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Local Health Systems: Principles of Re-Design and Performance Measurement (LGA / King’s Fund / ADASS / SOLACE / CfPS / ADPH)

Posted on October 16, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Local Government Association has issued a list of basic principles for planning service re-design. Local systems should aim to meet these fundamental requirements for improving services to achieve better health and wellbeing outcomes. Full Text Link Reference Shared … Continue reading →

Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, King's Fund, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Access, Access to Healthcare, ADPH, Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework, Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF), Aggregate Performance Ratings in the NHS, Aggregate Ratings, Alignment of Websites and Tools, Annual Health Check, ASCOF: Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH), Australia, Avoidable Premature Mortality, Better Care Better Value Indicators, Black and Minority Ethnic (BME), Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Groups, Canada, Canadian Institute for Health 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Co-Location of Alternative Out-Of-Hours Services With A&E Departments: Building on Popular Persistence of A&E Brand? (BBC News / BMJ / RCEM / RCP)

Posted on October 4, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has proposed that the A&E brand has such a dominant and ingrained persistence in the minds of the public that it might be futile to try persuading people not to make unnecessary … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, 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, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged A&E Brand (sic), A&E Waiting Times and Activity, Aarhus University (Denmark), Access to Care, Access to Dental Services, Access to GP Services, Access to Healthcare, Access to Hospital Services, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Acute Hospital A&E and Liaison Mental Health Teams, Anthony Sinclair: Chief Pharmacist at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Barriers to Integration, Barriers to Joined-Up Care, Barriers to Older People Accessing Help and Support, Barriers to Support, BBC Health News, BMJ, Brand Recognition, Brand Stretching, British Journal of General Practice, British Medical Journal (BMJ), Building on A&E Brand, Care Fragmentation, Co-Location, Co-Location Models, Co-Location of Other Out-Of-Hours Services With A&E Departments, Co-Location of Out-Of-Hours Services With Emergency Departments, Crowding and Exit Block in Emergency Departments, Demography, Department of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences: King's College London, Dr Clifford Mann: President of the College of Emergency Medicine, English Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), Exit Block in Emergency Departments, Facts About A&E (RCEM Video), Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Fragmentation of Services and Commissioning, Fragmented Care, Fragmented Resource Allocation, General Practice Patient Survey (GPPS) Variables, GP Out-of-Hours Services, GP Services Co-Located With A&E Department, GPs Co-Located With A&E Department, Improving Access to Mental Health Services, Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), Information Needs of Carers, Information Needs of Patients, Institute for Health and Society: Newcastle University, Institute of Public Health: Aarhus University, Kings College London, Mental Health Crisis Care, Newcastle University, Organisational and Cultural Barriers, Out-of-Hours General Practice, Out-of-Hours GP Services Co-Located With A&E Department, Out-of-Hours GP Services in England, Out-of-Hours Urgent Care, Overcoming Barriers, Patient Awareness of Alternative Services to A&E for Urgent Health Needs, Patient Experience of Fragmented Care When Trying to Negotiate NHS Services, Patient Flow Within Hospitals, Patient Flows, Patient Perspectives on Urgent and Emergency Care, Patient Perspectives on Urgent Care and A&E, Patients Association, Preferred Treatment Location for Patients with Urgent Health Needs, Primary Care Co-Location, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Simon Abrams: Chairman of Urgent Health UK, Socio-Economic Deprivation, Socioeconomic Deprivation and Accident and Emergency Attendances, Stretching the A&E Brand, Time to Act, Transforming Mental Health Crisis Care, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Unscheduled Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC), Urgent and Emergency Care Commissioning, Urgent and Emergency Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Urgent and Emergency Care Services in England, Urgent and Emergency Services, Urgent Care Services Outside of Hospitals, Urgent Health UK, Waiting Time Target Breaches, Walk-in Centres (WiCs), Winter Preparedness, Winter Pressures | Leave a comment

Global and International Public Health Strategies (PHE / ICL IHE)

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Public Health England (PHE) has published a global health strategy. This five-year global health strategy outlines health priorities and supplies a framework for international engagement. Full Text Link Reference Global health strategy: 2014 to 2019. London: Public Health England, … Continue reading →

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