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.
EMBRACE - Resources Supplement 5 (22nd September 2009)This supplement, from Alcohol Concern, contains 6 pages of resources (including links to obtain them) that people working within alcohol and substance misuse may find useful.
Document
Closing the Gap. Tackling cardiovascular disease and health inequalities by prescribing statins and stop smoking services (18th September 2009)This new report, from Care Quality Commission (CQC) is calling for a renewed drive to cut numbers of people with cardiovascular disease (CVD) which is responsible for one in three deaths in England.
The report also highlights health inequalities between people in deprived areas and other parts of the country, of which CVD is the biggest cause.
ReportThe right information, in the right place, at the right time: A study of how healthcare organisations manage personal data (21st September 2009)This report, from CQC, calls for better patient care by ensuring the right patient information is in the right place, at the right time.
Healthcare organisations should meet the individual care needs of patients by making better use of the patient information they collect.
ReportWorking together to prevent and control infections (21st September 2009)Infections are passing between hospitals and care homes due to a lack of communication between care services.
This report highlights a need for hospitals and care homes to provide information about infections to each other to:
- make sure that people with, or recovering from, an infection are cared for properly
- reduce the chances of other people being infected
Report2009 survey of mental health acute inpatient services (24th September 2009)The biggest-ever national survey of people's experiences of acute mental health inpatient services reveals that too great a proportion feel they were let down in some important aspects of the care they received, says the CQC. More than 7,500 people recently discharged from 64 NHS trusts across England gave their views on each stage of their care from the moment they were admitted to hospital to the support they got after they left.
Survey
Employment support for carers (September 2009)This report is based on in-depth interviews with 55 carers, both working and non working, in Scotland and England during 2008.
The study aimed to explore how caring responsibilities affect people’s decisions about employment; fill the evidence gap on the role and effectiveness of existing services for carers; assess how DWP and Jobcentre Plus can effectively help claimants with caring responsibilities to return to the labour market; and provide evidence to enable the DWP to develop its strategy for carers.
Report
Commissioning what works. The economic and financial case for supported employment (22nd September 2009)Commissioning what works: the economic and financial case for supported employment shows that Individual Placement and Support (IPS), which helps people into paid competitive work, is effective, is good value for money and is affordable to the NHS.
Studies have shown that IPS is by far the most effective way of helping people who use mental health services to get jobs. And those who work regularly make less use of mental health services, needing fewer hospital admissions, as well as having a better quality of life and a higher income.
This briefing paper examines the cost of providing IPS services against the cost of other employment services.
Briefing
Let's Get Moving - A new physical activity care pathway for the NHS: Commissioning guidance (24th September 2009)The commissioning guidance sets out an evidence-based behaviour charter model Let’s Get Moving encouraging local commissioning of physical activity interventions in primary care.Guidance
Let's Get Moving feasibility study (24th September 2009)Let's Get Moving (LGM) has been tested in a feasibility trial in 14 surgeries by the British Heart Foundation National Centre for Physical Activity and Health, Loughborough University. The results of the trial demonstrated that LGM is feasible for delivery in primary care, and subject to recommendations is suitable for wide-scale implementation. LGM is now available to the NHS for commissioning.Document Commissioning Excellence - issue No. 4 September 2009 (September 2009)Please note you need to be registered with a subscribing organisation to access this quarterly bulletin from NHS Primary Care Commissioning.
Bulletin Virtual conference for World Class Commissioning Assurance - launch of Year 2 (September 2009)Videos, Podcasts and Documents are now available from the conference that was held in London on 16th September 2009. These are additional to the Handbook that was in the last bulletin.
Resources
2007-08 Citizenship Survey: Empowered Communities Topic Report (29th September 2009)Using 2007-08 Citizenship Survey data, this report provides an in-depth examination of community empowerment: whether people feel they can influence local and national decisions; whether they would like to be more involved in decision making; what would make it easier to influence decision making; and how people would influence decisions if they wanted to. It also looks at people's trust in institutions and what activities people actually take part in (civic activism, civic consultation, civic participation and volunteering).
Report
HSMC Policy Paper 5. Integrating Care and Transforming Community Services: What Works? Where Next? (24th September 2009)Health Services Management Centre (HSMC) has recently launched a new policy paper on integrated care. This follows on from a seminar organised by HSMC earlier this year which brought together experts from the US and UK to consider the issues and the evidence for what works.
Ham and De Silva’s paper summarises the presentations made at the seminar and considers the implications for policy makers and practitioners, noting the increasing interest in integrated care given the context of an ageing population and the increasing burden of chronic disease.
The authors note that while integrated care may not be the only solution, it has an important role to play in ensuring quality and the effective use of resources.
Paper
Consultation on the proposed framework for Quality Accounts (17th September 2009)The Department of Health has launched a public consultation on the proposed framework for Quality Accounts. Quality Accounts will be legally required of all providers of NHS Healthcare from June 2010 (subject to the successful passage of the Health Bill). For the acute sector, the duty applies next year and it will apply to primary care and community services subsequently.
Closing date for comments is 10th December 2009.
Letter
Consultation
Prioritisation for Quality Improvement: National Quality Board stakeholder engagement (29th September 2009)The National Quality Board will advise Ministers on clinical priorities for the NHS, and on topics for NICE quality standards. This stakeholder engagement document seeks views on the Board's process for doing so. The engagement process runs from 29 September 2009 to 10 November 2009.Consultation
The National Health Service (Nursing Care in Residential Accommodation) (Amendment) (England) Directions 2009 (29th September 2009)These Directions come into force on 1st October 2009 and apply to every Primary Care Trust.
Directions The Delayed Discharges (Continuing Care) Directions 2009 (29th September 2009)These Directions come into force on 1st October 2009 and apply to every English NHS trust and Primary Care Trust.
Directions The NHS Continuing Healthcare (Responsibilities) Directions 2009 (29th September 2009)These Directions come into force on 1st October 2009 and apply to every Strategic Health Authority, Primary Care Trust and social services authority in England.
Directions
Parental Experience of Services for Disabled Children - Qualitative Research (Phase 2): Exploring the Findings from the National Survey (24th September 2009)This research sets out findings from a second phase of qualitative work looking at parental experiences and views of services they use in relation to their disabled child.
The research complements the ‘Parental Experience of Services for Disabled Children - National Survey’, which was published last month.
Report
Confidentiality (28th September 2009)The GMC has published new guidance for doctors on confidentiality. The guidance:
- sets out the principles of confidentiality and respect for patients’ privacy that doctors are expected to understand and follow
- takes account of the relevant legal and ethical considerations involved in helping doctors to make decisions that respect patients’ privacy, autonomy and choices and that also benefit the wider community of patients and the public
- takes account of changes in the law and guidance from other sources on confidentiality in the four UK countries
- is accompanied by seven pieces of supplementary guidance which explain how the principles in the core guidance apply in a range of situations doctors often encounter or find hard to deal with, including reporting concerns about patients to the DVLA, reporting gunshot and knife wounds and disclosing information about serious communicable diseases
Guidance
DS Daily - new current awareness service (21st September 2009)A new current awareness service, DS Daily, has been launched by DrugScope. Subscribers get a daily email update of news in the drugs field and/or a weekly email with a summary of the week's news/reports.
Website
Learning from Targeted Mental Health in Schools Phase 1 Pathfinders - Summary report (September 2009)Improving the mental health of children and young people is a critical priority informing the improvement of children’s services. This summary report draws together the key points of learning from the quarterly action learning set summary reports, and 11 interviews with a range of people involved in delivering Targeted Mental Health in Schools (TaMHS).
Summary
Young people: Know your rights (September 2009)Young women and men may find themselves being treated unfairly because of their gender, age, disability, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation or transgender status. This can happen whether they are at school, school leavers making career choices, new employees, part-time workers, students in further or higher education, apprentices or trainees.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission have put together some advice resources that should be useful to young people that experiencing discrimination.
Resource
Nurse-Family Partnership Programme - Second Year Pilot Sites Implementation in England: The Infancy Period (23rd September 2009)Young first time mothers are being helped to improve the life chances of their babies and fathers are more involved in the early years of their children’s lives thanks to the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) programme, independent research published today has found.The second year evaluation report of the FNP programme by University of London, Birkeck, which is joint between the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department of Health, found that:- Effective delivery is having a positive impact on some of the most vulnerable young families in society;
- There are early signs that the programme is having a positive effect on reducing smoking during pregnancy and increasing rates of breastfeeding;
- Mothers value the programme and believe it has made a positive difference to how they care for their baby and their own aspirations for the future;
- Fathers’ involvement is especially high with more than half of fathers present for at least one pregnancy visit;
- A strong nurse-client relationship is key to its success – and clients are overwhelmingly positive about their family nurses, rating them on average 9 out of 10; and
- Nurses have reported that their clients are more confident as parents, were playing with their children more, wanted to learn, and had aspirations for the future.
Press ReleaseReport
The current and future state of NHS Finances. Results of an independent survey of Finance Directors in PCTs conducted by KPMG and Dr Foster Intelligence (published 30 July 2009 new to website 17th September 2009)The overwhelming majority of PCT finance directors (84%) say they are not well enough prepared to identify substantial efficiency savings within the NHS, a survey by KPMG and Dr. Foster Intelligence has found.
The NHS has embarked on a self declared efficiency agenda and aims to identify savings between £15 and 20 billion over the next three years. However, the survey among PCT finance directors seems to suggest that most of them are not ready to take on the challenge. The survey also reveals that almost half of all finance directors feel that NHS frontline staff is aware of the efficiency challenge but limited in their understanding of its impact on budgets.
Report Auditors' Local Evaluation (ALE) 2007/08 (24th September 2009)The summary results for NHS trusts and primary care trusts are now available from the Auditors' Local Evaluation 2007/08 briefing.
Results
The Statement of Financial Entitlements (Amendment) (No. 5) Directions 2009 (25th September 2009)The Statement of Financial Entitlements (Amendment) (No. 5) Directions 2009 were signed on 22nd September 2009 and come into force on the 1st October 2009. These amending directions make three changes to the dispensing provisions in the General Medical Services Statement of Financial Entitlements (SFE) published in April 2005.Directions
Quality Reports Testing Exercise: Evaluation (Published 17th September 2009, Modified 22nd September 2009)Monitor and the East of England SHA required all NHS foundation trusts in England and all NHS providers in the East of England region to produce Quality Reports in Spring-Summer 2009 serving as a useful trial for Quality Accounts. The Department of health commissioned a survey of the organisations that produced Quality Reports in 2008/09 and an evaluation of a selection of reports.
Report
General Practice in England - An Overview (25th September 2009)General practice has changed considerably over the past decade. Practice size has increased, the workforce has grown and become more diverse, the range of services offered has expanded, and the contracting and financing arrangements for GPs have changed. Current government policy aims to improve access and choice for patients, to enable greater self-management by people with long-term conditions, to expand the role of GPs in areas such as health promotion, to reduce variations in the quality of care provided and to improve quality overall. In the next few years, accreditation will be introduced for GP practices, and new models for commissioning and delivering care will be expanded.
This briefing, from The King's Fund, sets out how general practice is organised, contracted and financed; analyses the impact of recent government policy; and looks at future trends.
Briefing
EVENT - Health inequalities forum: Lessons from DH National Support Team (NST) (17th September 2009)The presentations from this event held at the Stobart Stadium, Widnes are now available.
Presentations
