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Tag Archives: Local Strategic Planning
South East Coast Strategic Clinical Networks (SECSCNs)
Summary Strategic Clinical Networks (SCNs) are networks to improve health services for specific patient groups or conditions. They work in partnership with commissioners (including local government), and support strategic planning and commissioning decisions. Such networks work across commissioner, provider and … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, End of Life Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Stroke, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Area Teams: Surrey and Sussex Kent and Medway, Cardiovascular Disease, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Clinical Leadership, Clinical Senates, Collaborative Commissioning, Commissioning Dementia Care, Commissioning Dementia Services, Commissioning for Outcomes, Commissioning Local Services, Commissioning Networks, Commissioning NHS Services, Commissioning Support, Electronic Palliative Care Coordinating Systems (EPaCCS), EPaCCS, Health and Wellbeing, Health and Wellbeing Boards: Surrey and Sussex Kent and Medway, Health Education England Kent Surrey and Sussex, Healthwatch Brighton and Hove, Healthwatch East Sussex, Healthwatch Kent, Healthwatch Medway, Healthwatch Surrey, Healthwatch West Sussex, Kent Surrey Sussex Academic Health Science Network, Local Health Services: Variations, Local Strategic Planning, Local Variations, Multi-Professional Clinical Leadership, NHS Citizen, NHS England South, NHS Improving Quality (IQ), NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ), PHE: Public Health England, Post-Diagnostic Support, Public Health England (PHE), RAISE, Reducing Variation, SECSCNs: South East Coast Strategic Clinical Networks, Shared Strategic Planning, South East Coast Strategic Clinical Networks (SECSCNs), South of England SCG, South of England Specialised Commissioning Group, Specialised Commissioning Groups, Strategic Clinical Networks, Strategic Clinical Networks (SCNs), Strategic Clinical Networks for Mental Health Dementia and Neurological Conditions, Strategic Planning, Strategic Planning and Commissioning, Stroke Clinical Advisory Group, Timely Diagnosis, Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Variations in Quality of Care
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Baseline Assessment Tool on Dementia (NICE)
Summary An Excel spreadsheet (the “Baseline assessment tool on Dementia”) has been released by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to help organisations identify how well they comply with practice recommended in NICE guidance. It is intended … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Antipsychotics, Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, End of Life Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NICE Guidelines, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Pharmacological Treatments, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK
Tagged Auditing, Baseline Assessment Tool on Dementia (NICE), Benchmarking, Caregiver Support, Carer Support, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Commissioning Cycle, Commissioning Dementia Care, Commissioning Dementia Services, Commissioning Development, Commissioning for Outcomes, Commissioning Pack for Dementia, Commissioning Support, Commissioning Support Tools, Commissioning Task, Dementia Benchmarking Framework, Diagnosis and Assessment, Diagnosis Rates, Early Diagnosis, Equality and Diversity, Guideline on Supporting People with Dementia and Their Carers in Health and Social Care, Inpatient Dementia Services, Integrated Care Services, Integrated Commissioning, Local Commissioning, Local Strategic Planning, Memory Services, National Clinical Practice Guideline Number 42, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), NHS Benchmarking, NICE–SCIE Guideline on Supporting People with Dementia and Their Carers in Health and Social Care, Pain Relief, Prescribing Anti-Psychotic Drugs to People with Dementia, Timely Diagnosis
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Parity of Esteem: Guidance on Mental Health Commissioning (NHS England)
Summary This NHS England document offers planning guidance to assist commissioners in their planning with regard to how local communities and CCGs can achieve greater “parity of esteem” between physical and mental health. This document supplies evidence, case studies and … Continue reading
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Mental Health Foundation, Mental Health Network (NHS Confederation), National, NHS, NHS Confederation, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Access to Mental Health Services, Adult Mental Health Services, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Adult Social Care Services, Better Care Fund, Bridging the Gap Campaign, CCGs, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Centre for Mental Health, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Commissioning for Outcomes, Commissioning for Parity of Esteem, Commissioning for Value, Commissioning for Value Packs, Crisis Care Concordat, Economic Impact of Mental Health Problems, English Local Authorities, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, House of Care, House of Care Model, IAPT: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Programme, Integrated Pathway Hub (IPH), Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), JSNAs: Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, Local Authorities, Local Strategic Planning, London School of Economics, Long Term Conditions and Mental Health, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Long-Term Mental Illness, Market Assessment, Mental Health, Mental Health Care, Mental Health Co-Morbidities, Mental Health Commissioning, Mental Health Crisis, Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat, Mental Health Foundation (MHF), Mental Health in England, Mental Health Inequalities, Mental Health Strategy, Mental Healthcare, Mental Illness in the NHS, Mind, NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network (MHN), NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), No Decision About Me Without Me, No Health Without Mental Health Strategy, Older People and Mental Health, Older People’s Mental Health Services, Parity of Esteem, Preventative Care, Prevention, Preventive Care, Redesigning Services, Rethink Mental Illness, Setting Priorities, Social Care Provision, Strategic Planning, Strategic Planning and Commissioning, The Royal College of Psychiatrists, Transformative Ideas for Commissioners, Unmet Care Needs, Unmet Health Needs, Unwarranted Variations
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Any Town Toolkit: NHS England’s Modelling Toolkit for CCGs (NHS England)
Summary The “Any Town” Toolkit is a high-level health system modelling toolkit provided by NHS England to assist CCGs in determining which interventions might best improve their local health services (ideally whilst saving money). It is intended to help commissioners … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Depression, Diagnosis, End of Life Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, Telecare, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 24-Hour Asthma Services, 24-Hour Home Nursing Services, Acute GP Units, Acute Stroke Services, Acute Visiting Services, Any Town Toolkit, Cancer, Cancer Screening Programmes, Case Management, CCGs, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Co-Design and Co-Delivery, Commissioning Liaison Psychiatry, Coordinated Care, Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), Dementia Liaison Services, Dementia Pathway, Early Adopter Interventions, Early Diagnosis, Eclipse Live, Electronic Palliative Care Co-ordination Systems (EPaCCS), Electronic Palliative Care Coordinating Systems (EPaCCS), Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems (EPaCCS), EPaCCS, GP Tele-Consultation, Heart Failure, High Impact Interventions, Hyper-Acute Stroke Units, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Liaison Psychiatry Services, Liaison Services, Local Strategic Planning, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Lung Disease, Management of Medicines, Medicines Management, Medicines Optimisation, Multi-Disciplinary Case Management, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), Occupational Therapists in A&E, Older Demographics, Palliative Care, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Psychiatric Liaison Services, Rapid Access to Doctors at Home, Rapid Assessment Interface and Discharge (RAID), Reducing Variability in Primary Care, Rural Areas, Self-Management, Self-Management in Chronic Illness, Self-Management Support, Service User Networks, Strategic Planning, Strategic Planning and Commissioning, Stroke, Tele-Consultation in Primary Care, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, User Networks
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Planning and Delivering Service Change (NHS England)
Summary This good practice guide for commissioners, from NHS England‘s Strategy Unit, has been released to assist clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in developing proposals for major service change and reconfiguration. “The new guidance provides a one stop resource for the … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Guidelines, Integrated Care, National, NHS, NHS Confederation, NHS England, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Standards, UK
Tagged Accountability and Assurance, Analytics, Assessment of Proposals (Against Four Tests), Assurance Checkpoint, Assurance of Directly Commissioned Services, Capability and Capacity Planning, CCG Committees, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Challenges of Reconfiguration, Choice and Competition, Clinical Commissioner Leadership, Clinical Commissioners Test, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Clinical Involvement in Policy Decisions, Clinical Quality Improvement, Clinical Reference Groups (CRGs), Clinically-Driven Change, Clinically-Led Commissioning, Co-Commissioning, Collaborative Commissioning, Collaborative Decision Making, Collaborative Working, Commissioning: Evaluation Expert Panels, Consultation Principles, Data and Information Management Systems, DCSC: Directly Commissioned Services Committee, Direct Commissioning, Directly Commissioned Services, Directly Commissioned Services Committee, Directly Commissioned Services Committee (DCSC), Directly Commissioned Services Committee (NHS England), Dispute Resolution, Engagement, Engagement Model for Specialised Services, Equality Delivery System (EDS), Ethical Framework and Commissioning Policies, Evaluation Expert Panels, Expert Panels, Financial Control, Four Tests (For Proposed Service Changes), Four Tests (Key Questions), Good Practice Guide to Major Service Change, Health and Social Care Reform, Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs), Health Care Reform, Health Gateway Process (formerly the OGC Gateway), Health Gateway Review Process, Health Scrutiny, Improvement Methods for Re-design of Care Processes, Independent Advice, Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP), Integrated Needs Assessments And Commissioning Plans, Involvement and Participation, JHWSs: Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies, Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies, Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, JSNAs: Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, Leadership, Local Authorities (LAs), Local Authority Health Scrutiny Bodies, Local Authority Scrutiny of Health Services, Local Strategic Planning, Major Service Change, National Clinical Advisory Team (NCAT), National Health Service Act 2006, National Voices, NHS Change Model, NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), NHS England's Strategy Unit, NHS England: Public Voice Team, NHS England’s Clinical Priorities Advisory Group (CPAG), NHS England’s Directly Commissioned Services Committee, NHS Reform, NHS Reform in England, NHS Service Reconfiguration, Operational Leadership, Overview and Scrutiny Committees (OSCs), Partnership and Collaboration, Partnership Working, Patient and Public Engagement (PPE), Patient and Public Engagement Steering Group (now the PPV AG), Patient and Public Involvement, Patient and Public Participation, Patient and Public Voice, PPVAG: Public and Patient Voice Assurance Group, Prioritisation Framework, Public and Patient Voice Assurance Group (PPV AG), Public Participation, Quality Assurance, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement Approaches, Rare Diseases Advisory Group, Redesigning Care Pathways, Redesigning Services, Reform, Reforming Social Care, Review of NHS England’s Ethical Framework and Generic Commissioning Policies, Service Change Assurance, Service Redesign, Specialised Commissioning, Specialised Commissioning Oversight Group, Specialised Commissioning Oversight Group (SCOG), Specialised Commissioning Stakeholder Newsletter, Specialised Commissioning Task Force, Specialised Commissioning Task Force Work Stream 1: Strategic Projects, Specialised Commissioning Task Force Work Stream 2: Strategy, Specialised Commissioning Task Force Work Stream 3: Clinically-Driven Change, Specialised Commissioning Task Force Work Stream 4: Operational Leadership, Specialised Commissioning Task Force Work Stream 5: Commercial and Technical Delivery, Specialised Commissioning Task Force Work Stream 6: Strong Financial Control, Specialised Commissioning Task Force Work Stream 7: Analytics, Specialised Healthcare Alliance, Specialised Services’ Patient and Public Voice Assurance Group (PPV AG), Strategic Planning, Strategic Sense Check, Transforming Participation in Health and Care, User Participation, Whole Systems Redesign, Widening Participation, Working with Local Authorities
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