Contents are:

1. Introduction
2. Vision and case for change
3. How do we ensure people and carers are involved throughout?
4. What population groups do we want to include?
5. What are the outcomes to be delivered?
6. How do we innovate a new model of care working with users and carers?
7. How can we commission integrated care?
8. How can commissioners align provider incentives?
9. How should General Practitioner (GP) networks be developed?
10. How will provider networks develop and support new models of care?
11. What informatics functionality will we need?
12. Glossary

Going with change: allowing new models of health care to be provided for NHS patients – Reform

This report argues that within a decade new service models from within the public or the independent sector will make major changes to the way nearly 75 per cent of NHS hospitals and GP practices operate.

• Report
• Reform – publications

Recipes for sustainable healthcare – College of Medicine

This report makes recommendations for how the delivery of NHS care can be made more sustainable and help to improve outcomes for people living with long-term conditions.

• Report
• College of Medicine – news

Quality standards: health services for people with haemoglobin disorders – West Midlands Quality Review Service (WMQRS)

A national programme of peer review visits of health services caring for both adults and children and young people with haemoglobin disorders is being organised and will run from September 2014 to March 2016.

• Quality standards
• Self-assessment form
• Review process
• WMQRS – news

Recruitment struggle spells end for franchise rescue – HSJ

The struggle of England’s smallest acute trust to recruit consultants played a major role in the decision to ditch its search for an independent sector management franchise to take it over, HSJ has been told.

Patients find health advice too complicated

The Royal College of General Practitioners has found that nearly half of all adults in England find the health advice given to them by doctors and health professionals too complicated, leaving them at a higher risk of emergency admission into hospital and serious health conditions. The RCGP report Health Literacy: report from an RCGP-led health literacy workshop highlights that 43% of UK adults fail to fully understand information that contains text, such as signs in hospital, leaflets and health guides, while one in three adults fails to understand numerical information presented to them.

Dementia-friendly technology charter / Dementia drugs

NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Dementia has welcomed the Alzheimer’s Society launch of its dementia-friendly technology charter helping people with dementia live at home for longer. The charity has created a guide improving access to life-changing technology including products and home modifications. The Dementia-friendly technology charter  provides guidance to health, housing and social care professionals on how to make technology work for people based on their individual needs.
The Prime Minister David Cameron will pledge a new drive by the UK to discover new drugs and treatment that could slow down the onset of dementia or even deliver a cure by 2025.

Public Health England knowledge strategy

Public Health England has published Knowledge strategy: harnessing the power of information to improve the public’s health.  This strategy provides a framework within which knowledge from data, research and experience can be used to best inform public health decision-making.  The strategy addresses the entire knowledge lifecycle from understanding the requirements of those who are using public health knowledge, through to what technologies Public Health England will use to disseminate it. It concentrates on openness, transparency and partnership working to deliver the best available knowledge to the right people at the right time.

Handbook of definitions: social care

The Department of Health has added the ASCOF Handbook of Definitions to their adult social care outcomes framework information. The handbook sets out the technical detail of each measure, with examples to minimise confusion and inconsistency in reporting and interpretation. The intended audience for the handbook is local authorities, members of the public and other stakeholders with an interest in social care outcomes, such as health and wellbeing boards, local Healthwatch, and the voluntary sector.

Health statistics
CCG Indicators – June 2014 release
Statistics on Women’s Smoking Status at Time of Delivery: England – Quarter 4, April 2013 to March 2014
Direct Access Audiology Waiting Times – April 2014
Mixed Sex Accommodation Breaches – May 2014
Cancer Statistics Registrations, England (Series MB1) – No. 43, 2012