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This is the latest health and wellbeing policy news produced by Elaine Hill, VONNE's Health and Wellbeing consultant. Contact her at elaine.hill@vonne.org.uk
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New Guidance to NHS England Commissioners to Strengthen Patient and Public Participation
NHS England have published new guidance to strengthen patient and public participation in NHS England’s direct commissioning activities. The frameworks provide practical guidance on the best ways to involve patients and the public and include good practice examples and links to resources and voluntary and community sector organisations to support participation.
You can read more here.
Spreading new care models
As the new care models programme begins its third year, people involved have been exploring how they can ensure the wider success of the programme.
You can read more here from NHS England.
Delivering sustainability and transformation plans
Sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) have been developed in 44 footprints across England, with the aim of transforming care in line with the NHS five-year forward view. A King’s Fund report looks in detail at the content of the 44 STPs and the opportunities and challenges for implementation. The report is accompanied by a short briefing that discusses the seven key opportunities and challenges facing the STPs.
You can read the full report here.
Health and social care integration in England
A parliamentary briefing paper analyses recent policy and debate on the integration of NHS-provided healthcare and local authority-provided social care in England.
You can read more here.
New report brings together data on drug misuse
An annual report that brings together information from a variety of sources to give a joined-up picture of drug misuse has been published by NHS Digital. Statistics on Drugs Misuse 2017 draws together information about drug misuse by adults and children from a number of sources including NHS Digital's hospital episode statistics.
You can read the report here.
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Tackling high blood pressure through community pharmacy report
Pharmacy Voice, with the support of Public Health England (PHE), has published a report on the important contributions of community pharmacy teams in the prevention, detection and management of high blood pressure. The report provides examples of campaigns, locally commissioned services and work place-based initiatives that could inspire other pharmacy teams, commissioners and primary care colleagues.
You can read more here.
Report highlights alarming level of readmission for COPD patients
A new report from the Royal College of Physicians shows that 43% of patients admitted for hospital treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were readmitted at least once in the three months following discharge, up from 33% in 2008. COPD is responsible for 5% of annual deaths globally, is the fifth biggest killer in the UK and is the only major cause of death that is on the increase
You can read the report here.
Saving STPs: achieving meaningful health and social care reform
A report from the Reform think tank identifies three key barriers to STPs being successfully implemented and outlines a series of changes to overcome them. It argues that engagement with the plans are dominated by CCGs and NHS providers, with input from other parties being limited. It also finds that mixed messages regarding the focus of STPs from national bodies and a lack of leadership have left STPs struggling with the challenges of reform and implementation
You can read the full report here.
New guidance on approaches to patient and public participation in direct commissioning
NHS England has published resources to support patient and public participation in NHS England’s direct commissioning activities. This includes guidance for public health, armed forces, health and justice and specialised services.
You can access the full guidance here.
Care Quality Commission produces New models of care registration guidance
The Care Quality Commission has published a registration update for vanguards and other new care models.
You can read the guidance here.
Care Quality Commission completes first round of inspections
The Care Quality Commission has completed its programme of inspecting all adult social care services and GP practices in England that were registered before 1 October 2014.
In total, including inspections which have been carried out in response to risk, CQC carried out over 30,000 inspections across adult social care services and over 8,000 inspections of GP practices
You can read more here.
State of the health system: beds in the NHS
A British Medical Association (BMA) report looks at the causes and consequences of bed pressures within the health system. The report finds that in England, average bed availability has decreased over the past 30 years, with mental health beds seeing a large decline.
You can read the full report here.
Osteoporosis care pathway developed by NHS Right Care
NHS Right Care has developed a new resource which uses a case study of a patient to illustrate their experience of the care they receive.
The document is intended to help commissioners and providers understand the implications of shifting the osteoporosis care pathway from an uncoordinated and reactive approach to a proactive evidence-based approach.
You can learn more here.
What's behind delayed transfers of care?
A briefing from Nuffield Trust explores what the data tells us about delayed transfers of care and dispels some myths about how to prevent them.
You can read more here.
What is social prescribing?
Social prescribing enables GPs, nurses and other primary care professionals to refer people to a range of local, non-clinical services. The King’s Fund looks at whether social prescribing works and how it fits with wider health and care policy.
You can learn more here.
Actions to Deliver a New Relationship with People and Communities
The Peoples and Communities Board has published a series of actions for accelerating the adoption of person- and community-centred approaches to health and care.
You can access the full report here.
Screening Tests for You and Your Baby - Easy Guides for people with learning disabilities
Public Health England (PHE) have produced 8 easy read guides explaining the screening tests offered during and after pregnancy for people with learning disabilities.
You can access the guides here.
Getting Involved at NHS England - A New Accessible Film
NHS England has produced a short film co-produced with people with a learning disability and designed to be as accessible as possible. The film aims to tell people about NHS England and why patients and the public might want to get involved in its work.
You can view the film here.
New Report Calls for Needs of People with Learning Disabilities and Dementia to be Better Addressed
A report prepared by Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) focuses on how best to support the growing numbers of people with the condition. The publication is based on recent work with care providers aiming to improve the quality of life of people with a learning disability and dementia.
You can read the full report here.
New Online Course for Transforming Learning Disability Services
An on-line course run by NHS England has commenced for anyone working to transform care and support for people living with a learning disability, autism or both. The course covers all aspects of transformation, such as High Impact Actions, finance, workforce and housing. Each module has a mixture of video training, some written materials, wider resources and live sessions. The course allows participants to learn online at their own pace - completing the whole course or dipping into individual sessions, whatever suits them.
You can read about the course and how to enrol here.
Coalfields Community Investment Programme Now Open
The Coalfields Community Investment Programme (England) is a £500,000 fund created to support activities that tackle some of the key challenges that remain in coalfield communities. The fund is open to projects that deliver in the top 30% most deprived coalfield communities and that will make a positive difference in addressing skills development, employment and health.
You can learn more here.
National Clinical Institute for Excellence (NICE) produces a new quality standard for preventing falls in older people through conversation
NICE has advised health and care professionals to talk to older people about falls. NICE says routine appointments with family doctors, at hospital, or during home visits by social care workers, can prevent falls, disability and loss of independence.
You can read more here.
NICE seeks to support new mothers with mental health problems
National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) is calling on general practice staff to assess the mental health of all women who have recently given birth. NICE suggests that the routine six-week postnatal appointment could provide an opportunity for new mothers to be asked about their mental health.
You can read more here.
Consultation on congenital heart disease
NHS England has launched a public consultation on how it will put in place new standards for hospitals providing congenital heart disease services in England.
The consultation, which runs for 16 weeks from 9 February to 5 June 2017, aims to gather as many views as possible from patients, families and clinical experts and will include face to face meetings around the country, webinars and an online survey.
You can read more here.
Health, wellbeing and social care
Together for Health in Gateshead
Thursday 30 March, 1.50pm to 3.30pm in the Bewick Suite, Gateshead Civic Centre
NHS Newcastle Gateshead CCG invites you to the next Gateshead Local Engagement Board (LEB) meeting. The agenda includes an update from the Director of Nursing, Patient Safety and Quality, and a discussion on forming a patient group to support the development of community services.
You can find out more here.
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