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This report focuses on the need to successfully engage the public in difficult decisions about changing services. It begins with case studies sharing the experiences and learning from three different reconfiguration projects, followed by a series of top tips on how to get public engagement right.
Academic / research papers
Empowering patients to manage and shape their own health and health care is crucial if we are going to realise the vision of a more person-centred NHS.
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This docuement provides support for commissioners to implement programmes at a local level that put patients in control of their own healthcare.
Blog
In this article Lisa Burscheidt, Assistant Librarian at North East London NHS Foundation Trust describes how, despite mental health problems being common in young people aged 16-25, access to services is a problem as young people rarely feel comfortable approaching their GP about mental health problems.
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This briefing is aimed at commissioners and providers considering developing an outcomes-based commissioning approach that includes community health services and is particularly relevant to providers of community services. It explains outcomes-based commissioning and outlines how it might help enable service transformation.
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The Personalised care and support planning handbook is aimed at commissioners and care practitioners(i.e. not just health and care professionals, but also othe rnon-clinical and volunteer roles), and is intended to set out what personalised care and support planning is, and how to deliver it.
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This briefing summarises the background to personal health budgets, provides brief information on a number of key questions relating to planning and managing risk in introducing personal health budgets and highlights other sources of practical help and advice. The briefing is intended to support leaders and managers in organisations commissioning and providing NHS-funded care and who are introducing personal health budgets.
Case studies
This paper describes the approach Islington has taken locally to implementing the House of Care and integrated care.
Case studies
For self-management support services to become a reality in local areas across the country, they need to be commissioned. The commissioning of such services presents plenty of challenges however.
Other tools and resources
The ‘Any town’ toolkit, which uses high level health system modelling, allows clinical commissioning groups to map how interventions could improve local health services and close the financial gap. It includes self-management support and telehealth / telecare amongst the 'high impact interventions' it identifies which are already proven to have a significant impact.