This study aims to examine and synthesise the evidence for non-clinical services on improving functional outcomes for young adults with mental disorders. Open access article - no login required
Young adults with serious mental illness (SMI) have poor physical health and high Emergency Department (ED) and hospital utilization. Integrating primary care into community mental health care may be an important form of early intervention. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This systematic review aims to identify the reported facilitators and barriers of implementing evidence-based psychological interventions in CRHTTs. Open access article - no login required.
This systematic review examines the effectiveness of community-based multidisciplinary integrated care strategies with general practitioner (GP) participation for community-dwelling older adults and describes the level of care integration in each study. Open access article - no login required.
This study assesses whether English local governments’ strategies for place-based health and equity help explain why some disadvantaged areas have better mortality trends than others. Open access article - no login required.
This study aimed to explore the acceptability of health and wellbeing conversations such as within the third and social economy sector, including their existence without specific training. Open access article - no login required.
The aim of this study, which was nested in a larger evaluation project, was to explore the experiences and perspectives of healthcare professionals to understand the implementation of a step-down IC service in Buckinghamshire, UK. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This rapid review synthesizes evidence about the experiences of users and providers of community-based accommodation services for people living with serious mental illness internationally to understand priorities for policy and practice. Open access article - no login required.
"We interviewed commissioners and service providers in six local areas to find out how they experienced the process of receiving additional funds, making plans, and delivering and monitoring the plans in winter 2022–23."
"Local heath and care systems lack a shared understanding of the causes of hospital discharge delays in their area and of the best ways of tackling them, says a report from The King’s Fund.
The report, Hospital discharge funds: experiences of winter 2022-23, looked in-depth at six health and care systems. The authors spoke to local authorities, integrated care system leads, acute trusts, Healthwatch and local care provider associations.
Despite system partners saying that relationships were good, the report finds they were often insufficient to develop a shared understanding of the causes of delays or to bring about meaningful, co-ordinated action to reduce delays."
In our work on Understanding integration, The King’s Fund and the Picker Institute developed a guide for health and care partners to come together to better understand and learn from the views and lived experience of people and communities, in the spirit of delivering genuinely integrated care. Centred around 10 principles, the guide was designed to help systems to work to co-ordinate services around what matters to people and communities.
Over the past year, The King’s Fund has been working with NHS England and the HOPE network to design and develop projects drawing on the principles and ways of working outlined in the guide. The HOPE network provides peer learning and support opportunities for leaders within NHS trusts with responsibility for patient experience.
This briefing focuses on how to improve access to out-of-hospital care, including GPs, social care, community services and community mental health services.
In October 2021 the government announced plans for new community diagnostic centres (CDCs) across England. The ambition was that these centres would provide people with increased and more convenient access to diagnostics tests, and would lead to earlier diagnosis and reduce pressure on hospitals. Two years on, with 127 centres open and 1,563,400 patients waiting for a diagnostic test as of the end of August 2023, how are community diagnostic centres getting on and what challenges are they facing?
In this paper the authors focus on one Discharge to Assess service and analyses the perspectives and experiences of those involved in its delivery within systemic analysis framework.
In this paper, the authors demonstrate that a utilitarian argument can be made for investment in better support for inclusion health groups despite their small size. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Services to keep children out of hospital, known as hospital at home or virtual wards, are set for a major expansion across the NHS after a string of successful pilot schemes. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Specific Timely Appointments for Triage (STAT) provides a practical, low-cost, data-driven approach to tackling waiting times. This study demonstrates its effectiveness in paediatric therapy services and provides evidence for a ‘hub and spoke’ approach to facilitate implementation that could be provided at scale. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
ICB leaders need to ensure prevention is at the heart of ICSs’ mission and purpose, create opportunities for district councils to lead, and use district councils to trial new place-based projects.
the advent of integrated care systems is being seen as an opportunity to work more closely with the communities they serve. And yet, despite all this, work with people and communities, can still feel like ‘a nice to have’ rather than being core to the business of the health and care system. For those of us working on this agenda it can feel like pushing a rock up a hill.
The submission focuses on the main challenges facing community services in seven key areas:
the profile and understanding of the sector
funding
reorganisation
workforce shortages
primary care networks and community services
learning from the new models of care programme