In this update:
· public hospital system · policy & ethics · UK civil society · child deaths review · health care fraud · health & care information · information security · barcode technologies · statistics & planning · disaster resilience · disaster support · NSW bushfire management · discrimination · race equality index · health productivity | · primary care economics · health commissioning · organ donation · medicines usage · genetic screening · mental health & primary care · access to therapies · food & climate change · environment & health · HIV · CALD women prisoners · sexual assault services · male sex offenders · recruitment & retention | · ATSI families · carers · information & advocacy · disability inclusion · ATSI autism · pensions advisory service · youth offender teams · leaving care · LAC & mental health · family violence · abuse & social marketing · special education needs · apprentices & disability · social housing regulation · affordable housing |
No quick fix: three essays on the future of the Austrlian public hospital systemReestablishing local hospital boards is wrongly described as a ‘quick fix’ for the problems in the Australian public hospital system. ... this collection describes the negative impact the bureaucratisation of the system has had on staff and patients in the last 30 years. ...argues that unless accountable pro bono boards are put back in charge, the ability of public hospitals to meet the health needs of the community will continue to be compromised by waste and inefficiency Centre for Independent Studies (Oct 2010) Public policy: Why ethics matters addresses three main issues: fist, the ethical considerations that should inform the conduct of public officials and the task of policy analysis; second, the ethics of climate change; and third, ethics and economic policy. ANU epress (Oct 2010) Building a Stronger Civil Society A strategy for voluntary and community groups, charities and social enterprises Plans in the strategy include: reducing red tape for small organisations; giving public sector staff the right to spin-out and form a co-ops or mutual supported by a new network of advice and mentoring; give local communities the right to buy or bid to run community assets; continue to match fund local endowments to encourage giving; modernisation of public service commissioning so the most efficient and effective charities can get a fair chance to bid for public contracts. UK Cabinet Office (Oct 2010) Effects of a Citizens Review Panel in Preventing Child Maltreatment Fatalities, Michigan instituted three CRPs in 1999, each with emphasis on a different area: foster care and adoption, prevention, and child fatalities. For the Fatality CRP, a committee of volunteer members was self-selected from the state’s Child Death Review Board, and membership included a broad spectrum of experts in forensic medicine, pediatrics, law enforcement, child law, child protective services, public health, mental health, education and child advocacy similar to other child fatality review efforts US CBE (Oct 2010) Combating Health Care Fraud in a Post-Reform World: Seven Guiding Principles for Policymakers...Data consolidation and real time data analysis must be at the forefront of health care fraud detection and prevention. US NHCAA (Oct 2010) An information revolution one of a series of documents for consultation published subsequent to the White Paper Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS. It is part of the Government’s agenda to create a revolution for patients - “putting patients first” - giving people more information and control and greater choice about their care. The information revolution is about transforming the way information is accessed, collected, analysed and used so that people are at the heart of health and adult social care services. UK Health (Oct 2010) Electronic Information Security The NSW Government is not able to provide assurance that it is safeguarding its holdings of sensitive personal information because its policy has not been properly implemented. This is likely to remain the case until there are clear, mandatory, minimum standards that agencies sign up to, and scrutiny of performance against these standards is strengthened. NSW Audit (Oct 2010) Review of coding for success implementation how barcoding and similar technologies can be used to improve patient safety, reduce costs and improve efficiency....progress has been made across a diverse range of practices and many NHS organisations are making good use of technologies that can improve patient safety, as well as drive cost-effective healthcare delivery generally. UK Health (Oct 2010) Planning for Business | Using statistics for business or franchise planning provides some examples of how statistics can assist you in making informed business decisions...know your market, potential clients.... ABS (Oct 2010) Building Community Disaster Resilience through Private-Public Collaboration cooperation between the private and public sectors at the local level could improve a community's ability to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural or human-caused disasters. ...In the United States, the public sector represents 10 percent of the work force, and the other 90 percent work in the private sector. Consequently, operation and maintenance of many community assets, including critical infrastructure, are in private hands. To help enhance disaster resilience in communities, the report lays out a framework for strengthening private-public collaborations at the local level. US NAP (Oct 2010) The Psychosocial Support in Disasters web portal New website to help combat trauma of natural disasters...will assist in the areas of preparation, support, and recovery for individuals and communities affected by disaster PSID.org.au (Oct 2010) Bushfires in NSW: An Update summarises the legislative and administrative bushfire management arrangements in NSW and examines the key findings from the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission. NSW Parliament (Oct 2010) Protection from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and sex and/or gender identity Human Rights Commission consultation...Currently federal law protects against discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability and age. However, there is little protection in federal law, unlike in state and territory laws, from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and sex and/or gender identity. HRC (Oct 2010) The feasibility of constructing a race equality index explore the feasibility of constructing a race equality index in order to understand, in detail, how discrimination is happening, how proactive businesses are in promoting race equality in recruitment, retention and promotion, and to monitor trends over time in order to determine whether new measures to promote race equality should be introduced by government. UK DWP (Oct 2010) Regional variation in the productivity of the English National Health Service The NHS could cut expenditure by £3.2billion without reducing the number of patients treated if all parts of the country were as productive as the South West...The geographical variations in productivity are not due to differences in the types of patients treated; nor to differences in quality of care as captured by inpatient and outpatient waiting times and hospital survival rates; nor to regional differences in the prices that organisations pay for staff, buildings and capital...Part of the explanation may lie in where patients seek treatment. Fifteen per cent of patients who live in the East Midlands are treated in hospitals outside their own region. This is the case for only two per cent of patients living in the South West. Of the 2.4m patients treated in London, 12 per cent are from other parts of the country. UK CEH (Oct 2010) | |
Primary care economics Reforms of primary care hold promise in influencing health outcomes, especially among the chronically ill, but there is little supporting evidence about what these initiatives will cost...In spite of this, a number of policy recommendations have been firmly proposed to reform primary care in Alberta, and the rest of Canada. These recommendations have been geared towards reorienting care towards teams and increasing capacity by introducing more non-physician resources (for example, nurses and information systems) into family practices. Can IHE (Sep 2010) Strategic Commissioning Development Unit (SCDU): commissioning packs contain a set of tailored guidance, templates, tools and information to assist commissioners in commissioning healthcare services from existing providers, or for use in new procurements...generic contracts; cardiac rehabilitation UK Health (Oct 2010) Review of the Organ Donor Register by Professor Sir Gordon Duff ...explains in detail how an error occurred in a registrant's donation record, why it was not uncovered sooner, how it was handled and what has been done to prevent a recurrence. The report also includes recommendations on how the Register might reflect registrants’ wishes more clearly....caused by a software error when data was transferred to a new computer platform. UK Health (Oct 2010) International variation in the usage of medicines A review of the literature the use of medicines in six areas (osteoporosis, atypical anti-psychotics, dementia, rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular disease/lipid-regulating drugs (statins), and hepatitis C). US Rand (Oct 2010) Being More Realistic about the Public Health Impact of Genomic Medicine it is clear that genetic screening of whole populations is unlikely to transform preventive health in the ways predicted 10 years ago PLoS (Oct 2010) Mental Health Care Services in Primary Care As health care reform focuses on a central role for primary care in the delivery and coordination of health care services, especially for the chronically ill, it is timely to consider how mental health services could be better integrated into primary care. US Center for Am Progress (Oct 2010) We need to talk: getting the right therapy at the right time the UK Improving Access to Psychological Therapies scheme has had a dramatic impact on waiting times for people with depression and anxiety...report urges investment in a full range of evidence based psychological therapies to all who need them, within 28 days of requesting referral. UK Mind (Oct 2010) Food and climate change: A review of the effects of climate change on food within the remit of the Food Standards Agency...food safety and nutrition UK FSA (Oct 2010) Protecting children’s health in a changing environment. Report of the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health WHO Europe (Oct 2010) HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections in Australia Annual Surveillance Report 2010 The rate of HIV diagnosis in Victoria peaked in 2006 at 5.5 and declined to 5.2 per 100 000 population in 2009. Nat Centre in HIV (Oct 2010) Culturally and linguistically diverse women in Victorian prisons while the number of women imprisoned in Victoria has increased dramatically over the past two years, a disproportionate number of the women imprisoned come from CALD backgrounds. Centre for Human Rights (Oct 2010) The Right to Choose containing 25 recommendations to meaningfully shape future service delivery to sexual assault victim/survivors in Queensland Qld QSAN (Sep 2010) Treatment for Convicted Adult Male Sex Offenders evaluates the effectiveness of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy interventions delivered within Sex Offender Treatment programs to reduce the likelihood of reoffending in convicted adult male sex offenders. Can IHE (Oct 2010) Improving Police Recruitment and Retention introduces a "bucket metaphor" for representing workforce supply and demand... the size of the bucket represents the absolute need for police officers. The water level, which will rise and fall over time with accession and attrition, frequently does not fill the bucket. This is because the demand for officers exceeds the ability to meet it due to resource or other constraints. The difference between the need for police officers and the current level of officers represents unmet demand for them. more US Rand (Oct 2010) Incentives, rewards, motivation and the receipt of income support, the overall impact of mandatory activities on outcomes may not be positive. Job search programs are a case in point. Where individuals are required to undertake specific forms of job search, they may substitute formal job search for informal forms. In many studies, it seems the short-term effects of programs are very often larger than the longer-term effects they provide. FaHCSIA (Oct 2010) Family Relationships Quarterly, focusing on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families includes healing services, family dispute resolution... 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National Carer Strategy discussion paper The outline of the Strategy presented in the discussion paper proposes a high-level vision, aim and five goals...seeking the views of carers, carer support organisations, service providers and other interested parties also ACT Carers Charter Discussion Paper and Proposed Charter and Carer recognition bill Aus health (Oct 2010) NSW Information and Advocacy Program Guidelines (Disability) provide advice on service expectations and are intended to clarify the aims and objectives of information and advocacy services across NSW. NSW DADHC (Oct 2010) WA Department of Health Disability Access and Inclusion Plan 2010–2015 to address the barriers for people with disabilities wanting to access the Government Health services and facilities. WA Health (Oct 2010) Early Days Project Autism Spectrum Disorders meeting the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families parenting a child with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. SNAICC (Aug 2010) Evaluation of The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) workplace visits an independent non-profit organisation, grant-aid funded by the Department for Work and Pensions, that provides free information and guidance on the whole spectrum of pensions...visits are not cheap and cannot reach all the people who would benefit from them. It is therefore important that they are focused where they can deliver most value for money. UK DWP (Oct 2010) A Review of YOTs and Children’s Services’ Interaction with Young Offenders and Young People at Risk of Offending there are weaknesses in relation to operational practices between UK Youth Offender Teams and Children's Services UK Youth Justice Board (Sep 2010) Maximising Potential: improving life transitions for young people in care Seeking Community Feedback - Young People Transitioning from Care ACT DHCS (Oct 2010) Promoting the quality of life of looked-after children and young people Early and improved access to mental health services should be made available as standard practice for children and young people in care, a group vulnerable to developing mental health problems...calling for a whole systems approach from educational, health and social care organisations, professionals and carers to communicate and collaborate more effectively to improve standards of care across the country. UK NICE (Oct 2010) Family violence: Towards a holistic approach to screening and risk assessment in family support services reviews the current research and literature specific to family violence screening and risk assessment...Both clinical practice and research in this area are currently hindered by a lack of quality evaluations of the psychometric properties of existing tools AIFS (Sep 2010) Are social marketing campaigns effective in preventing child abuse and neglect? there is relatively little evidence regarding the effectiveness of social marketing campaigns in preventing or reducing child maltreatment. AIFS (Sep 2010) Children with Special Educational Needs 2010: an analysis The number of pupils with special educational needs in England increased from around 1.53 million (19 per cent of ) pupils in 2006 to approximately 1.69 million (21 per cent of ) pupils in 2010. The number of pupils with statements of special educational needs decreased from 236,750 in 2006 to 220,890 in 2010. Of pupils with statements in 2010, the most common types of primary need were autistic spectrum disorder and moderate learning difficulties, and the least common was multi-sensory impairment. UK Education (Oct 2010) Breaking down the barriers: strategies to assist apprentices with a learning disability Instructional approaches which accommodate students' learning styles, individual tutoring and supportive relationships were endorsed by all groups as effective NCVER (Oct 2010) Review of social housing regulation looks at the context for the review, sets out its main conclusions and outlines the implications for the organisations and individuals affected...recommends abolishing the independent Tenants Services Authority more UK Communities (Oct 2010) Lessons of Defence Housing Australia for affordable housing provision The biggest lesson for the affordable housing sector is the potential of a sales and leaseback model to attract private investment into the sector. AHURI (Oct 2010) |
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