Health Management and Policy Alert

Transform ageing report: supporting people in later life through social entrepreneurship, community and design

Design Council -
The Transform Ageing programme is a community and design-led programme delivered through a partnership led by the Design Council that aims to improve people’s experience of ageing. This summary outlines the key insights, learning and evaluation from the programme. A full report will be published later this year.

• Report
• Design Council - publications

Specialised services: transforming delivery for patients

NHS Providers - 
This report shows how NHS specialised services are adapting to a changing environment to deliver world class and innovative care for patients and service users. It shares the opinions of leaders from trusts and the wider health and care sector on key issues and looks at the key role specialised services play in delivering the ambitions of the long term plan.

• Report
• NHS Providers - news

Locked out?: prisoners’ use of hospital care

Nuffield Trust -
This research shows four in ten hospital appointments made for prisoners are cancelled or missed and that over one in ten pregnant prisoners gave birth either in prison or on their way to hospital in 2017/18.

• Report
• Nuffield Trust - press release

Primary Care Networks: briefing paper for VCSE sector organisations

National Voices -
This briefing paper explains a new way in which health and care services are being organised locally across England and explores how VCSE organisations might supply knowledge, expertise and training to help PCNs develop. The authors argue that this could be vital in making sure PCNs become more closely engaged with their local communities.

• Briefing
• National Voices - publications

Productivity of the English National Health Service: 2017/18 update

Centre for Health Economics -
This report updates the Centre for Health Economics’ time-series of NHS productivity growth for the period 2016/17 to 2017/18. Between 2016/17 and 2017/18, NHS productivity grew by 1.26 per cent when using the mixed measure of NHS input growth, which includes a direct (volume) growth measure for NHS staff and an indirect (based on expenditure data) growth measure for materials and capital. The report also considers a range of alternative scarios including using a fully indirect measure of growth inputs.

• Report
• Centre for Health Economics - news

UK strategy for rare diseases: 2020 update to the implementation plan for England

Department of Health and Social Care -
This paper contains a summary of the strategy's progress and actions for the government and partner organisations for 2020. It covers five main areas: empowering those affected by rare diseases; identifying and preventing rare diseases; diagnosis and early intervention; coordination of care; and the role of research.

• Policy paper
• Department of Health and Social Care - publications

Revised Government spending plans for 2019/20

House of Commons Library -
This briefing contains details of the Supplementary Estimates for 2019/20, the Government's revised set of spending plans for each department, which will go before Parliament for approval on 2 March 2020.

• Briefing
• House of Commons Library - publications

Older people’s hospital admissions in the last year of life

Public Health England - 

This report explores the relationship between hospital admissions and age, sex, cause of death in people aged 75 years and older, who comprise the majority (~69 per cent) of all people who die. The hospital admissions considered include emergency admissions, planned admissions and day cases. It describes the number and type of admissions and the proportion of admissions that were emergency admissions within 30 days of a previous discharge.

• Report
• More detail

Advantage GM: unlocking the longevity economy for Greater Manchester

International Longevity Centre UK - 

Greater Manchester (GM) is an international leader in ageing. As the UK’s first age-friendly city region, it is at the forefront of global efforts to adapt to demographic change and population ageing. GM’s new Local Industrial Strategy makes clear its ambition to capitalise on the economic opportunities of ageing and promote healthy and active ageing for all. This report examines the opportunities for innovation and economic growth in four key sectors: retail, culture, hospitality, tourism and sport; transport and mobility; housing; and health and social care.

• Report
• Press release

Health equity in England: The Marmot Review 10 years on

Institute of Health Equity - 

Ten years since the publication of The Marmot Review, for the first time in more than 100 years life expectancy has failed to increase across the country, and for the poorest ten per cent of women it has actually declined. Over the last decade health inequalities have widened overall, and the amount of time people spend in poor health has increased since 2010. Because health is closely linked to the circumstances in which we are born, grow, live, work and age, large funding cuts, under the banner of austerity, have had an adverse effect.

• Report
• More detail