This bulletin highlights recently produced documents that have appeared on websites. The aim is to trawl the web and produce a fortnightly review of what is found (coverage may not be comprehensive). If you have any comments or suggestions regarding this Bulletin, please send an email to library.pct@sthk.nhs.uk. All links are correct at time of publishing. Some documents are large and may take time to open so please be patient when waiting for links to open. If a link is incorrect please email me and I will correct the link and send you the document.For those that are receiving this through an email or through a third party you can view the original Bulletin at http://www.newdocumentsbulletin.blogspot.com/ and also sign up to receive the Bulletin by RSS.
The Impact of Alcohol in: Greater Manchester, fourth quarter May 2009 (6th July 2009)This report identifies available alcohol intelligence from across Greater Manchester. The data are separated into six categories: consumption, health related impacts of alcohol, crime, young people, and examples of interventions to tackle excessive alcohol consumption.
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Cancer Incidence and Survival By Major Ethnic Group, England, 2002-2006 (25th June 2009)The National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN) and Cancer Research UK has today (Thursday) published the first report on cancer incidence and ethnicity. According to the report, black people were nearly twice as likely as white people to get stomach cancer. And black men were up to three times more likely than white men to get prostate cancer.
The report will help to shape policy on targeting relevant public health messages to the ethnic communities around the signs and symptoms of cancer.
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Promoting the Health of Looked After Children - A Study to Inform Revision of the 2002 Guidance (25th June 2009)The overall purpose of this research was to provide evidence to assist Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department of Health in revising the guidance on improving the health of looked after children (LAC).
The study took a multi-method approach and included 50 individual interviews with key stakeholders at national, regional and local level; an overview of relevant research and statistics; written comments from professionals engaged in implementing the guidance; and an analysis of information in Joint Area Reviews relevant to the health of looked after children.
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Recognising complexity: commissioning guidance for personality disorder services (2nd July 2009)Guidance for commissioners in the NHS, criminal justice system, local authorities and others, which provides information and suggestions on best practice when considering services and systems for people with personality disorders.
Guidance PBC two years on. Moving forward and making a difference? (1st July 2009)In 2007, a straw poll of GPs and practice managers by The King’s Fund and NHS Alliance found that primary care trusts (PCTs) were struggling to put in place the basic building blocks of practice-based commissioning (PBC). Two years on, has PBC moved forward and is it making a difference to patient care? A new poll has found continuing commitment to PBC and optimism about its potential but progress is still hampered by a lack of local vision, a lack of clarity over roles and responsibilities and bureaucratic governance processes. Moving into an era of restricted financial resources, it will become increasingly important for PCTs and practices to work together. Real clinician engagement – underpinned by locally developed visions, structures, agreements and lines of accountability – is key to the development of effective partnership working.
Document Primary Care and Community Services: improving GP access and responsiveness (7th July 2009)Part of the world class commissioning suite of practical guides, this document builds on existing good practice within the NHS to support PCTs in improving the accessibility and responsiveness of local GP services.
Guidance
Guide to world-class commissioning competency 5 (June 2009)A guide to improving performance on world-class commissioning competency 5 is now available. Sponsored by the NHS Information Centre and supported by the Department of Health, the guide includes facts about PCT performance on competency 5 in last year's assessment round and best practice profiles of the PCTs who performed best on the competency.
With its focus on knowledge management and needs assessment, competency 5 underpins all 11 competencies within world-class commissioning and is the one primary care trusts need to master to deliver high quality services for local people.
Guide
Standing together: Principles to reduce children and young people's involvement in gun and knife crime (7th July 2009)This report, from the Childreen's Commissioner, brings forward the views of children and young people on gun and knife crime.
The report sets out 10 key principles and explores risk factors, parenting support, education, support for victims and their relatives and friends, interventions and sentencing.
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Film
Transforming Community Services Quality Framework: guidance for community services (24th June 2009)This guidance sets out how the seven elements of the Quality Framework apply in community services. It includes a set of proposed indicators of quality that will be developed and assured for publication. The Department will be seeking views from interested stakeholders on these indicators.
Guidance Transforming Community Services: ambition, action, achievement (24th June 2009)These best practice guides have a vital role to play in the delivery of the intentions for High Quality Care for All: the Next Stage Review. They set out ambitions, taking action and measurement of the achievement and link with, should be read in conjunction with the quality framework/quality indicators.
Guides
Auditors Local Evaluation (ALE) 2009/10 (6th July 2009)The Auditor's Local Evaluation (ALE) assesses how well NHS organisations manage and use their financial resources and highlights areas for improvement.
The Audit Commission have launched a consultation on the ALE for NHS trusts framework for 2009/10. They propose to make the ALE approach more risk based and to carry out less work on ALE at the best performing trusts. Closing date for comments is 4th September 2009.
Consultation Consultation on the first phase of the Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England Post 2010 (Marmot Review) (22nd June 2009)The Review wishes to consult a wide range of Individuals, Groups and Organisations. The views drawn from the consultation will inform the ongoing work of the Review and feed into the second phase of the Review, due to report in September 2009. Responses to the consultation will be considered alongside further evidence and expert and stakeholder views. Closing date for comments is 5th August 2009.
Consultation
Evaluation of the Phase 2 Snack Right Social Marketing Project – Final Report (25th June 2009)The Cheshire and Merseyside Directors of Public Health decided in 2005 to focus on a single social marketing intervention on food.
The aims of this project were:- to improve the nutritional quality of snacks given to pre-school children in deprived areas of Cheshire and Merseyside
- to gain experience and build capacity in social marketing throughout Cheshire and Merseyside;
- to put marketing theory into practice on a Cheshire and Merseyside footprint
- to disseminate the learning in social marketing.
Thank you to the author, Lyn Winters, for forwarding this document to me for inclusion.Report
Keeping Cool in a heatwave (4th June 2009)Summer is usually enjoyable but very high temperatures and humidity can present a risk to health‚ and older people are particularly susceptible to heat-related illness.
This guide explains:
- how to protect yourself from the heat
- how to recognise heat-related illness‚ and what to do when someone shows signs of it.
Guide
End of life care strategy: quality markers and measures for end of life care (30th June 2009)The end of life care strategy published in July 2008 included a commitment to publish quality markers for end of life care.
This was a response to the SHA Pathway Chairs for the NHS Next Stage Review, who identified the need for a national approach in order to raise the quality of care for people at the end of life. The SHA Pathway Chairs helped produce the consultation draft which was published in November 2008. This publication reflects the comments the Department of Health received through the consultation.
Guidance Common core competences and principles for health and social care workers working with adults at the end of life. To support the National End of Life Care Strategy (26th June 2009)The National End of Life Care Programme has worked with Skills for Health and Skills for Care to outline the core skills and knowledge that will allow staff across health and social care to respond with confidence to one of the most challenging areas of care.
Common core competences and principles for health and social care workers working with adults at the end of life outlines the principles that underpin quality end of life care. The document is a guide to the core skills and knowledge that will equip you to play your part in the delivery of high quality end of life care.
Document
Learning disabilities directed enhanced services (DES) (24th June 2009)This new paper, from Primary Care Commissioning, provides four examples using different possible scenarios of how payments for the learning disabilities directed enhanced service should be calculated.
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Multi-agency practice guidelines: Handling Cases of Forced Marriage (2nd July 2009)The Forced Marriage Unit has published a revised set of multi-agency practice guidelines for frontline professionals (such as teachers, police officers, social and health care professionals, housing officers) to help them to work more closely together and to better identify and protect children and adults at risk of forced marriage. The revised guidelines replace the existing individual guidelines which were tailored for specific professionals and now brings these together into one single document.
Guidelines Forced Marriage - Prevalence and Service Response (2nd July 2009)This research sought to improve understanding of the prevalence of forced marriage and to examine the way services are currently responding to such cases.
Report
Heart to Heart: Inherited Cardiovascular Conditions Services. A Needs Assessment and Service Review (July 2009)This new report from the Foundation for Genomics and Population Health (PHG Foundation), provides an overview of current service provision and an assessment of needs for patients and families affected by inherited cardiac conditions in the UK.
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Summary
Acute Kidney Injury: Adding Insult to Injury (June 2009)This National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) report highlights the process of care of patients who died in hospital with a primary diagnosis of acute kidney injury (AKI). It takes a critical look at areas where the care of patients might have been improved. Remediable factors have been identified in the clinical and the organisational care of these patients.
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Ground breaking - new ideas on housing delivery (7th July 2009)The double blow of the credit crunch and recession has hit the housing market hard and resulted in a severe reduction in the number of new homes being built. Given the current level of housing need, projected future demand for homes, and pressure on public finances, we could be feeling the impact of this slowdown for generations to come. Shelter, like many in the housing sector, believes that we must act now to reinvigorate housing delivery to ensure the continued supply of much needed new homes throughout the downturn and beyond.
Publication
Launch of the new cross-Government employment strategy for people with learning disabilities: Valuing Employment Now - real jobs for people with learning disabilities (24th June 2009)The Government launched Valuing Employment Now - real jobs for people with learning disabilities. This sets out an ambitious goal to increase radically the number of people with learning disabilities in employment by 2025. The Government wants as many as possible of these jobs to be at least 16 hours per week. The strategy includes action to raise expectations throughout the system that all people with learning disabilities can and should have the chance to work: from birth and early years through education, among health and social care staff, local authorities, employment agencies, employers, and people with learning disabilities themselves and their families."
Strategy
Knowing your Communities (6th July 2009)The Knowing Your Communities Toolkit helps organisations assess their current performance and understand what they need to do to improve.
Covering nine themes (community engagement, disability, gender, human rights, older people, race, religion, sexual orientation and young people), they provide clear examples of improved outcomes. Supported by case studies of notable practice and links to other web-based resources, the tools give a high level overview of current progress and potential next steps.
Toolkit
Death of the Smoking Den: The initial impact of no smoking legislation in England in 2008 (22nd June 2009)A survey has uncovered widespread problems with the implementation of the smoking ban in psychiatric units in England. The survey, published by the Mental Health Foundation, shows that 85% of respondents said that the ban had been implemented only partially, or not at all, effectively.
The survey recommends that the National Mental Health Development Unit (NMHDU) leads on gathering and disseminating good practice from successul units, as well as calling for a formal review of the impact of the ban by the Department of Health.
SurveyTaking a deep breath: the mental health implications of anti-smoking legislation in July 2007 (22nd June 2009)The evidence examined in this report shows that care is needed to ensure that the smoking ban brings opportunities for people with mental health problems to give up smoking. It also shows that careful monitoring is needed to ensure that imposition of the ban does not cause unnecessary distress and harm in in-patient settings.
Report Florid (30th June 2009)Florid is a website run by mental health service users for people who have experienced mental health difficulties. It’s a website which aims to bring together information relating to mental health in a way that is user-friendly and simple.
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