Download or read book The Health Committee s report on patient and public involvement in the NHS written by Great Britain: Department of Health and published by Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document sets out the Government's reply to the Committee's report (HCP 278-I, session 2006-07; ISBN 9780215033543) on the Government's plans to replace Patient and Public Involvement Forums (PPIfs) with Local Involvement Networks (LINks) through the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill (HCB 16, session 2006-07, ISBN 9780215708014) currently going through Parliament.
Download or read book Patient and Public Involvement in the Nhs written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee's report discusses the Government's health reform policies regarding patient and public involvement in the NHS, and in particular the concerns raised by the transition from Community Health Councils (CHCs) to new systems and structures. These include the creation of a national co-ordinating body called the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health (CPPIH), as well as the establishment of Patient Advocacy and Liaison Services (PALS) within each NHS trust and Patient and Public Involvement Forums (PPIFs) to monitor day to day management of health services within each trust, and the new Overview and Security Committees (OSCs) in local authorities. The report's findings include there is an urgent need to collate and publish information on the implementation and functioning of PALS in NHS trusts across the country, as well as on the role of OSCs. The Government should ensure PPIFs are fully established by December 2003 and should extend the operation of CHCs until July 2004, to allow these new bodies sufficient time to develop. The report also expresses its amazement that there are plans for a second, and more radical, overhaul of patient involvement with the establishment of Foundation Hospitals with elected Boards of Governors. The Committee notes that these policies appear to have been formulated in total isolation from each other, and will mean the introduction of two parallel and entirely different systems of NHS patient and public involvement within one year.
Download or read book The Health Committee s Report on Patient and Public Involvement in the NHS written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patient and public involvement in the NHS written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patient and public involvement in the NHS : Third report of session 2006-07, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence
Download or read book Patient and public involvement in the NHS written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-04-20 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another volume of evidence published in February 2007 (HC 278-II, ISBN 9780215032393)
Download or read book Patient and public involvement in the NHS written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-04-20 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee's previous report into this issue (HCP 697, session 2002-03, ISBN 9780215011978) published in July 2003, examined the Government's policy reforms for patient and public involvement in the NHS, and in particular the concerns raised by the transition from Community Health Councils (CHCs) to new systems and structures such as Patient and Public Involvement Forums (PPIfs). Now, just over three years after they were established, the Government has set out plans to replace PPIfs with Local Involvement Networks (LINks), through the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill (HCB 16, session 2006-07, ISBN 9780215708014) currently going through Parliament. This current report seeks to inform the Commons consideration of the report stage of this Bill as well as considering a number of broader issues, including: the recent history of patient and public involvement, the effectiveness of LINks, major consultations and the Secretary of State's interventions in such consultations, and the Government's proposals to amend section 11 of the Health and Social Care Act 2001.
Download or read book Equity and excellence written by Great Britain: Department of Health and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equity and Excellence : Liberating the NHS: Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health by Command of Her Majesty
Download or read book The Future of Public Health written by Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-01-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.
Download or read book To Err Is Human written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That's more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDSâ€"three causes that receive far more public attention. Indeed, more people die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the financial cost to the human tragedy, and medical error easily rises to the top ranks of urgent, widespread public problems. To Err Is Human breaks the silence that has surrounded medical errors and their consequenceâ€"but not by pointing fingers at caring health care professionals who make honest mistakes. After all, to err is human. Instead, this book sets forth a national agendaâ€"with state and local implicationsâ€"for reducing medical errors and improving patient safety through the design of a safer health system. This volume reveals the often startling statistics of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception of it, given many patients' expectations that the medical profession always performs perfectly. A careful examination is made of how the surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided by health care organizations and then looks at their handling of medical mistakes. Using a detailed case study, the book reviews the current understanding of why these mistakes happen. A key theme is that legitimate liability concerns discourage reporting of errorsâ€"which begs the question, "How can we learn from our mistakes?" Balancing regulatory versus market-based initiatives and public versus private efforts, the Institute of Medicine presents wide-ranging recommendations for improving patient safety, in the areas of leadership, improved data collection and analysis, and development of effective systems at the level of direct patient care. To Err Is Human asserts that the problem is not bad people in health careâ€"it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer. Comprehensive and straightforward, this book offers a clear prescription for raising the level of patient safety in American health care. It also explains how patients themselves can influence the quality of care that they receive once they check into the hospital. This book will be vitally important to federal, state, and local health policy makers and regulators, health professional licensing officials, hospital administrators, medical educators and students, health caregivers, health journalists, patient advocatesâ€"as well as patients themselves. First in a series of publications from the Quality of Health Care in America, a project initiated by the Institute of Medicine
Download or read book Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.
Download or read book Crossing the Quality Chasm written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine's Quality of Health Care in America project Today's health care providers have more research findings and more technology available to them than ever before. Yet recent reports have raised serious doubts about the quality of health care in America. Crossing the Quality Chasm makes an urgent call for fundamental change to close the quality gap. This book recommends a sweeping redesign of the American health care system and provides overarching principles for specific direction for policymakers, health care leaders, clinicians, regulators, purchasers, and others. In this comprehensive volume the committee offers: A set of performance expectations for the 21st century health care system. A set of 10 new rules to guide patient-clinician relationships. A suggested organizing framework to better align the incentives inherent in payment and accountability with improvements in quality. Key steps to promote evidence-based practice and strengthen clinical information systems. Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.
Download or read book Finding What Works in Health Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information that compares health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the best summary of the evidence. Systematic reviews identify, select, assess, and synthesize the findings of similar but separate studies, and can help clarify what is known and not known about the potential benefits and harms of drugs, devices, and other healthcare services. Systematic reviews can be helpful for clinicians who want to integrate research findings into their daily practices, for patients to make well-informed choices about their own care, for professional medical societies and other organizations that develop clinical practice guidelines. Too often systematic reviews are of uncertain or poor quality. There are no universally accepted standards for developing systematic reviews leading to variability in how conflicts of interest and biases are handled, how evidence is appraised, and the overall scientific rigor of the process. In Finding What Works in Health Care the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends 21 standards for developing high-quality systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research. The standards address the entire systematic review process from the initial steps of formulating the topic and building the review team to producing a detailed final report that synthesizes what the evidence shows and where knowledge gaps remain. Finding What Works in Health Care also proposes a framework for improving the quality of the science underpinning systematic reviews. This book will serve as a vital resource for both sponsors and producers of systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research.
Download or read book Governance Commissioning and Public Health written by Marks, Linda and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on in-depth case studies across England, this book argues that governance and population health are inextricably linked. Using original research, it shows how these links can be illustrated at a local level through commissioning practice related to health and wellbeing. Exploring the impact of governance on decision- making, Governance, commissioning and public health analyses how principles, such as social justice, and governance arrangements, including standards and targets, influence local strategies and priorities for public health investment. In developing ‘public health governance’ as a critical concept, the study demonstrates the complexity of the governance landscape for public health and the leadership qualities required to negotiate it. This book is essential reading for students, academics, practitioners and policy-makers with an interest in governance and decision-making for public health.
Download or read book Public Participation in Health Care Exploring the Co Production of Knowledge written by Gill Green and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Practical Management of Dementia written by Stephen Curran and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical Management of Dementia, Second Edition remains a comprehensive guide to identifying the challenges faced in caring for patients with dementia. Integrating new research into the diagnosis, detection and management of dementia, this book brings together a wealth of extensive practical experience and knowledge. It answers questions on medical, psychological and social management in an informative, evidence-based manner. Emphasising the need for a variety of pharmacological, psychological and social approaches that can be adapted for individual patients, it also encourages an understanding of the patients' spiritual needs. Reviews of the First Edition: 'This is a highly readable and useful resource.' NURSING STANDARD 'Comprehensive and valuable. Of merit to all healthcare team members from all care setting perspectives.' GERIATRICS TODAY 'Consistent and clear, well written and edited.' THE JOURNAL OF DEMENTIA CARE
Download or read book Pharmacy Law and Practice written by Jon Merrills and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-09-14 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for both students and practicing pharmacists, the latest edition of this classic textbook provides comprehensive coverage of an essential component of the U.K. pharmacy curriculum: pharmacy law and ethics. Completely rewritten since the last edition to reflect the rapid pace at which this field moves, it offers a clear, readable and non-technical guide on balancing the needs of patients with the letter of the law. It explains what happens and why in a reader-friendly format, taking a problem solving approach, and even provides an introduction to pharmacy issues for solicitors and legal personnel. Any pharmacist, student, or regulatory authority will find it appropriate for either a serious study or for answering questions which occur in practice. - Adopts a unique approach discussing topics thematically rather than statute based - Unlike competitor's, the style of the book is clear, accurate and succinct, avoiding long complex sentences which are so common in legal textbooks. The law is logically presented, even when it is complex or difficult, reasons for existence of law are discussed, and lack of clarity in the law is indicated where necessary - Includes the new and updated NHS pharmacy contract and discusses changes in many areas of relevant law - Updated chapters on employment law, human rights, informed consent, confidentiality, and changes in the NHS structure - Applicable for day-to-day use by community pharmacists and pharmacy students
Download or read book Patient and Public Involvement in Health and Social Care Research written by Jurgen Grotz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest theory and practice on Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in research. Its seven chapters cover the historical and conceptual background; the various ways implementation can be approached and how they are put into practice; ethical considerations and critical perspectives, including on the potentially negative impacts of PPI; approaches to meaningful evaluation; a step by-step guide to planning PPI and conclusions with considerations for future research. Drawing on current literature, this book provides an essential reference work for research students and all who want to better understand PPI in practice. It offers exercises to address key questions, case examples and a checklist for planning PPI and includes a valuable glossary of terms.
