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Optimising personalised care for adults prescribed medicines associated with dependence or withdrawal symptoms: framework for action for integrated care boards (ICBs) and primary care
NHS England - NHS England working in partnership with integrated care system (ICS) leads and representatives, has devised actions to help systems develop plans that can support people who are taking medicines associated with dependence and withdrawal symptoms. The actions will support ICSs to deliver on their four key objectives of: improving outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackling health inequalities in outcomes, experience and access; enhancing productivity and value for money; and helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.FrameworkPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 7, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Patient involvement, experience and feedback Source Type: blogs

Joining the dots: a blueprint for preventing and managing frailty in older
British Geriatrics Society - This document sets out seven system touchpoints and outcomes that should be considered when planning and commissioning health and social care for older people, alongside twelve actions that systems should take to create the conditions for high-quality integrated care for older people. The blueprint is aimed primarily at system leaders and commissioners of health and social care services for older people. It is hoped that it will assist these senior decision-makers to understand and implement the core features of age-attuned integrated care for older people.BlueprintMore detail (Source: He...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 7, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Commissioning Source Type: blogs

Supporting high-quality perinatal mental health care
Institute of Health Visiting - This resource, drawn from anevidence review, provides a strengths-based action template to enable and inform high-quality care for families impacted by perinatal mental health (PMH) problems, enabling individuals to come together and plan “what good looks like” for them, as practitioners, services, professions, organisations, pathways, networks, and systems. The resource (produced with the Maternal Mental Health Alliance) highlights: why improving PMH care is crucial; what good care looks like to both practitioners and families w ith lived experience; and ten principles of best prac...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 6, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Mental health Source Type: blogs

Protected learning time
Royal Pharmaceutical Society - This document sets out the RPS's recommendations for protected learning time (PLT). PLT is needed to give professionals time to develop clinical and non-clinical capabilities across the pharmacy workforce, particularly around education and research as well as leadership. A wider workforce plan for the pharmacy profession needs to be developed in each of the three nations and these need to contain several elements which will enable pharmacists, in all sectors, to develop professionally.GuidancePress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 6, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs

Safe and wellbeing reviews: thematic review and lessons learned
NHS England -As part of the NHS response to the safeguarding adults review concerning the deaths of Joanna, Jon and Ben at Cawston Park, a national review has been undertaken to check the safety and wellbeing of all people with a learning disability and autistic people who are being cared for in a mental health inpatient setting. This document sets out the themes emerging from the review findings.ReportSafeguarding adults reviewNHS England - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 3, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Mental health Patient safety Source Type: blogs

Challenging adult social care decisions in England and Wales
Equality and Human Rights Commission -This research aimed to understand the experiences of social care users and carers who have challenged decisions made by local authorities. It examined the procedures in place among local authorities across England and Wales and also gathered insight from social care professionals. The evidence reveals that local authority processes can be confusing and slow, with risks that people do not get the care they need.ReportEquality and Human Rights Commission - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 3, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Social care Source Type: blogs

Tackling disadvantage in medical education: analysis of postgraduate outcomes by ethnicity and the interplay with other personal characteristics
This report explores the extent that inequalities persist in medical education, for example an 18 percentage point difference between the specialty exam pass rate of UK-trained black doctors and UK-trained white doctors. It also considers good practice, and highlights the importance of evaluating interventions to enable a better understanding of initiatives that successfully support trainees from different backgrounds.ReportGeneral Medical Council - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 3, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Equality and diversity Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs

The evolution of provider collaboration
This report, written with NHS Providers, aims to provide an in-depth look at the formation and development of provider collaboratives. It also highlights their challenges and successes, and where more support might be needed to fully realise their potential.ReportNHS Confederation - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 3, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Integrated care, collaboration and partnership Source Type: blogs

How have provider collaboratives been set up?
NHS Confederation -This briefing aims to support provider collaborative and system leaders understand different governance models and what might be best for their emerging collaborative.NHS Confederation - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 3, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Integrated care, collaboration and partnership Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs

Moving through the gears: where will local government finance be in 2030?
This report contains a collection of essays covering perspectives on what the future could, should and might be for local government finance, featuring contributions from across the local government sector alongside leading practitioners and experts in the field. Subjects covered by the essays include financial sustainability, taxation, devolution and the net zero agenda.ReportLocalis - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 3, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Regulation, governance and accountability Social care Source Type: blogs

Proposed changes to the statutory scheme to control the costs of branded health service medicines: consultation response
Department of Health and Social Care -This document analyses the responses to the consultation and sets out the government ’s response to the issues raised. The government has decided to increase the payment percentage in the statutory scheme to 27.5 per cent in 2023. The amendments to the 2018 regulations will be set out in the Branded Health Service Medicines (Costs) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 and will come into f orce on 1 April 2023.Consultation responseOriginal consultationDepartment of Health and Social Care - consultations (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 3, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Consultations Source Type: blogs

World obesity atlas 2023
World Obesity Federation -This global study predicts that more than half the global population will be living with overweight and obesity within 12 years if prevention, treatment and support do not improve. It estimates that the economic impact of this could reach $4.32 trillion annually by 2035. At almost three per cent of global GDP, the report calculates this to be comparable with the impact of Covid-19 in 2020.ReportWorld Obesity Federation - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 3, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs

NHS employee suicide: a postvention toolkit to help manage the impact and provide support
NHS Confederation -This toolkit was developed to help NHS organisations develop and implement a process to manage the impact of an employee suicide on colleagues. Postvention refers to the actions taken to provide support after someone dies by suicide. This can ensure that timely and appropriate care and support is provided which can help individuals with their grief, manage the impact on the organisation and reduce the risk of further deaths by suicide.ToolkitNHS Confederation - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 3, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Mental health Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs

Social care 360
The King's Fund - The King's Fund's latest 360 review outlines and analyses 12 key trends in adult social care in England over recent years. Using a variety of publicly available data, it provides a uniquely rounded -'360 degree' - view of the sector.The King's Fund - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 2, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Social care Source Type: blogs

No more sticking plasters: repairing and transforming the NHS estate
This report finds that the NHS' efforts to deliver national priorities including elective recovery and improvements in productivity are being put at risk because of a damaging lack of investment in buildings and facilities. It argues that major capital investment is crucial to enabling trusts to improve productivity, operational performance, and patient care across all sectors.ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 1, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS finance NHS performance and productivity Source Type: blogs