London Leadership Academy: Providing the time and space for future success

"As a pan-London NHS leadership development organisation we have access to a wealth of health care leaders and leadership experience. This creates plenty of opportunities to bring the London leadership community together to learn new skills, create connections, build networks and deliver the best possible care to patients and service users."

Providing the time and space for future success
NHS London Leadership Academy
April 2015

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People’s experiences of dementia care as they move between care homes and hospitals

"As the report makes clear, there are some examples of excellent care across hospitals and care homes in England. These are services that recognise that a personalised approach is the key to high-quality care for people living with dementia."

Cracks in the pathway: People’s experiences of dementia care as they move between care homes and hospitals
Care Quality Commission
October 2014

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Cost-effective Commissioning For Continence Care

"This timely and useful guide illustrates the importance of continence care and sets out how to commission and deliver a quality integrated service which meets patient’s needs and is cost-effective to the NHS"

Cost-effective Commissioning For Continence Care: A guide for commissioners written by continence care professionals
Sally Greengross
All Party Parliamentary Group For Continence Care Report

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The dynamics of quality: a national panel study of evidence-based standards

"People with long-term health conditions do not always receive the health care they need, and so may suffer avoidable poor health. We aimed to find out if the quality of health care received by people in England had improved over 6 years, for four common long-term health conditions: cardiovascular disease (including heart disease and high blood pressure treatment), depression, diabetes and osteoarthritis."

The dynamics of quality: a national panel study of evidence-based standards
AC Hardcastle, LTA Mounce, SH Richards, MO Bachmann, A Clark, et al.
Health Service Delivery Res 2015;3(11)

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Working in collaboration to improve patient outcomes in the treatment of ADHD

"Working systematically with a comprehensive ADHD service improvement toolkit developed and funded as a service to medicine by Shire Pharmaceuticals, the team were able to confirm and demonstrate the need for a local ADHD pathway."

Working in collaboration to improve patient outcomes in the treatment of ADHD
Shire Pharmaceuticals & East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
NICE Shared Learning
March 2015

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Medicines Optimisation Peer Review Programme

"The aim of Medicines Optimisation Peer Reviews is to influence prescribers and their decision making processes to ensure evidence-based, safe, cost effective prescribing ensuring optimal clinical outcomes for Wigan patients."

Medicines Optimisation Peer Review Programme - engaging GP practices to deliver medicines optimisation and implement NICE guidance
Wigan Borough Clinical Commissioning Group
NICE Shared Learning
March 2015

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Validation of the intermountain patient perception of quality survey

"Our objective was to evaluate the construct validity and internal consistency of the Intermountain Patient Perception of Quality (PPQ) survey among patients discharged from the ICU."

Validation of the intermountain patient perception of quality (PPQ) survey among survivors of an intensive care unit admission: a retrospective validation study
SM Brown
BMC Health Services Research 2015, 15:155  doi:10.1186/s12913-015-0828-x

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