Planning and preparing is essential to keep our communities safe and well. This website will provide you with information, statistics and communication resources to help your organisation ensure that vulnerable people stay safe, well and warm during the winter. To access these free resources, log in or create an account. Please click here to view the […]
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Understandings related to consanguineous marriage and genetic risk: Findings from a community level consultation exercise in Sheffield and Rotherham
Research suggests that many people in the UK at risk of recessive conditions linked to consanguinity have poor or no understanding on which to make informed decisions and commonly have little or no contact with genetics services (Darr, 1999). Recent years have seen growing recognition among health and social care practitioners, service commissioners, as well […]
The health effects of welfare rights advice and welfare benefits: a critical review
This paper reports a further review of evidence from 2006 to 2010. The evidence continue strongly to show financial benefits, less strongly, mental health benefits, and very weakly, physical benefits. For those commissioning health care there is sufficient evidence to justify consideration of the intervention for those likely to be under-claiming or not claiming benefits. Those undertaking research into […]
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: […]
