In this update:

·         National Health Reform ·         disasters & social media ·         open data ·         shared services ·         government  IT ·         social enterprise ·         decommissioning ·         ATSI health ·         international health systems ·         shared decision making ·         hospital efficiency ·         readmission risk

·         occupational health ·         falls prevention ·         child dental health ·         mental health trauma ·         cancer & powerlines ·         gender reassignment ·         multiculturalism & youth ·         young offender health ·         child mental health ·         social pedagogy ·         challenging behaviour ·         domestic violence

·         individual budgets ·         personalised planning ·         disability trusts ·         costs of caring ·         food insecurity ·         housing & health ·         aging in place ·         ATSI housing ·         homelessness & ABS ·         community hubs ·         anti social behaviour ·         tenancy databases

	National Health Reform Agreement National Health Reform Agreement;National Partnership Agreement on Improving Public Hospital Services; Expert Panel Report; National Healthcare Agreement; Intergovernmental Agreement on Federal Financial Relations; Brief Summary of Commonwealth investments in public hospitals more documents including Expert Panel Review of Elective Surgery and Emergency Access Targets COAG (Aug 2011) Queensland Police Service Disaster Management and Social Media - a case study "documents our significant and what has been described as world leading efforts in using social media for public engagement and emergency disaster responsiveness." Qld Pol (Aug 2011) Making Open Data Real: A Public Consultation The proposed approach is fundamentally about creating a ‘pull’ (an enhanced right to data) and a ‘push’ (a presumption of publication). also Consultation on Data Policy for a Public Data Corporation UK Cabinet Office (Jul 2011) Government Shared Services: Strategic Vision proposed strategic vision and future operating model for UK Government Shared Services....to consolidate back office transactional services – HR, Finance, Payroll and Procurement UK Cabinet Office (Jul 2011) Government and IT- "A Recipe For Rip-Offs": Time For A New Approach vol1   government is currently over-reliant on a small “oligopoly” of large suppliers,...lack of data means that governments have failed to benchmark the price it pays for IT goods and services...Government needs to possess the necessary skills and knowledge in-house, to manage suppliers and understand the potential IT has to transform the services it delivers. and vol2 and vol3   UK House of Commons (Jul 2011) Social enterprise in health care Promoting organisational autonomy and staff engagement Social enterprises could play a significant role as providers of health care. The question is whether these new organisations and their leaders have the necessary competencies to manage the risks and establish themselves as viable organisations in this increasingly competitive context. UK King's fund (Aug 2011) Decommissioning How to decommission public services delivered by civil society organisations and maintain value for money UK Audit (Aug 2011) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework 2010 report: Significant improvements in Indigenous mortality rates Aus Health (Aug 2011) Multinational Comparisons of Health Systems Data, 2010 uses OECD data to compare health care systems and performance on a range of topics, including spending, hospitals, physicians, pharmaceuticals, prevention, mortality, and quality of care. We present data across several industrialized countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States US Commonwealth Fund (Jul 2011) Making shared decision-making a reality : No decision about me, without me clarifies what is meant by the term shared decision-making and what skills and resources are required to implement it UK Kings Fund (Jul 2011) Achieving Efficiency: Lessons from Four Top-Performing Hospitals With an emphasis on patient education and electronic sharing of information with a patient’s primary care provider at discharge, hospitals can ensure transitions are safer and reduce avoidable readmissions. US Commonwealth Fund (Jul 2011) Risk Stratification and next steps with DH Risk Prediction tools – Patients at Risk of Re-hospitalisation and the Combined Predictive Model use of a risk prediction approach in order to identify those people who are the most regular users of hospital services and therefore at risk of re-admissions. UK Health (Aug 2011)
	Healthy Staff, Better Care for Patients: Realignment of Occupational Health Services to the NHS in England UK Health (Jul 2011) Falls prevention in NSW: a big issue requiring sustained research, policy and practice initiatives NSW Public Health Bulletin (Jun 2011) Dental decay among Australian children  Young children from the lowest socioeconomic areas had about 70% more dental decay than children from the highest socioeconomic areas.  and Changes in child toothbrushing over time The proportion of children brushing their teeth less than once a day, among children when they start brushing with toothpaste, almost doubled between 1993 and 2000. AIHW (Jul 2011) Trauma Informed Care & Practice: Conference 2011 Presentations  Trauma informed programs and services internationally represent the new generation of transformed mental health and allied human services organisations and programs more Mental Health Coordinating Council (Jun 2011) Adult cancers near overhead powerlines: Interim Report The aim of the study was to investigate the risk of adult cancers (leukemia, brain/central nervous system cancers, malignant melanoma and female breast cancer) in relation to distance and extremely low frequency calculated magnetic fields within 1000m from high voltage overhead power lines UK Health (Aug 2011) Gender Reassignment Health Services for Trans People within New Zealand...Good Practice Guide is designed to assist practitioners who are not confident or have little experience in working with trans people. NZ health (Aug 2011) Multiculturalism and Integration: A Harmonious Relationship integration has not been rigorously defined and may simply be another form of multiculturalism, which the authors believe to have been vital in sustaining social harmony....ch9: The Incorporation of Australian Youth in a Multicultural and Transnational World  ANU (Jul 2011) Re:Actions A third review of healthcare in the community for young people who offend children and young people who have offended, or are likely to offend have a higher percentage of health-related issues than those of the general youth population. Many of these needs, such as those related to substance misuse, may be directly linked to offending behaviour. UK Justice (Jul 2011) Procedure for the transfer from custody of children and young people under the Mental Health Act 1983 in England  procedure for transferring to and from hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983 any child or young person who is: detained in custody in pursuance of any sentence or order for detention; remanded in custody or who is otherwise detained in custody. UK Health (Aug 2011) Raising the Bar? Evaluation of the social pedagogy pilot programme in residential children's homes considers whether a social pedagogic approach would be likely to have a positive effect within the context of English residential children’s homes. UK Education (Jul 2011) Understanding School Responses to Students’ Challenging Behaviour A Review of Literature: It is essential for students with challenging behaviours to remain engaged with their learning and to be socially included in their school in order that they achieve positive outcomes. Uniting Care (Jun 2011) How children are affected by domestic violence Children affected by violence are more likely to experience higher rates of depression and anxiety, trauma symptoms and behavioural and cognitive problems and Financial cost of domestic and family violence Aus Benevolent Society (Aug 2011)
	Individual budgets for families with disabled children focuses on the means by which the pilots were set-up and delivered, and the resource and infrastructure requirements associated with the budget approach. UK Education (Jul 2011) Putting people with a disability at the centre of decision making - revised discussion paper ...Personalised planning, funding and services are essential elements of a person centred system. NSW ADHC (Aug 2011) Exposure Draft - Removal Of Income Tax Impediments Affecting Special Disability Trusts  the Government will introduce legislation to remove further income tax barriers that impede families from making financial contributions to a Special Disability Trust (SDT). Aus Treasury (Jul 2011) The costs of caring and the living standards of carers Direct costs comprise monetary expenses associated with the provision of care such as transport, additional heating and cleaning costs, and reduced spending on leisure activities. Indirect costs comprise opportunity, time and health costs. FaHCSIA (Jul 2011), Food insecurity in Australia: What is it, who experiences it and how can child and family services support families experiencing it? AIFS (Aug 2011) Precarious housing and health inequalities: What are the links? and Housing and health: research summary VicHealth (Aug 2011) Ageing in what place? The experience of housing crisis and homelessness for older Victorians Over the past twelve months, Hanover Welfare Services conducted an action research project... examining older individual’s pathways into housing crisis and homelessness. Hanover (Jul 2011) Urban social housing for Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders: respecting culture and adapting services final report AHURI (Aug 2011) ABS Review of Counting the Homeless Methodology The consultation on the review findings has confirmed the significance of the areas of likely underestimation of homelessness in relation to youth, Indigenous people and people escaping domestic violence. However, no alternative estimation methods have yet been developed to address the issues of underestimation for homelessness in these groups. ABS (Aug 2011) Community Hubs in Practice – A Way Forward four detailed case studies of successful community hubs operating throughout Wales. These community hubs are key vehicles for delivering anti-poverty and community empowerment strategies UK Wales (Aug 2011) A new mandatory power of possession for anti-social behaviour: Consultation plans to speed up the process for evicting persistent 'neighbours from hell' from their homes when all other efforts to curb their anti-social behaviour have failed. UK Communities (Aug 2011) Towards National Regulation of Residential Tenancy Databases: the Queensland Perspective. Each state and territory currently takes a different approach to the regulation of tenancy databases. Qld Parliamentary Library (Aug 2011)