In this update:

wellbeing index medial professionalism medical error reporting product pricing maternity services social marketing cancer costs

mental health PbR mental health needs service quality framework child protection & health domestic violence domestic violence risks child witnesses

disability support costing & service planning disability & poverty ex prisoner housing housing partnerships measuring affordability neighbourhood planning housing with care schemes

Mental Health Services in Australia new website from AIHW  shows increasing use of all mental health-related services, including hospitalisation and other residential care, hospital-based outpatient services and community mental health care services, and consultations with both specialists and GPs. These services were funded by a combination of state and territory governments, the Australian Government and private health insurance funds. New publication: Mental health services - in brief 2011

	How's life? Measuring well-being assesses 11 specific aspects of life – ranging from income, jobs and housing to health, education and the environment .. OECD (Oct 2011) New medical professionalism reviews the ways in which doctors’ relationships with evidence, society, patients, teams, regulators and employers have changed, are changing or may need to change. It discusses the implications of these changing relationships for medical professionalism. UK Health Foundation (Oct 2011) Implementing a 'Duty of Candour'; a new contractual requirement on providers. a contractual requirement on NHS providers to be open with patients when things go wrong with their healthcare UK Health (Oct 2011) Product pricing project Non-pay spend typically accounts for 30–35%of acute trusts’operating costs; about half of this is on drugs, clinical supplies and services... trusts could save up to 20% of their non-pay spend by effective procurement and supply chain management. UK Health (Oct 2011) Maternity services: capacity women at audited hospitals in metropolitan growth areas face increased costs and delays in accessing antenatal appointments due to fewer publicly available services. Vic Audit (Oct 2011) Change4Life three year social marketing strategy a companion to Healthy Lives, Healthy People: A call to action on obesity in England UK Health (Oct 2011) The Price of Cancer: The public price of registered cancer in New Zealand calculates the annual price of all cancers registered with the New Zealand Cancer Registry in 2008, and then estimates the drivers and likely magnitude of price change 10 years into the future, based on previous cancer incidence projections. NZ Health (Oct 2011)
	Payment by Results: Draft 2012-13 Mental Health Guidance  in the UK 2012-13 is the introductory year for what is major change in the way that mental health care is currently funded, a shift from block grants to PbR currencies which are associated with individual service users and their interactions with mental health services. also increased use of community treatment orders leads to slight fall in UK mental health hospitalisations UK Health (Oct 2011) Merseyside Mental Health Needs Assessment uses a population approach to identify at-risk groups and areas of need UK Liverpool Health Observatory (Aug 2011) Human Services Quality Framework  The Qld Dept Communities is currently trialling the Human Services Quality Framework (HSQF), a single quality framework that will provide a consistent approach to administering and assessing quality management for funded non government organisations (NGOs). Qld Communities (Sep 2011)   Assumption of Care Order by Community Services on Health Premises Community Services can assume care of a child or young person suspected to be at significant risk of harm if they are satisfied it is not in their best interests to be removed from the hospital or other premises by their parents. NSW Health (Oct 2011) The impact of domestic violence on children: A literature review children and mothers can cope with and recover from the effects of violence if they receive support which focuses on their resilience and coping strategies.   Benevolent Soc (Oct 2011) Preventing domestic violence death - is sexual assault a risk factor ? reviews evidence of sexual assault as a lethal risk factor and provides suggestions for response and further research ADFVC (Oct 2011) Child Witnesses in the Criminal Courts a New Zealand  reform package to improve the way child witnesses are treated in the criminal justice system. NZ Justice (Oct 2011)
	Disability support services 2009-10: report on services provided under the National Disability Agreement AIHW (Oct 2011) Economic & Social Costing: Modelling for Service Planning and Effective Intervention presentation to Fragile X symposium....Direct and indirect costs to individual, family and Australia NATSEM (Oct 2011) 4 in every 10: Disabled children living in poverty shows how additional costs of caring for a child with a disability – which has not been accounted for in previous analysis - mean that poverty rates amongst disabled children are higher than government statistics have previously stated.   UK Children's Society (Oct 2011) Impact of Family-Inclusive Case Management on Reentry Outcomes In general, family members were highly supportive of returning prisoners and, despite a typically disadvantaged socioeconomic status, provided substantial material support to their returning family members, particularly housing. US Urban (Sep 2011) Making partnerships work in the design and delivery of housing and urban renewal policy and programs Place and locality provide the basis of a shared vision for partnership working that includes both built form and people focussed outcomes. AHURI (Oct 2011) The residual income method: a new lens on housing affordability and market behaviour explores the viability of an alternative method of measuring affordability (the residual income method) to that of the ubiquitous 30 per cent benchmark method AHURI (Oct 2011) An introduction to neighbourhood planning leaflet provides an introduction to neighbourhood planning being introduced by the UK Government. This is a new way for communities to decide the future of the places where they live and work UK Communities (Oct 2011) Boundaries of roles and responsibilities in housing with care schemes Commissioning and delivering housing with care (HWC) services can be complex UK Joseph Rowntree (Oct 2011)