Delivering sustainable cost improvement programmes

This report is aimed at acute, ambulance, mental health and specialist NHS trusts and foundation trusts, and summaries how successful organisations approach the delivery of cost improvement programmes.

Delivering sustainable cost improvement programmes
Audit Commission
January 2012

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Getting care right for patients after a heart attack

"Not all providers offer all four phases of cardiac rehabilitation which are set out in the National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease."

After the event: getting care right for patients after a heart attack
Heart UK
January 2012

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Delivering stepped care: an analysis of implementation in routine practice

"The application of core principles of implementation science (such as targeted planning, implementation strategies and clear activity specification) around service organisation is urgently required."

Delivering stepped care: an analysis of implementation in routine practice
DA Richards, P Bower, C Pagel, A Weaver, M Utley, J Cape, S Pilling, K Lovell, S Gilbody, J Leibowitz, L Owens, R Paxton, S Hennessy, A Simpson, S Gallivan, D Tomson, C Vasilakis
Implementation Science, 2012, 7:3

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Review of Innovation in the NHS

This report is a summary of the responses received in response to the Department of Health Call for Evidence and Ideas about how the adoption and diffusion of innovations can be accelerated across the NHS.

NHS Chief Executive’s Review of Innovation in the NHS Summary of the responses to the Call for Evidence and Ideas
Young Foundation
December 2011

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Merger mania and hospital outcomes in the English NHS

"Given that mergers reduce the scope for competition between hospitals the findings suggest that further merger activity may not be the appropriate way of dealing with poorly performing hospitals."


Can governments do it better? Merger mania and hospital outcomes in the English NHS
M Gaynor, M Laudicella, C Propper
The Centre for Market and Public Organisation
January 2012

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NICE guide for commissioners on end of life care for adults

"This commissioning guide is a resource to assist commissioners, clinicians and managers to commission high quality and evidence based services across England."

CMG42 Guide for commissioners on end of life care for adults
NICE
January 2012

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Can NHS hospitals do more with less?

"This report seeks to understand the factors that determine efficiency within hospitals and how hospital trusts can best make cost savings by improving efficiency, based on UK and international experience."

Can NHS hospitals do more with less?
J Hurst, S Williams
Nuffield Trust
January 2012

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