

NHS in transition: key questions
Nuffield Trust
November 2013

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Care pathways across the primary-hospital care continuum

"Care pathways across the primary-hospital care continuum enhance the components of care coordination."

Care pathways across the primary-hospital care continuum: using the multi-level framework in explaining care coordination
S Van Houdt, J Heyrman, K Vanhaecht, W Sermeus, J De Lepeleire
BMC Health Services Research, 2013, 13:296

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Examining the barriers to and tensions in delivering effective healthcare in UK care homes

"Care home staff played an important, yet little recognised, role in delivering healthcare to residents."

Examining the barriers to and tensions in delivering effective healthcare in UK care homes: a qualitative study
I Robbins, A Gordon, J Dyas, P Logan, J Gladman
BMJ Open, 2013;3:e003178

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Hospital strategies associated with 30-day readmission rates for patients with heart failure

"Several strategies were associated with lower hospital RSRRs for patients with heart failure."

Hospital strategies associated with 30-day readmission rates for patients with heart failure
EH Bradley, L Curry, LI Horwitz, H Sipsma, Y Wang, MN Walsh, D Goldmann, N White, IL Pina, HM Krumholz
Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 2013, 6(4):444-450

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Reforming healthcare systems on a locally integrated basis

"Health system reforms aimed at creating geographically based networks influenced primary healthcare practices both among themselves (horizontal collaborations) and with hospitals (vertical collaborations)."

Reforming healthcare systems on a locally integrated basis: is there a potential for increasing collaborations in primary healthcare?
M Breton, R Pineault, JF Levesque, D Roberge, R Borges Da Silva, A Prudhomme
BMC Health Services Research, 2013, 13:262

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Clinical Commissioning Hub

"The Hub is an online resource for those commissioning secondary care services in England, service planners and clinicians designing these services across the UK."

Access this resource, produced by the Royal College of Physicians, here.

Managing exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

"This toolkit will provide additional help for those specifically wanting to improve their inpatient services for people with an acute exacerbation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

This toolkit will focus on:

• Non-invasive ventilation (NIV)
• Access to specialist and clinical decision making
• Care bundles
• Pulmonary rehabilitation."

Managing exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): a secondary care toolkit
NHS Improvement - Lung
March 2013

Read more here.

Making integrated care happen at scale and pace

"The aim of this paper is to support the process of ‘making it happen’ by summarising the steps that need to be taken to make integrated care a reality ..."

Making integrated care happen at scale and pace
C Ham, N Walsh
March 2013

Read more here.

Service redesign case studies

NHS Confederation is publishing a series of service redesign case studies:

• Healthier together - the Greater Manchester
• The Southern Health acquisition of Ridgeway

Yorkshire and the Humber Telehealth Hub

"The aim for the Hub was to support care closer to home and deliver services to 2,100 patients, leading to fewer unnecessary admissions to hospital, healthier outcomes and lifestyles, and cost savings."

Yorkshire and the Humber Telehealth Hub: 2020health Evaluation
J Cruickshank, J Paxman
2020 health.org
January 2013

Read more here.

Preventable hospital mortality

"A quality improvement strategy based on good local evidence is effective in improving the quality of care sufficiently to reduce mortality."

Preventable hospital mortality: learning from retrospective case record review
OO Sorinola, C Weerasinghe, R Brown
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Short Reports, 2012, 3(11):77

Read more here.