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The international evidence on the prevention of drug and alcohol use Summary and examples of implementation in England
No full textThe United Nations Office of Drug Control (UNODC) published ‘International Standards on Drug Use Prevention’ in 2013. The Standards were developed through a systematic assessment of the international evidence on prevention and they provide a summary of the available scientific evidence.
The briefing provides a summary of the UNODC prevention standards and gives corresponding examples of relevant UK guidelines,programmes and interventions currently available in England. Its aim is to help people who commission, develop and implement prevention strategies and interventions to translate the standards into the English operating landscape. It also aims to support local authority commissioners to develop their prevention strategies and implement them in line with evidence.
Action Plan: Policy for the Provision and Management of Cleaning Services in the Health and Social Care Sector (PDF 14KB)
No full textAction Plan regarding the Cleaning Services Policy in the Health and Social Care Secto
Healthy Ireland Survey 2015 - Summary of Findings
No full textThe Healthy Ireland Survey is an interviewer-administered survey with interviews conducted on a face-to-face basis with individuals aged 15 and over. The initial wave of this survey involved 7,539 interviews. Fieldwork was conducted between November 2014 and August 2015
National Clinical Effectiveness Committee: Second Annual Report 2014
No full text7.5.2015
Second Annual Report 2014
This is the second annual report of the National Clinical Effectiveness Committee (NCEC) highlighting its activities for 2014. The NCEC was established as part of the Patient Safety First Initiative with the mission to provide a framework for national endorsement of clinical guidelines and audit so as to optimise patient and service user care. The NCEC has a remit to establish and implement processes for the prioritisation and quality assurance of clinical guidelines and clinical audit so as to recommend them to the Minister for Health to become part of a suite of National Clinical Guidelines and National Clinical Audit.
Download the report here.
All NCEC documentation is available on the Departmentâ?Ts website here
A Strategy for the Development of Psychological Therapy Services - June 2010
No full textA Strategy for the Development of Psychological Therapy Services
Framework for All Island Clinical Network for Congenital Heart Disease
No full text3.3.2015
With the acceptance by Minister Wells and Minister Varadkar of the recommendations of the International Working Group (IWG) report on an all island model for congenital heart disease, a framework of governance which can facilitate the work required and recognise the cross jurisdictional responsibilities is required. An All Island Clinical Network to manage the all-island service delivery model offers a way of doing this which builds on existing services and draws them together in a network of care which is service user focused and locally responsive.
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Update on Public Consultation: Scope for Private Health Insurance to incorporate Additional Primary Care Services
No full text11.6.2015
On 22nd December 2014, the Department of Health commenced a public consultation on the scope for private health insurance to incorporate additional primary care services. The aim of the consultation was to examine the scope for private health insurers to cover a fuller range of services provided in primary care settings, with a view to creating incentives for a transfer of appropriate services from acute to primary care settings and to encourage the most effective use of resources. The original consultation discussion document set out the general background and some structured questions to help interested parties focus their submissions and is available here.
A total of 31 submissions were received as part of the consultation, including from private health insurers, General Practitioner representative and training organisations, pharmacy and private hospital representatives, employers and other interested parties. A copy of all of the submissions received is now available below.
Follow-up meetings with interested parties took place during March this year and the Department has considered all of the views submitted as part of the consultation process, with a view to identifying the capacity that exists for an appropriate expansion of services. An analysis document, which summarises the key themes arising from the consultation is now available here, together with a conclusion of the consultation process available here
Acute episode based activity 2014/15
No full textAcute episode-based activity statistics present information on acute, episode-based activity at health and social care trusts in Northern Ireland across four volumes. Â This set of publications details key information on all activity and provides breakdowns of activity by specialty, diagnosis, procedure / intervention and healthcare resource group.Â
Overweight and obesity on the island of Ireland: an estimation of costs
No full textObjectives The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity worldwide continues to compromise population health and creates a wider societal cost in terms of productivity loss and premature mortality. Despite extensive international literature on the cost of overweight and obesity, findings are inconsistent between Europe and the USA, and particularly within Europe. Studies vary on issues of focus, specific costs and methods. This study aims to estimate the healthcare and productivity costs of overweight and obesity for the island of Ireland in 2009, using both top-down and bottom-up approaches.Methods Costs were estimated across four categories: healthcare utilisation, drug costs, work absenteeism and premature mortality. Healthcare costs were estimated using Population Attributable Fractions (PAFs). PAFs were applied to national cost data for hospital care and drug prescribing. PAFs were also applied to social welfare and national mortality data to estimate productivity costs due to absenteeism and premature mortality.Results The healthcare costs of overweight and obesity in 2009 were estimated at €437 million for the Republic of Ireland (ROI) and €127.41 million for NI. Productivity loss due to overweight and obesity was up to €865 million for ROI and €362 million for NI. The main drivers of healthcare costs are cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes, colon cancer, stroke and gallbladder disease. In terms of absenteeism, low back pain is the main driver in both jurisdictions, and for productivity loss due to premature mortality the primary driver of cost is coronary heart disease.Conclusions The costs are substantial, and urgent public health action is required in Ireland to address the problem of increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity, which if left unchecked will lead to unsustainable cost escalation within the health service and unacceptable societal costs