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COVID-19 Infection: Coronavirus in the UK (DHSC / PHE / BBC News / SCIE / NHS England)

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Latest guidance for the general public. Full Text Link Reference New guidance for households with possible COVID-19 infection. [Online]: Department of Health and Social Care [and] Public Health England, March 17th 2020. In less than three months the impact … Continue reading →

Preparations for the NHS’s 70th Birthday Year: Happy Watershed Moment? (NHS England / Department of Health and Social Care / BBC News / King’s Fund / HFMA)

Posted on January 13, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary In preparation for the NHS’s 70th Birthday on July 5th 2018, NHS England has started work, with numerous partner organisations, on plans for celebrating the NHS’s past achievements and ongoing aims / philosophy. Full Text Link Reference About NHS … Continue reading →

Reshaping the Workforce: More Thoughts on Staff Engagement (NHS England / Nuffield Trust / BBC News)

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A recent Nuffield Trust report, commissioned by NHS Employers, discussed providing NHS nursing, community and support staff with additional skills to deliver care, as a means to improving the system’s capacity to cope with increasing (and changing) patient demand. … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS Employers, NHS England, Nuffield Trust, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs), Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs), Advanced Roles, Ageing Population, Assistant Practitioners (APs), Associate Practitioners, Barriers to Engagement, BBC Health News, Beyond Institutional Boundaries, Building Trust, Calderdale Framework: Seven Stages, Candace Imison: Director of Policy at the Nuffield Trust, Care Closer to Home, Clinical Engagement, Collaboration: Working Across Boundaries, Community Care, Cross-Sector Partnerships, Culture and Behaviour Change, Culture Change, Dudley, Dudley Multispecialty Community Provider, Efficiency and Effectiveness, Efficiency Opportunities, Employee Engagement, Engagement, Engagement and Co-Production, Engagement on Quality, Extended Roles, Extending Roles, Financial Efficiency, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Front Line Engagement, Haxby Group Practice, Health and Care Innovation Expo, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Holistic Workers in Community Care, Institutional Boundaries, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Primary Secondary and Community Care, Isle of Wight, Link Workers: Visiting Patients at Home, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Models of Care Across Organisational Boundaries, Multidisciplinary Population-Based Teams, Multidisciplinary Team Care, Multidisciplinary Teams, Multidisciplinary Teamwork, Multimorbidities and Long-Term Conditions, My Life a Full Life (Isle of Wight) Vanguard, New Care Models, New Care Models Programme, New Care Models: Vanguard Sites, New Ways of Working, NHS Culture, NHS Culture Change, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Health and Care Innovation Expo (2016), Non-Medical Workforce, Northumberland Accountable Care Organisation, Northumberland Accountable Care Organisation (PACS), Nurses and Midwives: Reducing Barriers / Boundaries Across Care Settings, Organisational Boundaries, Paramedic Practitioners, Pharmacy and Primary Care Practitioners, Physician Associates, Positive Engagement, Principles for Engagement, Provider Engagement, Quality and Efficiency Opportunities, Reshaping the Workforce (Nuffield Trust), Satisfaction, Shortages of NHS Front-Line Staff, Six Steps Model, Skill Flexibility, Speed of Trust Methodology, Staff Engagement, Staff Engagement in the NHS, Staff Satisfaction, Staff Training, Teams Without Walls, Terminology For New and Extended Roles, Vanguards: New Care Models Programme, Workforce Satisfaction, Workforce Training, Working Across Boundaries, Yorkshire and Humber: Toblerone Model | Leave a comment

Junior Doctors’ Dispute: One More Intractable Quandry for an Over-Burdened NHS (BBC News)

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary When you can’t think anything pleasant or helpful to say, better to say nothing… Full Text Link Reference Junior doctors row: Hospitals prepare for week of strikes. London: BBC Health News, September 1st 2016. Further BBC News coverage: Full … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, NHS Alliance, NHS Employers, NHS England, Northern Ireland, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wales | Tagged 7 Day Services, 72 Hour Limit on Maximum Working Week, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC), Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, All-Out Strike, BBC Health News, BMA: British Medical Association, British Medical Association (BMA), Cancelled Hospital Appointments, Care in General Hospitals, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Collective Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Concerns About Weekend Pay, Conflation of Political Protest Generalised Dissatisfaction and Industrial Action, Culture Change in the NHS, Cycle of Discontent, Cycle of Discontent: BMA Perhaps Unable to Compromise (Under Pressure From Members), Damage to Patient Trust, Damage to Popular Trust in the NHS, Diane Abbott: Labour Shadow Health Secretary, Disproportionality in Industrial Action, Dissatisfaction Over Pay, Doctors Feeling Undervalued and Overworked, Dr Ellen McCourt: Chair of JDC (BMA Junior Doctors Committee), Dr Mark Porter: Chair of Council at British Medical Association, Dr Peter Campbell: Acting Chairman of Junior Doctors' Committee, Erosion of Terms and Conditions of NHS Workforce (Union Perspective), Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Former Prime Minster: Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Gaming Public Opinion, General Medical Council (GMC), Government Cannot Be Held To Ransom, High Court (England), Improving Patient Safety, Inability to Back-Down Pragmatically (Pathological Inflexibility), Jeremy Corbyn (Labour Party Leader), Junior Doctors A&E Walkout: Reckless "Win At All Costs" Mentality, Junior Doctors Committee (JDC) of British Medical Association (BMA), Junior Doctors' Dispute: First Draft of History, Junior Doctors' Dispute: Timeline of the Dispute, Junior Doctors' Strike Risks Patient Safety (Jeremy Hunt), Junior Doctors’ Morale Wellbeing and Quality of Life, Justice for Health, Katherine Murphy: Chief Executive of the Patients Association, Kathy McLean: Executive Medical Director at NHS Improvement, Lose - Lose Stand-Off: Impasse Over Junior Doctors' Dispute, Low Morale, Mortality Associated With After Hours and Weekend Admissions, Mortality at the Weekend, Mythology of the Times, NHS Reform in England, NHS Services Seven Days a Week, Niall Dickson: Chief Executive of the General Medical Council, No Harm Culture, Opportunistic Conflation of Political Protest Generalised Dissatisfaction and BMA's Industrial Action, Orchestrated Intransigence, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Improvement, Patient Safety in the NHS, Payment Reform, Peer Pressure: Barrier to Objective Judgement, Perceived Erosion of Terms and Conditions for NHS Employees (Union Viewpoint), Perverse Incentives, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Professional Responsibilities, Professional Standards, Professor Terence Stephenson: Chair of the General Medical Council, Quality of Care at Weekends, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Rt Hon Theresa May MP (Former Prime Minster), Safeguards on Excessive Working Hours, Saturday Premium Pay, Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day Working, Strike Over a Saturday Premium Pay (Self-Interest), Sustainable Health and Care Services, System Re-Design, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Unspoken Political Context: Weaponising the NHS (Speculative Construct), Variations in Quality of Care, Vested Interests, Weekend Effect, Weekend Hospitalisation and Additional Risk of Death, Weekend Mortality for Emergency Admissions, Weekend Working, When Brinkmanship Goes Over the Brink, Workforce Issues (Feeling Undervalued) | Leave a comment

Quality Checkers: Efforts to Reduce Learning Disabilities-Related Barriers to Accessing NHS Services (NHS England)

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The NHS Quality Checkers Programme will involve people with learning disabilities helping to inspect their local NHS services and offer advice on how these can be re-designed to better meet their needs (and the needs of other patients). Tools … Continue reading →

The Weekend Effect: a Summing-Up of the Evidence (Department of Health / BBC News / NHS Employers / BMJ / Journal of Health Services Research and Policy)

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Debates have arisen recently about possible “spin” and politically-motivated distortion in interpretation of the “weekend effect” and the benefits to patients of seven-day working. The Department of Health has produced an impartial presentation of the research. This includes a … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Education England (HEE), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS Employers, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged 7 Day Services, 7 Day Services Project: Acute Collaborative Report (2014), 72 Hour Limit on Maximum Working Week, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC), Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, AoMRC: 7 Day Consultant Present Care (2012), BBC Health News, BBC North West Tonight, BMJ, BMJ Quality and Safety, BMJ Quality Improvement Programme, BMJ Quality Improvement Reports, British Medical Association (BMA), British Medical Journal (BMJ), Care in General Hospitals, Costs and Benefits of Seven-Day Services for Emergency Hospital Admissions, Culture Change in the NHS, Day-of-the-Week Effect, Department of Health Sciences: University of York, Department of Primary Care and Public Health: Imperial College London, Dr Foster Unit: Imperial College London, Dr Johann Malawana: Former Chair of BMA Junior Doctors Committee, East Midlands Clinical Senate, East Midlands Clinical Senate: 7 Day Services Project: Acute Collaborative Report (2014), Elevated Weekend Hospital Mortality, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Hospital Treatment, European Working Time Directive (EWTD), Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, GC Database, Global Comparators (GC) Project, Global Comparators Project, Health Economics, HEE: Health Education England, Hospital Mortality, Hospital Mortality Rates, Imperial College London, Improving Medical Handover at the Weekend: BMJ Quality Improvement Project, Improving Patient Safety, Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, Junior Doctors' Dispute: First Draft of History, Junior Doctors: Contract Dispute of 2015, Manchester Centre for Health Economics: University of Manchester, Margaret Gleeson Inquest, Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Medical Directorate: NHS England, Monday to Friday Culture, Mortality, Mortality Associated With After Hours and Weekend Admissions, Mortality at the Weekend, Mortality by Day of the Week, Mortality Rates, Mortality Statistics, National Audit Office, NHS England’s Seven Days a Week Forum, NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ) Seven Day Services Team, NHS Services: Seven Days a Week Forum, NHS Seven Days a Week Forum, Orchestrated Intransigence, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Improvement, Potted Weekend Effect Synopsis (Department of Health), Preventable Hospital Mortality, Professor Jane Dacre: President of Royal College of Physicians, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Professor Sir John Temple's Time for Training Report (HEE 2010), Quality Improvement, Quality of Care, Quality of Care at Weekend, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Scarborough General Hospital, Seven Day Consultant Present Care, Seven Day Services Team: NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ), Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day Working, University of Manchester, University of York, Urgent and Emergency Care, Variations in Quality of Care, Weekend Effect, Weekend Effect in Obstetrics, Weekend Handover, Weekend Hospitalisation and Additional Risk of Death, Weekend Mortality for Emergency Admissions, Weekend Out Of Hours Surgical Handover (WOOSH), Weekend Out Of Hours Surgical Handover (WOOSH) Form, Weekend Surgical Handover, Weekend Working, Workforce Challenges in Emergency Medicine | Leave a comment

Transforming Services for People With Learning Disability (NHS England / NHS Employers / HQIP)

Posted on June 17, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The theme of this year’s Learning Disability Week is “Hear My Voice”. NHS England has taken this opportunity to explain NHS commitments to improving the health and outcomes of people with learning disabilities, with a view to transforming services … Continue reading →

Promoting the Importance of Mental Wellbeing: Awareness, Budgets and Policy (NHS Employers / BBC News / CommunityCare / Department of Health / NHS England)

Posted on March 22, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary NHS Employers has published an infographic / poster outlining key facts and figures about mental wellbeing. Full Text Link Reference Things you need to know about mental wellbeing. London: NHS Employers, February 20th 2015. Mental Health Service Budgets: Swings … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Depression, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS Employers, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Access to Mental Health Services, Admission Avoidance, Assertive Outreach, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, BBC Health News, CAMHS Services, Care Integration, Changing how Services Are Commissioned: Care Based Around the Needs of children and Their Families, Children and Young People’s Mental Health Taskforce, Children and Young People’s Mental Health Taskforce Report (2015), Children’s and Adolescents’ Mental Health Services, CMHT: Community Mental Health Teams, Commissioning for Parity of Esteem, Community Care, Community Care Beds and Services, Community Mental Health, Community Mental Health Services, Community Mental Health Teams, Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs), Community Service Funding, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Mental Health and Social Care Services, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, CommunityCare (Online Journal), Continued Support Throughout Teenage Years into Early 20s (Avoiding Cliff-Edge of Lost Support at 18), Crisis Care Concordat, Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Teams, Crisis Response, Crisis Response Services, Crisis Response Teams (CRTs), Danny Alexander: Liberal Democrat Treasury Secretary, Early Intervention in Psychosis, Faye Wilson: Chair of British Association of Social Workers’ Mental Health Forum, Former Minister of Care Services Norman Lamb, Future in Mind Report (2015), Health and Social Care Integration, IAPT: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Importance of Mental Wellbeing Infographic Poster (NHS Employers), Improved Care for Children and Young People in Crisis, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Programme, Information and Self-Help Via Online Tools and Apps, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Physical and Mental Health, Investing in Recovery, Joint Working on the Liverpool CAMHS Model, Liaison Psychiatry Services, London Youth Health Centre Supporting Mental Wellbeing, Mental Health Budgets, Mental Health Early Interventions, Mental Health Funding, Mental Health Policy, Mental Health Service Budgets, Mental Health Services, Mental Health Training for Health Professionals (Including GPs), Mental Health Trusts, Mental Wellbeing, Mental Wellbeing and Older People, NHS Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) for Older People with Mental Health Problems: Unit / Reference Costs, NHS Mental Health Budget, NHS Mental Health Services, Nick Clegg: Former Deputy Prime Minister, No Health Without Mental Health, Norman Lamb MP, Norman Lamb MP (Former Minister of State for Care and Support), One Stop Shop Support Services in the Community, Parity Between Mental and Physical Health, Parity of Esteem, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventative Care, Preventing Future Crises, Prevention, Prevention Programmes, Preventive Care, Preventive Services, Public Mental Health, Risk and Protective Factors for Mental Wellbeing, Self-Care, Simon Wessely: President of Royal College of Psychiatrists, Steve Chamberlain: Chair of College of Social Work’s Approved Mental Health Professionals Network, Support for Parents to Help Improve Family Relationships, Tackling Stigma and Improving Attitudes to Mental Illness, Time to Change, Tower Hamlets CAMHS Parenting Groups, Waiting Time Target for Psychological Therapies, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Young Minds Report (Children Young People and Family Engagement) | Leave a comment

Whistleblowing in the NHS: Light at the End of the Tunnel? (BBC News / NHS England)

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The review of NHS reporting culture led by Sir Robert Francis QC, which has been working achieve better protection of NHS whistleblowers who raise concerns, will report later today. The “Freedom and Responsibility to Speak Up” review was expected … Continue reading →

CEM Prescription for Acute and Emergency Care (College of Emergency Medicine)

Posted on August 1, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A recent policy paper from the College of Emergency Medicine (CEM), working with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Surgeons, proposes 13 recommendations to reduce the rising pressure on … Continue reading →

Category Archives: NHS Employers

Junior Doctors’ Dispute: One More Intractable Quandry for an Over-Burdened NHS (BBC News)

CEM Prescription for Acute and Emergency Care (College of Emergency Medicine)

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