Innovation

State health policies aimed at promoting excellent systems: a report on states’ roles in health systems performance
C Hess, S Schartz, J Rosenthal, A Snyder, A Weil
National Academy for State Health Policy, 2008, April
This report, containing a wide range of state health policies and practices, has been prepared to improve health system performance and increase the spread of innovation. Click here to read the report.

Differences in innovation culture across Europe: a discussion paper
M Didero, K Gareis, P Marques, M Ratzke
February 2008
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Teams without walls: the value of medical innovation and leadership
This is the report of a working party of the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. The intention of the paper is to inform professions, policy makers and commissioners about the options available for moving care ‘closer to home’ and to develop the concept of ‘Teams without Walls’. Click here to read more.

Service Improvement

Improving social and health care services
The Social Care Institute for Excellence have carried out this knowledge review, to identify the most effective methods for sustaining improvement in social care services in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Click here to read more.