Tag Archives: Adult Social Care Services

Statistical Process Control Applied to Delayed Transfers of Care (NHS Improvement)

Posted on June 22, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Delayed transfers of care (DToC) are widely recognised to be a significant cause of unnecessary harm to patients, and potentially avoidable financial costs to the taxpayer. NHS Improvement’s “Delayed transfer of care (DToC) improvement tool” incorporates the latest data from … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS Improvement, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, Areas With the Highest Delayed Transfers of Care, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Cross-Sector Partnerships, Dashboards, Delayed Transfer of Care (DToC) Improvement Tool (NHS Improvement), Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC), Discharge From Acute and Mental Health Trusts, DToCs Dashboard, Efficiency Opportunities, English Local Authorities, Geographical Variations, Health and Adult Social Care Providers, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, Hospital Discharge, Hospital Discharge and Transfers, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integration of Health and Social Care, Local Authorities (LAs), Local Health Services: Variations, NHS Improvement's Delayed Transfers of Care Improvement Tool, Patient Discharge, Patient Flows, Pivot Table Slicers (Excel Tool), Post-Discharge Support, QI: Quality Improvement, Quality and Efficiency Opportunities, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement Approaches, Reducing Bed Days, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Regional Variations, Social Care Delays (Impact on Hospital Bed-Days and LoS), Social Care Providers, Statistical Process Control, Statistical Process Control (SPC) Principles, Statistical Process Control Methodology, Sustainability, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Transition Between Inpatient Hospital Settings and Community or Care Home Settings, Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Variation in Performance, Vulnerable Older People, Wasted Resources, Whole System Dashboards, Whole System Patient Flows | Leave a comment

The Care Desert Phenomenon (BBC News / Incisive Health / Age UK)

Posted on May 17, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary An exploration of the reported “care deserts” concept. An Incisive Health report, commissioned by Age UK, points to areas of the UK where older people are unable to access residential care and / or home care, regardless of their … Continue reading →

User Experience of Adult Social Care Services: Quality Standard QS182 and Guideline NG86 (NICE)

Posted on March 3, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released a quality standard aimed at improving adult social care services end-users’ independence, quality of life, levels of choice and control, and general user-experience. This standard is based on … Continue reading →

Recent Report on the State of Care (CQC / DHSC / BBC News / NHS England / SCIE)

Posted on October 30, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Care Quality Commission (CQC) recently released their annual State of Care report, which examines the performance and effectiveness of health and social care in England, on every front. It appears that patients’ experiences of care tend to depend on how well the components … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), 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, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Adult Safeguarding, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Provision (CQC), Adult Social Care Services, Adult Social Care Staff Vacancy Rates, Adult Social Care Workforce, Air Ambulances, Allied Healthcare, Ambulance Services, Asset-Based Approaches, Asset-Based Approaches to Health and Wellbeing, Autumn Budget (2018), Barriers to Joined-Up Care, BBC Health News, BBC Politics News, BBC Reality Check Team, Bed Occupancy, Beyond Alternative Approaches to Performance Management, Beyond Barriers Report: Alternative Approaches to Performance Management, Beyond Barriers Report: Local System Reviews, Beyond Barriers: Birmingham, Beyond Barriers: Bracknell Forest, Beyond Barriers: Bradford, Beyond Barriers: Coventry, Beyond Barriers: CQC Report (2018), Beyond Barriers: Cumbria, Beyond Barriers: East Sussex, Beyond Barriers: Halton and. Hampshire, Beyond Barriers: Hartlepool, Beyond Barriers: Liverpool, Beyond Barriers: Manchester, Beyond Barriers: Northamptonshire, Beyond Barriers: Oxfordshire, Beyond Barriers: Plymouth, Beyond Barriers: Sheffield, Beyond Barriers: Stockport, Beyond Barriers: Stoke-on-Trent, Beyond Barriers: Trafford, Beyond Barriers: Wiltshire, Beyond Barriers: York, Budget 2018: Key Points At-a-Glance, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Caring (CQC Inspection Question), Case Tracking, Chancellor Philip Hammond, Collaborative Working, Community Assets, Community Health Services, Comprehensive Model of Personalised Care, CQC Challenge to Health and Adult Social Care System, CQC Inspection Questions (Safe Effective Caring Responsive Well-Led), CQC Inspections of GP Surgeries, CQC Review of NHS Radiology Services (Planned), Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Dementia Care in the Acute Hospital, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), Digital Interoperability, East London NHS Foundation Trust, Effective (CQC Inspection Question), End to Silo Working, Everett McKinley Dirksen (Quotation: Apocryphal?), Extended Access to Primary Care, Future of Care Report: Number 8 (SCIE), General Practice Workforce, Geographical Variations, GP Cooperatives and Out-of-Hours Services, GP Out-of-Hours Services, GP Practices, High Impact Change Model, High Impact Change Model (HICM), Hospital Bed Capacity, Hospital Beds, Improved Better Care Fund (iBCF), Improvements Following Re-inspection, Improving Patient Safety, Incentivising Better Joint Working, Independent Ambulance Services, Inspection of GP Out-of-Hours Services, Inspection of GP Practices, Institutional Silos, Joined-Up Care, Joint Commissioning, Joint Workforce Planning, Leadership, Local Community Assets, Local System Reviews, Local Systems Reviews Report (CQC), Local Variations, Mental Health Crisis Care, Mental Health Crisis Centres in Every Accident and Emergency Unit, Mental Health Crisis Hotline, Mental Health Services, Multi-Disciplinary Working, New Settlement for Health and Social Care, NHS Budget, NHS Community Health Services, NHS Hospital Bed Numbers, NHS Mental Health Services, NHS Sustainability, Number of Nursing Home Beds, Nursing Home Beds, Older People: Moving Between Health and Social Care Services, Paradigm Shift: From Service Silos to Systems Outcomes, Patient Safety, Prevention Green Paper, Primary Medical Services, Quality and Sustainability, Quality Improvement, Reablement, Recruitment and Retention, Responsive (CQC Inspection Question), Responsiveness, Risk Sharing: Sharing Risks and Rewards Between Health and Social Care Organisations, Safe (CQC Inspection Question), Safeguarding, Safeguarding Adults at Risk, Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults, Silo Working, Single Point of Access (SPA), Social Care Green Paper, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Social Care Workforce, Staff Shortages, Staffing, State of Care 2017/18 (CQC), State of Care 2017/18 Report, State of Care 2017/8. Care Quality Commission (CQC): 2018, State of Care Report, State of Health Care and Adult Social Care in England 2017/18, Step Down, Sustainability, Training and Competency, Transforming Care and Support: Future of Care Report (SCIE), UK Homecare Association (UKHCA), UKHCA: UK Homecare Association, Unacceptable Variations, Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC), Variations in Quality of Care, Well-Led (CQC Inspection Question), Well-Led Indicators (CQC), Workforce Challenges, Workforce Issues | Leave a comment

More on Integrated Care: Government Response to the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee’s Report (House of Commons / DHSC / King’s Fund / Duke University)

Posted on September 9, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary In June 2018, the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee published the “Integrated care: organisations, partnerships and systems” report, which included 42 conclusions and recommendations. Full Text Link Reference Integrated care: organisations, partnerships and systems. Seventh Report … Continue reading →

An Innovative Approach Hospital Overcrowding / Inadequate Bed Availability, Worthy of More Serious Consideration? (BBC News / CareRooms)

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The narrative about various inter-related crises in health and social care typically concerns the problem of excess demand for, and limited supply of, places in the community providing support for persons needing to be discharged from hospitals. Commentators commonly … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Housing, In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, Airbnb Beds Plan (Proposed), Alternative Residential Care Settings, Alternatives to Hospital Care, Barriers and Challenges in Discharge Planning, Barriers in Access to Transformative Care in the Community: Dominance of Residential Care Homes Paradigm, Barriers to Innovation, Barriers to Innovation: Dominance of Mainstream Preconceptions, Barriers to Innovation: Dominance of Vested Interests, Barriers to Innovation: Vested Interests in Opposition to New Market Entries, Barriers to Joined-Up Care, Barriers to Support, Barriers: Lack of Continuity of Care, BBC Essex, BBC Health News, Bed Availability and Occupancy, Bed Days, Bed Shortages, Bed-Blockers, Bed-Blocking Patients (Non-Recommended Term), Care Closer to Home, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care Home Admission Delay, Care of Older People, CareRooms, Cross-Sector Partnerships, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Discharges Higher in Mental Health Trusts, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC), Demand and Capacity, Disruptive Innovation, Dr Harry Thirkettle: CareRooms, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency Opportunities, Fewer Older People Receiving Help with Social Care, Financial Incentives Across Local Health and Social Care Systems (Proposals), Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Fragility of Adult Social Care Provider Market, Funding Deficits, Funding for Front-Line Healthcare Versus Social Care, Future of Residential Care, Health and Adult Social Care Providers, Health and Care of Older People, Health and Care Suitable for an Ageing Population, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Demand, Hospital Beds, Hospital Overcrowding, Inadequate Bed Availability, Innovation for an Ageing Population, Innovative Disruption (To a Failing Market), Loneliness and Isolation, Loss of Mobility During Long Hospital Stays, Market Failure, Market Failure in Social Care, NHS Airbnb-Style Scheme, NHS Sustainability, Operations Cancelled Due to Bed Shortages, Overcoming Barriers, Patient Discharge, Patient Flows, Patient Handover Delays, Patient Safety, Philip Dunne: Minister of State for Health, Physical Therapy, Physiotherapists, Physiotherapy, Poor Identification of People’s Capacity For Involvement in Their Care Planning and Management (Barriers to Involvement), Post-Discharge Support, Preventing Loneliness, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Team-Based Interventions in A&E, Proportionality in Safeguarding, Quality and Sustainability, Reablement, Reablement Services, Reducing Bed Days, Reducing Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Reducing Over-Reliance on Social Care, Reducing Pressure on Primary Care, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Safeguarding, Safeguarding Adults at Risk, Social Isolation and Loneliness, Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Sustainability, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Tom Abell: Deputy Chief Executive at Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Under-Utilisation of Housing Stock, Vested Interests, Vulnerable Older People, Wasted Resources, Whole System Patient Flows | Leave a comment

The Latest CQC State of Care Report (BBC News / CQC / File on Four)

Posted on October 11, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Care Quality Commission (CQC) annual State of Care report assesses the overall status of health and social care in England. The head of the CQC has alleged that parts of the NHS and social care may soon be … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Adult Safeguarding, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Provision (CQC), Adult Social Care Services, Adult Social Care Staff Vacancy Rates, Ambulance Services, Barriers to Joined-Up Care, BBC Health News, BBC News Hampshire and Isle of Wight, BBC Radio Four’s “File on Four” Programme, Bed Occupancy, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Caring (CQC Inspection Question), Collaborative Working, Community Health Services, CQC Challenge to Health and Adult Social Care System, CQC Inspection Questions (Safe Effective Caring Responsive Well-Led), CQC Inspections of GP Surgeries, CQC Review of NHS Radiology Services (Planned), Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Dementia Care in the Acute Hospital, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), East London NHS Foundation Trust, Effective (CQC Inspection Question), Embedding Equality, File on Four (BBC Radio 4), Geographical Variations, GP Cooperatives and Out-of-Hours Services, GP Out-of-Hours Services, GP Practices, Hospital Bed Capacity, Hospital Beds, Improvements Following Re-inspection, Improving Patient Safety, Independent Ambulance Services, Inspection of GP Out-of-Hours Services, Inspection of GP Practices, Joined-Up Care, Leadership, Local Variations, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Lung Cancer: False Negatives, Medicines Optimisation, Mental Health Care, Misdiagnosis of Chest X-Rays, Missed Lung Cancer, Multi-Disciplinary Working, NHS Community Health Services, NHS Future Precarious (CQC Allegation), NHS Hospital Bed Numbers, NHS Mental Health Services, NHS Radiology Services, NHS Sustainability, Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Number of Nursing Home Beds, Nursing Home Beds, Patient Safety, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Primary Medical Services, Quality and Sustainability, Quality Improvement, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Queen Alexandra Hospital (Portsmouth), Responsive (CQC Inspection Question), Responsiveness, Safe (CQC Inspection Question), Safeguarding, Safeguarding Adults at Risk, Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults, Staff Shortages, Staffing, State of Care 2016/17 (CQC), State of Care 2016/17 Report, State of Care Report, Sustainability, Tipping Point in Sustainability of Adult Social Care (Alleged), Training and Competency, Unacceptable Variations, Variations in Quality of Care, Well-Led (CQC Inspection Question), Well-Led Indicators (CQC) | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Adult Social Care Services

Statistical Process Control Applied to Delayed Transfers of Care (NHS Improvement)

The Care Desert Phenomenon (BBC News / Incisive Health / Age UK)

User Experience of Adult Social Care Services: Quality Standard QS182 and Guideline NG86 (NICE)

Recent Report on the State of Care (CQC / DHSC / BBC News / NHS England / SCIE)

More on Integrated Care: Government Response to the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee’s Report (House of Commons / DHSC / King’s Fund / Duke University)

An Innovative Approach Hospital Overcrowding / Inadequate Bed Availability, Worthy of More Serious Consideration? (BBC News / CareRooms)

The Latest CQC State of Care Report (BBC News / CQC / File on Four)

Recent Posts

Archives

Categories

Google Translate (100+ Languages)

Recommended Sites