Commissioning for personalisation: a framework for local authority commissioners
This framework explores refocuses existing and emerging perspectives on commissioning for health and wellbeing through the lens of personalisation. Read more »
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Department of Health launches Carers Direct
The Carers Direct information service is designed to provide a single and comprehensive online resource to help carers manage their lives around caring. Read more »
Talking mats
Talking Mats is an established communication tool, which uses a mat with symbols attached as the basis for communication. Read more »
Reforming leadership development … again
This paper asserts that debates about improving management and leadership in the NHS are not new and continuous reform suggests that previous attempts may not have tackled the right problem. Read more »
The design of housing for people with dementia
This paper illustrates how the principles of designing for dementia have been successfully applied to extra care housing. Read more »
A better return: setting the foundations for intelligent commissioning to achieve value for money
This report describes how the Third Sector could evidence its wider impact on public services and their delivery. Read more »
Transforming community services: enabling new patterns of provision
This guidance is intended to help providers of community services to move their relationship with their commissioners to a purely contractual one, consider what type(s) of organisations would best meet the future needs of patients and local communities, and how change can be managed to support the transformation of services to patients. Read more »
See me, not just the dementia: understanding people's experiences of living in a care home
This report looks at the experiences of people with dementia living in care homes in England, with a particular focus on whether their care offers dignity and respect. Read more »
Always a last resort: Inquiry into the prescription of antipsychotic drugs to people with dementia living in care homes
This report published by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia (APPG) examines the problem of the over prescription of antipsychotic drugs to people with dementia living in care homes and proposes workables solutions. Read more »
Strengthening the involvement of people with dementia toolkit
This toolkit augments the section ‘Involving service users and their carers’ in ‘Everybody’s Business – a service development guide’. Read more »