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Release of the Department of Health and Ageing’s Incoming Government Brief key decisions and hot issues, election commitments Aus Health (Dec 2010) Capable Communities: Towards Citizen-Powered Public Services suggests that the public is ready to pitch in to create and deliver public services, if existing barriers to participation come down, but that it believes primary responsibility should stay with the government UK IPPR (Nov 2010) Five Foundations of Real Localism this short paper provides a set of principles against which the anticipated raft of localist policy measures can be assessed...must be effective and efficient...must be properly funded...must sit at the heart of a drive for social justice.... must be accompanied by a step-change in the transparency and accountability of local decision-making...should be framed within a constitutional settlement between central and local government. UK IPPR (Nov 2010) Evaluating the Success Factors for Establishing a Thriving Social Enterprise in Scotland Given the critical influence of the public sector in shaping social enterprise markets, the study calls for wide-ranging, co-ordinated, and supportive actions across Government. Scotland (Nov 2010) Responding to changing skill demands: training packages and accredited courses (free registration to download) The system has strong mechanisms for identifying the needs of specific industries and occupations and formulating units of competency in training packages and accredited courses to address these needs. However, too much bureaucratic red tape and unnecessary detail make the system sluggish in responding to emerging needs in a timely fashion. see also Productivity Commission: Vocational Education and Training Workforce NCVER (Dec 2010) How many are employed in the Commonwealth public sector? Determining the size of the Commonwealth public sector is complex. There are three major sources of statistics—Australian Public Service Commission, Treasury and Australian Bureau of Statistics—producing four different staffing counts, each using different definitions resulting in data that are not comparable...a short summary of the different methodologies used to estimate the size of the public sector Aus Parliamentary Library (Nov 2010) Adequacy of the Supply and Factors Influencing Potential Shortages Among Emergency Medical Technicians and Emergency Medicine Physicians essentially no information is available on the adequacy of the EMT or emergency medicine physician workforces to provide appropriate medical care during catastrophic events... EMT shortages appear to reflect high turnover rates and retention difficulties due to difficult work conditions, limited career opportunities, low salary, and poor benefits US Homeland Security (Nov 2010) Fitness to Practise Adjudication for Health Professionals: Assessing different mechanisms for delivery recommends repealing previous legislation establishing a separate Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator (OHPA) and taking steps to enhance independence of adjudication and modernise existing processes of existing health regulators; UK Health (Dec 2010) Health Care Systems: Efficiency and Policy Settings The OECD has assembled new comparative data on health care system performance and health policies. They allow the identification of strengths and weaknesses of each country’s health care system and the policies that will boost efficiency. OECD (Nov 2010) Factors Influencing Rural Residents’ Utilization of Urban Hospitals In the US about one-third of the rural resident hospitalizations in 2003 were in urban hospitals. Other factors constant, those requiring greater resources had higher odds of crossing over, as did younger inpatients, those transferred from other hospitals, receiving surgery, and with mental diagnoses or congenital anomalies. US Nat Health Statistics (Nov 2010) Healthy lives, healthy people: our strategy for public health in England White Paper sets out the UK Government’s long-term vision for the future of public health in England. The aim is to create a ‘wellness’ service (Public Health England) and to strengthen both national and local leadership The impact assessments directly impact the public sector only and are based around five critical workstreams: structure of public health England; commissioning within the public health system; the ring fenced funding of public health England; public health outcomes; and information and intelligence also: Our health and well-being today summary of evidence and Review of public health professional regulation UK Health (Nov 2010) Healthy People 2020, the nation’s new 10-year goals and objectives for health promotion and disease prevention A renewed focus on identifying, measuring, tracking, and reducing health disparities through a determinants of health approach...new topics include: LGBT, early and middle childhood, genomics, preparedness (improving public health emergency responses) US HHS (Dec 2010) | |
Process evaluation of data sharing between emergency departments and Community Safety Partnerships in the South East Sharing information with partnerships on all victims of violence who present themselves to an ED could help to provide a fuller and more accurate picture of violent crime in local areas UK Home Office (Dec 2010) Whānau Ora Integrated Services Delivery Whānau ora is an inclusive approach to providing services and opportunities to Maori families across New Zealand. NZ Health (Nov 2010) Achieving Strong Teamwork Practices in Hospital Labor and Delivery Units reinforce the importance of developing and implementing a well-crafted strategy by training staff in the L&D units, working consistently with staff to introduce practices, and providing coaching on effective use of practices. US Rand (Dec 2010) NSW Critical Care Tertiary Referral Networks (Perinatal) relates to critically ill neonates and women with high risk pregnancies that require inter-hospital transfer NSW health (Nov 2010) A Growing Problem? Weight in Pregnancy more needs to be done to support women with their weight and nutrition, and this report makes some recommendations for midwives and their employers. UK RCM (Nov 2010) National Plan for Child Cancer Services in New Zealand addresses the challenges of providing high quality child cancer services nationwide, given the small number of patients and their wide geographic spread in New Zealand. NZ Health (Nov 2010) Age and the costs of dental care includes Self-rated oral health of adults, Socioeconomic variation in periodontitis , Trends in access to dental care among Australian teenagers AIHW (Dec 2010) ECT Minimum Standards of Practice in NSW including the indications for treatment, potential risks and strategies to minimise them, issues of consent, facilities, anaesthesia, application of the procedure, and the required quality improvement framework NSW health (Nov 2010) Alcohol and other drug treatment services in Australia 2008-09: report on the National Minimum Data Set Alcohol remains the most common drug Australians seek treatment for, making up almost half of all drug and alcohol related treatment episodes in 2008–09 AIHW (Nov 2010) Commonwealth response to The Hidden Toll: Suicide in Australia report Of the 42 recommendations in the Senate report the Government has already actioned six, has set in place initiatives to meet a further twenty and will progress or consider the remaining recommendations in consultation with relevant stakeholders. Aus health (Nov 2010) Strategic Directions for Tobacco Control in NSW 2011-2016 Discussion Paper NSW Health (Nov 2010) youthconnect South Australia’s Youth Strategy 2010-2014, the key priorities of: health and wellbeing , education, employment and skill development, engagement and participation. SA (Nov 2010) | |
Evaluation in family support services a series of five papers aimed at prompting providers to think carefully and systematically about evaluation, and to guide and support them through the evaluation process. AIFS (Nov 2010) Building the capacity of professionals through post-qualification development and training professionals who work with children (0-12 years) and families in Australia are extremely diverse. They come from a wide range of professional backgrounds including: early childhood, social work, allied health, education and community development. They work in a range of different workplace contexts including: child and family support services, health care services (e.g., hospitals, maternal and child health services), early childhood education and care settings, and primary schools. AIFS (Nov 2010) Parenting Early Intervention Programme: 2nd interim report Provision of parenting programmes should be directed mainly at those in greatest need; however, there are also benefits in recruiting a broader spectrum of parents in order to optimise group dynamics and achieve better outcomes. UK Education (Nov 2010) Keep Them Safe Workforce and NGO Capacity Building Plan:A Plan for building the capacity of NGOs to take an extended role in services and for developing NGO and government workforce to implement changes related to Keep Them Safe ( NSW Government’s five-year action plan to improve the safety and wellbeing of children and young people) NSW DPC (Nov 2010) Solution Based Casework research: Parent, worker, supervisor survey an independent evaluation of whether Washington State's new child welfare casework model improves outcomes for children and families. US Partnersforourchildren (2010) Getting Down to Basics: tools to support Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning ("LGBTQ") in care includes foster care, adoption, juvenile justice US Lambda (2010) Planning and the characteristics of housing supply in Melbourne established the link between land use planning policies and mechanisms and the form of housing supplied. It examined details of both planning policy and housing supply in the state of Victoria over a time period covering two significant policy regime shifts. AHURI (Nov 2010) Housing, inequality and the role of population mobility income inequality has become mapped onto the city, creating neighbourhoods of extreme advantage and disadvantage. AHURI (Nov 2010) Housing Vulnerability and Health: Canada’s Hidden Emergency This is the first study to report on longitudinal changes (i.e. changes over time) in the health and housing status of vulnerably housed and homeless people in Canada, and the first to compare their health outcomes. Can Homelesshub (Nov 2010) Exempt and Supported Accommodation a review of the way the UK Housing Benefit (HB) is worked out for many of those who live in social and voluntary sector supported housing. UK DWP (Dec 2010) Housing for health: worlds aligned tools to engage with and influence the health sector... By using the information and data in this report, housing providers can analyse local priority setting, understand what motivates health commissioners, and take steps to becoming a part of integrated pathways to improving health for vulnerable people. UK NHF (Nov 2010) |
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