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10/5/2013 This case study is part of a series designed to share good practice and lessons learned by local NHS organisations involved in major reviews of local health services.
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23/4/2013 This report has been produced to mark the end of a significant period of transition for NHS commissioning.
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27/3/2013 This case study is part of a series designed to share good practice and lessons learned by local NHS organisations involved in major reviews of local health services.
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27/3/2013 This case study is part of a series designed to share good practice and lessons learned by local NHS organisations involved in major reviews of local health services.
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19/3/2013 The NHS faces an unprecedented financial dilemma: the supply of funding is struggling to match the growing rate of demand for healthcare.
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5/3/2013 This case study is part of series designed to share learning from local NHS organisations that have or are currently undertaking successful service reconfigurations.
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5/3/2013 This case study is part of a series designed to share learning from local NHS organisations that have or are currently undertaking successful service reconfigurations.
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28/1/2013 This report provides insight into how health and wellbeing boards are working and can work effectively with local providers.
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29/12/2012 This report supports implementation of the health reforms to improve children and young people’s health and wellbeing. It makes recommendations and provides support and evidence to national government and bodies, and local organisations and professionals.
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19/12/2012 This report presents a set of principles to act as foundations for delivering integrated out-of-hospital care.
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6/12/2012 Nobody wants to see ambulances stacked up outside hospitals waiting to hand over patients.
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8/11/2012 The importance of mental health and wellbeing cannot be understated. It affects and influences the lives of individuals, families, communities and societies.
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8/11/2012 The Health and Social Care Act 2012 establishes health and wellbeing boards as committees in upper-tier local authorities.
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18/6/2012 Delivering Dignity is the final report of the Commission on Dignity in Care for Older People and sets out the Commission's work and recommendations on how to tackle the underlying causes of poor care.
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18/4/2012 A guide to service design and productivity improvement for commissioners, clinicians and managers in primary care, secondary care and mental health.
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25/1/2012 In mental health there has not been a consistent set of definitions that describe what is meant by an inpatient bed. This has led to difficulty in benchmarking and understanding patterns of performance.
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20/12/2011 This report highlights the key findings and recommendations from an event held in September 2011 to discuss the key priorities for child health.
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15/12/2011 This paper examines a pioneering approach to the provision of integrated healthcare through public-private partnership; the Alzira model from the region of Valencia, Spain.
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8/12/2011 This report outlines the priorities for child health as the NHS and local government reforms are implemented.
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23/11/2011 The development of a Payment by Results approach to provider reimbursement in mental health services has been going on for a number of years.
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18/10/2011 At an event held in July 2011, a number of national organisations developed a set of operating principles to support the effective establishment of health and wellbeing boards.
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11/8/2011 Completing our series of studies into what key groups in the NHS think of personal health budgets, this report examines the views of mental health service users and carers.
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7/7/2011 This paper sets out an assessment of the performance of PCTs since their establishment. It examines how effective they have been, and how their role has changed since they were initially established.
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6/7/2011 The five ways to wellbeing is a set of evidence-based public mental health messages aimed at improving the mental health and wellbeing of the whole population.
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25/5/2011 This paper sets out the NHS Confederation's response to the Government's listening exercise on the Health and Social Care Bill 2011.
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24/3/2011 This report examines attitudes and motivations to personal health budgets amongst frontline professionals working with mental health service users.
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10/3/2011 A number of national reports have raised concerns about pre-hospital care for seriously ill and injured patients and recognised that more lives could be saved.
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9/3/2011 Government programmes, policies and national projects in the last three years have given increasing emphasis to public mental health and well-being.
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20/1/2011 Many local health systems see new technology as an integral part of their service redesign in the coming years.
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17/1/2011 The Government’s health reform proposals, announced in July 2010, undoubtedly represent the biggest shake-up of the NHS in its history.
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6/1/2011 A report on what is known about improving patient experiences in hospital, includes examples of good practice from England and USA.
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15/12/2010 This joint publication brings together practical recommendations from focus groups with seven specialty medical societies and Royal Colleges, each of which were asked to suggest ways that clinicians in their own specialties can release NHS resources
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4/11/2010 This report provides a summary of the first three years of the NHS European Office.
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12/8/2010 This report analyses the key issues and summarises the debates surrounding trauma system development, and also emphasises that a single model will not be appropriate for all localities.
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23/6/2010 Reorganising and restructuring have been common activities in the NHS over the last 20 years and are again on the agenda with the coalition Government in place and the scale of the financial challenge apparent.
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23/6/2010 The NHS Confederation was the first to predict the extent of the financial challenge for the NHS in the three years from 2011. Discussions with our members have shown many good ideas about how to respond to the downturn.
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23/6/2010 This report, published jointly by six organisations including the NHS Confederation’s PCT Network, explores what needs to happen if GPs are to be given responsibility for leading commissioning in the NHS.
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1/4/2010 This report looks at the key issues for NHS trusts in improving care for patients with dementia, the majority of whom will have been admitted for another condition.
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30/3/2010 To improve patient care and free up resources, primary care trusts frequently have to make difficult decisions about what treatments and services to fund. This report discusses how PCTs can communicate important decisions locally in a transparent way.
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15/3/2010 As part of HSRN's programme of work looking at this issue, we commissioned Mary Dixon Woods and Karen Yeung to write this viewpoint to help us understand and provide some questioning of how the current system operates.
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11/3/2010 Sets out what we see as the major priorities facing the NHS, what we think NHS leaders can do now to help develop the system and enhance patient care.
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22/2/2010 This report says that patient and public engagement (PPE) must become integral to the operation of every NHS organisation.
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15/12/2009 The aim of this guide is to help NHS trusts, including PCT providers, to begin to consider the new registration regulations which come into force on 1 April 2010.
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3/12/2009 Personalisation is a key aspect of future health policy, but how close is it to becoming a reality? This report presents the opinions of local health and social care leaders on the future of personal health budgets.
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12/11/2009 National priorities and NHS solutions
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8/9/2009 Ensuring children and young people grow up healthy is a priority in any society. The Government has indicated a growing interest in ensuring the needs of children in the UK are taken into account when designing services, including healthcare services.
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9/7/2009 This report sets out a new vision for the future of mental health and well-being in England. Based on four principles, it outlines the priorites that the Future Vision Coalition believes should underpin mental health policy for the next decade.
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11/6/2009 Despite various initiatives to reduce the bureaucratic burden of regulation, inspection and accreditation, healthcare providers continue to experience a significant bureaucratic burden.
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27/2/2009 This guide looks at the issue of reputation management and provokes boards to ask key questions.
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5/2/2009 Community health services, along with primary care, form the bedrock of services in the NHS, and make a valuable contribution to ensuring the health and well-being of society.
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26/1/2009 The NHS Confederation's independent sector members provide a range of acute, primary and mental health services directly to patients on behalf of the NHS.
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16/1/2009 The 2008 NHS Next Stage Review endorsed the proposal to include NHS funding within personal budgets. This report explores the potential of personalisation and is designed to stimulate further debate.
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20/6/2008 The 60th anniversary of the NHS and the need for primary care trusts (PCTs) to develop their commissioning strategies has focused attention on predicting some of the major drivers that will shape healthcare over the next ten to 15 years.
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19/6/2008 This report makes the case for devolving autonomy and increasing accountability within the health service. It suggests that behavioural change, not more restructuring, is the solution to many of the current problems in the NHS.
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18/6/2008 A discussion paper intended to provoke a wide-ranging debate about the best direction for mental health policy.
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18/6/2008 This paper looks at what the NHS needs to do to be better prepared for some of the challenges – and opportunities – globalisation will bring.
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28/4/2008 This report draws on the experiences of eight CFT pilots and looks at what other organisations can learn from them. The CFTs have had different experiences but some common themes emerge, notably the potential to bring benefits for patients.
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16/4/2008 Report examining polyclinics, the key design rules for them and three possible models, as well as key lessons learned, and the misconceptions and concerns associated with them.
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23/1/2008 The NHS Confederation, through its PCT Network, has embarked on a work programme to explore what local accountability is and what we need it for.
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19/10/2007 This report raises awareness about the challenges facing child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
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25/6/2007 NHS Partners Network is an alliance of independent - both commercial and not-for profit - healthcare providers. It was established in 2005. Members of the network provide nonemergency elective operations and diagnosis for NHS patients.
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22/6/2007 This report examines the implications of climate change for human health and the NHS, the current targets and how NHS organisations are rising to the challenge. It concludes with ten questions which boards can ask that will make a difference.
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21/6/2007 This report is the result of a series of interviews with a cross-section of senior managers about what they think about the state of NHS leadership and management today.
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17/5/2007 Serious mental illness has been called the last taboo, with people using services commonly described in ways that would be considered offensive if applied to other minority or discriminated groups.
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4/4/2007 This report evaluates the results from a poll of PCT chief executives conducted following allegations from local government partners of cost-shunting.
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8/1/2007 Lessons for the NHS? a personal view from Gordon Best, commissioned by the NHS Confederation
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3/10/2006 As well as representing NHS organisations, the NHS Confederation hosts a group of independent sector members including voluntary, not-for-profit and commercial providers of care to NHS patients.
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3/10/2006 The NHS Confederation and the Independent Healthcare Forum1 have co-operated to explore how the full range of providers can work together more effectively to deliver high-quality patient care.
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2/10/2006 For many years health policy development in the UK has been constrained by an artificial divide between primary and secondary care.
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2/10/2006 For the first time, a comprehensive picture shows the scale of the investment programme underway to revitalise NHS centres in London. This report reveals the challenges for the NHS in London.
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2/10/2006 Drawing on case studies from across the country, 'Making a difference' shows how PCTs are making a real difference and argues that PCTs should be given credit for the improvements achieved in their short history.
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1/6/2006 We asked the Lean Enterprise Academy to look at how Toyota’s approach to production could be applied to healthcare. This is not as odd as it first appears.
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1/6/2006 We are proud to introduce this paper, the adapted text of the inaugural Geoff Scaife Memorial Lecture, delivered at the 2005 NHS Confederation annual conference by Julian Hartley, then chief executive of Tameside and Glossop PCT.
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1/6/2005 Our latest report is based on research into the characteristics of effective boards in the NHS. Our aim is to highlight key issues and prompt debate into how NHS boards perform and what makes them effective.
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