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How-to guides

How to: A guide to co-production in the NHS

This practical and reflective guide explores the meaning, value, and challenges of co-production in healthcare, offering tools and real-world insights for working collaboratively with patients and communities. Rooted in lived experience, it provides honest reflections, key questions, and step-by-step suggestions to support meaningful partnership, equity, and transformation within NHS services.

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How to screen for social needs in primary care

This how-to guide aims to provide a practical guide to social needs screening in primary care by: summarising existing knowledge, opportunities and challenges; describing a step-by-step guide to implementation for integrated care boards, primary care networks and practices; and highlighting strategies to support design and implementation.

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How to undertake equity-focused quality improvement

This how-to guide aims to explain the principles of equity-focused quality improvement (EF-QI) and to provide practical guidance for policymakers and practitioners seeking to undertake or commission EF-QI.

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How to provide high-quality primary care for people seeking asylum, migrants and refugees

This how-to guide intends to support practices and the primary care workforce in caring for refugees and displaced persons. Evidence-based recommendations outline how to provide culturally competent care, improve access, undertake initial health assessments and additional considerations of importance.

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