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  1. Alternative acute out-of-hospital models of care for children and young people

    This report is aimed at commissioners interested in developing new models to deliver out-of-hospital healthcare services for children and young people. The document describes the audit that was carried out across six London emergency departments during a two-week period in February and March 2016. During the audit, clinicians reviewed 3,020 children and young people attendances from 10am […]

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  2. London epilepsy guide for schools

    This document is intended to enable schools to manage children and young people with epilepsy effectively in an early years or school setting. Recommendations and guidelines contained within are derived from clinical practices and from contributions from stakeholders across London. The Children and Families Act 2014 introduced a legal duty on schools to look after children […]

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  3. Out-of-hospital care standards for children and young people

    Guidance for providing out-of-hospital care for London’s children and young people. Out-of-hospital care describes any care that is not undertaken in a traditional hospital setting. This could include healthcare in the community, at the patient’s home, school or workplace, or at a GP practice. This document is for London’s commissioners and providers of out-of-hospital healthcare […]

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  4. New care models and the workforce implications

    New models of care, new pathways and the establishment of new workforce roles create a series of challenges with staff working across organisational boundaries. These support packs are designed to assist with the development of new care models and to ensure the workforce implications of each of the new care models are fully considered. Downloads […]

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  5. Mental health workforce modelling

    These tools have been developed in partnership with our mental health programme to baseline current and future mental health care workforce needs, and test the impacts of different strategies locally before implementing them.  Two Microsoft Excel-based models have been developed for mental health. These cover perinatal mental health services and early interventions in psychosis. These were designed to support […]

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  6. Social care workforce modelling

    These tools have been developed in partnership with London Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) to baseline current and future social care workforce needs, and test the impacts of different strategies locally before implementing them. These tools have been tested in a local authority pilot in an east London borough. The goal was […]

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  7. Primary care workforce modelling

    These primary care tools have supported London’s five sustainability and transformation planning (STP) areas, 16 CCGs, local federations and practices to baseline current and future workforce needs, and test the impacts of different strategies locally before implementing them.  The following tools and resources have been made available to share learning from this work and introduce some possible […]

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  8. Oral health in community pharmacy

    A report on activity to raise awareness about oral health and oral pain management of children and young people in London. “There is an opportunity to change the future for our children and a welcome appetite from a number of organisations who want to work together to improve oral health in children. Improving oral health […]

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  9. Value, quality and productivity

    Delivering improved value, quality and productivity through the workforce The NHS in London is facing a £4.76 billion affordability gap by 2020/21. Delivering the right care in the right setting, improved productivity in existing services, and establishing new ways of delivering care are all recognised as areas of opportunity for the workforce to deliver improvement […]

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