The Audit Commission and Monitor have jointly published a guide called ‘Delivering sustainable cost improvement programmes’ aimed at acute, ambulance, mental health and specialist NHS trusts and foundation trusts. It summarises how successful organisations approach the delivery of cost improvement programmes.
As the NHS attempts to secure unprecedented productivity gains, new research from the Nuffield Trust suggests how hospitals can improve efficiency.
This report published by the NHS Conferation’s Mental Health Network makes a number of recommendations for Government, the NHS Commissioning Board and emerging clinical commissioning groups for developing an outcomes-based approach to improving mental health.
This report presents an evaluation of existing models of community-based support for people with dementia, their families and carers.
Dementia has been made a high level priority for action in the recently published Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2012/13.
NHS South of England officially came into effect on 3rd October 2011. It is made up of three former strategic health authorities NHS South Central, NHS South East Coast and NHS South West.
The Care Quality Commission has published results of the 2011 survey of people who use community mental health services. The results are set to play an important role in the government’s new mental health outcomes strategy.
NICE has published a set of new proposed indicators for 2012/13 QOF. Set to drive up quality of care across general practice, the menu will help target resources where they are most needed and deliver the best patient outcomes.
A peer review is planned for September to November 2011 in each of the hospital sites in the South West to explore progress in implementing the standards for dementia care in hospitals.
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and the Dementia Action Alliance have launched a call to action to work together to improve the quality of life of people with dementia and their carers by reducing the inappropriate use of antipsychotics for these people.