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Category Archives: NHS Alliance
More on Housing and Health (King’s Fund / New NHS Alliance / National Housing Federation)
Summary The King’s Fund’s “Economics of Housing and Health” report, commissioned by the National Housing Federation and produced in cooperation with the New NHS Alliance, investigates the economic arguments for more integrated commissioning between the housing and health sectors, and … Continue reading
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Housing, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS Alliance, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Connecting Housing and Health Reports, Delayed Discharges, Developing a Business Case (Housing and Health), Economics of Housing and Health, Health and Housing Partnerships, Health and Housing Policy, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, Healthy Communities, Healthy Homes, Hospital Discharge, Housing Adaptations, Housing and Ageing, Housing and Care for Older People, Housing and Dementia, Housing and Health, Housing and Health Partnerships, Housing and Long-Term Conditions, Housing and Mental Health, Housing and People with Dementia, Housing and Public Health, Housing Associations, Housing for Older People, Housing Health and Social Care (Three Pillars of Independent Living), Housing in Later Life, Improving Local Public Health, Improving Public Health, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Commissioning, Integrated Commissioning and Provision, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Isos Housing, Joined-Up Care, Leveraging Evidence Persuasively (Housing and Health), Living Well with Dementia, Local Housing Strategies, Mental Health in Later Life, National Housing Federation, National Housing Federation (NHF), National Housing Federation: Dementia and Housing Working Group, New NHS Alliance, NHF: National Housing Federation, Partnership and Collaboration, Partnership Working, Personalised Care and Population Health, Personalised Care and Support, Population Groups At Risk, Preventative Care, Preventative Services, Prevention, Prevention Programmes, Prevention Reablement and Housing, Preventive Care, Preventive Services, Reduced Number of Delayed Discharges, Reducing Health Inequalities, Retirement Housing, Retirement Housing Needs, Social Networks, Sustainability, Sustainable Health and Care Services, Sustainable Health and Social Care
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Government Pledges a Further Two Billion for the NHS (BBC News / NHS England)
Summary There has been an early announcement that the Government is to make an extra £2 billion for the health service next year. The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement on Wednesday is expected to explain how the extra funding will be for … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS Alliance, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency Departments, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Affordability, Affordability of Care, Age and Ageing, Ageing and Dementia, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Autumn Statement (2014), BBC Health News, Best Value for Taxpayers, Better Care Fund (BCF), Care and Support Alliance, Care Closer to Home, Care Funding, Challenges of Reconfiguration, Chancellor’s Autumn Statement (2014), Community Health Connectors, Complex Care, Complex Chronic Conditions, Complex Needs, Configuration of Services, Constrained Funding, Cost Pressures in Hospitals, Cost Savings, Demographic Change and Public Services, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Diagnostic Centres, Diagnostic Services, Diagnostic Waits, Dr Michael Dixon, Dr Michael Dixon: Chair of the NHS Alliance, Efficiency Savings, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, Everett McKinley Dirksen (Quotation: Apocryphal?), Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Financing of Health Care, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Frontline Services, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding Gaps, Funding of Care and Support, Funding of Continuing Care, Funding Transfer to Local Authorities, General Hospitals, George Osborne (Chancellor), Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Reform, Independent Age, Integration of Health and Social Care, Ipsos Mori, Local Government Information Unit, Mears (Home Care Provider), Minimum Staffing Levels, Multimorbidities and Long-Term Conditions, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England Funding, NHS England's Five Year Forward View (2014), NHS Expenditure, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Reform, NHS Safe Staffing, NHS Service Reconfiguration, NHS Spending, NHS Timebomb [sic], Policy, Policy Context, Preparations for Winter, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Staffing (Hospitals), Strategic Society Centre, Strong NHS Needs a Strong Economy (Taxation Pays For It), Sustainable Funding, The Guardian, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Upward Spending Pressures, Winter Pressure Funding
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National CQUIN Incentives to Encourage Physical Health Checks for Mental Health Patients (BBC News / NHS England)
Summary Mental health patients tend to die from physical health problems around 15 years earlier than the general population. To help overcome these health inequalities, mental health trusts will be paid for performing assessments of the general physical condition and … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Antipsychotics, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS Alliance, NHS England, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Acute Mental Health Services, Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS), Avoidable Ill-Health, Avoidable Mortality, Avoidable Premature Mortality, BBC Health News, Commissioning for Parity of Esteem, Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) Payment Framework, Commissioning for Quality and Innovation Scheme (CQUINs), CQUIN Incentive Payments, CQUIN Payments, CQUINs, Dr Geraldine Strathdee: NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Mental Health, Elderly Mental Health, Health and Wellbeing, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities in England, Increasing Wellbeing, Integrated Physical and Mental Health, Lifestyle Factors, Lifestyle MOTs, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Living Longer: Reducing Avoidable Premature Mortality, Mental Health Co-Morbidities, Mental Health Commissioning, Mental Health Hospitals, Mental Health Inequalities, Mental Health Trusts, Mental Wellbeing, Mortality Morbidity and Wellbeing, Parity Between Mental and Physical Health, Parity of Esteem, Physical Health Checks for Mental Health Patients, Physical Wellbeing, Potentially Preventable Complications in Hospitalis, Preventable Deaths in English Acute Hospitals, Preventable Hospital Deaths, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Preventable Mortality, Reducing Avoidable Premature Mortality, Reducing Health Inequalities, Risk Factors, Social Determinants of Health Inequalities
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Knowledge for Commissioning: Prospectus for Clinical Commissioning Groups (NHS LKS)
Summary This brief prospectus explains the many benefits of the services which NHS Library and Knowledge Services (LKS) can offer to commissioners. Full Text Link Reference Cooke, R. Roddham, M. Skinner, B. [and] Turner, J. (2013). Knowledge for commissioning: prospectus … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, National, NHS, NHS Alliance, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Added Value (from Knowledge and Information Services), Alerting and Horizon-Scanning, Atlas of Variation, Best Practice, Best Practice for Older People in Acute Care Settings, CCGs, Clare Edwards (West Midlands Strategic LKS Manager), Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Clinical Quality Improvement, Commissioning Support, Continuing Professional Development, Corporate Memory, Document Supply, Horizon-Scanning, Information and Advice, Information and Metrics, Innovation, Innovation Health and Wealth, Keeping In Touch, Keeping Informed, Keeping Uptodate, Knowledge for Commissioning, Knowledge Specialists, Learning and Professional Development, Library and Knowledge Services (LKS), NHS Atlas of Variation, NHS Library and Information Services, NHS Library and Knowledge Services (LKS), Promoting a Knowledge-Based NHS, Quality Improvement, Reducing Variation, Research and Innovation, Robust Evidence-Base
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NHS Alliance: Changes to the NHS Should Keep Elderly Out of Hospitals (Daily Mail: Mail Online / BBC News)
Summary Dr Michael Dixon, president and chairman of the NHS Alliance, has adopted the now widespread view that hospitals can be dangerous places for frail elderly patients and people with long-term conditions. It is the NHS Alliance‘s policy that hospitals are better suited for only the … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS Alliance, Patient Care Pathway, Patient Information, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Acute Hospital Care, BBC Health News, Care in General Hospitals, CCGs, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Dementia Care in Acute General Hospitals, Dementia Care in General Hospitals, Dementia Care in the Acute Hospital, Falls, General Hospitals, GPs, Health Care Reform, Home and Community Care Services, Hydration, Hydration and Nutrition, Improving Care in General Hospital Settings, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry, NHS Change Day, NHS Reform in England, Primary Care, Problems in Care in English Acute Hospitals, Public Service Reform, Reform
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Prospects of Health and Wellbeing Boards (Smith Institute)
Summary Health and wellbeing boards have the potential to improve integrated care and provide more democratic approaches to developing shared plans for local populations. Effective relationships and adequate resources are required for them to be effective. Chapters include: Development of … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS Alliance, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Accountability, Adult Social Care, Centre for Public Scrutiny, Centre for Public Scrutiny (CfPS), CfPS: Centre for Public Scrutiny, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Clinical Commissioning Policies, Community Mental Health Services, Cost Analysis, Cost Savings, Cost-Effectiveness, Council Scrutiny, Early Intervention, Early Interventions, Engagement, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Act (2012), Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Wellbeing Boards, Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs), Health Care Reform, Health Reform, Healthwatch, Integrated Commissioning, Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, JSNAs: Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, Local Authority Scrutiny Functions, Local Government, Local Government Association, Mental Health Providers Forum, Mental Health Services, Mutuals, NESTA: National Endowment for Science, NHS Clinical Commissioning Coalition, Peer Support, Peer Support Services, People Powered Health (NESTA), People Powered Health Programme, Public Health, Public Health Reform, Public Health Services, Reform, Scrutiny, Service Integration, Smith Institute, Social Care, Transparency and Accountability, Voluntary and Community Organisations, Voluntary Community Sector (VCS), Voluntary Organisations
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Francis Inquiry Report: Full Report (Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry)
Summary High mortality rates and poor standards of care provided at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust resulted in concern about services and management in the Trust. This three-volume Francis Inquiry report investigates the causes and lessons learned. “…[the widespread] disconnect between … Continue reading →