Transforming Community Services: Ambition, Action, Achievement - Best Practice Guides

These best practice guides have a vital role to play in the delivery of the intentions for High Quality Care for All: the Next Stage Review. They set out ambitions, taking action and measurement of the achievement and link with, should be read in conjunction with the quality framework/quality indicators.
The best practice guides include: Transforming services for acute care closer to home, Transforming services for people with long term conditions, Transforming rehabilitation services and Transforming end of life care.

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Small Changes, Big Difference - annual report on improvement activity across Yorkshire and the Humber

In September 2007, the Board of the Strategic Health Authority adopted three objectives in support of improvement and innovation. These were to ensure the adoption of best improvement practice in support of the key Operating Framework priorities, to foster a culture of innovation and improvement and to build capacity and capability for improvement. This is a report of the work that has been done across Yorkshire and the Humber, supported by the SHA, in response to these objectives.

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Updated Primary Care Service Framework - Alcohol

This Framework is for adult patients who are drinking to hazardous and harmful or dependent levels. It has been updated to include recent policy changes and is supported by a range of enhanced tools to support implementation. A complementary suite of resources and supportive notes is also available. It provides examples of good practice around alcohol services in primary care and can be adapted and used as a basis for an enhanced service via a schedule within a local primary care contract or service level agreement.
In addition, the updated document supports the introduction of the new clinical directed enhanced service (DES) for alcohol, which started from April 2008 and will run for two years.
View the framework here!

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Home Care - Is it Personal? Ceretas Annual Conference 10th June 2009

This year’s conference will centre on the key themes of personalisation within the independent care sector. Key themes include: Commissioning for the new agenda, What does ‘quality’ really mean, Dementia - National Framework, The challenges - how to do we make it happen?
Delegates will be equipped with tools and information that can be used in their daily management of services whilst at the same time looking at the policies and future direction of home care. Speakers include Cynthia Bower Chief Executive, Care Quality Commission, and
Stephen Burke Chief Executive, Counsel amongst others. For further details and to book your place click here.

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Institue of Innovation & Improvement Developing The Productive Community Series

The NHS Institute is setting up a NHS-wide Productive Community Services programme. It will be a partnership with NHS providers of community health services. The current estimated completion date is Summer 2009.
The aim of the Productive Community series is to produce a set of improvement tools and approaches that release time for clinical staff to care and release time for leaders to lead by improving the basic ways we organise and manage our work whilst improving quality, safety and patient experience. The tools will be flexible so that:
Local providers of community health services can adopt and adapt them to help accelerate the pace of change and get results for patients and staff
Local commissioners can utilise them to encourage best practice in community health pathways.
Find out more about the Productive Community and other Productive Series Programmes here.

The Self Care Operating Framework

The draft Self Care Operating Framework is out for consultation and any feedback that people may have in taking it forward and implementing is welcomed. Please send comments to Judy Carrivick in the first instance. The Self Care Operating Framework offers a way of ensuring that staff within the PCT and in partner agencies, provide the maximum impact in supporting people to be self-caring. It is also about ensuring that patients, carers and users of health services are fully supported to become self-caring. Self Care is part of daily living – all of us are responsible for our own health and well being. Self care is about making changes to the behaviours which impact on an individual’s health status and about supporting individuals to look after themselves in terms of managing their long term conditions and making the most of their lives. Self Care is a key element in a number of major documents, including the Darzi Review, it’s local counterpart – Health Ambitions, The NHS Operating Framework, Leeds PCT Strategy and a range of other policies, guidance etc.

Implementing the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) 2005 - New Resources Launched

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 provides a statutory framework to empower and protect vulnerable people who may not be able to make their own decisions.
Making the right decision on someone's behalf is a serious responsibility, so SCIE and the Department of Health have funded a range of materials that will support family, carers and health and social care professionals required to make these decisions.

Practice Based Commissioning Development Framework

The Department of Health has established a PBC development framework, which SHAs, PCTs and practice-based commissioners (PBCs) can now use to appoint appropriately skilled organisations to provide a range of PBC capability development support.

Vascular checks - Primary Care Service Frameworks

A primary Care Service Framework (PCSF) has been published to support the high quality commissioning of the services to implement the vascular check programme. A performance management tool supporting this framework will be released shortly. Further frameworks under development and currently being commissioned for development include transient and migrant populations, commissioning of services associated with peripheral arterial disease and a framework to support the development of care planning as outlined in the primary and community care strategy. A number of frameworks covering adolescent health, alcohol, obesity, long-term conditions, sexual health and self-care are already published and you can view them here.

New service framework for vascular checks available

Putting Prevention First (April 2008) sets out plans for the NHS to introduce a systematic and integrated programme of vascular risk assessment and management for those aged 40 to 74.
The next steps guide, published by the Department of Health on 13 November, will help PCTs begin their roll out. It draws on some real life case studies and examples of how PCTs have already implemented vascular checks in their areas. It provides practical tools to support commissioning and links to existing resources and guidance.
The new service framework for vascular checks has been developed by NHS Primary Care Contracting on behalf of the Department to support high-quality commissioning with the necessary services needed to implement the checks.

Alcohol Primary Care Service Framework

This new 'enhanced service' framework provides examples of good practice around alcohol services in primary care. The framework is complemented by an alcohol care pathway and suite of practical resources. Access the resources here.

Practitioners with Special Interests - Specialty Frameworks

Of the 18 speciality frameworks, several are now in the final stages of development with sign off from the DH awaited. PCTs are now starting to formalise their accreditation processes and are being signposted to the document "Implementing care closer to home: Convenient quality care for patients - Part 3: The accreditation of GPs and Pharmacists with Special Interests". To find out more, click here. Two launch events (Leeds and London) for all of the frameworks are scheduled for September 2008, with the aim of getting all frameworks signed off by June 2008. In terms of accreditation (all Practitioners with Special Interests require accreditation by March 2009 in line with the published guidance)