GPs’ hotline to consultants helps cut referrals and admissions
A new mobile telephone service linking GPs to consultants for immediate advice is reducing inappropriate referrals while building relationships between local doctors in the south-west.Consultant Link,...
View ArticleCase study on Manchester service-change programme
This case study features the Healthier Together programme which is an area-wide, service-change initiative in Greater Manchester that encompasses primary and community care, hospital services and...
View ArticleService redesign case study: Southern Health acquisition of Ridgeway
This case study from the NHS Confederation features the merger bewteen Ridgeway Partnership - a learning disability trust - and Southern Health NHS FT's learning disability division that was...
View ArticleTalking Health – a web based patient engagement project
NHS Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Cluster has increased patient engagement and gained better commissioning information with its new web-based system, Talking Health.Over the past two years the site...
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Industry partnerships in respiratory health
Partners in Delivery is a practical guide that sets out the various models of partnership working with pharmaceutical and the wider healthcare industry with case studies from the DH respiratory...
View ArticleService reconfiguration case study: Better Healthcare in Bucks
This case study features the Better Healthcare in Bucks programme that sought to reshape services in Buckinghamshire to deliver better, more cost-effective and sustainable care in the most appropriate...
View ArticleCase study on specialist emergency care in Northumbria
This case study features the establishment of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's new urgent and emergency care facility. The facility resulted from several years’ strategic planning and a...
View ArticlePilot study improves patient care with reduced cost to NHS
Patients with musculoskeletal (MSK) problems have seen care improve and waiting times cut as part of a pilot saving the NHS tens of thousands of pounds.Newcastle West Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)...
View ArticleRedesigning maternity services in Sandwell and West Birmingham
This case study is part of a series designed to share good practice and lessons learned by local NHS organisations involved in major reviews of local health services. It features a review of maternity...
View ArticleCase study: getting health checks up and running
PCC helped a local health economy implement a programme of local health checks. Despite tight deadlines, PCC managed to galvanise the support of local clinicians and managers to get the services up and...
View ArticleHealth visitor programme: early implementer case studies
These 20 case studies have been developed by organisations delivering services for children and families as part of the early implementer programme learning and sharing workstream. They complement the...
View ArticleHow active are our children? Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study
These findings showed that only half of seven year-old children in the UK achieve recommended levels of physical activity, with significant gender, ethnic and geographic variations. The report states...
View ArticleOxleas advanced dementia service
The King’s Fund latest co-ordinated care case study looks at Oxleas advanced dementia service, which provides specialist palliative care and support to patients with advanced dementia living at...
View ArticleCase study: palliative cancer care – Greenwich Care Partnership
An end of life care service involving two voluntary groups and a community trust commissioned by NHS Greenwich CCG has allowed more people to die in their preferred place of care - the main indicator...
View ArticleRefreshing new start for primary care alcohol services
A GP-led service treating patients with alcohol misuse disorders in primary care has increased the numbers receiving treatment, improved outcomes and reduced pressure on expensive consultant-led...
View ArticleCroydon recruits allies in urgent care revolution
Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group’s (CCG) efforts to reverse the rise in emergency department (ED) attendances have taken the form of a coalition of local health care providers. Having inherited a...
View ArticleIntegrated care teams in practices help east London treat the ‘whole patient’
Integration based on sophisticated risk profiling of patients, particularly those with long term conditions (LTCs), has started to deliver results for health services and their patients in east London....
View ArticleSmallest CCG wins high praise for emergency care
The opening of an urgent care centre (UCC) has reaped rapid results for England’s smallest clinical commissioning group (CCG). Since the Corby UCC opened its doors in a phased process through last...
View ArticleThree Ts hold the key to better care and savings
GPs must be motivated and given the skills to implement new pathways intended to save money and improve care, according to one GP commissioner. Dr Umesh Roy, innovation lead on the Leicester City...
View ArticleCancer survivors offered new pathway to normality
Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is working with Macmillan Cancer Care to develop a survivorship pathway that emphasises individualised support in the community for people living with and...
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