In this update:
· public opinion · skilled visas · vocational placements · complaints · pay equity · staffing & quality · data return audit · medical workforce · graduate scheme · aged care | · cancer Australia · cancer UK · devolving public health · trans fatty foods · complementary medicines · legionella · water surveillance · work & wellbeing · prison methadone · LGBTI mental health · drug endangered children | · NSW child protection · family violence law · domestic abuse services · special schools · health & intellectual disability · concessions · energy assistance · social housing regulation · value for money housing · community orchards |
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 Public Opinion Polls This paper examines public opinion polling in Australia and in other jurisdictions.Vic parliamentary Library (Aug 2011) Review of the Permanent Employer Sponsored Visa Categories Discussion paper on Skilled visasAus Dep Immigration (Aug 2011) Internships, Vocational Placements & Unpaid Work a draft fact sheet about internships, unpaid work experience and vocational placements for comment ...aims to help ensure that employers, employees and educational institutions are aware of some of the problems that can occur in these types of arrangements. Fair Work Ombudsman (Aug 2011) The Complaints Principles 2011 (the Principles) for the Aged Care Complaints Scheme (the Scheme) are in place from 1 September 2011. also UK Understanding the experiences of Pension, Disability and Carers Service customers engaged with the formal complaints processAus Health (Sep 2011) NSW Public Service Pay Equity Audit Report 2011 In 2010, the average salary for women was 93.3 per cent of the average salary for men. This means that the pay gap for the NSW public service was 6.7 per cent.NSW (Aug 2011) NHS Staff Management and Health Service Quality Good management staff leads to higher quality of care, more satisfied patients and lower patient mortality. Good staff management offers significant financial savings for the NHS,.. that good management needs to be based on the staff engagement ‘star’ model.: a healthy, safe work environment, ensuring every role counts, promoting great management and leadership, supporting personal development, enabling involvement in decision making. UK Health (Aug 2011) Fundamental Review of Data Returns A Consultation on the Recommendations of the Review ...If adopted, the recommendations arising from the review mean a significant number of current data returns will be discontinued, but we recognise that more can be done to further streamline the system. UK Health (Aug 2011) Shape of the Medical Workforce: Informing Medical Training Numbers makes recommendations to inform the future recruitment to medical training over the medium term. The recommendations include a view on: •the nature of any change needed •the pace of this change •geographical imbalances that need to be addressed •a year for the next review. UK CFWI (Aug 2011) NHS national graduate management training scheme: payback - return on investment finds that the NHS graduate management training scheme generates savings per trainee in the tens of thousands of pounds, and retains more trainees than other private and public sector schemes. UK NHS (Aug 2011) AIHW (Sep 2011) | |
| Cancer Australia Strategic Plan 2011-2014 will focus on fostering collaboration and engagement across the health system, building the knowledge base in cancer and seeking to shape the effectiveness of cancer control programs at a national level. (Aug 2011) Vision for future of cancer services six documents setting out a vision for the future of cancer services: Public health and prevention, Early diagnosis, Treatment and services, Survivorship, Commissioning, Research also: Nations divided? An assessment of variations in access to cancer treatments for patients in England, Scotland and Wales This report reveals the extent of cross-border inequalities in access to cancer treatments UK Cancer Campaigning Group (Aug 2011) In it for the long haul: the challenge for public health The decision in the UK to devolve primary responsibility for public health to local government represents a significant shift in the way in which public health is configured and services are delivered locally UK IPPR (Aug 2011) Nutrient analysis of a range of processed foods with particular reference to trans fatty acids levels of artifical trans fats in processed foods have reduced considerably compared with previous analyses of similar foods carried out over the last 20-30 years where available. UK Health (Aug 2011) Therapeutic Goods Regulation: Complementary Medicines The system for the regulation of complementary medicines in Australiawas designed to have a ‘light touch’,8 due to the relatively low risk ascribed to the proper use of the majority of complementary medicines Aus Audit (Aug 2011) NZ health (Aug 2011) Technical guidance on water-related disease surveillance reviews the main threats to health related to water services, recalls basic concepts of epidemiology and disease surveillance and advises on data management and analysis WHO Europe (Aug 2011) Work Quality, not just Quantity: Work-Related Predictors of Psychological Distress, Work-Family Interaction and Alcohol Consumption takes a work-life perspective to examining how paid work impacts on wellbeingUni SA (Aug 2011) Opioid Substitution treatment in prison and post-release: effects on criminal recidivism and mortality heroin dependent ex-prisoners died at six times the rate of males in New South Wales of the same age who had never used heroin....It costs about $75,000 to keep someone in prison per year compared to $4,000 to keep them in methadone treatment. full reportUNSW NDARC (Aug 2011) National LGBTI Health Alliance – Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Project Final Report provides a snapshot of services, gaps and awareness concerning LGBTI people in Australia. “Of most concern is the finding that less than half of mainstream mental health services agree to the need to have services targeted to LGBTI people and only one in five have specific reference to LGBTI people in their goals or plans” Nat LBGTI (Aug 2011) Review of the Multi-Agency Resource Service (MARS) and the Scottish Child Care and Protection Network (SCCPN) The Multi-Agency Resource Service ( MARS) was launched in 2009 as a national resource for professionals working in the field of child protection. One of its primary functions is to coordinate the exchange of knowledge across agencies and also to broker and facilitate links across the child protection sector in Scotland. Scotland (Aug 2011) Working With Drug Endangered Children and Their Families. Promising Practices toolkit provides guidance and resources to professionals to aid in identifying, responding to, and serving drug endangered children. US Drug Control Taskforce | |
| Keep Them Safe? A Special Report to Parliament examines whether NSW Community Services’ capacity to adequately respond to children assessed as being at risk of significant harm has improved as a result of changes to the child protection system also Report of Reviewable Deaths in 2008 & 2009: child deaths NSW Ombudsman (Aug 2011) Family violence & Commonwealth laws discussion paper concentrates on the treatment of family violence in specific areas of Commonwealth law—including child support and family assistance law, immigration law, employment law, social security law, superannuation law and privacy law. ALRC (Aug 2011) Improving local domestic abuse services : A web resource for local commissioners and practitioners. UK Audit (Aug 2011) Residential Special Schools - National Minimum Standards arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of children for whom accommodation is provided by residential special schools. They provide the minimum standards below which no school is expected to fall in securing outcomes for boarders. UK Education (Aug 2011) Health Indicators for New Zealanders with Intellectual Disability New Zealanders with intellectual disability had poorer health and seem to be more at risk of illness, disease and death than those without intellectual disability. These findings are consistent with international studies for this group. NZ Health (Sep 2011) Improving Blue Badge administration, assessment and enforcement: good practice review - Final Report The Blue Badge Scheme provides a range of parking concessions for people with severe mobility problems who have difficulty using public transport....found compelling evidence that intelligently combined cross-checking, desk-based assessment and IMA approaches offer a substantially more robust, and lower cost, UK Transport (Aug 2011) Summer Cooling Costs and Older Households The impact of the US Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program US AARP (Aug 2011) The regulation of social housing in Scotland a consultation Scotland Housing regulator (Aug 2011) Embedding value for money briefing is aimed at all staff, tenants and governing body members who are working to ensure value for money (VFM) in social housing UK Housemark (Sep 2011) Community orchards: Case studies examples of Big Society in action; being community led or where a community group works closely with a local authority to optimize the potential of open green space and promote the wider benefits through community orchards. UK Communities (Aug 2011) |
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