Health Management and Policy Alert

Getting To Outcomes: guide for teen pregnancy prevention

RAND Corporation - 
Getting To Outcomes (GTO) is a ten-step process that guides community organisations through the key tasks needed to make any prevention program a success. This guide offers tools and instructions to help assess the need for and select a teenage pregnancy prevention programme; identify goals and outcomes; use process and outcome evaluation measures; and plan for programme sustainability. The guide is accompanied by an outcome survey and an evaluation data workbook.

• Guidance
• Associated documentation

Reducing child mortality in London

Public Health England (PHE) - 
This document outlines the background and key statistics on the number of child deaths, causes of death and avoidable deaths in London and provides actions to reduce child mortality. 

• Report
• PHE publications

Supporting NHS finance leaders

Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) -
This report summarises the research carried out by the HFMA on behalf of Future-Focused Finance into the obstacles faced by aspiring finance leaders in achieving their career ambitions and the support available for aspiring and current finance leaders. It draws on interviews with aspiring finance leaders, the results of a survey of aspiring and current finance leaders and desk-based research.
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• Report
• HFMA - publications

Financial forecasting in the NHS

Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) -
Being able to produce an accurate operational and financial plan and then to estimate how the organisation will perform in financial terms against that plan is a key responsibility of NHS finance directors. This briefing focuses on how financial performance is estimated, predicted and reported within the NHS. It also includes a number of case studies to illustrate how the theory is applied in practice and how some organisations tackle the challenges of forecasting.
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• Briefing
• HFMA - publications

The state of maternity services in England

Picker Institute Europe -
This policy briefing focuses on the meaning of maternity care and analyses the main characteristics of maternity services in England. It outlines the broader implications of changing quality in maternity care settings and includes suggestions for further actions and policy measures needed to improve the quality of care in English maternity services.

• Policy briefing
• Picker Institute Europe - news

Managing care home closures

Care Quality Commission (CQC) -
This good practice guide aims to help minimise the impact on people, and their families and carers, in the event of a care home closing in response to poor care, an emergency or market exit. The guide has been developed following an event co-hosted by CQC and NHSE earlier this year to explore how unplanned care home closures are managed, learning from the experience of residents and families. At this event it was agreed that the system needs an agreed set of essential principles, underpinned by a framework of actions, to ensure the needs of people using services, their families and carers remain at the heart of the closure process.

• Guidance
• Management checklist
• CQC press release

NHS grants case studies

Regional Voices - 
These three case studies show how innovative use of NHS grants to voluntary organisations can help respond to the needs of patients and the public, and also target health inequalities. The case studies illustrate examples of the NHS and the voluntary sector working together effectively to improve people's health and wellbeing in their local community.

• Case studies
• Regional Voices news

Working with epilepsy and homelessness: guidance for community nurses

Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI) - 
This guidance is aimed at community nurses and it provides advice on how to support people who are homeless and who have epilepsy. It covers the specific risks and needs of people who are homeless and includes useful advice nurses to enable nurses to support patients with epilepsy and give practical advice for coordinating their care.

• Guidance
• Press release

Lethal and illegal: London's air pollution crisis

Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) - 
This report argues that London is breaking both legal and World Health Organization limits on air pollution and attributes this mainly to road pollution. The mortality impact of air pollution in London has been estimated at 9,400 premature deaths and the report argues that this makes air pollution the second most significant factor impacting on public health in London, after smoking. The report calls for a level of national and local policy changes to disincentivise the use of diesel vehicles and to encourage alternative forms of sustainable transport.

• Report
• Press release

Local empowerment: how to achieve a sustainable health service

Localis - 
This report, sponsored by KPMG, recommends that local areas should negotiate health devolution deals directly with the government to empower local leaders to drive integration, transformation and financial sustainability in their local health and care economies. . It argues that much more NHS funding should be raised and controlled locally with local NHS and local government leaders devolved total control of their entire local health budget. Correspondingly local areas should be increasingly free of central government control and direction, with greater local flexibilities.

• Report
• Press release