A guide to enabling the spread of person and community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing

"This guide outlines how behavioural science can help spread the take-up of person- and community- centred approaches to health and wellbeing. It is aimed at people who champion these approaches in health and social care, in other statutory bodies and in community-based organisations."

Spreading change: A guide to enabling the spread of person- and community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing
H Burd, M Hallsworth, The Behavioural Insights Team
Nesta and the Health Foundation
September 2016

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A guide to enabling behaviour change for health and wellbeing using person- and community-centred approaches

"This guide is for people who support those living with long-term conditions, their carers, families or communities. It summarises practical ways to support people to self manage effectively using person and community-centred approaches. Many of these activities are useful also for people who work to prevent the development of long-term conditions in the first place."

Supporting self-management: a guide to enabling behaviour change for health and wellbeing using person and community centred approaches
H Burd, M Hallsworth, The Behavioural Insights Team
Nesta and the Health Foundation
September 2016

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User feedback in maternity services

This report looks at what maternity services are doing locally to collect, analyse and act on user feedback. It describes the challenges of adopting the different approaches and highlights the features of organisations that are successful in user feedback activities.

User feedback in maternity services
L Wenzel, J Jabbal
The King's Fund
October 2016

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Deficits in the NHS 2016

This briefing draws on data from our quarterly monitoring reports, secondary research and interviews with health care leaders to consider commissioner and provider finances in the round and to provide an overview of the factors that have led to the NHS going into deficit. It goes on to outline some of the strategies being employed to restore financial balance, before drawing together our thoughts on the implications of these strategies for the NHS this year and in the longer term.

Deficits in the NHS 2016
 P Dunn, H McKenna, R Murray
The King's Fund
July 2016

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Understanding dementia memory services across London

This reports details the results of the clinical audit carried out on London dementia memory services by the Dementia CN’s Effective diagnosis work stream.

The audit found substantial variation between services, and the report provides recommendations to address this and improve practice.

Understanding dementia memory services across London
June 2016
London Clinical Networks

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Tooling up and gearing up mental health in primary care

This document supports people to improve access and understand the key components of good primary care mental health training and education. It provides: 1.) Workforce training and education framework; 2.) competency checklist; 3.) summary of education and training in London.

Tooling up and gearing up mental health in primary care
London Clinical Networks
August 2016

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Delayed Transfer of Care Pan London Review

This report has been prepared by the NHS England Delayed Transfer of Care Programme and provides an overview of the causes of delayed transfers of care across London, and the characteristics of a good model for reducing these.

NHS England: Delayed Transfer of Care Pan London Review
A Bjorkstrand, Lead for Delayed Transfer of Care Project
March 2016

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