Comorbidities: a framework of principles for system-wide action

"This framework sets out the challenges for the wider health and care system in addressing comorbidities and proposes a set of interconnected principles to consider in the design of systems and services to prevent and treat comorbidities."

Comorbidities: a framework of principles for system-wide action
Department of Health
April 2014

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NHS payment reform: lessons from the past and directions for the future

"To ensure that the long-term reforms to the payment system support the NHS to deliver efficient, high-quality care, Monitor and NHS England need to develop an approach that is:

• Comprehensive.
• Focused
• Aligned with wider system changes
• Transparent and evidence-based
• Predictable and credible"

NHS payment reform: lessons from the past and directions for the future
A Charlesworth, L Hawkins, L Marshall
Nuffield Trust
February 2014

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One person, one team, one system (The Oldham report)

"Lessons need to be learnt from examples of more coordinated models of care in action. We believe achieving a shift towards coordinated, person-centred care requires a fundamental shift in the way that health and care is delivered, and can’t be achieved within the existing fragmented system."

One person, one team, one system: report of the Independent Commission on Whole Person Care for the Labour Party (the Oldham report)
Chaired by Sir John Oldham
February 2014

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Primary healthcare in transition

"This qualitative study shows the complexity of the system change and describes the different effects and perceptions of the transition from a manager's perspective."

Primary healthcare in transition -- a qualitative study of how managers perceived a system change
A Maun, K Nilsson, C Furaker, J Thorn
BMC Health Services Research, 2013, 13:382

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An evaluation of the use of performance measures in health care

The study addressed the following four overarching questions, with subtopics listed below each
question:

1. How are performance measures being used in practice?
2. What factors are influencing measure use?
3. What types of system changes have occurred as a result of measure use?
4. What improvement areas could facilitate the use of standardized endorsed performance measures by various end users?

An evaluation of the use of performance measures in health care
CL Damberg, ME Sorbero, SL Lovejoy, K Lauderdale, S Wertheimer, A Smith, D Waxman, C Schnyer
National Quality Forum, RAND Corporation
December 2011

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