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New tools for helping care for people with Long Term Conditions

 Click here to view the full website. The handbooks, which can be accessed online, are aimed at supporting commissioners and practitioners in planning services for people with long term conditions (LTCs), in order to achieve more effective, personalised care. Please click here to view the handbooks. The guides cover three key areas: identifying people in […]

Measuring and Valuing Health

This free online course will introduce you to health outcomes and explain how they can be measured and valued, to make more informed decisions about where to spend our limited healthcare budgets. We’ll look at two different types of measures, asking how they’re developed and calculated, and how they’re used by decision makers in practice: […]

Evaluation and Reported Effectiveness of the Winter Warmth Toolkit Phase 1 (May 2012 – January 2013)

This evaluation report overviews usage of the Winter Warmth Toolkit (www.winterwarmthengland.co.uk) since its development and launch in 2012 to date (February 2013). The report includes both qualitative and quantitative findings sourced from a range of organisations, individuals and Winter Warmth Toolkit website statistical information. Please click here to view full project report.

Mini Case Study Book- Evidence and Ethnicity in Commissioning

Recent years have seen growing interest within the health sector in finding ways to close the gap between what we know and what we do; ways to ensure that research evidence and other types of knowledge actually lead to benefits for patients and populations. This casebook is about how we can make progress on putting evidence into practice […]

Whose Diabetes is it?

This report captures the outputs of a project working with young people with type 1 diabetes and their families in Rotherham and Barnsley. It presents the findings through a proposed information and support service that puts young people at its centre. This service was co-created by the young people, their families and key staff from the Rotherham Hospital Adolescent […]