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An anchor approach to sustainability
Drawing on findings from the Health Anchors Learning Network, Jenna Collins explores how the NHS can help combat climate change through its role as an anchor institution.
Community and voluntary The community and voluntary sector plays a crucial role in both health care, social care and ensuring healthy lives for people across the UK
The community and voluntary sector, or third sector, encompasses a broad range of organisations and groups. It includes everything from small local action groups to social enterprises to international charities and everything in between.
Our recent work and content on this topic is listed below.
Facilitating new models of care within Integrated Community Services
This project aimed to improve service delivery and quality of life for patients by ensuring they see the right person, in the right place, at the right time.
Patient agenda setting in respiratory outpatients: A randomized controlled trial
Soliciting a patient’s agenda (the reason for their visit, concerns and expectations) is fundamental to health care but if not done effectively outcomes can be adversely affected. Forms to help patien...
A systematic literature review of operational research methods for modelling patient flow and outcomes within community healthcare and other settings
An ambition of healthcare policy has been to move more acute services into community settings. This systematic literature review presents analysis of published operational research methods for modelli...
WORKTECC: Workforce Operations that Realise Knowledge-based Transformational Efficiency gains in Community Care
This round two Efficiency Research project will explore whether workforce operations used by other industries can improve the efficiency of home-based NHS care, and if so, how.
Empowering people and communities
There is a growing policy focus on how to empower and engage people and communities in their own health and care. The NHS Five Year Forward View talks about ‘harnessing the renewable energy’ of patien...
Webinar: Practical learning and tips to put people and communities at the heart of health and wellbeing
This webinar draws upon the findings of the Realising the Value programme and share insights on how person and community centred approaches have helped people they support, to manage their health and ...
Time for action: how NHS England is embedding the learning from Realising the Value
Anu Singh is Director of Patient & Public Voice and Insight at NHS England. She tells us why NHS England funded the Realising the Value programme, how it is helping to implement the vision behind the ...
The untapped potential of fathers
How would you feel if you were constantly defined as a problem? Pigeon-holed as a hard-to-reach unemployed man with mental health or addiction problems and offered a string of social care and health s...
Chunking up chapter two of the Five Year Forward View
Chapter two of the NHS England Five Year Forward View starts by saying that the NHS has not yet ‘fully harnessed the renewable energy represented by patients and communities’ and then goes on to consi...
Ten key actions to put people and communities at the heart of health and wellbeing
This month, together with Nesta and our partners in the Realising the Value consortium, the Health Foundation has launched a set of practical resources to show how person- and community- centred appro...
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