Health Management and Policy Alert

Community pharmacies: promoting health and wellbeing - consultation

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence -
This draft quality standard is open for consultation. The quality standard calls for community pharmacy services to be included in existing care and referral pathways. This will allow community pharmacy teams to accept as well as make referrals to the service most appropriate for the person. The closing date for comments is 14 February 2020.

• Consultation
• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence - news

The burden of disease in England compared with 22 peer countries: a report for NHS England

Public Health England -
This document compares England to 22 other countries, and sets out the relative position of England compared with 22 international peers in relation to the major disease burdens. It also identifies which diseases and risk factors in England are or are not improving and diseases and risks improving at a faster, or slower rate compared to peer countries. The paper compares England with both EU and non-EU countries.

• Report
• Public Health England - publications

HIV in the United Kingdom: towards zero HIV transmissions by 2030, 2019 report

Public Health England -
This report shows that due to increases in HIV testing, fewer people remain unaware of their HIV status. It concludes that the goal of eliminating HIV transmission by 2030 depends on sustaining prevention efforts and further expanding them to reach all at risk.

• Report
• Public Health England - press release

Community-centred public health: taking a whole system approach

Public Health England -
These resources aim to provide guidance to improve the effectiveness and sustainability of action to build healthy communities and embed community-centred ways of working within whole systems action to improve population health. They are intended for use by local authority, NHS and voluntary and community sector decision makers.

• Guidance
• Public Health England - publications

Flu vaccination: increasing uptake

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence - 

This quality standard covers increasing the uptake of flu vaccination among people who are eligible. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement. It does not cover uptake of flu vaccination in people aged 65 and over.

• Quality standard

The English local government public health reforms: an independent assessment

Local Government Association

This report, commissioned from The King's Fund, assesses the success of the 2013 reforms to public health in England, which were part of the coalition government’s wider health reform programme. These reforms, which saw the responsibility for many aspects of public health move from the NHS to local government, involved the transition of staff and services and required the formation of new relationships to ensure public health was embedded across local government services.

• Report
• More detail

 

Flu vaccination: increasing uptake

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence -
This quality standard covers increasing the uptake of flu vaccination among people who are eligible. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement. It does not cover uptake of flu vaccination in people aged 65 and over.

• Quality standard

Delivering better oral health: guideline development manual

Public Health England -
This guidance provides details of the methodology used to review the evidence that underpins ‘Delivering better oral health’. In common with clinical guidelines worldwide, it adopts the GRADE (Grades of Recommendation Assessment, Development and Evaluation) system to assess the certainty of the evidence, and uses the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE II) principles as a code of conduct for the guideline development process.

• Guidance
• Public Health England - publications

Collaborative commissioning for sexual health, reproductive health and HIV: a review of 4 areas

Public Health England - 

In 2016, Public Health England (PHE) and partner agencies undertook a survey of sexual health, reproductive health and HIV commissioning and published an accompanying action plan. One of the key actions was to support two pilot areas in developing collaborative approaches. PHE has undertaken an evaluation of these two areas and two other areas that had adopted a collaborative approach to commissioning. This review provides a summary of the evaluation and the existing frameworks that can support collaborative working. The slide set details the methodology and findings from this qualitative evaluation.

• Review
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Immunisations: applying All Our Health

Public Health England -
This guidance contains examples to help health and care professionals make interventions to promote the benefits and increase uptake of immunisations.

• Guidance
• Public Health England - publications