NHS Providers -
This report, produced in collaboration with the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives and the NHS Confederation, highlights the pivotal role ambulance trusts play in delivering urgent and emergency care and sets out a long term vision for an enhanced role they could take in co-designing this care. It sets out the case for change and includes several case studies that demonstrate the benefits of ambulance services taking this broader approach.
Midlands Decision Support Network -
This report explores the issue of GP practice productivity and efficiency — how it might be measured, how it has changed over time, the degree of geographic variation, and the relationship between productivity, efficiency, and continuity of care for patients.
Midlands Decision Support Network -
This paper finds that the use of GP practice consultations increases with age and with levels of morbidity. Since 2008, the population has aged and age-specific morbidity levels have increased. This suggests that need for GP practice consultations has grown, whilst the average number of consultations per person has reduced. It is estimated that in 2019, a patient was 12.2% less likely to receive a consultation than a patient with similar needs in 2012. An additional 36.6 million consultations (+13.9%) would have been required to meet needs in 2019 as they were in 2012.
Midlands Decision Support Network -
This paper explores the long-term trends in GP practice consultation rates. It uses two research databases, Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) Gold and Aurum, to estimate consultation rates between 1995 and 2022. The paper considers all interactions between a patient and a healthcare professional: face-to-face consultations in the GP practice, consultations conducted by telephone, or using digital technologies, and visits made to the patient. The results are set out alongside (1) estimates from other studies, (2) new data on GP appointment rates, (3) GP patient survey results, (4) information about the GP practice workforce and its workload, and (5) data on other important forms of GP Practice activity.
Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission -
Developed in collaboration with health communications agency Costello Medical, this report sets out a roadmap of actionable and impactful recommendations that aim to improve rehabilitation for patients with brain tumours. Key recommendations were to: build the evidence base that quantifies patient need for rehabilitation by providing funding/infrastructure for allied health professional-led research; develop clinical consensus recommendations on rehabilitation to inform guidelines for adults with brain tumours; and raise awareness of the benefits of rehabilitation for adults with brain tumours among all stakeholder groups.
Pathway -
This report, the first of its kind from the homelessness charities Pathway and Crisis, reveals how the national crisis facing both the UK's health and housing systems leads to worsening health for people in inclusion health groups. Drawing on 85 pieces of published literature from the past two years, and a survey of frontline medical and healthcare professionals, the findings reveal how those who are most excluded in our society struggle to access health services due to inflexibility, discrimination and stigma.
Nuffield Trust -
The Mayor of London has developed six tests to apply to major health care reconfiguration programmes in the capital, designed to ensure that major changes are in the best interests of all Londoners. The Nuffield Trust has been involved in supporting the development of these tests, and the Mayor commissioned the Nuffield Trust to undertake a review of proposals by North Central London Integrated Care Board to consolidate maternity and neonatal care services within its geographic area. This report sets out the Nuffield Trust's assessment of those proposals against the first four of the Mayor’s tests.
NHS Confederation -
Of the 560 NHS leaders who responded to an NHS Confederation survey asking for their views on the current state of equality and diversity across the health service, all said that investment in EDI was integral to improving care. The survey found that 96% of leaders say that the NHS still has issues of discrimination to overcome in access, experience and outcomes for patients.
Nuffield Trust -
Around 1.3 million people in England have a learning disability and may need more support to stay in good health. This report examines whether they are able to access the services they are entitled to in order to prevent illness. It looks at a set of five key preventive health care services and functions to understand whether they are working as they should for people with a learning disability.
Centre for Health and the Public Interest (CHPI) -
This report finds that, over the past four years, there has a been a significant increase in the number of NHS funded cataract operations in England which have been provided by private for-profit companies. This briefing note analyses the impact of this development on the finances of the NHS. It examines the percentage of the NHS budget on cataract provision which is being spent in the for-profit private sector and how this has changed over time. It also looks at changes in the percentage of the overall NHS ophthalmology budget which is being spent on cataract provision and the impact on the resources available for other types of eye care.
The King's Fund -
This latest 360 review outlines and analyses 12 key trends in adult social care in England over recent years.
Department of Health and Social Care -
The government recognises the report’s main argument that, unless appropriate actions are taken, biases can occur throughout the entire medical device life cycle. The government response provides: a summary of the government’s response to each of the 18 recommendations and calls to action; and a detailed discussion of the steps required to address the core sentiment of the recommendations and sub-recommendations.
Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) -
This report highlights that 26 per cent of local authorities leave blind and partially sighted people waiting more than a year for a vision rehabilitation assessment and subsequent support. These delays to the support people with sight loss are legally entitled to also leaves them at increased risk of physical accidents and injuries, as well as mental health crises. Amongst its recommendations, the RNIB is calling for vision rehabilitation services to be subjected to the same regulation and monitoring as other adult social care services, and commissioning of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to develop guidelines and quality standards, with local authorities having to report on these to government and publish annually.
NHS Providers -
This briefing highlights the benefits of supporting people with frailty in the community at every stage of the frailty care pathway, while considering the risks to be managed. It shares examples of good practice, and explores some of the barriers to further progress, looking at what can be done to address these and ensure people with frailty receive the right care at the right time in the right place.
Patients Association -
Through the Patients Association's project work with NHS England, patients and carers have identified several areas where NHS resources supporting meal and snack times in hospital could be strengthened or improved through minor amendments. Participants in a focus group said NHS England’s existing written resources for patients and staff were clear and helpful, but felt some changes and additional information on the online portal, where the resources are accessed, could make them even better.