Inquiries and reports
Safe staffing levels have been identified as a key element of delivering high quality, safe care. Commissioners and providers need to work together to regularly review staffing levels to ensure that staff are able to provide adequate contact time with patients to ensure safe care.
Other tools and resources
Every year around 294,000 people in the UK will be diagnosed with cancer and around 155,000 will die from the disease. It is the leading cause of mortality in people under the age of 75.
The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) began a programme of work in 2007 to improve patient safety in cancer. The programme consists of three main areas: radiotherapy, chemotherapy and delayed diagnosis.
Other tools and resources
The Mencap “Death by Indifference” campaign summarises the initial “Death by Indifference” Report which tells the stories of six deaths of people with learning disabilities, the subsequent Inquiry “Healthcare for All” and the “Confidential Inquiry into Premature Deaths of People with Learning Disabilities”.
Inquiries and reports
This guidance document provides an overview of the issues that need to be considered when designing transition services and also specific frameworks for working with young people in the early, middle and late phases of adolescence. It also includes the RCN clinical pathway for adolescent transition.
Inquiries and reports
This report is based on interviewing 180 patients and families about their experience of transition to adult care. It includes key messages for commissioners about listening to young people and their families, following existing guidance, involving GPs earlier and recognising this as a key developmental phase.
Discussion papers
This article sets out the background to offender health care in the UK and explains how the commissioning of services in England is structured.
It looks at patient safety issues related to commissioning, such as poor attendance at partnership boards, and lack of capability and capacity in clinical commissioning groups.
Other tools and resources
This page outlines the national Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) Programme for England. It outlines commissioning pathways and other clinical networks and the establishment of local and national data collection.
The programme also aims to develop sustainable clinical tools, information and levers and prioritise patient empowerment. These will be made available from this website.
Other tools and resources
This toolkit contains guidance for commissioners to assist them in commissioning high quality VTE services. It includes a summary of requirements for a VTE prevention service across the patient pathway and highlights priorities for service improvement.
Inquiries and reports
The National Dementia Strategy for England (NDSE), the first of its kind in England, came to end in April this year.
Inquiries and reports
Our fragmented health and care system is not meeting the needs of older people, who are most likely to suffer problems with co-ordination of care and delays in transitions between services. This report from the King’s Fund sets out a framework and tools to help local service leaders improve the care they provide for older people across nine key components.
