Mental health care pathways from the Royal College of Psychiatrists is a series of evidence-based mental health care pathways for Dementia, Early Intervention in psychosis services, eating disorders, emergency mental health, IAPT ad perinatal mental health. They provide guidance to commissioners and service providers on how … Continue reading
Anne Gray
A great resource -the Social Prescribing and Self Care Wiki – from the Healthy London Partnership is an extensive library of resources around social prescribing and self care including policy and strategy, videos, how to commission, monitoring and evaluating and research reports. … Continue reading
A new MSK Knowledge Hub (a partnership between the Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Alliance and NHS England) contains lots of useful resources for clinicians and commissioners. It includes a Return on Investment tool, self management resources, indicator sets, quality standards and elearning resources … Continue reading
Primary Care Respiratory Academy Commissioning Platform Managed by Primary Care Respiratory Society UK and Cogora the Platform provides “information tailored to the needs of UK staff in the fields of service development, public health, and sustainability and transformation”. The Academy hosts … Continue reading
Looking for some ethnicity data on NHS workforce recently I came across a collection of Supplementary information files on NHS Digital. This is worth checking if you are looking for obscure data which NHS Digital may have collected. This has … Continue reading
Contracting for Outcomes: A Value-Based Approach. This technical paper from Capsticks (published July 2014) offers an understanding of the different contracting, reimbursement and incentive mechanisms available to deliver Value and Outcomes-Based Healthcare in a UK context. See other Outcomes based contracting … Continue reading
The Department of Health has published a very useful presentation of how the is NHS spending its money – how much is allocated to different organisations from the Department of Health, and how money is allocated to CCGs. Interesting reading as … Continue reading
A new NIHR study uses expert interviews, survey of CCGs, and four case studies of attempts to decommission services. It outlines good-practice principles for leading decommissioning processes and engaging service users and citizens, but concludes that although no simple decommissioning formula … Continue reading
My attention has been drawn to the Patient Experience Library – www.patientlibrary.net “UK’s collective intelligence on patient experience, much of which can be quite hard to find. For example, the local Healthwatch network (the biggest single contributor to the knowledge base) … Continue reading
This research into decision making around public health in local authorities demonstrates an interesting parallel to decision making in NHS commissioning processes in CCGs. Evidence-based medicine meets democracy: the role of evidence-based public health guidelines in local government M.P. Kelly … Continue reading