Picker Institute Europe have published a new briefing paper that compares the the health system performance, strategies and structures.
It focuses on five European countries as exemplars and highlights general learning from them: Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK and England.
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To explore the information needs of long-term indwelling urinary catheter users, the consequences for patients of inadequate information and how these needs could be met. Login using your SSSFT NHS Athens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library http://www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
NHS England has published a non-mandatory diabetes transition service specification that sets out a best practice provision model for services for children and young people with diabetes.
The Realising the Value consortium have published a new report At the heart of health: Realising the value of people and communities.
The report brings together evidence on what good person- and community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing look like and their potentially wide-reaching benefits.
A new report from the OECD has analysed health systems in the four nations of the UK, providing a useful comparison of their different structures and systems, and patient experiences and outcomes.
CQC is launching a week long social media campaign, Your Maternity Care, asking women who have used maternity services in the last year to share their experiences of maternity care.
A King’s Fund report has been published sharing the outcomes of the latest British Social Attitudes survey, which asks members of the public for their views on the NHS.
New research published by BMJ Open suggests that membership of social groups such as book clubs or church groups after retirement is linked with improved health and wellbeing.
Two £25 vouchers are up for grabs in the library’s ‘Making the Most of Information’ survey.
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A report has been published by NHS Clinical Commissioners to showcase effective examples from CCGs who are improving prevention and early diagnosis through bringing together a range of stakeholders in their local areas.
Research by Which? Elderly Care reveals a sizeable information gap for unpaid carers in England. Analysis of Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) data found that nearly a third (31%) of unpaid carers looking after an elderly relative (65+) struggled to find the information they needed.
The European Patients’ Academy has launched an online Toolbox on Medicines Research & Development.
The toolbox is available to European patient groups, patient advocates and anyone who is interested in learning more about the medicines research and development (R&D) process.
It aims to support users can acquire the knowledge to make a meaningful contribution to medicines development and to the broader dialogue around patient empowerment.
Seven areas have been chose to pioneer and evaluate the use of novel combinations of interconnected devices and ways of working which will help patients stay well and monitor their conditions themselves at home.
NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens launched the first wave of NHS Innovation ‘Test Beds‘ at the 2016 World Economic Forum in Davos. Older patients and people with long term conditions and mental health problems will be among the first to benefit from a major new drive to modernise how the NHS delivers care.
PIF co-founder, and non-executive Director, Mark Duman, has written a paper arguing for the need to recognise information as a therapy.
5.5 million people: information as a therapy, published by Captive Health, sets out a 5 point plan for healthcare providers focusing on ensuring high quality health information is integrated into healthcare delivery.
The paper positions good health information and the health care professional’s ability to support this as central to the two pillars of the House of Care.
When embarking upon a project to educate patients in NHS finance there was a strong case to do so, a proven method of deliver but, due to the idea’s uniqueness, there is no set way of measuring its impact. In evidencing the benefits of a project that has never been explored before, it is difficult to find measures of success and indeed to truly understand the lasting implications. Yet Wigan Borough CCG has seen some initial benefits and reactions to the programme.
An app developed by pharmacy services at South West London and St Georges NHS Mental Health Trust, helps people with bipolar disorder to keep track of medicines critical to their treatment.
It helps users to monitor lithium levels in their blood. Lithium is the medication most used in the treatment of bipolar, but for treatment to be effective dosage must be strictly administered. Patients can only receive a supply of lithium from a hospital or community pharmacy if they can show evidence of an up to date blood level result.