Health planning based on population need

Improving the Fiscal and Political Sustainability of Health Systems through Integrated Population Needs-Based Planning
OHE, June 2015

•  In this briefing Prof Stephen Birch considers the sustainability problem for publicly funded health care, and describe a framework whereby workforce planning can be integrated into a system-wide approach to health planning which is based around the needs of the population being served and on evidence-based approaches to addressing those needs.
• (Free registration required)

Roles of practice and case managers

Enhancing the Primary Care Team to Provide Redesigned Care: The Roles of Practice Facilitators and Care Managers 
Annals of Family Mededicine, January/February 2013 vol. 11 no. 1 80-83

• A description of the roles the practice facilitator and care manager can play in the primary care team around redesigning and improving care delivery.

Impact of case management on hospital admissions

Using routinely gathered data to evaluate locally‐led service improvements.
London Journal of Primary Care, 2011(1‐6), 1757‐1472

• A description of a real time approach taken in Ealing to demonstrate the impact of services on patient movement across primary care /acute care service boundaries, bringing together SUS and Rio data. The approach was tested on the impact of case management of patients with LTCs on their hospital admissions and to demonstrate the impact of approaches taken by different GP practices on hospital bed days.