Health Management and Policy Alert

Artificial intelligence: how to get it right - putting policy into practice for safe data-driven innovation in health and care

NHSX -
This report is intended to provide a cohesive overview of the current state of play of data-driven technologies within the health and care system. It aims to make clear where in the system AI technologies can be utilised and the policy work that is, and will need to be done, to ensure this utilisation is done in a safe, effective and ethically acceptable manner.

• Report
• NHSX - blog

A descriptive analysis of health care use by high cost, high need patients in England

The Health Foundation -
This paper explores health care use by the top 5 per cent of users of primary and secondary care services by cost.

• Report
• The Health Foundation - publications

International comparisons of capital in health care: why is the UK falling behind?

The Health Foundation -
This analysis suggests that the UK is investing significantly less in health care capital – which includes buildings, equipment and IT – as a share of GDP compared to most other similar countries. As a result, the total value of capital in health care in the UK has fallen.

• Report
• The Health Foundation - press release

Spatial planning and health Getting Research into Practice (GRIP): study report

Public Health England -
The GRIP initiative aims to help local authority public health and planning teams to influence the planning process in an evidenced-based way by ensuring that improvements in health and wellbeing underpin all local plans and the design of local development projects. This study explores the opportunities and challenges of applying the principles in Public Health England's Spatial Planning for Health: an evidence resource.

• Report
• Spatial planning for health: evidence review
• Public Health England - publications

Universal approaches to improving children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing: short descriptions of interventions identified from the synthesis of systematic reviews

Public Health England -
This report, and associated documents, summarises the evidence for the effectiveness of universal approaches to improving children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. The documents are intended for strategic and operational leads, working on children and young people’s mental health.

• Report
• Public Health England - publications

Leadership in strengths-based social care

Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) - 

This briefing aims to develop understanding of and provide practical advice about leading strengths-based approaches and practice that support adults with social care needs. It builds on the Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) Strengths-based approach: practice framework and practice handbook, which SCIE helped co-author, Think Local Act Personal’s asset-based area and the work of the DHSC-funded Social Care Innovation Network. Free registration is required to access this briefing.

• Briefing
• Associated webinar

EM-POWER: a practical guide to flexible working and good EM rota design

Royal College of Emergency Medicine - 

This guide is written for emergency medicine clinicians and managers looking to improve the way they manage clinical rotas and improve retention, recruitment, flexible working, and job satisfaction.

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Better care for patients and services users

NHS Providers - 

The first report in a new series of biannual reports - Providers deliver - explores how trusts have responded to feedback from Care Quality Commission in a positive and systematic way, encouraging ideas that have made a difference for patients and service users.

• Report
• More detail

Gender equality and the 100-year life: how policymakers can ensure gender equality in the era of extreme longevity

Social Market Foundation - 

This is the second report of the series focusing on how the 100-year life may affect Britain’s society, economy and public services. This report focuses on gender equality and how policy-makers can make the 100-year life work for women. Research conducted by Insuring Women’s Futures on risk patterns highlighted the six 'moments that matter' in the lives of British women – these are used as the basis for this research.

• Report
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Get a move on: steps to increase activity levels in the UK

British Medical Association - 

This briefing examines the wide range of benefits of physical activity, the current low levels of physical activity in the UK and the significant inequalities that exist in levels of physical activity within the population. Policy recommendations across four core parts of people’s lives – travel, leisure, school and work – set out the steps government and policy-makers should take to increase physical activity levels across the UK.

• Briefing
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