Documents and Resources
This page contains links to useful documents and resources
| Resource Name | Description | Date |
| 2009 Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer | Department of Health | March 2010 |
| Be active, be healthy: a plan for getting the nation moving | DH Guidance | February 2009 |
| Cancer Commissioning Guidance | DH Guidance and Toolkit | January 2009 |
| Closing the Gap | National study on Health Inequalities from CQC | September 2009 |
| Commissioning and behaviour change: KICKING BAD HABITS FINAL REPORT | This report assesses existing and innovative methods the health service can use to persuade people to adopt more healthy lifestyles | December 2008 |
| Commmissioning for outcomes: a resource guide for commissioners of health and social care | Liverpool Primary Care Trust | October 2011 |
| Commissioning for sustainable development: a how-to guide for commissioners | NHS Sustainable Development Unit | April 2010 |
| Commissioning in a Cold Climate | NHS Confederation discussion paper No. 5 | June 2009 |
| Consultation on joint strategic needs assessment and joint health and well being strategy guidance | DH | July 2012 |
| Delivering the Public Health Outcome Framework: report of the Director of Public Health | Joint report from NE Essex PCT and ECC | December 2011 |
| ERPHO products and services for PCTS | Guide to the Eastern Region Public Health Observatory | Autumn 2009 |
| Fair Society, Healthy Lives | The Marmot Review final report | February 2010 |
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General health checks in adults for reducing morbidity and mortality from disease |
Cochrane Systematic Review on Health Checks | October 2012 |
| Getting it right for children and young people: overcoming barriers in the NHS so as to meet their needs | DH review conducted by Sir Ian Kennedy | September 2010 |
| Growing up in Social Housing:a profile of four generations, 1946 to the present day |
This research draws on four British birth cohort studies to examine the role of social housing for four generations of families since the second world war |
July 2009 |
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Growing up with diabetes:children and young people with diabetes |
Report of a survey conducted by RCPCH | March 2009 |
| Health and Social Care Bill 2010- 2011 | HMS Government | January 2011 |
| Health Inequalities Intervention Toolkit | London Health Observatory | April 2010 |
| Health Inequalities: Third Report of Session 2008–09 |
House of Commons Health Committee report | March 2009 |
| Health Profiles of England | published by the Association of Public Health Observatories - these health profiles show a picture of the health of the population at regional and local levels | June 2008 |
| Healthy lives, brighter futures – The strategy for children and young people’s health | DH Guidance | February 2009 |
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Healthy lives, healthy people: our strategy for public health in |
Department of Health White Paper | December 2010 |
| Healthy Lives, Healthy People: Towards a workforce strategy for the public health system | Department of Health | March 2012 |
| Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: A toolkit for developing local strategies |
An update on the previous toolkit Lightening the Load: Tackling Overweight and Obesity: A toolkit for developing local strategies. |
October |
| Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives: Commissioning weight management services for children and young people |
This guide has been developed to support local areas in commissioning weight management services for children and young people | November 2008 |
| High Quality Care for All: NHS next stage review final report | Final report of Lord Darzi's NHS Next Stage Review. It responds to the 10 SHA strategic visions and sets out a vision for an NHS with quality at its heart | June 2008 |
| Improving quality in primary care |
This is a practical guide to support PCTs as commissioners of primary care, in working with local clinicians and other stakeholders - including patients - to promote continuous quality and productivity improvement in primary care services. DH |
October 2009 |
| Inclusion Health: improving the way we meet the primary care health needs of the socially excluded | Cabinet Office | March 2010 |
| Living with poverty: a review of the literature on children's and families' experiences of poverty |
Department for Work and Pensions Research Report 594 | July 2009 |
| Local authority child health profiles 2012 for the East of England | ChiMat | March 2012 |
| A review of intervention content and effectiveness | March 2008 | |
| Marmot Indicators for Local Authorities in England, 2012 | London Health Observatory | February 2012 |
| Mid Essex Public Health Annual Report 2008 | Report from the NHS Mid Essex Director of Public Health Improvement | 2008 |
| DH Policy | December 2010 | |
| Patient and public engagement: the early impact of world-class commissioning: a survey of Primary Care Trusts | Results of a survey carried out by the Picker Institute in February 2009 | June 2009 |
| Patient Choice: how patients choose and how providers respond | Kings's Fund report | June 2010 |
| PCT decision making processes on medicine |
The guiding principles for processes supporting local decision making about medicines |
January 2009 |
| PCT World Class Commissioning League Tables | Health Service Journal publication | March 2009 |
| Practice-Based Commissioning: Reinvigorate, Replace or Abandon? | The findings from the King's Fund year-long study in four areas show an urgent need for a new PBC model, or complementary models | November 2008 |
| Primary Care Service Framework: Familial Hypercholesterolaemia | NHS Primary Care Commissioning | February 2010 |
| Progress Report:evaluation of the national integrated care pilots | Report produced for the Department of Health | November 2010 |
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Protecting people, promoting health: A public health approach to violence prevention in England |
This Department of Health report outlines the new public health approach to reducing the ill-heath directly and indirectly caused by violence |
October 2012 |
| Reaching out: community engagement and health | NICE & IDea report | July 2009 |
| Real Involvement: Working with people to improve services | This guidance for NHS organisations covers the duty to involve patients in health care decisions |
November 2008 |
| Regulated fertility services: a commissioning aid - June 2009 | This report was produced by the Expert Group on Commissioning NHS Infertility Provision | June 2009 |
| Return on Investment in Public Health | An epidemiological and economic analysis prepared for the Australian Department of Health and Ageing | 2003 |
| Seven steps to patient safety for primary care | The Seven steps to patient safety for primary care sets out the steps that primary care organisations should take to improve patient safety | November 2008 |
| Structure of Public Health England: Fact sheet | Department of Health | July 2012 |
| The state of health care and adult social care in England: key themes and quality of services in 2009 | Care Quality Commission report | February 2010 |
| The state of health care and adult social care in England: an overview of key themes in care 2009/10 | Care Quality Commission report | March 2011 |
| Strategic Review of Health Inequalities in England post 2010 (Marmot Review) | Complete set of documents relating to the First Phase | June 2009 |
| Supporting people with long term conditions: commissioning personalised care planning - a guide for commissioners |
This guide will provide commissioners of health and social care services with information and support they need to embed personalised care planning in their localities | January 2009 |
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Tackling inequalities in life expectancy in areas with the worst health and deprivation |
Department of Health & National Audit Office | July 2010 |
| Transforming community services: enabling new patterns of provision | Guidance for PCT Providers | January 2009 |
| Transforming community services: the assurance and approvals process for PCT-provided community services | Department of Health guidance | February 2010 |
| Transforming community services quality framework:guidance for community services | This guidance sets out how the seven elements of the quality framework apply to community services. It includes a set of proposed indicators of quality that will be developed and assured for publication | June 2009 |
| Transforming community services and world class commissioning: resource pack for commissioners of community services | Department of Health good practice guidance | January 2009 |
| Use of Alcohol among Children & Young People | This research looked at barriers to young people getting involved with alcohol and barriers to stopping drinking | 2008 |
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