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Transforming Community Services
Community services provide essential care to many people, families and communities, from health promotion to end of life care. This care is provided in many settings, at critical points in people’s lives, and often to those in vulnerable situations.
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14 April 2011
The Community Indicators for Quality improvement aim to help clinicians and frontline services to measure and monitor quality improvement, by indicating where change is needed and to demonstrate what high quality personalised care looks like
1 April 2011
The DH national Transforming Community Services (TCS) programme was completed on 31 March 2011. The transformation of community services continues at local level. Many resources have been co-produced with the NHS and other stakeholders since 2009. These resources provide evidence and information on all the aims of TCS namely to:
- develop people and leaders
- innovate and improve services
- reform systems to support high quality 21st century care at or close to home
- improve health outcomes
The resources can be accessed through these pages to help in the transformation of local services.
We would like to thank everyone who has been involved in the success of the programme over the past two years.
Beyond transfer to transform - TCS showcase event, 24 March
To mark the completion of the DH Transforming Community Services (TCS) programme at the end of March 2011, a showcase training and learning event - ‘Beyond transfer to transform’- was held on 24 March. This brought together practitioners, clinical leaders, professional bodies, and those who have been closely involved with the programme, to celebrate the successes and achievements from the last 2 years, and to look towards the future of community services.
16 February 2011
This paper provides answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) which are intended to provide helpful prompts on issues related to transfer of PCT-owned estate to CFTs. It should be noted that NHS LIFT and PFI interests are excluded for the time being from this process.
8 February 2011
The six transforming community service transformational guides were co-produced with clinicians. They utilise up to date evidence-based research from the Health Services Management Centre (HSMC), and experiential knowledge from clinical innovation in practice. The guides relate to 6 key specific areas of practice, namely: health and well being; children, young people and families; acute care closer to home; long term conditions; rehabilitation and end of life care.
6 January 2011
14 December 2010: TCS Leadership Challenge
The Transforming Community Services multi-professional Leadership Challenges are open to all clinicians within the NHS who have a local innovative idea which could improve primary or community care services or pathways within their local area. A winner from each Strategic Authority will receive £50,000 to implement their idea. The deadline for entries is 21 January 2011.
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Demonstrating and Measuring Achievement: Community Indicators for Quality Improvement
The Community Indicators for Quality improvement aim to help clinicians and frontline services to measure and monitor quality improvement, by indicating where change is needed and to demonstrate what high quality personalised care looks like
Transforming community services transformational guides
The six transforming community service transformational guides were co-produced with clinicians. They utilise up to date evidence-based research from the Health Services Management Centre (HSMC), and experiential knowledge from clinical innovation in practice. The guides relate to 6 key specific areas of practice, namely: health and well being; children, young people and families; acute care closer to home; long term conditions; rehabilitation and end of life care.
Allied health professional referral to treatment guide
This guide will support NHS AHP services to measure the time that patients wait to access patient NHS AHP services, which includes mental health and learning disabilities. The guide is aimed at improving patients’ experience of NHS AHP services, reduce the time they wait for treatment and enable the delivery of productive, innovative, quality NHS AHP services.
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