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This is the last Library Report  Watch
In this is update:

·         public sector data ·         collaborative working ·         public engagement ·         health economics ·         telehealth ·         data sharing ·         records management ·         volunteering ·         health expenditure ·         quality of care costs ·         health innovation ·         women's health

·         Aboriginal hospital care ·         high support aged care ·         dietary recommendations ·         prison health ·         climate change & water ·         safeguarding children ·         interagency collaboration ·         personalisation ·         working with children checks ·         carers ·         children with disability ·         community care workforce

·         adolescent risks ·         ADHD ·         transition to adulthood ·         young offenders ·         out of home care ·         foster care recruitment ·         indigenous sexual assault ·         juvenile corrections ·         domestic violence ·         homeless women ·         housing stress ·         housing support

	Costs and Benefits of Data Provision Report to the Australian National Data Service examines the costs and benefits of public sector organisations making their data (Public Sector Information or PSI) freely available. ANDS (Oct 2011) Collaborative working: How publicly funded services can take a whole systems approach Successful collaborations have a common purpose, strong insistence on a whole systems approach, shared power, and used the service user’s perspective to stimulate change. Neglecting any of these four core themes makes the collaboration less successful. UK Institute for Government (Oct 2011) Making the case for public engagement how to demonstrate the value of consumer input...demonstrates how to make the case for engagement using monetary terms. UK Involve (Oct 2011) International Comparisons in Health Economics : Evidence from Aging Studies an overview of the growing literature that uses micro-level data from multiple countries to investigate health outcomes, and their link to socioeconomic factors, at older ages US Rand (Oct 2011) A review of telehealth in Scotland Telehealth is popular with patients, doctors and nurses who have used it. Its benefits include less travel, faster diagnoses and fewer hospital admissions Scotland Audit (Oct 2011) Developing and implementing an institute-wide data sharing policy describes the processes and challenges involved in implementing a data sharing policy on an institute-wide scale. This includes questions of governance, practical aspects of applying principles to diverse experimental contexts, building enabling systems and infrastructure, incentives and collaborative issues. UK Genome Medicine (Sep 2011) NHS Information Governance: Effective Management of Records During a Period of Transition or Organisational Change UK Health (Oct 2011) Social action health and well-being: building co-operatives communities - Department of Health strategic vision for volunteering UK Health (Oct 2011) Health expenditure Australia 2009-10  Health expenditure in Australia in 2009-10 increased to $121.4 billion. As a percentage of GDP it was 9.4% of the GDP, 0.4% higher than in 2008-09 AIHW (Oct 2011) Truly inefficient or providing better quality of care? Analysing the relationship between risk adjusted hospital costs and patients’ health outcomes...While the relationship between costs and outcomes is generally positive, there are some high cost hospitals with poor health outcomes. This means that hospitals cannot simply claim that their superior outcomes justify their higher costs. UK CHE (Oct 2011) Understanding Whole Systems Change in Healthcare: The Case of Emerging Evidence-informed Nursing Service Delivery Models  What cost drivers and increased benefits come with spreading a best practice; and what supports, sustains or gets in the way of spreading evidence-informed change?  The learnings of this study about spreading innovations applies to all healthcare professions and sectors. Can CHRSF (Oct 2011) Why should we consider a life course approach to women’s health? A life course approach to women’s health should be adopted to tackle issues such as drinking, smoking and obesity ...highlights the need for greater integration of services across different sectors UK RCOG (Oct 2011)
	Managing Two Worlds Together: City hospital care for country Aboriginal people what works well and what needs improvement in the system of care for Aboriginal patients from rural and remote areas of South Australia (and parts of the Northern Territory). Flinders Uni (Oct 2011) Not a one way street: research into older people's experiences of support based on mutuality and reciprocity  explores alternative approaches to planning, funding and providing long term care for older people with high support needs; UK JRF (Oct 2011) Dietary recommendations for energy  new requirements for a level of energy intake required to maintain a healthy body weight. ... new recommendations for average dietary energy requirements for infants, children, adolescents and adults. UK Health (Oct 2011) National guidance on commissioning sexual health and blood borne virus services in prisons highlights key issues that commissioners of sexual health services, clinicians and prison staff need to consider in order to improve sexual health and blood borne virus services in their local prisons. UK BASHH (Oct 2011) Climate change, water resources and WASH: a scoping study Water is predicted to be the primary medium through which early climate change impacts will be felt by people, ecosystems and economies. ..the impacts climate change may have on water resources, and water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) UK ODI (Sep 2011) Safeguarding Children Across Services: Messages from Research Identification and Initial Response Universal and Targeted Services to Prevent the Occurrence of Maltreatment; Social Work Interventions to Keep Children Safe; Specific Interventions for Children and Families with Additional or Complex Needs; Providing a Context for Effective Inter-Agency Practice UK Education (Oct 2011) Interagency collaboration Part A: What is it, what does it look like, when is it needed and what supports it? focuses attention upon how interagency collaborations benefit children and families AIFS (Oct 2011) Tailor Made finds that the future success of personalisation relies on it becoming more inclusive...explores how person-centred services can be achieved for those who need it most – those with multiple and complex needs, and in settings where personalisation is most challenging such as residential care homes and palliative care centres. UK Demos (Oct 2011) Toward a Nationally Consistent Approach to Working with Children Checks  Loss of public confidence sharpens imperatives for action as governments are held to account for failings in statutory and administrative systems. In response to these expectations, governments have taken action to ensure that a range of protective mechanisms are in place to reduce the risk of harm to children by predatory individuals. FaSCHIA (Oct 2011) Caring in the Community, Australia, 2009  In 2009 there were 2.6 million carers in Australia (12% of people). A higher proportion of women than men were carers (13% compared to 11%). Of all carers, 771,400, or 29% were primary carers ABS (Oct 2011) Addressing the needs of siblings of children with disability or chronic illness The RANZCP is seeking support and endorsement of its recently published position statement Addressing the needs of siblings of children with disability or chronic illness.  This page provides you with information about the aims of the statement, how it was developed, how it will be used, and why you are being asked to endorse it. RANZCP (Oct 2011) Community care workforce resources and initiatives includes  guide for developing local and regional workforce initiatives. It has been designed to be used by individuals or organisations involved in promoting the community care sector, improving sector recruitment and staff retention rates, and providing learning and development opportunities within the sector;  and workforce surveys NSW FCS (Oct 2011)
	Preventing Multiple Risky Behaviors among Adolescents,  summarizes seven strategies for preventing multiple risky behaviors among adolescents US Child trends (Oct 2011) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Effectiveness of Treatment in At-Risk Preschoolers; Long- Term Effectiveness in All Ages; and Variability in Prevalence, Diagnosis, and Treatment...Formal training in parenting strategies is a low-risk, effective method for improving behavior in preschool-age children at risk for developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), while there is less evidence supporting the use of medications for children younger than 6 years old US DHHS (Oct 2011) Are we there yet? Making the successful transition to adulthood Moving from adolescence to adulthood can be a time of flux for young people as they try out different school, and post-school work and study choices. This research synthesis highlights what helps young people make this transition a success and what might work against them. LSAY (Oct 2011)  Review of the NSW Young Offenders Act 1997 and the Children (Criminal Proceedings) Act 1987 - Consultation Paper  The consultation paper sets out data on young offending in NSW, evidence of ‘what works’ in addressing young offending, and international standards for youth justice. NSW (Oct 2011) The Ministerial Advisory Group on Transition of OOHC Service Provision in NSW to the Non-Government Sector Communiqué...The O’Farrell Government is committed to the transfer of out-of-home care (OOHC) service provision to non-government service providers NSW FCS (Oct 2011) The Impact of Child-Focused Recruitment on Foster Care Adoption: A Five-Year Evaluation of Wendy’s Wonderful Kids Wendy’s Wonderful Kids (WWK), which provides local adoption agencies with grants to hire dedicated adoption recruiters also Connecting Children in Foster Care to  Supportive Adults US Child trends (Oct 2011) Addressing Aboriginal disadvantage: the need to do things differently audit of the implementation of the NSW Interagency Plan to Tackle Child Sexual Assault in Aboriginal Communities 2006 - 2011 NSW Ombudsman (Oct 2011) Kariong Juvenile Correctional Centre: Meeting the challenges  investigation into the operation of the Behaviour Management Program at Kariong Juvenile Correctional Centre which determines almost every aspect of an inmate's day to day life, and calls for significant changes NSW Ombudsman (Oct 2011) Domestic violence disclosure scheme a consultation asking whether the protection of victims of domestic violence can be improved by the establishment of a national domestic violence disclosure scheme and, if so, how such a scheme could work in practice UK Home Office (Oct 2011) No home at the end of the road report, commissioned by The Salvation Army, examines the significant housing stress currently affecting single older women Salvation Army (Oct 2011) Housing Costs Through the Roof: Australia’s Housing Stress shows how housing stress plays out in each state. Nationally, 850,000 households  are at risk of financial hardship and poverty after paying for housing costs. AFAH (Oct 2011) Promoting Independence: the future of housing related support Supporting People (SP) budgets – which include housing related support – are designed to support the most vulnerable to live independently. UK LGIU (Oct 2011)

This is the last Library Report WatchI

n this update:

·         public sector data ·         collaborative working ·         public engagement ·         health economics ·         telehealth ·         data sharing ·         records management ·         volunteering ·         health expenditure ·         quality of care costs ·         health innovation ·         women's health

·         Aboriginal hospital care ·         high support aged care ·         dietary recommendations ·         prison health ·         climate change & water ·         safeguarding children ·         interagency collaboration ·         personalisation ·         working with children checks ·         carers ·         children with disability ·         community care workforce

·         adolescent risks ·         ADHD ·         transition to adulthood ·         young offenders ·         out of home care ·         foster care recruitment ·         indigenous sexual assault ·         juvenile corrections ·         domestic violence ·         homeless women ·         housing stress ·         housing support

	Costs and Benefits of Data Provision Report to the Australian National Data Service examines the costs and benefits of public sector organisations making their data (Public Sector Information or PSI) freely available. ANDS (Oct 2011) Collaborative working: How publicly funded services can take a whole systems approach Successful collaborations have a common purpose, strong insistence on a whole systems approach, shared power, and used the service user’s perspective to stimulate change. Neglecting any of these four core themes makes the collaboration less successful. UK Institute for Government (Oct 2011) Making the case for public engagement how to demonstrate the value of consumer input...demonstrates how to make the case for engagement using monetary terms. UK Involve (Oct 2011) International Comparisons in Health Economics : Evidence from Aging Studies an overview of the growing literature that uses micro-level data from multiple countries to investigate health outcomes, and their link to socioeconomic factors, at older ages US Rand (Oct 2011) A review of telehealth in Scotland Telehealth is popular with patients, doctors and nurses who have used it. Its benefits include less travel, faster diagnoses and fewer hospital admissions Scotland Audit (Oct 2011) Developing and implementing an institute-wide data sharing policy describes the processes and challenges involved in implementing a data sharing policy on an institute-wide scale. This includes questions of governance, practical aspects of applying principles to diverse experimental contexts, building enabling systems and infrastructure, incentives and collaborative issues. UK Genome Medicine (Sep 2011) NHS Information Governance: Effective Management of Records During a Period of Transition or Organisational Change UK Health (Oct 2011) Social action health and well-being: building co-operatives communities - Department of Health strategic vision for volunteering UK Health (Oct 2011) Health expenditure Australia 2009-10  Health expenditure in Australia in 2009-10 increased to $121.4 billion. As a percentage of GDP it was 9.4% of the GDP, 0.4% higher than in 2008-09 AIHW (Oct 2011) Truly inefficient or providing better quality of care? Analysing the relationship between risk adjusted hospital costs and patients’ health outcomes...While the relationship between costs and outcomes is generally positive, there are some high cost hospitals with poor health outcomes. This means that hospitals cannot simply claim that their superior outcomes justify their higher costs. UK CHE (Oct 2011) Understanding Whole Systems Change in Healthcare: The Case of Emerging Evidence-informed Nursing Service Delivery Models  What cost drivers and increased benefits come with spreading a best practice; and what supports, sustains or gets in the way of spreading evidence-informed change?  The learnings of this study about spreading innovations applies to all healthcare professions and sectors. Can CHRSF (Oct 2011) Why should we consider a life course approach to women’s health? A life course approach to women’s health should be adopted to tackle issues such as drinking, smoking and obesity ...highlights the need for greater integration of services across different sectors UK RCOG (Oct 2011)
	Managing Two Worlds Together: City hospital care for country Aboriginal people what works well and what needs improvement in the system of care for Aboriginal patients from rural and remote areas of South Australia (and parts of the Northern Territory). Flinders Uni (Oct 2011) Not a one way street: research into older people's experiences of support based on mutuality and reciprocity  explores alternative approaches to planning, funding and providing long term care for older people with high support needs; UK JRF (Oct 2011) Dietary recommendations for energy  new requirements for a level of energy intake required to maintain a healthy body weight. ... new recommendations for average dietary energy requirements for infants, children, adolescents and adults. UK Health (Oct 2011) National guidance on commissioning sexual health and blood borne virus services in prisons highlights key issues that commissioners of sexual health services, clinicians and prison staff need to consider in order to improve sexual health and blood borne virus services in their local prisons. UK BASHH (Oct 2011) Climate change, water resources and WASH: a scoping study Water is predicted to be the primary medium through which early climate change impacts will be felt by people, ecosystems and economies. ..the impacts climate change may have on water resources, and water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) UK ODI (Sep 2011) Safeguarding Children Across Services: Messages from Research Identification and Initial Response Universal and Targeted Services to Prevent the Occurrence of Maltreatment; Social Work Interventions to Keep Children Safe; Specific Interventions for Children and Families with Additional or Complex Needs; Providing a Context for Effective Inter-Agency Practice UK Education (Oct 2011) Interagency collaboration Part A: What is it, what does it look like, when is it needed and what supports it? focuses attention upon how interagency collaborations benefit children and families AIFS (Oct 2011) Tailor Made finds that the future success of personalisation relies on it becoming more inclusive...explores how person-centred services can be achieved for those who need it most – those with multiple and complex needs, and in settings where personalisation is most challenging such as residential care homes and palliative care centres. UK Demos (Oct 2011) Toward a Nationally Consistent Approach to Working with Children Checks  Loss of public confidence sharpens imperatives for action as governments are held to account for failings in statutory and administrative systems. In response to these expectations, governments have taken action to ensure that a range of protective mechanisms are in place to reduce the risk of harm to children by predatory individuals. FaSCHIA (Oct 2011) Caring in the Community, Australia, 2009  In 2009 there were 2.6 million carers in Australia (12% of people). A higher proportion of women than men were carers (13% compared to 11%). Of all carers, 771,400, or 29% were primary carers ABS (Oct 2011) Addressing the needs of siblings of children with disability or chronic illness The RANZCP is seeking support and endorsement of its recently published position statement Addressing the needs of siblings of children with disability or chronic illness.  This page provides you with information about the aims of the statement, how it was developed, how it will be used, and why you are being asked to endorse it. RANZCP (Oct 2011) Community care workforce resources and initiatives includes  guide for developing local and regional workforce initiatives. It has been designed to be used by individuals or organisations involved in promoting the community care sector, improving sector recruitment and staff retention rates, and providing learning and development opportunities within the sector;  and workforce surveys NSW FCS (Oct 2011)
	Preventing Multiple Risky Behaviors among Adolescents,  summarizes seven strategies for preventing multiple risky behaviors among adolescents US Child trends (Oct 2011) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Effectiveness of Treatment in At-Risk Preschoolers; Long- Term Effectiveness in All Ages; and Variability in Prevalence, Diagnosis, and Treatment...Formal training in parenting strategies is a low-risk, effective method for improving behavior in preschool-age children at risk for developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), while there is less evidence supporting the use of medications for children younger than 6 years old US DHHS (Oct 2011) Are we there yet? Making the successful transition to adulthood Moving from adolescence to adulthood can be a time of flux for young people as they try out different school, and post-school work and study choices. This research synthesis highlights what helps young people make this transition a success and what might work against them. LSAY (Oct 2011)  Review of the NSW Young Offenders Act 1997 and the Children (Criminal Proceedings) Act 1987 - Consultation Paper  The consultation paper sets out data on young offending in NSW, evidence of ‘what works’ in addressing young offending, and international standards for youth justice. NSW (Oct 2011) The Ministerial Advisory Group on Transition of OOHC Service Provision in NSW to the Non-Government Sector Communiqué...The O’Farrell Government is committed to the transfer of out-of-home care (OOHC) service provision to non-government service providers NSW FCS (Oct 2011) The Impact of Child-Focused Recruitment on Foster Care Adoption: A Five-Year Evaluation of Wendy’s Wonderful Kids Wendy’s Wonderful Kids (WWK), which provides local adoption agencies with grants to hire dedicated adoption recruiters also Connecting Children in Foster Care to  Supportive Adults US Child trends (Oct 2011) Addressing Aboriginal disadvantage: the need to do things differently audit of the implementation of the NSW Interagency Plan to Tackle Child Sexual Assault in Aboriginal Communities 2006 - 2011 NSW Ombudsman (Oct 2011) Kariong Juvenile Correctional Centre: Meeting the challenges  investigation into the operation of the Behaviour Management Program at Kariong Juvenile Correctional Centre which determines almost every aspect of an inmate's day to day life, and calls for significant changes NSW Ombudsman (Oct 2011) Domestic violence disclosure scheme a consultation asking whether the protection of victims of domestic violence can be improved by the establishment of a national domestic violence disclosure scheme and, if so, how such a scheme could work in practice UK Home Office (Oct 2011) No home at the end of the road report, commissioned by The Salvation Army, examines the significant housing stress currently affecting single older women Salvation Army (Oct 2011) Housing Costs Through the Roof: Australia’s Housing Stress shows how housing stress plays out in each state. Nationally, 850,000 households  are at risk of financial hardship and poverty after paying for housing costs. AFAH (Oct 2011) Promoting Independence: the future of housing related support Supporting People (SP) budgets – which include housing related support – are designed to support the most vulnerable to live independently. UK LGIU (Oct 2011)