NHS England and NHS Improvement, November 2019
This factsheet, aimed at the general public, explains what social prescribing is.
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NHS Personalised Care: Shared decision making: Factsheet
NHS England and NHS Improvement, November 2019
This factsheet explains that shared decision making is about supporting people to be as involved in decisions about their care and treatment as they want.
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National workforce plan for Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs)
Department of Health and Social Care, November 2019
Understanding the role of AMHPs in mental health services to help with recruitment and retention of the role in local areas. This document is a resource for agencies wishing to develop their AMHP services and aims to explain the role of AMHPs in mental health services. It contains a summary of all the current guidance. It is for local authorities, directors of adult and children’s social care, NHS mental health trusts, and integrated care system workforce leads.
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Artificial intelligence: How to get it right: Putting policy into practice for safe data-driven innovation in health and care
NHSX, November 2019
NHSX report intended to provide a cohesive overview of the current state of play of data-driven technologies within the health and care system. It aims to make clear where in the system AI technologies can be utilised and the policy work that is, and will need to be done, to ensure this utilisation is done in a safe, effective and ethically acceptable manner.
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A descriptive analysis of health care use by high cost, high need patients in England
The Health Foundation, November 2019
The Health Foundation report exploring health care use by the top 5 per cent of users of primary and secondary care services by cost.
• Despite the increasing financial pressure on the NHS over the past decades, there has been little research to understand the distribution and concentration of health care costs across the population.
• This paper explores for the first time the distribution of both primary and secondary health care costs in England, including GP-prescribed drug cost. Identifying high-cost, high-need patients and examining the way in which they use health care services might help to design initiatives to reduce costs or to improve efficiency.
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Get a move on: Steps to increase activity levels in the UK
British Medical Association, October 2019
British Medical Association briefing that examines the wide range of benefits of physical activity, the current low levels of physical activity in the UK and the significant inequalities that exist in levels of physical activity within the population. Policy recommendations across four core parts of people’s lives
• travel,
• leisure,
• school
• work
It sets out the steps government and policy-makers should take to increase physical activity levels across the UK.
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Better care for patients and service users
NHS Providers, October 2019
This report explores how different trusts have responded to feedback from the CQC and delivered improvements by exploring the leadership approaches and frontline initiatives that underpin improvements in quality.
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Children and young people’s mental health: prevention evidence: Summary report and outputs from a review of evidence for universal approaches to improving children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing.
Public Health England, October 2019
This series of reports summarises the evidence for the effectiveness of universal approaches to improving children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. The documents are intended for strategic and operational leads, working on children and young people’s mental health. The report of the findings of a Special Interest Group summarises the approach, findings and recommendations.
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Introduction of nursing associates – year 2: evaluation report
Health Education England, November 2019
The Nursing Associate role is a new support role that sits alongside existing healthcare support workers and fully-qualified registered nurses to deliver hands-on care for patients. This report provides an evaluation of the Nursing Associate test site programme of Nursing Associates which began in January 2017.
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The British Journal of Psychiatry – November 2019
The November issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry is now available. This issue includes articles on cognitive deficits in problematic internet use, autism spectrum disorder in adults, and the clinical and biological effects of long-term lithium use in older adults.
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