A link to the wiki created to support the “Making LKS Business Critical” workshops which have been run by Anne Gray over the past year or so has been added to the Professional Development for Librarians page.
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 the pathways can be implemented and the benchmarks achieved.
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.
See the Hot topic on Social Prescribing
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 among other things.
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 workshops and there is a collection of digital resources.
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 been added to the Datasets page under NHS Digital.
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 resources here.
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 well as useful presentations.
Fair shares – A guide to NHS Allocations, Department of Health, July 2017
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 exists, successful programmes typically address change management and implementation, evidence and information, and relationships and politics.
Decommissioning health care: identifying best practice through primary and secondary research a prospective mixed-methods study.
Williams I, Harlock J, Robert G, Mannion R, Brearley S & Hall K.
Health Serv Deliv Res 2017;5(22)
See other resources on decommissioning on the Disinvestment page of the Handbook.
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) publishes thousands of reports every year, but posts them across 150 separate websites, all of which are structured differently, and many of which are poorly maintained. [The Library has] catalogued and indexed the entire reporting output (four years’ worth) which is not available anywhere else in searchable form.”
Access to the complete Library is by subscription, but worth a look to those who need this sort of information.