-
Recent Posts
- Dementia-Friendly Communities Provision, Viewed as a Social Determinant of Health (JGCR / NHS England / WHO)
- International Perspectives on the Possible Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Lockdown on Abuse of the Elderly (JGCR / American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry / JAGS)
- Updates Relating to the Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention, Intervention, and Care (Lancet / Alzheimer’s Research and Therapy / Alzheimer’s and Dementia)
- A Brief Review of How the COVID-19 Pandemic Relates to Elderly Care and Research (JGCR)
- Some Speculated / Potential Benefits of COVID-19 (JGCR / BBC Radio 4’s Rethink / BGS)
Archives
- September 2020
- August 2020
- June 2020
- April 2020
- March 2020
- February 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
Categories
- Antipsychotics
- Assistive Technology
- Charitable Bodies
- Commissioning
- Delirium
- Depression
- Enhancing the Healing Environment
- Falls
- Falls Prevention
- Guidelines
- Hip Fractures
- Housing
- Hypertension
- In the News
- Integrated Care
- International
- Local Interest
- Mental Health
- Models of Dementia Care
- National
- ADASS
- All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Dementia
- BSI
- CQC: Care Quality Commission
- Department of Health
- Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
- Health Education England (HEE)
- Housing LIN
- MAGDR
- Mental Health Foundation
- Mental Health Network (NHS Confederation)
- MHP Health Mandate
- National Audit Office
- National Voices
- NEoLCIN
- NEoLCP
- NHS
- NHS Alliance
- NHS Confederation
- NHS Employers
- NHS England
- NHS Evidence
- NHS Improvement
- NICE Guidelines
- NIHR
- NIHRSDO
- Northern Ireland
- Patients Association
- Public Health England
- RCN
- Royal College of Physicians
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- SCIE
- Scotland
- UK
- UK NSC
- Wales
- Non-Pharmacological Treatments
- Nutrition
- Pain
- Parkinson's Disease
- Patient Care Pathway
- Person-Centred Care
- Personalisation
- Pharmacological Treatments
- Proposed for Next Newsletter
- Quick Insights
- Standards
- Statistics
- Stroke
- Systematic Reviews
- Telecare
- Telehealth
- Universal Interest
Google Translate (100+ Languages)
Category Archives: NHS Evidence
Redesigning Support for People With Dementia (NHS England)
Summary Professor Alistair Burns (NHS England’s National Director for Dementia) and Colm Owens (Consultant Psychiatrist, Older People’s Mental Health Services, Devon Partnership NHS Trust) discuss enhancements to the dementia diagnosis process and arrangements for post-diagnostic dementia interventions / support, in … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, International, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS Evidence, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Alistair Burns: NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Dementia, Anhui Medical University, Anhui Province, Ashford and St. Peters NHS Foundation Trust, Automated Geriatric Examination for Computer Assisted Taxonomy (AGECAT), Burden of Dementia, Burden on Caregivers, Caregiver Burden, Caregiver Burden in Dementia (Measured by Zarit Scale), Colm Owens: Consultant Psychiatrist - Older People’s Mental Health Services at Devon Partnership NHS Trust, Dementia / Memory Cafes, Dementia Advisors, Devon Partnership NHS Trust, Epidemiology, Faculty of Education Health and Wellbeing: University of Wolverhampton, Guangdong, Guangdong Medical University, Heilongjiang, Hubei Province, Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, Inequalities in Dementia Care, Maojian Sub-District of Shiyan City, Memory Cafes, Memory Services, Older People Mental Health, One Stop Shop Support Services in the Community, Post-Diagnosis Support, Post-Diagnostic Dementia Care And Support, Post-Diagnostic Support for People with Dementia, Primary Care, Professor Alistair Burns, Provinces of China, Rural and Urban Communities in Chinese Provinces, School of Health and Wellbeing: University of Wolverhampton, Shanghai, Shanxi, Socio-Economic Drivers of Health Inequality, Socio-Economic Patterning, Socioeconomic Position (SEP), Support for Improving Dementia Diagnosis Rates, Timely Diagnosis, University of London (ICR2UL), Yanhe Village: Wushan Township of Wucheng County, Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI), Zarit Scale
Leave a comment
Mental Health: Still the Cinderella Services of the NHS? (BBC News / NHS England)
Summary An extra £1 billion of extra funding is to be committed to improving mental health services in England by 2020. Full Text Link Reference Triggle, N. (2016). Mental health care ‘is ruining lives’. [Subsequently re-titled as “Nation must focus … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, 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 Evidence, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Northern Ireland, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
Tagged 24/7 Community-Based Mental Health Crisis Response, Access to Mental Health Services, Achieving Better Access to Mental Health Services by 2020/21, Acute Hospital A&E and Liaison Mental Health Teams, Acute Mental Health Care: Inpatient and Crisis Home Treatment, Acute Mental Health Services, Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS), Annual Funding Increase of £1 Billion for Mental Health n England by 2020/21, Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Black Box: Local Authority Spending (Lack of Transparency), CAMHS Services, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Transformation Plans, CMHT: Community Mental Health Teams, Commissioning Acute Mental Health Care, Commissioning Liaison Mental Health Services in Acute Hospitals, Community and Mental Health Trusts, Community Mental Health, Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs), Community-Based Care, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Crisis Care Concordat, Crisis Home Resolution Teams, Crisis Prevention, Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams (CRHTTs), Crisis Support, CYP-IAPT: Children and Young People’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme, Data Improvement, David Cameron, Early Intervention in Psychosis, Early Referral to Mental Health Services, Eating Disorders, Family Life and Early Years, Five Year Forward View, Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, Five Year Forward View Mental Health Taskforce, FOI: Freedom of information, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Health and Justice Care Pathway, Health Foundation, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities in England, Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB), IAPT: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Improving Access to Mental Health Services, Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT), Improving Perinatal Mental Health, Independent Commission on Acute Adult Psychiatric Care, Independent Mental Health Taskforce to the NHS in England, Individual Placement and Support (IPS), Individual Placement and Support for People With Severe Mental Illness, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Interaction between Physical and Mental Health, Investment in Mental Health, Liaison Mental Health Services, Liaison Mental Health Teams, Mental and Physical Health, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Mental Health and Work, Mental Health Crisis, Mental Health Crisis Care, Mental Health Foundation (MHF), Mental Health Liaison Services in Emergency Departments and Inpatient Wards, Mental Health Patients Forced to Travel, Mental Health Problems, Mental Health Professionals in Emergency Departments, Mental Health Services, Mental Health Services in Accident and Emergency Units, Mental Health Trusts, Mental Health: Chronic Underinvestment, Multi-Agency Suicide Prevention, Multispeciality Community Providers (MCPs), NHS Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) for Older People with Mental Health Problems: Unit / Reference Costs, Older People’s Mental Health Services, Older Persons’ Mental Health, Parity Between Mental and Physical Health, Parity of Esteem, Paul Farmer (Mind), Paul Farmer: Chair of Mental Health Taskforce, Perinatal Mental Health, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Primary and Acute Care Systems (PACS), Psychosis, Reducing Restrictive Interventions, Restraint and Restrictions, Serious Mental Illness (SMI), Service User Experience in Adult Mental Health Services, Stigma and Discrimination, Substance Misuse in Older People, Supported Housing, Tackling Stigma and Improving Attitudes to Mental Illness, Talking Therapies, Think Ahead, Unmet Mental Health Needs, Unmet Needs, Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) Vanguards, Waiting Time Target for People Experiencing Psychosis, Waiting Times for Mental Health Services, Workforce Development, Workforce Planning, Young People’s Mental Health Services
Leave a comment
Update on the Urgent and Emergency Care Review (NHS England / BBC News / Department of Health / British Journal of General Practice)
Summary This NHS England report covers work since the Urgent and Emergency Care Review. It discusses the involvement of local commissioners, the development of five-year strategic and two-year operational plans, updates on demonstrator sites to trial new models, and a … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Education England (HEE), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS Evidence, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 7 Day Services, 999 and Ambulance See-and-Treat, 999 and Ambulance Treat-and-Convey, A&E, A&E Doctors: Recruitment, Access to Primary Care, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Accident and Emergency Doctors, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, British Journal of General Practice, Care Closer to Home, Chronic Diseases, College of Emergency Medicine (CEM), Community Care, Community Facilities, Community-Based Services, Complex Care, Complex Needs, Continuity of Care, Coordinated Care, Coordination, Department of Primary Care and Public Health: Imperial College London, Derbyshire Health United, Discharge and Out of Hospital Care, Emergency Admissions, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Care Intensive Support Team (ECIST), Emergency Centres, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Factors in Increased Use of Urgent and Emergency Care, Fixed Core Funding, Gordon Miles: Chief Executive of College of Emergency Medicine, GP Out-of-Hours Services, GP Patient Survey 2012-2013, HEE: Health Education England, Imperial College London, Local Commissioning, Minor Injuries Units, Monitor, National Tariff, NHS 111, NHS 111 Service (Commissioned by CCGs), NHS Commissioning Assembly, NHS Commissioning Assembly Working Group, NHS England Urgent and Emergency Care Review Team, NHS National Tariff Payment System (The Tariff), NHS Payment System, Out-of-Hours General Practice, Overseas Applicants to UK Medical Register, Overseas Doctors, Patients Unable to Obtain General Practice Appointments or Convenient Appointments, Payment Mechanisms, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Reimbursement of Urgent and Emergency Care, Repeat Non-Emergency Attendees (Emergency Departments), Self-Care, Strategic and Operational Planning 2014 to 2019, Supported Self-Care, System-Wide Accountability, System-Wide Integration, Transformational Demonstrator Sites, Transforming Urgent and Emergency Care Services, UEC Review: NHS England’s Review of Urgent and Emergency Care, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Update on the Urgent and Emergency Care Review, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care Payment System: Reform Consultation, Urgent and Emergency Care Review, Urgent and Emergency Care Review Team, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Urgent and Emergency Care Services in England, Urgent and Emergency Services, Urgent Care Services Outside of Hospitals, Volume-Based Funding, Walk-in Centres (WiCs), Whole Systems Approach
Leave a comment