STRATEGIC HEALTH AUTHORITY

Monitoring use of money to implement End of Life Strategy - SHA's (25th February 2010)

Templates to monitor how the additional money provided to help implement the End of Life Care Strategy in 2009/10 is being invested have been issued to SHA and PCT Directors of Finance.

Templates

Priority review of long term conditions care planning and PSA target (4th March 2010)

Letter to Strategic Health Authorities on information needed to report to the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit on progress against the commitment, made in High Quality Care for All, to offer everyone with a long term condition a personalised care plan.

Information

COMMISSIONING

Improving the health and well-being of people with long-term conditions. world class services for people with long term conditions: information tool for commissioners (14th January 2010)
The main aim of the information tool is to share a common vision of what a good service for people with LTCs, and to provide some practical suggestions for commissioners to help them achieve that vision.
Publication

Benchmark figures for the likely demand for PETCT scans by indication (8th January 2010)
As the key recommendations contained in the Framework for the Development of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Services in England have now been implemented, the framework is no longer current. In order to help Specialised Commissioners in their ongoing planning for PET services, this document sets out benchmark figures for the likely demand for PETCT scans by indication.
Document

Commissioning for recovery. Drug treatment, reintegration and recovery in the community and prisons: a guide for drug partnerships (January 2010)
This document, published by the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA), aims to give practical advice on how local commissioners may seek to continually develop effective, evidence-based treatment options with a focus on enabling service users to reintegrate into society and recover as soon as is practicable.
Document

LONG-TERM CONDITIONS

'Your health, your way - a guide to long term conditions and self care' for social care professionals (3rd December 2009)
A brief overview of ‘Your health, your way – a guide to long term conditions and self care’ for social care professionals. It discusses the concept of personalised support planning for people with long-term conditions (LTCs) and supported self care with points for consideration when starting the support planning process.
Guidance

COMMISSIONING

Joint Guidance on Development of Local Protocols between Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services and Local Safeguarding and Family Services (3rd November 2009)
This guidance is intended to help commissioners and providers meet existing commitments by providing the latest information and highlighting good practice.
Guidance

Evaluation: Top Tips for Commissioners and Practitioners (October 2009)
This paper, from Greater Manchester Public Health Practice Unit, aims to give commissioners and service providers a framework to enable a more efficient method of carrying out evaluation. It explains the purpose of evaluation, types of evaluation with examples, and discusses service user involvement and engagement
Document

Outline Service Specification: Personalised Care Planning for People with Long Term Conditions (3rd November 2009)
This Outline Service Specification (OSS) has been developed to assist NHS commissioners to put in place appropriate arrangements to ensure people with long-term conditions have informed choice of, and access to, services that best enable them to manage their condition.
Document

Meeting the health needs of children and young people a guide for commissioners (3rd November 2009)
Healthcare for London has published new NHS guidance on improving healthcare for children and young people in London.

The guide recommends:

• establishing paediatric assessment units in all hospitals that have an A&E department to ensure children get the right care as quickly as possible
• healthcare be delivered in the home where appropriate or as close to home as possible reducing unnecessary visits to hospital
• creating multidisciplinary teams of health professionals to deliver care more locally and making best use of specialist skills in the right setting.

Guide

PATIENT AND PUBLIC INFORMATION

Let's Get Moving - patient resource (24th September 2009)
The Let's Get Moving (LGM) patient pack is designed to support patients in their efforts to become more active and contains helpful hints, practical examples, simple visual tools and personal planning exercises (practitioners might also wish to use the resource to guide patients towards becoming more active).

The pack has templates for relevant local information on indoor and outdoor activity opportunities. These templates should be completed locally, printed and inserted into the LGM patient pack prior to distribution to service deliverers. There is also an online search tool available on NHS Choices. Maps of local walking routes and green space are another supportive tool that can be included in the patient pack: these were very well received by patients in the LGM feasibility pilot.
Resources

Keep Warm Keep Well (24th September 2009)
The latest information to help the public maintain good health during winter.
Poster
Easy Read Leaflet
Guide for people with disabilities or long-term health conditions

Seasonal flu: why you should have the vaccination (17th September 2009)
This years campaign poster and leaflet.
Poster
Leaflet

LONG-TERM CONDITIONS

Your health, your way: a guide to long term conditions and self care - communications toolkit (11th September 2009)
This toolkit provides all of the assets and artwork to enable you to implement a communications campaign at a local level.

An introduction to Your health, your way (formally the patients prospectus) is included within this section of the toolkit.
Toolkit

LONG-TERM CONDITIONS

Long term health conditions 2009: research study conducted for the Department of Health (18th June 2009)
This report presents the results of the second wave of a three wave tracking study commissioned by the Department of Health with Ipsos MORI. The aims of the research programme are to exploring attitudes towards 'self-care' and, more specifically:

• explore the general public's perceptions and behaviour with regard to both their own health and the NHS generally and
• capture the attitudes and behaviour of those people with a long term health condition with regard to the self treatment of their condition and their use of healthcare services

Report

LONG-TERM CONDITIONS

Your health, your way - a guide to long term conditions and self care (7th April 2009)
This booklet introduces the concept of personalised care planning for people with long-term conditions and supported self care with points for consideration when starting the care planning process. It also gives a brief overview of Your health, your way for healthcare professionals.
Booklet

LONG-TERM CONDITIONS

Impact assessment for implementing personalised care planning for people with long-term conditions (including guidance to NHS and social care) (2nd March 2009)

PHARMACY

Prescription Charges Review - Web Survey (16th January 2009)
Professor Ian Gilmore, President of the Royal College of Physicians, is carrying out a review of prescription charges for people with long term conditions. The Department of Health is hosting a short survey regarding the proposed exemption of prescription charges for patients with long term conditions.
Survey

LONG TERM CONDITIONS

Disease Management Information Toolkit (DMIT) Paediatric Asthma Data Module (22nd August 2008)
This document provides guidance for use with the Disease Management Information Toolkit (DMIT) Paediatric Asthma Data Module. The data module will enable PCTs to compare their emergency admission rates, bed-days and lengths of stay with a range of different comparators. Potential cost savings through reductions in admissions and bed-days for PCTs are also included.
Document

Disease Management Information Toolkit (DMIT) (Updated August 2008)
DMIT is a voluntary good practice tool that the NHS may wish to use to strengthen their approach to Disease Management, by presenting data at Primary Care Trust (PCT) level on conditions contributing to high numbers of emergency bed days. DMIT models the effects of possible interventions which may be commissioned at a local level. It aims to support decision-makers, commissioners and deliverers of care for people with LTCs.
Toolkit

LONG-TERM CONDITIONS

Specialist rehabilitation for neurological conditions: literature review and mapping study (August 2008)
This study discusses the scope and structure of existing services, what we know about their effectiveness and how the current gaps in our knowledge might be filled in future.
Report
Summary

LONG-TERM CONDITIONS

The National Service Framework for Long-term Neurological Conditions: national support for local implementation 2008 (6th May 2008)
This document is the product of collaboration between DH, Care Service Improvement Partnership (CSIP) and the Third sector, and gives an overview of resources, tools and initiatives that are/will be available to support local implementation of the NSF.
Click here for the Document

Wish You Were Here? (May 2008)
This report, from Asthma UK, highlights the divide in the UK of service provision and inequalities in asthma control.
Click here for the UK Report
Click here for the England Report
Click here for Hospital admissions by PCT 2006-2007 under 14 years old
Click here for Hospital admissions by PCT 2006-2007 all ages
Click here for Good Asthma Services Checklist - England

LONG-TERM CONDITIONS

Long-term conditions compendium of information 'Adding years to life and life to years' (14th January 2008)
This document, launched in December 2007 updates the first compendium of information on LTCs, published in May 2004. It will further inform all those who are involved in both commissioning and providing care and support services for people with LTCs. It focuses on the outcomes that people with LTCs said that they wanted from services and describes how more effective management of LTCs in a number of local communities is delivering high-quality and personalised care. Finally, it summarises the key systems and levers that are crucial to driving forward further improvements in care for people with LTCs.
Click here for the Covering letter
Click here for the Document