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Acquittal Report: Results of the 2009–10 Audits The average time taken by portfolio departments, public hospitals and water entities to finalise their financial statements substantially improved by one to three weeks and were finalised within eight weeks, on average, of balance date. ..Parliament can have confidence in the financial reporting by public hospitals because all 112 entities have finalised their 30 June 2010 financial reports and received clear opinions. Vic Audit (Feb 2011) Effectiveness of Victims of Crime Programs VSA does not have any agency objectives or key performance indicators, and does not audit service delivery. Consequently, it is unable to provide assurance that services are being delivered as intended. Vic Audit (Feb 2011) Effective Risk Management address by Australian Auditor general...Sadly, only risk management failures attract attention, and headlines. Aus Audit (Feb 2010) UK Information and Communications Technology in government. Landscape Review governance and getting better value for money from information and technology UK Audit (Feb 2011) Growing social ventures the UK has a diverse ecology of entrepreneurial activity aimed at meeting social goals...a social venture may be of any legal status (such as a charity, a company limited by shares, an industrial provident society or more), any business model, any scale and any profit distribution model, as long as it has as a primary purpose the meeting of social needs. related Growing the Social Investment Market: A vision and strategy UK Young Foundation (Feb 2011) ACT Charter of Rights for Mental Health Consumers consultation ACT Health Enabling Excellence: Autonomy and Accountability for Health and Social Care Staff sets out the UK Government strategy for reforming and simplifying the system for regulating healthcare workers in the UK and social workers and social care workers in England...recognises the need to provide a more effective system for assuring the quality of unregulated staff and we believe that assured voluntary registration will make an important contribution to improving standards for the unregulated workforce. UK Health (Feb 2011) The role of Assistant Practitioners in the NHS: factors affecting evolution and development of the role Assistant Practitioners occupy an intermediate position just below the level of professionally qualified staff but usually above Health Care Assistants. UK Skills for Health (Feb 2011) The development of a pre-registration nursing competencies assessment tool for use in universities across Australia pilot guidelines that seek to ensure robust and reliable clinically-based learning for pre-registration Bachelor of Nursing students, thus better preparing them for nursing registration, and the everyday challenges of work in a busy clinical environment. ALTC (Feb 2011) Using Microeconomic Reform to Deliver Patient-Centred Health Care and Selected Facts and Statistics on Australia’s Healthcare Sector Business Council Australia (Feb 2011) A Local Hospital Network for the Australia Capital Territory - The way forward The ACT Government has opted for a LHN model in the ACT that is more flexible than the general model that might be implemented in other jurisdictions. ACT Health (Feb 2011) Estimating Hospital Cost Shift Rates: A Practitioners’ Guide A US review of cost shifting relating to public and private patients also How much do hospitals cost shift? A review of the evidence US veterans Affairs (Feb 2011) Do quality improvements in primary care reduce secondary care costs? shows an association between achievement of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) indicators and a reduction in hospital costs and lives saved, particularly for stroke care...reinforces the importance of investing in primary care in order to improve the use of scarce resources in the acute sector. UK Health Foundation (Feb 2011) Disease management evaluation: A comprehensive review of current state of the art Many countries in Europe are experimenting with new, structured approaches to better manage the care of patients with chronic illness and so improve its quality and ultimately patient health outcomes. While intuitively appealing, the evidence such approaches achieve these ends remains uncertain. US Rand (Feb 2011) | |
Because this is the rainy day: a discussion paper on home care and informal caregiving for seniors with chronic health conditions We need to use home care more strategically to provide seniors and their informal caregivers with care and support tailored to their needs as well as to help solve health system and sustainability problems. Can Change Foundation (Feb 2011) Residential Long-Term Care for Canada’s Seniors: Nonprofit, For-Profit or Does it Matter? for-profit facilities are likely to produce inferior outcomes. While the causal link between for-profit ownership and inferior quality of care does not imply that all for-profit facilities provide poor care, the evidence suggests that, as a group, such facilities are less likely to provide good care than nonprofit or public facilities. related NHS is failing to meet even the most basic standards of care for older people Can IRPP (Jan 2011) Making Alcohol a Health Priority argues that billions can be saved simply by introducing alcohol health workers in hospitals to help patients reduce their drinking UK AlcoholConcern (Feb 2011) Analysis report on the 2009 consultation on the statutory regulation of practitioners of acupuncture, herbal medicine, traditional Chinese medicine and other traditional medicine systems practised in the UK UK Health (Feb 2011) Diversion: the business case for action Diverting offenders with mental health problems from short prison sentences to community alternatives costs much less and is more likely to rehabilitate them... UK RCP (Feb 2011) A guide to working with offenders with personality disorders designed to provide practical, hands-on advice to other frontline staff working with offenders with highly complex needs. It will be particularly useful for people working with those who present a high risk of serious harm to others. more UK Health (Feb 2011) Parenting and mental illness: the early years almost 3 in every 4 expectant mothers were offered no support or information on how to plan for the stresses pregnancy and parenthood could place on their mental health. Aus Sane (Feb 2011) Child cruelty in the UK 2011 - An NSPCC study into childhood abuse and neglect over the past 30 years one in five 11-17 year olds have been abused or neglected during childhood...The early findings show some types of abuse have been in decline over the last 30 years UK NSPCC (Feb 2011) Vetting and barring scheme remodelling review - report and recommendations The UK government has now announced provisions to revise its vetting and barring arrangements, to ensure fair and proportionate regulation of those who want to work with vulnerable groups. UK Home Office (Feb 2011) Having corporate parents sets out what children and young people in care say about some of the things that those in care experience because the council is acting as their parent...the children we asked thought it was better to have a number of care professionals around them doing different things for them, rather than just one trying to do everything needed – but there should be no more professionals than the child needs. more: Children in care oppose media access to family courts UK Children's rights Director (Feb 2011) Framework for the inspection of Children’s Homes and Evaluation schedule and media release: New inspection system to improve outcomes for children living in children’s homes UK Ofsted (Feb 2011) The youth justice system in England and Wales: Reducing offending by young people There has been little improvement in the reoffending rate for those leaving custody, with three in four offending again within a year. ... 70% of young offenders suffer from significant communication difficulties, but current forms of assessment do not give this sufficient weight. UK Parliament (Feb 2011) Why is the juvenile re-offending rate higher than expected? the observed rate of re-offending among juvenile offenders convicted in 2006/7 was significantly higher than the predicted rate of re-offending...A higher than expected rate of reconviction among juveniles dealt with via a Youth Justice Conference. NSW BOCSAR (Feb 2011) Towards a Diversionary Framework in the ACT Discussion Paper outlines what is presently working well and areas where performance can be improved, in relation to diverting young people from the ACT criminal justice system. ACT DHCS (Feb 2011) Good practice in women’s prisons: A literature review it is essential to have prison practice models that support reintegration, facilitate personal development and reduce recidivism rates. AIC (Feb 2011) | |
National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children 2010-2022 a 12-year strategy endorsed by the Commonwealth and all states and territories. FaHCSIA (Feb 2011) Addressing ‘the ultimate insult’: responding to women experiencing intimate partner sexual violence Policy and practice responses to women experiencing IPSV do not always recognise the importance of identifying and naming this experience. Subsequent support from the welfare, health and justice sectors is sometimes inconsistent, inaccessible or inappropriate to women’s needs. ADFVC (Feb 2011) Identification and Referral to Improve Safety of women experiencing domestic violence (IRIS) project a case study about an innovative programme to help GPs to identify victims of domestic abuse and ensure that they get the support that they need. UK Health Foundation (Feb 2011) Supporting women from CALD backgrounds who are victim/survivors of sexual violence: Challenges and opportunities for practitioners ACSSA (Feb 2011) Correlates of reported gambling problems in the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities (CALD) population of Australia the CALD population experience lower levels of negative life events (or life stressors) when compared to the non-CALD population and in fact the level of these events declined between 2002 and 2006 for the CALD population...Problem gambling within the CALD population when compared to the general population (2006) was at significantly lower levels. GRA (Feb 2011) Evidence-informed practice: Using research to improve services for children and young people Research has an important contribution to make to the development of services for children and young people...Researchers often despair that clear findings are overlooked or ignored when decisions are made about the direction and delivery of services. UK RURU (2010) Coping with Cold looks at the different ways people cope and asks if policy on fuel poverty needs to change to ensure that the basic need of a warm home is met...energy companies should ensure that customers likely to be in fuel poverty are made aware of the availability of social tariffs and can access these tariffs. Wales Bevan Foundation (Feb 2011) Review of the Disability Standards for Education the numbers of funded school students with disability increased by more than 20 per cent in the four years from 2005 to 2009. DEEWR (Feb 2011) Fair Play for Disabled Children and Young People in Wales Despite many good intentions, play and leisure services for disabled children and young people are poor. There is simply not enough to do, and the activities that are available are often not accessible or children's enjoyment is marred by negative attitudes. Wales Bevan Foundation (Feb 2011) Housing, loneliness and health loneliness is particularly high among people living in single person dwellings, public housing and private rental housing. This suggests that housing policy has a role to play in addressing this significant issue. AHURI (Feb 2011) Learning from the Field: Expert Panel on Youth who are LGBTQI2-S and Homeless It is estimated that between 20% and 40% of youth experiencing homelessness identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, intersex, or two-spirit (LGBTQI2-S) US Homelessness Resource Centre ( 2010) 2011-15 Affordable Homes Programme – Framework The majority of the homes built will be made available as Affordable Rent and with some for affordable home ownership. related: Affordable Housing definition: Consultation This change will mean affordable rent can be regarded as affordable housing for planning purposes. UK Communities (Feb 2011) Understanding Neighborhood Effects of Concentrated Poverty Neighborhoods of concentrated poverty isolate their residents from the resources and networks they need to reach their potential and deprive the larger community of the neighborhood’s human capital. US HUD (Feb 2011) Complaints Benchmarking Summary of findings 2009/10 the service enables landlords to measure and compare, on a like-for-like basis, the volume of complaints they receive, their performance in responding to them and the resultant outcomes... tenants complained about repairs and maintenance more than any other service with a median average of nearly six complaints per 1000 properties. Staff and customer service came second , followed by Tenancy Management UK Housemark (Feb 2011) |
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