Hooked on Health Care: Designing Strategies for Better Health

"As dependency on health care services continues to grow in developed nations, there is an increased need to examine the prevailing model and its focus on treatment rather than the wider determinants of health. With participants from a range of disciplines, including, public health policy, business, and urban planning, Salzburg Global Fellows explored the value of wellbeing, the roles of businesses, government and civil society actors in promoting health, and health justice."

Hooked on Health Care: Designing Strategies for Better Health
E Spencelayh
The Health Foundation, Salzberg Global Seminar
July 2016

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A clear road ahead: Creating a coherent quality strategy for the English NHS

"A clear road ahead sets out a practical and feasible set of actions for policymakers to safeguard and improve care within current priorities, as well as support the development of the NHS for years to come."

A clear road ahead: Creating a coherent quality strategy for the English NHS
A Molloy, S Martin, T Gardner, S Leatherman
The Health Foundation
July 2016

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Staffing matters; funding counts

"Policymakers need to look at how targeted and aligned policies covering the effective use of temporary staff, retention of existing employees and international recruitment can be used to address current shortages in staffing and skills in order to buy time, while a more long-term sustainable approach is introduced."

Staffing matters; funding counts: Workforce profile and trends in the English NHS
J Buchan, I Seccombe, A Charlesworth
The Health Foundation
July 2016

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Improving physical health monitoring for patients with chronic mental health problems who receive antipsychotic medications

Improving physical health monitoring for patients with chronic mental health problems who receive antipsychotic medications
N Abdallah, R Conn, A Latif Marini
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2016;5: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u210300.w4189

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Reducing inpatient falls in a 100% single room elderly care environment

"The nurse training programme on falls risk assessment has improved nurse knowledge of falls risk and actual completion of Falls Risk Assessments. This is especially in areas of cognition, environmental hazard, osteoporosis risk. The collaborative quality improvement work has led to a reduction of inpatient falls by 34% in a high-risk 100% single room environment." 

Reducing inpatient falls in a 100% single room elderly care environment: evaluation of the impact of a systematic nurse training programme on falls risk assessment (FRA)
I Singh, J Okeke
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2016;5: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u210921.w4741

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Improving Clinical Remission Rates in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease with Previsit Planning

"PVP [previsit planning] for management of a chronic disease in pediatrics is feasible, even in a high volume practice. Initiation of this process at MGHfC has resulted in the improvement of care provided to children and adolescents with IBD. The primary goal of increasing clinical remission rate from 77% to greater than 80% within one year of initiating PVP was achieved."

Improving Clinical Remission Rates in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease with Previsit Planning
JR Savarino, JL Kaplan, HS Winter, CJ Moran, EJ Israel
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2016;5: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u211063.w4361

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Patients and families as teachers: a collaborative learning model for medical error disclosure and prevention

"An educational paradigm that includes patients as teachers and collaborative learners with clinicians in patient safety is feasible, valued by clinicians and P/F and promising for P/F-centred medical error disclosure and prevention training."

Patients and families as teachers: a mixed methods assessment of a collaborative learning model for medical error disclosure and prevention
T Langer, W Martinez, DM Browning, P Varrin, B Sarnoff Lee, SK Bell
BMJ Quality and Safety 2016;25:615-625 doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2015-004292

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