Coalition for collaborative care: action for long-term conditions

"The Coalition brings together a growing number of people and organisations. These include those wanting to introduce person-centred, collaborative care to their lives and work, as well as those responsible for NHS delivery and development at a national level."

Visit the Coalition for collaborative care website to find out more.

Focus On: Distance from home to emergency care

"This QualityWatch Focus On report examines the typical distances from home that people travel to receive emergency care, and how this has changed over time. It explores the distances between a person’s home and the hospital at which they attended A&E, or received an emergency inpatient admission, using Hospital Episode Statistics."

Focus On: Distance from home to emergency care
A Roberts, I Blunt, M Bardsley
The Health Foundation and the Nuffield Trust, London
February 2014

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Planning and delivering service changes for patients

"This guidance is designed to support CCGs and NHS England with the planning, development and assurance of proposals for major service change and reconfiguration. It provides a high level process, sets out good practice, and explains how to assess proposals against the Government’s ‘four tests’."

Planning and delivering service changes for patients
Strategy Unit - NHS England
December 2013

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Adopt, improve or defend - an AID for QIPP

"Commissioners in Wigan have embedded a systematic approach to achieve challenging QIPP targets by identifying and addressing variations in local healthcare."

Adopt, improve or defend - an AID for QIPP
C Melling, W Sanders, M Cripps
RightCare Casebook
September 2013

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Delivering improved healthcare in Warrington: the NHS Right Care approach

This report describes how the Warrington Health Economy used NHS Right Care approaches to improve their service delivery.

Delivering improved healthcare in Warrington: the NHS Right Care approach
C McKay, M Cripps
RightCare Casebook
September 2013

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Delivering better services for people with long-term conditions

"The management of care for people with long-term conditions should be proactive, holistic, preventive and patient-centred."

Delivering better services for people with long-term conditions
A Coulter, S Roberts, A Dixon
The King's Fund
October 2013

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Improving patient safety and health care delivery

"Through a series of projects, APL and Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) have focused on applying a systems approach using engineering principles and best practices to hospital-based care, specifically, care in the ICU."

Systems approach and systems engineering applied to health care: improving patient safety and health care delivery
AD Ravitz, A Sapirstein, JC Pham, PA Doyle
Johns Hopkins APL Techinical Digest, 2013, 31(4) pp354-365

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How to think about evidence when deciding whether to adopt an innovation

"One challenge in deciding whether to implement an innovation is the need to assess its likely value and benefits in a local health system or delivery setting."

How to think about evidence when deciding whether to adopt an innovation
BS Mittman, J Ovretveit, PE Plsek
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
February 2013

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Health care lessons from Australia

"This paper is the first in a series that examines the way health services are funded and delivered in other nations."

Health care lessons from Australia
N Esmail
Fraser Institute
February 2013

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Lessons from Europe: provider governance

"This Briefing outlines key insights from a Lessons from Europe seminar that examined the impact of recent reforms in hospital governance in Spain and the Netherlands."

Lessons from Europe: provider governance
NHS European Office
February 2013

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How hard can it be to include research evidence and evaluation in local health policy implementation?

"Local commissioners and managers need to build the critical use of research evidence and evaluation into health policy implementation at local level in order to provide consistent and effective healthcare services."

How hard can it be to include research evidence and evaluation in local health policy implementation? Results from a mixed methods study
BA Evans, H Snooks, H Howson, M Davies
Implementation Science, 2013, 8:17

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Making it better? Assuring high-quality care in the NHS

"Evidence from high-quality healthcare organisations across the world demonstrates the importance of organisational culture in ensuring the delivery of high-quality, patient-centred care."

Making it better? Assuring high-quality care in the NHS
NHS Confederation
February 2013

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Engaging health care users

"The American Hospital Association (AHA) in its framework for health reform, Health for Life, embraces the need to engage patients and families and contemplates the role of hospitals and health care systems in improving the total health of the population and community they are serving."

Engaging health care users: a framework for health individuals and communities
American Hospital Association
January 2013

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Service improvement in blood sciences

"The vision for the NHS pathology services puts patients first by providing services which are:

• clinically excellent;
• responsive to users;
• cost effective; and
• integrated."

Service improvement in blood sciences: how to improve quality, delivery and efficiency for laboratory providers and their customers
NHS Improvement - Diagnostics
January 2013

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Everyone counts: planning for patients 2013/14

"At a time of significant financial challenge, where we need to ensure all organisations are robust to address the challenges facing them, this document lays out five offers to help commissioners deliver for the public: support for routine NHS care seven days a week; greater transparency on outcomes; mechanisms to enhance patient feedback; better data collection to drive evidence-based medicine; and for high professional standards."

Everyone counts: planning for patients 2013/14
NHS Commissioning Board
December 2012

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Why some people are not offered the medicines that NICE recommends

"Despite best efforts, and a raft of existing initiatives, gaps in diagnostic services, in funding, and in delivery capacity mean that some people that are eligible for a NICE recommended drug are never offered that option."

Bridging the gap: why some people are not offered the medicines that NICE recommends
P Stephens
The IMS Institute
November 2012

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Innovations in prevention

"There is a need for preventative investment to be more strategic, moving from a part of service delivery, to an explicit, deliberate and integral part of the policymaking and commissioning process, to identify where harm can be prevented and cost savings realised."

Innovations in prevention
R Puttick
NESTA
October 2012

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Joint personal budgets: a new solution to the problem of integrated care?

"This Briefing introduces joint personal budgets for health and social care. It gives the context behind their development, explains how they might work and lists some of the issues that need to be considered before they could be used at scale."

Joint personal budgets: a new solution to the problem of integrated care?
NHS Confederation
October 2012 Issue 251

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Interventions to reduce unplanned hospital admission

"The overall aim of this series of systematic reviews was to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions to reduce unplanned hospital admission."

Interventions to reduce unplanned hospital admission: a series of systematic reviews
S Purdy, S Paranjothy, A Huntley, R Thomas, M Mann, D Huws, P Brindle, G Elwyn
Avon Primary Care Research Collaborative
June 2012

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Pan-London tuberculosis services

"This paper has identified key issues relating to London's TB services' organisation, delivery, professional workforce and skill mix."

Pan-London tuberculosis services: a service evaluation
R Belling, S McLaren, M Boudioni, LP Woods
BMC Health Services Research, 2012, 12:203

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