Mental Healthwatch handbook

"This handbook provides information on how Healthwatch can help improve mental health with a range of partners including central government, service users, comissioners, providers, the voluntary sector and councils."

Mental Healthwatch handbook: Improving mental health with your community
National Survivor User Network
April 2014

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Department of Health Improvement Plan

"The plan has been developed following an assessment of the 4 critical themes of organisational effectiveness: performance; efficiency and innovation; capability; strategic risk and leadership of change. It sets out where the department is currently, what it has achieved, where it needs to be in future and the improvements that the department needs to make to get there."

Department of Health Improvement Plan
Department of Health
April 2014

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A new settlement for health and social care

"In our view, the weight of evidence makes it clear that the present settlement lacks transparency, is inefficient, puts too much weight on individual rather than collective responsibility, and raises a significant moral concern about the lack of equity of treatment for similar levels of need."

A new settlement for health and social care: Interim report
K Barker (Chair), Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England
The King’s Fund
April 2014

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Accountable care organisations: Testing, evaluating and learning what works

"Now more than ever the NHS needs to be able to innovate at scale and pace and testing out a variety of ways of integrating care should be encouraged."

Accountable care organisations in the United States and England: Testing, evaluating and learning what works
Stephen Shortell, Rachael Addicott, Nicola Walsh, Chris Ham
The King's Fund
March 2014

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Best BMJ Quality & Safety articles 2013

"This special collection reflects the depth and breadth of content from BMJ Quality & Safety, which encourages innovation and creative thinking to improve the quality of health care and the science of improvement."

Articles included in the collection are:

• Identification of doctors at risk of recurrent complaints: a national study of healthcare complaints in Australia
• The global burden of unsafe medical care: analytic modelling of observational studies
• Systematic review of the application of the plan–do–study–act method to improve quality in healthcare
• Assessing adverse events among home care clients in three Canadian provinces using chart review
• 'Care left undone’ during nursing shifts: associations with workload and perceived quality of care
• Allocating scarce resources in real-time to reduce heart failure admissions: a prospective, controlled study
• Culture and behaviour in the English National Health Service: overview of lessons from a large
  multimethod study

BMJ Quality & Safety: A collection of key articles
The Health foundation

April 2014

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The four health systems of the United Kingdom: how do they compare?

"Overall, this research suggests that despite hotly contested policy differences between the UK health systems since devolution on structure, competition, patient choice and the use of non-NHS providers, there is no evidence linking these policy differences to a matching divergence of performance, at least on the measures available across the four UK countries."

The four health systems of the United Kingdom: how do they compare?
G Bevan, M Karanikolos, J Exley, E Nolte, S Connolly, N Mays
The Health Foundation, Nufffield Trust
April 2014

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Reducing harm to patients

"This briefing follows a March 2014 speech by the Secretary of State for Health at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. In his speech, Jeremy Hunt MP set out a new ambition to reduce avoidable harm to patients in the NHS."

Briefing: Reducing harm to patients
The Health Foundation
March 2014

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