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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
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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
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