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Commissioning services for people with long term neurological conditions
- Author:
- CARE SERVICES IMPROVEMENT PARTNERSHIP
- Publisher:
- Care Services Improvement Partnership
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 22p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This publication was commissioning through CSIP on behalf of DH and followed a Think Tank in Leeds in the summer of 2006. It considers a number of issues in following pathways for people to enhance the commissioning of services in a complex area and seeks to improve the experience of people using services as a result.
Direct payments uptake project: an easy words leaflet
- Author:
- CARE SERVICES IMPROVEMENT PARTNERSHIP
- Publisher:
- Care Services Improvement Partnership
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This easy read leaflet is aimed at people already using services. It encourages them to say what their local authority could do to improve access to direct payments. Topics raised include, location and distance to points of help, staff training, commitment of staff to direct payments policy, better information quality and increased service uptake. Eleven ‘yes/no tick box’ type questions are provided which the reader can complete to help local authorities improve their service delivery and increase service uptake. Further postal, telephone, e mail and website contact points are listed.
A guide to fairer contracting, part 2: service specifications
- Author:
- CARE SERVICES IMPROVEMENT PARTNERSHIP
- Publisher:
- Care Services Improvement Partnership
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In 2006 the Better Commissioning Networks published Part 1 of a Guide to Fairer Contracting. This is Part 2 which provides a guide to writing specifications as a part of a contract. This work concentrates on residential and domiciliary care services although, as with Part 1 there are lessons for all commissioners faced with writing specifications.
Improving access to psychological therapies (IAPT) commissioning toolkit
- Author:
- CARE SERVICES IMPROVEMENT PARTNERSHIP
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guidance from the Department of Health follows NICE guidelines for people suffering from depression and anxiety disorders and is intended to help primary care trusts (PCTs) in commissioning or improving stepped care psychological therapies for this groups of patients.
10 high impact changes for mental health services: executive summary
- Authors:
- CARE SERVICES IMPROVEMENT PARTNERSHIP, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL HEALTH IN ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Mental Health in England
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 23p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
The 10 changes are: treat home-based care and support as the norm for the delivery of mental health services; improve flow of service users and carers across health and social care by improving access to screening and assessment; manage variation in service user discharge processes; manage variation in access to all mental health services; avoid unnecessary contact for service users and provide necessary contact in the right setting; increase the reliability of interventions by designing care around what is known to work and that service users and carers inform and influence; apply a systematic approach to enable the recovery of people with long term conditions; improve service user flow by removing queues; optimise service user and carer flow through the service using an integrated care pathway approach; and redesign and extend roles in line with efficient service user and carer pathways to attract and retain an effective workforce.
10 high impact changes for mental health services
- Authors:
- CARE SERVICES IMPROVEMENT PARTNERSHIP, NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL HEALTH IN ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Mental Health in England
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 56p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
The 10 changes are: treat home-based care and support as the norm for the delivery of mental health services; improve flow of service users and carers across health and social care by improving access to screening and assessment; manage variation in service user discharge processes; manage variation in access to all mental health services; avoid unnecessary contact for service users and provide necessary contact in the right setting; increase the reliability of interventions by designing care around what is known to work and that service users and carers inform and influence; apply a systematic approach to enable the recovery of people with long term conditions; improve service user flow by removing queues; optimise service user and carer flow through the service using an integrated care pathway approach; and redesign and extend roles in line with efficient service user and carer pathways to attract and retain an effective workforce.