Posts tagged quality and safeguards
How is patient experience feedback used to improve the quality of adult inpatient mental health care in NHS England?
How is patient experience feedback used to improve the quality of adult inpatient mental health care in NHS England?

EURIPIDES is the short title for Evaluating the Use of Patient Experience Data to Improve the Quality of Inpatient Mental Health Care study. EURIPIDES aimed to understand which of the many different approaches to collecting and using patient experience data are the most useful for supporting improvements in inpatient mental health care.

Researchers from the EURIPIDES study team have made a series of recommendations for improving the way that NHS mental health trusts collect and use patient feedback to improve the quality of care for mental health inpatients. In this post, Dr Sarah-Jane Fenton summarises some of the key findings ahead of the full report being published in early 2020 as health research academics call for NHS to act on mental health patient feedback.

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Creating using evidence, Issues, Policy and governance, Service DeliveryPower to Persuademental health, Lived/consumer experience, quality and safeguards, health
A Cooperative-led NDIS? The potential of member-run organisatations
A Cooperative-led NDIS? The potential of member-run organisatations

Gillian McFee, from the Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals writes about a quiet yet noticeable revolution shaping the NDIS landscape, which may increase choice and control for NDIS participants, their families and carers. It it the rise of the member-run organisations such as co-operatives. Repost from Disability Services Consulting.

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Policy and governance, Issues, InnovationPower to Persuadedisability, social services, primary care, quality and safeguards
The vexed question of market stewardship in the NDIS

Research from UNSW Canberra's Gemma Carey, Helen Dickinson, Eleanor Malbon and Daniel Reeders shows that government must take an active role in ensuring that the important policy goals of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) are met through market stewardship, employing more than just light-touch measures. Eleanor Malbon and Gemma Carey explain their research findings in this article from The Mandarin. 

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Policy and governancePower to PersuadeDisability, insurance, market, NDIS, quality and safeguards, regulation, stewardship, thin markets, ndis