In this update:

·         behavioural insights ·         individualised funding ·         shared services ·         spending cutbacks & aged ·         public sector reform ·         electronic health records ·         disaster recovery ·         hospital in the home ·         primary care & hospital costs ·         hospital infections ·         financial incentives

·         non-communicable diseases ·         consumer involvement ·         patient experience ·         end of life care ·         long term conditions ·         dementia ·         older carers ·         food labels ·         monitoring child health ·         ATSI child & youth ·         family intervention

·         social capital & youth ·         child protection boards ·         abuse disclosure ·         neglected child ·         preventing violence ·         disability decisions ·         SA housing strategy ·         extra care housing ·         private rental market ·         rents & recession ·         age specific housing

Mental health and housing (Crikey blog) A major investigation by the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism has found deep-rooted and systemic neglect by Housing NSW of some of its most vulnerable tenants.

	Behavioural Insights Team Annual update 2010–11 The Behavioural Insights Team was set up by the UK Government in July 2010 to find innovative and cost-effective ways to change people’s behaviour. It is the first of its kind in the world. ..outlines a series of new approaches it has tested over the past year to increase people’s health, encourage them to make their houses more energy efficient or boost tax repayment rates. UK Cabinet Office (Sep 2011) Individualised Funding for Disability Services The audit found evidence of good outcomes for recipients and that all stakeholders are enthusiastic about the results of ISPs and their ongoing potential. However, benefits are not consistently delivered. Vic audit (Sep 2011) Shared Services in Health Care Health shared services represent an effort by provincial governments in Canada to maximize the value of public funds allocated to health care. By using business practices associated with supply chain management, such as joint purchasing and integrating procurement activities, it is expected that savings will be generated for reinvestment in the health care system. Can CADTH (Sep 2011) Public spending cutbacks and impacts on older people: the Swedish experience in the 1990s older people suffer disproportionately from cuts, and that ultimately the burden on health services is increased. This is unambiguously supported by the Swedish and Canadian experiences UK WRVS (Sep 2011) Reformers and wreckers This report presents evidence from eight case studies of successful public service reform in the UK and overseas, including one on NHS North West...reform of the workforce is an essential means of improving public services as well as reducing their costs. UK Reform (Sep 2011) Concept of Operations: Relating to the introduction of a personally controlled electronic health record system  provides an overview of the PCEHR system structure and how it will work, the security and privacy principles, the implementation and adoption of the system, and the expected benefits as a result of the PCEHR program for patients, carers and healthcare practitioners. Aus health (Sep 2011) Economic Vitality Viewpoint : natural disasters it takes from 6 to 18 months for the majority of personal income sources to return to pre disaster levels according to this report from the Commonwealth Bank... the Black Saturday Bushfires were intense but localised  with little impact on the state or national economies NATSEM/Commbank (Sep 2011)  Economic Analysis of Hospital in the Home results suggest HITH may provide lower cost care compared to hospital care while achieving equivalent clinical outcomes. HITH Australasia/Deloitte (Sep 2011) Does better disease management in primary care reduce hospital costs? finds that only primary care performance in stroke care is associated with lower hospital costs. ...The cost savings are due mainly to reductions in emergency admissions and outpatient visits, rather than to lower costs for patients treated in hospital or to reductions in elective admissions. UK Centre for Health economics (Sep 2011) Eliminating CLABSI: A National Patient Safety Imperative a national effort to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections (BSIs) in U.S. hospitals US AHRQ (Sep 2011) The effect of financial incentives on the quality of health care provided by primary care physicians there is insufficient evidence to support or not support the use of financial incentives to improve the quality of primary health care. Implementation should proceed with caution and incentive schemes should be more carefully designed before implementation. Cochrane Reviews (Sep 2011)
	The Growing Danger of Non-Communicable Diseases: Acting Now to Reverse Course Obesity, Diabetes, Heart Attacks, and Other Chronic Diseases Threaten Health and Economies in Poor and Middle-Income Countries World bank Sep 2011) National Framework for Consumer Involvement in Cancer Control has been developed by Cancer Australia in partnership with Cancer Voices Australia to enhance meaningful consumer involvement at all levels of cancer control in order to improve outcomes and experiences for people affected by cancer. Cancer Aus (Sep 2011) Measuring patient experience in the primary care sector Systems for measuring and improving patient experience in the community sector are relatively underdeveloped... UK Kings College (Sep 2011) The route to success in end of life care – achieving quality in prisons and for prisoners aims to support prison, health and social care professionals in delivering high quality end of life care to prisoners. UK NHS (Sep 2011) Care planning: improving the lives of people with long term conditions This report focuses on people with long term physical health problems and provides guidance to help GPs and their teams better support such patients in gaining more control over their health and improving the quality of their lives. UK RCGP (Sep 2011) Timely Diagnosis of Dementia; Can we do better? there is an average of three years before a diagnosis is made from the first consultation. also: World Alzheimer Report 2011 - The benefits of early diagnosis and intervention. Alzheimer's Aus (Sep 2011) Always on call, always concerned This report highlights the concerns of older carers while demonstrating how essential it is to support local centres that look after older carers’ needs UK Princess Royal Trust (Sep 2011) Guidance on the application of date labels to food includes Developing a Framework for Assessing the Costs of Labelling Changes in the UK UK FSA (Sep 2011) Standards for assessing, measuring and monitoring vital signs in infants, children and young people The assessment, measurement and monitoring of vital signs are important skills for all practitioners working with infants, children and young people. The vital signs covered in this revised edition include temperature, heart/pulse rate, respiratory rate and effort, pain assessment and blood pressure. Important information gained by assessing and measuring vital signs can be indicators of health and ill health. UK RCN (Sep 2011) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing: A focus on children and youth Staying in school is linked to better health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth...Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth in remote areas who speak an Indigenous language are less likely to experience risk factors associated with poor wellbeing... ABS (Sep 2011) Monitoring and Evaluation of Family Intervention Projects and Services statistical overview of the impact of 'family intervention projects and services', which provide support to families with social, economic, health and behaviour problems...measures of service capacity and service engagement also Turning around the lives of families with multiple problems - an evaluation of the Family and Young Carer Pathfinders Programme UK Education (Sep 2011)
	Social capital and youth transitions: do young people's networks improve their participation in education and training? participation in school-based activities is found to have the greatest influence on participation in education and training, followed by the strength of the relationship students have with their teachers. Of particular interest, the authors find that social capital influences educational participation over and above the effects of background characteristics such as parental education and occupation, geographic location, cultural background and academic achievement. NCVER (Sep 2011) Good practice by Local Safeguarding Children Boards Local Safeguarding Children Boards are the key statutory mechanism for agreeing how the relevant organisations in each local area cooperate to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, with the purpose of holding each other to account and ensuring that safeguarding children remains high on the agenda across the partnership area. UK Ofsted (Sep 2011) Responding to children and young people’s disclosures of abuse contains information that will help family, friends, other adults and professionals to respond to a child’s disclosure of abuse. However, the way that individuals respond to abuse will differ according to their role in the child’s life. NCPH (Sep 2011) Noticing and helping the neglected child presentation by a member of a team that undertook a multi-disciplinary audit and review of child protection practices in Scotland Benevolent Society (Sep 2011) Preventing Violence Against Women and Children - Workshop Summary Part of the forum’s mandate is to engage in multisectoral, multidirectional dialogue that explores crosscutting approaches to violence prevention. To that end, the workshop was designed to examine these approaches US IOM (Sep 2011) Living Life My Way: Putting people with a disability at the centre of decision making- Summit report  (link at bottom of page) NSW FCS (Sep 2011) Housing strategy for South Australia : green paper has been released seeking public and stakeholder comment on the proposed directions for the state. SA Families (Sep 2011) Establishing the extra in Extra Care: perspectives from three Extra Care housing providers This report finds that compared to those living in the community in receipt of domiciliary care, those in extra care housing are about half as likely to enter institutional accommodation. UK ILC (Sep 2011) The impacts of the Henry Review recommendations on the private rental market - Savings income discount and rent assistance the first of two Final Reports that aims to address the following research question highlighted in AHURI’s housing supply research brief: What is the impact on supply and affordability from implementation of the Henry Review recommendations in relation to negative gearing, land tax and stamp duty? AHURI (Sep 2011) Leading the market? A research report into whether Local Housing Allowance (LHA) lettings are feeding rent inflation...demonstrates that, contrary to government claims that rises in the housing benefit bill are caused by landlords increasing rents in order to take advantage of pre-determined benefit levels, the more likely explanation is a change in the make up of claimants as more families are affected by the recession in expensive areas UK CIH (Sep 2011) Age-specific housing markets and housing and care for low to moderate income older persons The current supply of age-specific housing is old and not particularly suitable for older consumers. AHURI (Sep 2011)