This briefing paper, published by the 2020 Public Services Hub, explores the challenges of quality and funding for the adult social care sector through the lens of the personalisation agenda. Read more »
A new report, published by the NHS Conferederation’s Mental Health Network, presents evidence for investing in care that addresses both physical and psychological needs. Read more »
The report, published by the World Health Organisation and Alzheimer’s Disease International, calls on countries to promote a dementia friendly society, improve attitudes to and understanding of dementia, invest in health and social systems and increase dementia research. Read more »
As the NHS attempts to secure unprecedented productivity gains, new research from the Nuffield Trust suggests how hospitals can improve efficiency. Read more »
This paper published by the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York, investigates the relationship between patients’ primary care costs (consultations, tests and drugs) and their age, gender, deprivation and alternative measures of their morbidity and multimorbidity. Read more »
This King’s Fund briefing examines whether reducing the use of hospital beds for emergency admissions could help the NHS as it needs to find £20 billion in productivity improvements by 2015 to avoid reducing quality and making significant cuts to services. Read more »
A study conducted by Oxford University researchers reveals that the cost of dementia across 15 western European countries came up to £165 billion in 2007. Read more »
Three-quarters of the estimated 36 million people with dementia worldwide do not have a formal diagnosis, according to the World Alzheimer Report 2011. Read more »
The Princess Royal Trust for Carers has published a Social Return on Investment analysis on the value of services provided by five Carers’ Centres in England. Read more »
Keeping general practice familiar and local improves continuity of care and can tackle health inequalities more effectively, says a new policy paper from the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Read more »
Spending on long-term care is set to double or even triple by 2050, according to a new report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Read more »
The authors of this report were asked by the Department of Health to identify and analyse the costs and economic pay-offs of a range of interventions in the area of mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention, and to present this information in a way that would most helpfully support NHS and other commissioners in assessing the case for investment. Read more »
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is issuing a call for research on dementia which extends across the translational pathway, covering the fields of cause, cure and care, including prevention. Read more »
Figures released this week in the World Alzheimer Report suggest that the cost of dementia care will approach £400 billion, roughly 1% of world GDP. Read more »