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.
Department of Health and Social Care -
This action plan sets out how the Department of Health and Social Care and delivery partners will implement the UK Rare Diseases Framework in England. The framework was published in January 2021, setting out a shared vision for addressing health inequalities and improving the lives of people living with rare diseases across the UK. It outlined 4 key national priorities: helping patients get a final diagnosis faster; increasing awareness among healthcare professionals; better co-ordination of care; and improving access to specialist care, treatment and drugs. This report details progress against 29 existing actions as well as introducing 7 new actions.
NHS England -
The FRAIL strategy supports wider healthcare systems to deliver and improve acute frailty services across England by setting out a practical approach. This will mean more older people living with frailty can be safely discharged on the same day they arrive, avoiding admission overnight.
Patient Safety Commissioner -
This report finds that thousands of women, children, and families have been harmed by these two medical interventions — valproate and pelvic mesh — and that there is a compelling case for the government to award them redress. The report recommends the government creates a two-stage financial redress scheme — an interim scheme to enable the identification of all those harmed ensuring patients receive financial redress quickly and a main scheme.
Times Health Commission -
The Times Health Commission was given the task of suggesting reforms to improve the NHS. Three core principles became clear and underpin this report, backed up by detailed research, case studies and recommendations. The core principles are: the system must be rebalanced away from hospitals and a greater emphasis put on prevention and community care; health is an intricate ecosystem so there is no solution that does not involve reform of social care; and technology has the power to transform healthcare.
Department of Health and Social Care -
In England, general practices are incentivised through two main schemes, the Quality and Outcomes Framework and the Investment and Impact Fund. These schemes aim to enhance health care delivery and patient outcomes by incentivising continuous improvement in clinical care and public health delivery. This consultation seeks views on the role of incentives in general practice. The closing date for comments is 7 March 2024.
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists -
This document highlights the challenges in maternity triage departments and defines their role as emergency portals into maternity units for unscheduled attendances. The paper is directed at stakeholders responsible for developing and improving maternity services. It presents the recommendations for the operational structure and pathways within maternity triage to improve safety and experience for both women and staff, through prompt standardised initial assessment and the use of symptom-specific algorithms to determine urgency, and outlines the key requirements for successful implementation.
Education Policy Institute (EPI) -
This report assesses the progress that has been made against government targets to improve children and young people’s mental health services since 2015. Whilst some progress has been made in improving service provision, EPI finds that this has been outpaced by rising demand for services, with concerning levels of variation in the services available across England and a need for better data and greater transparency regarding service availability, quality and outcomes. Informed by these findings and advice from advisory groups, EPI makes a range of policy recommendations, providing a blueprint for a future government’s strategy to improve children and young people’s mental health services.
British Geriatrics Society -
Front door frailty services (FDF) exist to identify people living with frailty as soon as they present to a hospital, to ensure that they are diverted to appropriate services as quickly as possible and, ideally, to ensure they are discharged to their normal place of residence (home or care home) the same day. Evidence suggests that these services benefit older patients as well as reducing pressure on hospitals. They have had a positive impact everywhere they have been introduced. This guide sets out five principles that should underpin FDF services to older people presenting at emergency departments. It provides tips on establishing services from those who have been through the process.
Cancer Research UK -
This manifesto sets out the measures and commitments Cancer Research UK states the next government can make to help prevent 20,000 cancer deaths every year by 2040. It has been developed with the insights of cancer patients and experts from across health, life sciences, government and academic sectors.