Access and Waiting Time Standard for Children and Young People with an Eating Disorder

"Guidance setting out commissioning standards and requirements for providing community-based eating disorder services for children and young people, with related referral to treatment pathways and access and waiting time standard."

Access and Waiting Time Standard for Children and Young People with an Eating Disorder: Commissioning Guide
National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, NHS England.
July 2015

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Facing the Future Together for Child Health

"Facing the Future: Together for Child Health represents a standard of care which children and their parents and carers can expect from the healthcare professionals looking after them. We hope that healthcare professionals will see them not just as standards to strive toward, but as a lever to continue to improve the safety, quality and sustainability of services." 

Facing the Future Together for Child Health
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the Royal College of General Practitioners, Royal College of Nursing
April 2015

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Standards for food and drink in NHS hospitals

"The Panel recommends that all NHS hospitals should develop and maintain a food and 
drink strategy. This should include: 

• the nutrition and hydration needs of patients 
• healthier eating for the whole hospital community, especially staff 
• sustainable procurement of food and catering services" 

The Hospital Food Standards Panel’s report on standards for food and drink in NHS hospitals
Department of Health, Age UK
August 2014

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NHS 111 Commissioning Standards

"This document sets out the Commissioning Standards for the NHS 111 service in England which has been jointly developed between CCGs and NHS England." 

NHS 111 Commissioning Standards
NHS England
June 2014

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Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health Service Standards for Commissioners and Service Providers

"The purpose of this document is to set clear minimum standards for planning, commissioning and providing health care for homeless people and other multiply excluded groups."

The Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health Service Standards for Commissioners and Service Providers (version 2)
Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health
January 2014

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Time to act: severe sepsis: rapid diagnosis and treatment saves lives

"Better care could lead to savings in 8 Time to act - Severe sepsis: rapid diagnosis and treatment saves lives terms of reduced length of hospital stay and less intensive care and renal dialysis."

Time to act: severe sepsis: rapid diagnosis and treatment saves lives
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
September 2013

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NHS England: Improving A&E Performance Gateway ref: 00062

"Working closely with other key stakeholders, and building on the views already shared from CCGs and providers, NHS England will put in place an approach that will support the emergency and urgent care system, reduce pressure and ensure that patients do not have to wait longer than the agreed standards as identified in the NHS constitution and thus meet the national operating target of 95%."

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Malnutrition matters: meeting quality standards in nutritional care

"This Toolkit will assist commissioners and providers to deliver high quality nutritional care across all care settings and meet national nutritional quality targets including those of the Care Quality Commission."

Malnutrition matters: meeting quality standards in nutritional care
A Brotherton, N Simmonds, M Stroud
British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
November 2012

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Reporting guidelines for systematic reviews with a focus on health equity

"Increased use of these reporting guidelines will help improve the reporting of effects on both inequities in health outcomes and health care use across gender, socioeconomic position, and other characteristics, both in systematic reviews and eventually primary research, thus contributing to the global agenda to improve health equity."

PRISMA-Equity 2012 Extension: reporting guidelines for systematic reviews with a focus on health equity
V Welch, M Petticrew, P Tugwell, D Moher, J O'Neill, E Waters, H White,
PLOS Med, 2012, 9(10): e1001333

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Standards of evidence for impact investing

"The Standards of Evidence recognise the need to ensure that demand for evidence is appropriate for different stages of product of service development, that it doesn't hamper innovation, and that it is realistic and proportionate."

Standards of evidence for impact investing
R Puttick, J Ludlow
NESTA
October 2012

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