Commissioning for value

Commissioning for Value is a collaboration between NHS  Right Care, NHS England and Public Health England. The programme is about identifying priority programmes which offer the best opportunities to improve healthcare for your populations – improving the value that patients receive from their healthcare and improving the value that populations receive from investment in their local health system. Find out more here.

Journey into the world of patient experience

"Communication between provider and patient, and between providers, was a significant theme. People wanted to be dealt with directly and clearly, and they wanted to be assured that their multiple providers were talking to each other directly and clearly too."

Journey into the world of patient experience: lessons learned and projects underway
C Fooks
The Change Foundation
September 2013

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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

Read more here.

NICE QIPP Shared Learning Examples

Two new QIPP Shared Learning Examples have been published on the NICE website:

1. Using quality and productivity to enhance heart failure pathway in primary care
2. Implementing and evaluating training for health visiting teams as part of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative Community award

To find out more about submitting a shared learning example visit here.

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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Good practice in joint health and wellbeing strategies

"This self-evaluation tool provides guidance on good practice in planning, developing and delivering Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies based around key questions to consider and top tips on approaches that might be taken."

Good practice in joint health and wellbeing strategies: a self-evaluation tool for health and wellbeing boards
NHS Confederation
September 2013

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A National Health Service for patients

"This paper proposes that Patient-led Commissioning Groups (PCGs) be allowed to set up alongside existing Clinical Commissioning Groups, in order to establish the accountability of the NHS to patients and the public."

A National Health Service for patients
A Howes
Civitas
September 2013

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