NHS Evidence - innovation and improvement

NHS Evidence - innovation and improvement will be officially launched at The King's Fund Annual Conference on 24 November 2009. The aim of the specialist collection is to provide timely and efficient access to high quality information resources for those involved in the innovation and improvement of health and social care services. Content covers both theory and practice and includes best available evidence, tools and techniques, measurement, case-studies and policy on all aspects of innovation and improvement.

The innovation and improvement specialist collection, commissioned by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and managed by The King's Fund Information and Library Service, is one of over 30 specialist collections from NHS Evidence. Feedback or comments are welcomed, and contact details can be found on the innovation and improvement specialist collection homepage. Suggestions for resources can also be made by using the submit a document page.

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NHS Evidence - commissioning

The commissioning specialist collection (CSC), part of NHS Evidence and managed by The King’s Fund, is an information resource for all those involved in commissioning for health and wellbeing. It endeavours to include the best available evidence, examples of good practice, policy and data to support world class commissioning and is managed by a dedicated information specialist who is contactable via email should you have any feedback, suggestions or queries.

Highlights of the collection include the regularly updated key topics which provide brief summaries and links to information on various commissioning topics, and the CSC is always happy to consider suggestions for new topics. You can also find links to commissioning related events, data sources, journals and toolkits.

You can keep up to date with the latest commissioning publications via various RSS feeds, or follow and interact with the CSC on Twitter.

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Podcast from St Christopher's Hospice – Palliative care support to community psychogeriatric team

View this Podcast from St Christopher's Hospice, London, who have appointed an experienced clinical nurse specialist (CNS) to work with people with advanced dementia and their carers, with the support of a palliative medicine consultant and learn more about their findings.

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Kings Fund Conference - Managing long-term conditions

This conference forms part of a series of events on long-term conditions. The event will focus on sustaining innovations and new technologies for managing long-term conditions. This conference will, use case studies to illustrate ways of working, and engaging patients and health professionals with innovations, to ensure that new systems are not under-used. It will provide a series of practical workshops to share learning around innovations that are most effective in managing long-term conditions and examine the challenges and discuss ways of commissioning. The Conference will be held on 9th July in London. Click here for further details and to book your place!

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Specialist help available for your maternity unit: application deadline

Safer Births is a programme run by The King's Fund in partnership with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Royal College of Midwives, National Patient Safety Agency, NHS Litigation Authority and Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health. They are seeking applications to join their improvement network, which aims to improve the outcomes of care during labour and birth for women and babies.
The network will provide customised support to up to 12 multidisciplinary maternity teams in England from a service improvement specialist, who will visit teams regularly to help them to develop and implement an action plan focused on their trust's main safety challenges in intrapartum care. Bespoke consultancy support and access to the expertise, tools and activities of the Safer Births partners will also be available.
You can apply online and find out more information, including about the selection process here.

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Sustaining innovations and new technologies for managing long-term conditions - Conference from The Kings Fund

With the Department of Health focus on how to integrate health and social care working and encourage support for self care, there is an increasing role for innovation and assistive technologies to support this and create better health outcomes for those with long-term conditions. This conference to be held on 9th July in London, uses case studies to illustrate ways of working, and engaging patients and health professionals with innovations, to ensure that new systems are not under-used
provide a series of practical workshops to share learning around innovations that are most effective in managing long-term conditions it also examine the challenges and discuss ways of commissioning and investing in new technologies which remain viable in the future. Click here for further inforamtion and to book your place.

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Addressing health inequalities: what works? A Conference from the Kings Fund

In the recent NHS operating framework, the government identified the reduction of health inequalities as one of its five national priorities. As 2010 approaches, the focus is on achieving the health inequalities target for infant mortality and life expectancy at birth by placing the reduction of these inequalities at the centre of service delivery, disease prevention and partnership work.
This important partnership conference organised by The King's Fund with the Department of Health's National Support Team for health inequalities and their Health Inequalities Unit. It will focus on areas involving key local stakeholders in which intervention and change will have the most effect in reducing health inequalities. The conference will feature practical workshops that will share success and learning from existing projects and allow delegates to consider how best to apply methods and interventions to reduce inequalities in their own area. The event is being held on Thursday 14 May 2009, 9.30am–4.15pm, in Leeds so book your place now!

Invitation to Contribute to Kings Fund Survey on Commissioning

The King's Fund would like to invite you to contribute to a national survey on the subject of PCTs' use of external support for commissioning. This research is aimed at informing and influencing the World Class Commissioning policy by developing an understanding of the national picture of PCTs' developmental needs with respect to their commissioning function. In particular, The King's Fund are interested in the role that external organisations are playing in supporting such improvements – what is happening, in what areas, and whether this support is proving beneficial.The King's Fund are therefore inviting all PCT and SHA employees with knowledge of this area to give information on their experiences. Take part in the survey or click here to find out further information.