08 August 2008

child protection foster and permanent care regulatory reform regulatory budgets public service advice emissions trading sustainable procurement medical indemnity dental labour force nurse recruitment information prescriptions universal housing homelessness UK homelessness US

prison mental health osteoporosis organisational communication European health data nursing and e Health controlled drugs access to health medical tourism retail medical clinics chronic disease care supported accommodation respite services dental health care foster parenting

social inclusion compact early years assessments safe playgrounds family planning fertility Aboriginal maternity care diabetes and pregnancy online maternity guide HIV and the law child obesity food marketing eating habits juvenile justice end of life care

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	In this update:     Views of children and young people in foster care, residential care and detention centres in Queensland   The participation of children and young people in matters that affect them is not only a requirement of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, but is also integral to building a system that can genuinely respond to the needs of children and young people. Qld CCYPCG (Aug 2008)   Minding the Gap: Appraising the promise and performance of regulatory reform in Australia  examines successive attempts by the Commonwealth government to improve the quality of the processes by which business regulation is made ANU Press (Jul 2008) Consultation on Regulatory Budgets   Proposals to limit the cost of new regulation were unveiled today as the UK Government invited views on a system of regulatory budgets for government departments – which would be a world first…also seeks views on managing the costs of new climate change regulation UK BERR (Aug 2008)  Whatever Happened to Frank and Fearless? The impact of new public management on the Australian Public Service   structural and cultural change compromising the integrity of the public service reached its apogee towards the end of the eleven years of the Howard government. ANU Press (Jul 2008)  The impact of an emissions trading scheme on state government budgets highlights the need for an additional class of compensation payments that do not appear to have been considered in the debate so far, namely, payments to compensate the state and territory governments for the likely increase in the costs they will face in delivering services to their residents. Aust Institute (Aug 2008) Sustainable Procurement & Operations on the Government Estate UK Government plans for the next two years on sustainable procurement and news release . UK GCO (Aug 2008) Public and private sector medical indemnity claims in Australia 2005-06   Claims in excess of $500,000 constituted less than 3% of all finalised medical indemnity claims in the public and private sectors in 2005-06 AIHW (Aug 2008) Dental labour force in Australia 2005   finds public dental patients, as a group, suffer from poorer oral health related to their lower socioeconomic status and barriers to accessing dental services. AIHW (Aug 2008) Recruitment of Nurses and Midwives – Framework   action for dealing with frontline nursing and midwifery position vacancies. NSW Health (Aug 2008) Evaluation of information prescriptions everyone with a long-term condition and/or long-term need for support – and their carers – should routinely receive information about their condition and, where they can, to receive peer and other self care support through networks. UK Health (Aug 2008)  Universal housing, universal benefits Most of our current housing stock is inappropriate for much of our population and ill equipped for the demographic challenges Victoria is facing. People with disabilities and many older people are those most affected by badly designed homes…regulation is the only way to increase Victoria’s stock of universal housing to the extent required to meet the needs of our population VCOSS (Aug 2008) Keeping Homes: What happens to Broadway’s clients after resettlement?   longer term outcomes for clients after resettlement from Broadway homelessness services (after they had moved into their own homes). UK BW (Aug 2008) US Annual Homeless Assessment Report   For the first time ever, HUD is now able to estimate how many persons use emergency shelters and transitional housing programs during a full year. US HUD (Aug 2008)  A national approach for child protection: project report   From a legislative and policy perspective, Australia jurisdictions have adopted broadly similar positions on critical issues facing the child protection sector, namely the delivery of early intervention services, the desirability of stability of care, and the utmost importance of child-centred practice.  and fact sheet Aus AIFS (Aug 2008)
	Out of sight, out of mind: the state of mental health care in prison   of the £20.4 million currently spent on mental health services in prisons, £8.6 million is not being spent efficiently due to shortfalls in staff recruitment and confusion over the role of mental health in-reach teams. UK Policy Exchange (Jul 2008)   A picture of osteoporosis in Australia At least 600,000 Australians are affected by osteoporosis, a disease that causes bones to become fragile and weak and increasing the risk of fracture AIHW (Aug 2008)Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization   Which groups are most likely to communicate with others in a large organization….women, mid- to high-level executives, and members of the executive management, sales, and marketing functions are those most likely to build bridges US HBS (Jul 2008) European health for all database   online database of independent, comparable and up-to-date basic health statistics…600 indicators for the 53 European WHO Member States WHO Europe Royal College of Nursing e health policies   “Consent to access, share and create eHealth records” and “Nursing content of electronic patient / client records”. UK RCN (Jul  2008) The safer management of controlled drugs – Annual report 2007 outlines the steps that have been taken to improve monitoring of controlled drugs since the Controlled Drugs (Supervision of Management and Use) Regulations came into force in England on 1 January 2007. UK Healthcare Commission (Aug 2008) Quality in and equality of access to healthcare services in England identify and analyze barriers to access to health care services which are faced by vulnerable groups in society, and especially those most exposed to social exclusion.  also European reports UK CHE (Aug 2008) Medical Tourism: Emerging Phenomenon in Health Care Industry   In 2007, an estimated 750,000 Americans traveled abroad for medical care; this number is anticipated to increase to 6 million by 2010. Concurrently, inbound medical tourism and medical tourism across state lines continue to present opportunities for specialty hubs offering treatments unavailable elsewhere in the world or in a community setting. US Deloitte (Aug 2008) Retail Medical Clinics: Disrupting Models of Primary Care   Retail medical clinics are disrupting existing models of primary care by shifting delivery of health care services from traditional clinical settings to consumer-friendly locations such as “big-box” discount stores, grocery stores and retail pharmacies. US Deloitte (Aug 2008)  A National Study of Chronic Disease Prevalence and Access to Care in Uninsured U.S. Adults   working-age adults with one or more chronic illnesses who reported they were uninsured were nearly four times more likely than their insured counterparts to have not seen a health professional within the past year. They were also six times more likely to identify a hospital emergency room as their standard site for care when sick US PNHP (Aug 2008)   Draft Allocation of Places in Supported Accommodation policy and procedures details the processes for being placed on the state wide accommodation register, declaring a vacancy, allocation committees, appeals, refusal of offers and transition to a placement. NSW DADHC (Jul 2008) Draft Maintaining Respite Capacity Policy   At times clients exceed their allocated stay in respite services…This policy provides DADHC with a consistent approach to relocating clients to permanent accommodation services that are in the best interests of the client, with the consent of an appropriate decision maker. NSW DADHC (Jul 2008) Access to Affordable Dental Care: Gaps for Low-Income Adults   finds that both dental coverage and access to care are limited for low-income adults and that even low-income adults with dental coverage are not getting sufficient levels of needed dental care. US Kaiser (Aug 2008) Parenting a Child Who Has Been Sexually Abused: A Guide for Foster and Adoptive Parents   updated factsheet for families US CWIG (Apr 2008)
	An Australian Compact:   comments sought on a new partnership between the Australian Government and the not-for-profit Sector as part of the Social inclusion agenda Aus FACSHIA (Jul 2008) Early childhood assessment: what, why and how  concludes that well-planned assessments can inform teaching and efforts to improve programs and can contribute to better outcomes for children, but poor assessments or misuse of the results can harm both children and programs.  The report offers principles to guide the design, implementation, and use of assessments in early childhood settings.   read news release  and   full report online US National Academies (Aug 2008)Kids N’ Safe Play: Regulation, Litigation and Playground Safety   explores the history of Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) regulation, as well as studies by pediatricians and other health and consumer organizations, all of which support safer playgrounds . press release US CJ&D (Aug 2008)The Impact of Publicly Funded Family Planning Clinic Services on Unintended Pregnancies and Government Cost Savings  for every $1 spent, $4.02 is saved. full report   US Guttmacher Inst (Aug 2008)   Recent trends in Australian fertility Taking account of all of the existing evidence, there is no current or looming impending fertility crisis in Australia — Australia’s present fertility level is likely to be roughly at levels that avoid the problems of excess or insufficient fertility. Aus Productivity Comm (Aug 2008)   Evaluation of the Southern Aboriginal Maternity Care Project: Final Report   a pilot project to develop a service model that established linkages and partnerships, and to provide a framework for an integrated maternity care service for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their babies SA Health (2008) For Women with Diabetes: Your Guide to Pregnancy   Pregnancy in women who have diabetes is automatically considered high-risk. US NID (Aug 2008) NHS launches online one-stop shop for mums-to-be   The first NHS online maternity guide…Pregnancy Care Planner UK Health (Aug 2008) The Criminalization of HIV: Time for an Unambiguous Rejection of the Use of Criminal Law to Regulate the Sexual Behavior of Those with and at Risk of HIV   argues that the use of criminal law to address HIV is inappropriate except in rare cases where a person acts with conscious intent to transmit HIV and does so. see also   Do Criminal Laws Influence HIV Risk Behavior? An Empirical Trial and New Technology Reveals Higher Number of New HIV Infections in the United States than Previously Known US Temple Uni (Aug 2008) The National Child Measurement Programme   Every year children in Reception and Year 6 are weighed and measured during the school year to inform local planning and delivery of services for children; and gather population-level surveillance data to allow analysis of trends in growth patterns and obesity.  also Parents will be told if their children are overweight UK Health (Aug 2008) Marketing Food to Children and Adolescents: A Review of Industry Expenditures, Activities, and Self-Regulation   recommends that all companies that market food or beverage products to children under 12 adopt meaningful, nutrition-based standards for marketing their products – ..that more media and entertainment companies restrict the licensing of their characters to healthier foods and beverages that are marketed to children, US FTC (Jul 2008) Attitude to health affects eating habits   The aim was to find out how people eat, what they buy and why they make certain food choices, to help the Agency shape its work on healthier eating. UK Food Standards (Jul 2008) Sexual Violence Reported by Juvenile Correctional Authorities, 2005-06   16.8 allegations per 1,000 youth held in state, local or private facilities in 2006 and 16.7 allegations per 1,000 youth in 2005. US Justice (Aug 2008) Renal supportive and end of life care  report of a UK workshop UK Health (Aug 2008)