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NHS data: maximising its impact for all
Imperial College London - This paper identifies strategic and technical recommendations to move towards developing a health data policy ecosystem that is designed so that value, either clinical, societal or financial, is more readily extracted from patient data.PaperMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 24, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Digital health and data Source Type: blogs

Living (and dying) as an older person in prison: understanding the biggest health care challenges for an ageing prisoner population
Nuffield Trust - Tough conditions in prison disproportionately affect older prisoners, and they tend to be in poorer health than the general population. This research uses hospital data to look at the health care needs of those older people in prison. It finds significant health care needs associated with frailty, which has implications for the prison service in managing increasing numbers of older people as the population continues to age.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 24, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs

Care workforce pathway for adult social care: call for evidence
Department of Health and Social Care -This call for evidence will inform the development of a new care workforce pathway for adult social care. The Department of Health and Social Care, in partnership with Skills for Care, is consulting to gather views on what should be included within the pathway. These views will be considered when developing the first iteration of the pathway, which is scheduled to be published in autumn 2023. The closing date for comments is 31 May 2023.Call for evidenceDepartment of Health and Social Care - consultations (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 21, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Consultations Social care Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs

Urgent and emergency care improvement guide to direct access
NHS England - This guide has been designed for providers and systems to consider embedding as good practice to reduce ambulance handover delays. The contents have been drawn from the Winter Improvement Collaborative which was set up to identify solutions to the problems facing the system over the winter period. Members of the collaborative were asked to co-design a series of plans and potential improvement measures, to be adapted and trialled at local level.GuidanceNHS England - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 21, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs

Urgent and emergency care improvement guide to contact hubs for primary, ambulance and clinical calls
NHS England -This guide has been designed for providers and systems to consider embedding as good practice to reduce ambulance handover delays. The contents have been drawn from the Winter Improvement Collaborative which was set up to identify solutions to the problems facing the system over the winter period. Members of the collaborative were asked to co-design a series of plans and potential improvement measures, to be adapted and trialled at local level.GuidanceNHS England - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 21, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs

NHS England business continuity management toolkit
NHS England - This document highlights the need for Business Continuity Management (BCM) in NHS organisations so that they can maintain continuity of key services in the face of disruption from identified local risks. Under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (as amended), all NHS organisations have a duty to put in place continuity arrangements. The toolkit is driven by the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) cycle along with being updated in line with both ISO 22301 principles, as well as the Business Continuity Good Practice Guidelines 2018.ToolkitNHS England - publications (Source: He...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 21, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Source Type: blogs

Understanding and supporting mental health in infancy and early childhood: a toolkit to support local action in the UK
Unicef UK -This resource aims to support service leaders, commissioners and policy teams to develop a whole-system approach to support the mental health of babies and young children, and to enable them to develop the capacities to be mentally healthy throughout their lives. Evidence shows that the mental health needs of babies and young children – which present differently than in older children and young people – are not well understood and often overlooked. This toolkit acknowledges that it can be harder for professionals to work together to promote and protect mental health at this life stage, as understanding varie...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 20, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Mental health Source Type: blogs

NHS delivery and continuous improvement review: recommendations
This report contains the findings and recommendations of the delivery and continuous improvement review conducted by Anne Eden. It looked at how improvement-led delivery can enhance the quality of outcomes for our patients, communities and our health and care workforce. It recommends establishing a national improvement board to agree a small number of shared national priorities on which NHS England, with providers and systems, will focus improvement-led delivery work. It also recommends launching a single, shared ‘NHS improvement approach’ and co-designing and establishing a Leadership for Improvement programme.ReportN...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 20, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs

Urgent and emergency care improvement guide specialty support to the urgent and emergency care pathway/internal professional standards
NHS England - This guide has been designed for providers and systems to consider embedding as good practice to reduce ambulance handover delays. The contents have been drawn from the Winter Improvement Collaborative which was set up to identify solutions to the problems facing the system over the winter period. Members of the collaborative were asked to co-design a series of plans and potential improvement measures, to be adapted and trialled at local level.ReportNHS England - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 20, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs

Urgent and emergency care improvement guide same day emergency care pathways
NHS England -This guide has been designed for providers and systems to consider embedding as good practice to reduce ambulance handover delays. The contents have been drawn from the Winter Improvement Collaborative which was set up to identify solutions to the problems facing the system over the winter period. Members of the collaborative were asked to co-design a series of plans and potential improvement measures, to be adapted and trialled at local level.GuidanceNHS England - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 20, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs

Urgent and emergency care improvement guide same day emergency care flow
NHS England -This guide has been designed for providers and systems to consider embedding as good practice to reduce ambulance handover delays. The contents have been drawn from the Winter Improvement Collaborative which was set up to identify solutions to the problems facing the system over the winter period. Members of the collaborative were asked to co-design a series of plans and potential improvement measures, to be adapted and trialled at local level.GuidanceNHS England - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 20, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: NHS performance and productivity Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs

Deaths at home during the Covid-19 pandemic and implications for patients and services
This report includes a perspective on the findings from a patient and public involvement group based on their own experiences of end-of-life care.ReportNuffield Trust - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 20, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 Source Type: blogs

Tackling obesity: improving policy making on food and health
This report finds that every government since 1992 has missed targets to reduce obesity – with the UK’s rising obesity rates harming people’s health and life opportunities, burdening the NHS and damaging the economy. It tries to identify the reasons behind these policy failures and sets out how to make progress. It finds that tackling obesity has suffered from ministers fearing t he perception of nanny statism, despite there being public support for ambitious measures. It details how, over three decades, there have been at least 14 strategies, hundreds of policies, and a succession of institutional reforms, with key ...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 19, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs

Black maternal health
This report calls on the government to set a definitive target to eliminate “appalling” disparities in maternal deaths. Black women are almost four times more likely to die from childbirth than white women. Maternal death rates in deprived areas are on the rise, with women in the most deprived areas 2.5 times more likely to die than those in the least deprived areas.ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 18, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Equality and diversity Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs

Maternal health and care in London
This report looks at the impact of the pandemic on maternal health and services in London, the impact of staffing shortages, and the inequalities that exist across maternal health outcomes. It sets out nine recommendations to improve services.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 17, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Covid-19 NHS performance and productivity Source Type: blogs