House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, November 2018
This report urges the Government to develop a new national strategy to capitalise on the opportunity that early intervention provides to transform the lives of those who suffer adversity in childhood, while also saving long-term costs to Government.
The Committee’s Report identifies examples of early intervention working well around the country, but also the challenges that local authorities and their partners currently face in delivering effective, evidence-based early intervention. It concludes that the overall provision of early intervention in England is fragmented, with varying levels of support, focus on evidence, and success.
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Month: November 2018
The health care workforce in England: make or break?
The King’s Fund, November 2018
This briefing highlights the scale of workforce challenges now facing the health service and the threat this poses to the delivery and quality of care over the next 10 years. It sets out the reasons why the NHS long-term plan and supporting workforce strategy must address the urgent and mounting challenges facing the health care workforce.
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Library bulletins – November 2018
This week’s Library bulletin is on Suicide Prevention.
Understanding the health care needs of people with multiple health conditions
The Health Foundation, November 2018
This report finds that approximately 14.2 million people have two or more conditions, which represents nearly a quarter of all adults living in England. It argues that resourcing primary care so GPs and nurses have the time to work together with patients to manage their conditions, and ensuring that hospital care has more coordination between specialties is key to supporting patients with multiple health conditions.
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Prevention is better than cure: our vision to help you live well for longer
Department of Health and Social Care, November 2018
The document sets out the government’s vision for:
stopping health problems from arising in the first place
supporting people to manage their health problems when they do arise
The goal is to improve healthy life expectancy by at least 5 extra years, by 2035, and to close the gap between the richest and poorest.
A collection of case studies has been published, showing examples of good practice in preventing health problems from happening.
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Fair funding for mental health: putting parity into practice: Briefing
Institute for Public Policy Research, November 2018
The NHS is currently in the process of authoring a long-term plan that will set out what it wants to achieve with additional funding and how this funding will be allocated. This Institute for Public Policy Research briefing argues that it is crucial that this plan raises our ambitions on mental health, what parity of esteem looks like and how much it will cost to get there.
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British Journal of Healthcare Assistants – November 2018
The November issue of British Journal of Healthcare Assistants has been published. This issue includes articles on effective wound management, raising awareness of autism spectrum disorders for healthcare workers, and the wellbeing of professional care workers.
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British Journal of Mental Health Nursing – Vol 7. No.5
Volume 7, issue 5 of British Journal of Mental Health Nursing has been published. This issue includes articles on loneliness and mental health, eating psychopathology of staff working with patients with an eating disorder, and embedding recovery-based approaches into mental health nurse training.
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British Journal of Community Nursing – November 2018
The November issue of British Journal of Community Nursing has been published. This issue includes articles on winter and key infection prevention practices, caseload profiling in district nursing, and improving personalization in a district nursing team.
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How Should Health Policy Respond To The Growing Challenge Of Multimorbidity?: We need patient-centred care, with more emphasis on generalist rather than specialist care and better integration between general practice, hospitals and social care: (Policy Report 39)
University of Bristol, Policy Bristol, October 2018
The number of people with multiple long-term conditions, known as multimorbidity, is rising internationally, putting increased pressure on health care systems, including the NHS. Researchers from the 3D Study – the largest ever trial of a person-centred approach to caring for patients with multimorbidity in primary care. This report discusses the challenges facing general practice and how the health care system needs to respond. People with multimorbidity – one or more long-term health conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease and dementia – are more likely to experience poor quality of life and poor physical and mental health. They use both general practice and hospital services far more often than the general population. However, healthcare systems around the world are largely designed to manage individual diseases or episodes of illness rather than patients with complex multiple health care needs.
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