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Tag Archives: Adults at Risk of Harm
Frailty: Core Capabilities Framework (Skills for Health)
Summary Skills for Health have produced the Frailty Core Capabilities Framework. This framework was commissioned by Health Education England and NHS England, and aims to formalise the skills to provide high quality, holistic, compassionate care and support for persons with … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Age UK, Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Guidelines, Health Education England (HEE), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Active Listening, Adults at Risk of Harm, Age and Ageing, Ageing and Long-Term Care, Ageing Population, Ageing Research, Baroness Sally Greengross (APPG on Dementia), British Geriatric Society, Care and Support Planning, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Carers, Causes and Prevention of Frailty, Clinical Frailty Scale: the Rockwood Score, Co-Morbid Physical and Mental Health Conditions, Collaboration, Collaborative Care, Collaborative Working, Commissioning for Older People, Common Problems of Frailty, Community-Based Care for People With Frailty, Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), Cumulative Deficit Frailty Model, Cumulative Deficit Model, Edmonton Frail Scale, Electronic Frailty Index, End of Life Care, Families and Carers, Families and Carers as Partners in Frailty Care, Frailty, Frailty Framework of Core Capabilities: Skills for Health, Frailty Index, Frailty Services, Frailty Syndromes, Frailty: Core Capabilities Framework, Frailty: Mapping to Other Frameworks, Gait (Walking) Speed Test, Health Coaching, HEE: Health Education England, Holistic Approaches, Holistic Assessments, Holistic Care, Holistic Care Assessments, Holistic Needs Assessment, Identification of Frailty, Identifying People Living With Frailty, Identifying Vulnerable People, Improving Care for Frail Older People, Integrated Physical and Mental Health, Involvement of Families and Carers, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Long-Term Physical and Mental Health Conditions, Managing Ongoing Physical and Mental Health Conditions, Medication Management, Multi-Morbidities, Multidisciplinary Care, Multidisciplinary Holistic Assessments, Multidisciplinary Teams, Multimorbidity, Older People At Home, Pathways for Frail and Vulnerable People, Patient Activation, People Living With Frailty, Person-Centred Approaches in Healthcare, Personalised Care and Support Planning, Phenotype Model of Frailty, PRISMA 7 Questionnaire, Rockwood Score, Royal College of GPs, Shared Decision-Making, Skills for Care (SfC), Skills for Care and Skills for Health, Skills for Health, Skills for Health (SfH), Targeting Resources on Vulnerable Populations, The Frailty Fulcrum, Time Up and Go (TUG) Test, Vulnerable Adults
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Difficult Reflections on Certain Aspects of the NHS: Be Prepared to Look-Away Now (BBC News)
Summary You don’t want to know: Full Text Link Reference Gosport hospital deaths: prescribed painkillers ‘shortened 456 lives’. London: BBC Health News, June 20th 2018. You don’t want to know: Full Text Link Reference Triggle, N. (2018). Shipman, Bristol, Stafford, … Continue reading →
Posted in Universal Interest
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Tagged Accountability, Accountability and Transparency, Adults at Risk of Harm, Ageing in the UK, Ageing Population, Ageism, Attitudes to Ageing, Availability of Opioid Painkillers, Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Hospital Mortality, Avoidable Premature Mortality, Baker Report, BBC News Hampshire and Isle of Wight, BBC Panorama, BBC Panorama: Killed in Hospital, Bullying of Whistleblowers, Bureaucracy, Candour, Character Assassination of Whistleblowers, Closed Ranks Culture (Cover-Ups), Closed Ranks Culture (Denial), Closed Ranks Culture (Determination Not to Know), Closed Ranks Culture (Misplaced Loyalty), Closing Ranks, Collective Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Complaint Handling, Complaint Handling by Providers, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Culture and Leadership, Culture of Complacency, Culture of Delay and Denial, Defensive Culture, Diamorphine, Disregard for Human Life, Dr Katherine Sleeman: Cicely Saunders Institute at King's College London, Failings in Care in Hospitals, Faith-Shattering NHS Scandals, Former Minister of Care Services Norman Lamb, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 3: Culture Free From Bullying, Fundamental Standards of Behaviour, Gosport Hospital Deaths: Timeline, Gosport Independent Panel, Gosport War Memorial Hospital, Gosport War Memorial Hospital: Report of the Gosport Independent Panel, Hampshire Constabulary, Harassment of Whistleblowers, Harms of Too Much Medicine, Hospital Mortality, House of Commons, In-Hospital Mortality, Inappropriate Prescribing, Inappropriate Prescribing of Painkillers, Institutionalised Determination Not to Know (Sir Brian Jarman: Allegation), Institutionalised Neglect, Institutionalised Unkindness, Matthew McClelland: Director of Fitness to Practise at Nursing and Midwifery Council, Negative Culture, NHS Corporate Self-Interest, NHS Managerial Self-Interest, Norman Lamb MP (Former Minister of State for Care and Support), Norman Lamb: Former Liberal Democrat Health Minister, Organisational Culture, Painkillers, Parliamentarians, Patient Harm, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Improvement, Peer Pressure, Postcode Lottery of Hospital Death Rates, Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing, Premature Mortality, Preventable Hospital Deaths, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Preventing Premature Mortality, Principles of Good Complaint Handling, Professor Richard Baker: Leicester University, Professor Sir Brian Jarman, Professor Sir John Strang: Director of National Addiction Centre at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, Rachel Power: Chief Executive of Patients Association, Reducing Avoidable Premature Mortality, Reducing Premature Mortality, Right Reverend James Jones KBE: Chair of Gosport Independent Panel, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Super-Strength Painkillers, Syringe Drivers: Opioid Delivery, Top-Down Managerial Culture, Treatment of Whistleblowers (Shoddy), Unnecessary In-Hospital Deaths, Unresponsive Culture, USA Opioid Epidemic, Values, Victimisation of Whistleblowers, Warning Signs, Whistlelowing, Willful Blindness
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The Hospital Frailty Risk Score: a Simpler Method of Screening for Frailty and Patients at Greater Risk (Lancet)
Summary The Hospital Frailty Risk Score is a risk score designed for the identification of older people at risk of harm or adverse outcomes in hospitals. It is based on standard diagnostic codes from the International Statistical Classification of Diseases … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Delirium, Diagnosis, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Health Foundation, Integrated Care, International, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, NHS, Nuffield Trust, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Care and Treatment Reviews: Soon to be Mainstream? (NHS England)
Summary Care and Treatment Reviews (CTRs) were introduced, as a means to reduce unnecessary admissions and avoid lengthy stays in hospital, within NHS England’s commitment to improving the care of people with learning disabilities. The underlying philosophy behind CTRs is … Continue reading →
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Tagged Access Assessment for Specialised Services, Access to Specialised Services (Including CAMHS and Secure Services), Adults at Risk of Harm, At Risk of Admission Registers, At Risk Registers, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Blue Light Meetings, Capacity to Consent, Care and Treatment Review Induction Training, Care and Treatment Review Process: CTR Pathway, Care and Treatment Reviews (CTRs), Care and Treatment Reviews: Blue Light Meetings, Care and Treatment Reviews: Post-Admission (Unplanned), Care and Treatment Reviews: Pre-Admission (Planned), Care and Treatment Reviews: Process, Care and Treatment Reviews: Quality Indicators, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care of Vulnerable Adults, Care Programme Approach (CPA), CCG Learning Disability Commissioners, CCG Responsible Commissioners, Clinical Disagreements and Escalation of Concerns, CTR Pathway, Discharge Planning, Education Health and Care Plans (EHCP), Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Five Year Forward View, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Hazel Watson: Head of Mental Health and Learning Disabilities at NHS England, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities and Premature Mortality for People With Learning Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Learning Disabilities: Empowering Individuals, Learning Disabilities: Improving Health Outcomes, Learning Disabilities: Increasing the Take-Up of Routine Health Checks, Learning Disabilities: Monitoring Service Quality, Learning Disabilities: NHS England Initiatives, Learning Disabilities: Regulation and Inspection, Learning Disabilities: Right Care in the Right Place, Learning Disabilities: Transforming Care, Learning Disability (LD) Transforming Care Programme, Length of Stay (LoS), Local Authority Safeguarding Teams, Local Quality Surveillance Groups (QSGs), Mental Health Tribunals, NHS England's Learning Disabilities Employment Programme, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS England’s Improving Lives Team, NHS England’s Learning Disability Forum, Patient Advocates, People at Risk of Admission (‘At Risk of Admission’ Registers), People With Learning Disabilities, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Protecting Vulnerable People, Re-Admission NHS Hospitals, Reducing Bed Days, Reducing Health Inequalities, Reducing Premature Mortality, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Right to Request a Care and Treatment Review, SAF: Learning Disability Self-Assessment Framework, Safeguarding Adults at Risk, Support for Children and Adults With Autism: Unit / Reference Costs, Targeting Resources on Vulnerable Populations, Transforming Care Delivery Board, Transforming Care Delivery Board (TCDB), Transforming Care for People with Learning Disabilities, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Vulnerable Groups, Vulnerable Older People, Winterbourne View: Transforming Care
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An Exploration of the Many Aspects of Safeguarding (CQC / RCN / BMA / LGA / ADASS / NHS Confederation / NIHR SDO)
Summary As the title suggests, this contribution is an exploratory “work in progress” towards better understanding of the issues, rather than a definitive review. Updates will be added here, or referenced and linked to elsewhere, as they appear in future. … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS Confederation, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Northern Ireland, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, RCN, SCIE, Scotland, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Association (BMA), Care Act 2014, Care of Vulnerable Adults, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Care Quality Commission’s Inspection Framework, Care Quality Commission’s Inspection Regime, Care Quality Commission’s Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOEs), Child Protection, Children Looked After and Safeguarding Inspections (CLAS), Children’s Services Team (CQC), Clinical Pragmatism and Proportionality, Coercion, Community Health Services, Complaints and Raising Concerns, Complex Best Interests Decision Making, Controlling, Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015, CQC Requirements Notices, CQC Warning Notices, CQC Working With Other Inspectorates, CQC’s Intelligent Monitoring, Crisis Care Concordat, Crisis Intervention and Prevention, Crisis Planning, Crisis Response, Crisis Support, Cyber Bullying, Data Protection Act, Dawne Garrett: Older People and Dementia Care at Royal College of Nursing, Deprivation of Contact, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), Disclosure and Barring Scheme, Discriminatory Abuse, Domestic Servitude, Electronic Cause for Concern Referral Form, Electronic Reporting (Situation Background Assessment and Recommendation), Emergency Services, Emergency Support, Emotional Abuse, Empowerment, Enforcement and Intelligent Monitoring (CQC), Equalities Protected Characteristics (Age Disability Gender Reassignment Marriage and Civil Partnership Pregnancy and Maternity Race Religion and Belief Sex Sexual Orientation), Equality Act 2010, Equality and Human Rights, Factors Contributing to Vulnerability, Financial Abuse, Financial or Material Abuse, Fiona Smith: RCN Professional Lead for Children and Young People, Forced Labour, Fundamental Standard(s) on Safeguarding, Fundamental Standards of Safety and Quality (2015), GP Out-of-Hours Services, GPs and Safeguarding, Harassment, Health and Justice Team (CQC), Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Relating to CQC), Health Services and Delivery Research, Human Rights, Human Rights 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(LSCBs), Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards (LSCBs), Long Term Abuse (Patterns of Abuse and Harm), Mental Capacity Act (MCA), Mental Capacity Act 2005, Mental Capacity and Best Interests, Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System, Mental Health Awareness, Mental Health Care and Treatment, Mental Health Crisis, Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat, Modern Slavery, Multi-Agency Child Protection Inspections, Multi-Agency Collaboration, Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARACs), Multi-Agency Safeguarding, Multi-Agency Working, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO), Neglect, Neglect (Patterns of Abuse and Harm), Neglectful Care, NHS Clinical Commissioners, NHS Confederation, NHS GP and Out-of-Hours Services, NHS Patient Safety Paradigm, NHSCC: NHS Clinical Commissioners, NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Programme, North Manchester General Hospital, 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Safeguarding Vulnerable People in the Reformed NHS (NHS Commissioning Board)
Summary This NHS Commissioning Board document replaces earlier guidance issued in September 2012. It explains how safeguarding will work in the NHS from April 2013. Full Text Link Reference NHS Commissioning Board (2013). Safeguarding vulnerable people in the reformed NHS: accountability … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Education England (HEE), Management of Condition, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Abuse of Vulnerable Adults (AVA), Accountability and Assurance, Adults at Risk of Harm, Capacity and Capability, Care Quality Commission, CCGs, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Clinical Lead for Safeguarding, Commissioning Support, Decision-Making Capacity, GPs, Health Care Reform, Leadership, Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs), Mental Capacity, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Named GPs, NHS Commissioning Board (NHSCB), NHS Reform, NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA), NHSCB, Patient-Centred Care, Protecting a Person Without Consent (with Compulsion), Protection, Public Health England (PHE), QSGs: Quality Surveillance Groups, Quality Surveillance Groups (QSGs), Reform, Reformed Commissioning System, Safeguarding, Safeguarding Adults at Risk, Safeguarding Adults Boards (SABs), Safeguarding Boards, Safeguarding Clinical Leadership and Support, Safeguarding in the NHS, Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults (SOVA), Safeguarding Older People, Vulnerable Adults
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Safeguarding Adults: Multi-Agency Policy and Procedure for the West Midlands (SCIE Report 60)
Summary Organisations in the West Midlands and allied local authorities are committed to work together to safeguard adults at risk. This SCIE Report No.60, entitled “Safeguarding adults: multi-agency policy and procedures for the West Midlands”, covers the policy and procedures … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Local Interest, National, Practical Advice, Proposed for Next Newsletter, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Adults at Risk of Harm, Anne Harris: Dudley MBC, Barbara Lloyd: Herefordshire Council Country, Birmingham Safeguarding Adults Board, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), Detecting Elder Abuse, Dudley Council Safeguarding Adults, Elder Abuse, Harvey Campbell: Warwickshire County Council, Helen Hipkiss: NHS West Midlands, Jill Ayres: Coventry City Council, Judith McGillivray: Telford and Wrekin Council / Shropshire County Council, Julie Simcox: Birmingham City Council, Nicolette Barry: Worcestershire County Council, Nigel Uttley: Walsall MBC, Personal Budgets, Prevention of Abuse and Neglect in the Institutional Care of Older Adults, Richard Jones: West Midlands Police, Safeguarding, Safeguarding Adults at Risk, Safeguarding Adults: Multi-Agency Policy and Procedures for West Midlands, Safeguarding Adults: West Midlands, Sally Roberts: NHS (Black Country Cluster), Sandra Ashton Jones: Wolverhampton City Council, Sandwell Council Safeguarding Adults, SCIE Report 60, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council Safeguarding Adults, Steve Harris: West Midlands Fire Service, Susan Walton: Solihull Council, Telford & Wrekin Council Safeguarding Adults, Vulnerable Adults, Walsall Council Adult Abuse, West Midlands, West Midlands Police Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Policy, Will Williams: Sandwell MBC, Wolverhampton City Councils Safeguarding Adults, Worcestershire County Council Safeguarding Adults
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Safeguarding Adults at Risk of Harm: a Legal Guide for Practitioners (SCIE)
[A version of this item appears in: Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 2 Issue 8, March 2012]. Summary The Department of Health commissioned this document in 2009, which is up-to-date to December 2010. This guide is a response … Continue reading →
Posted in Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), National, Nutrition, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, SCIE, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Justice, Adults at Risk of Harm, Autonomy and Choice, Care Quality Commission, Choice, Civil Legal Remedies: Judicial Review and Torts, Coercion, Community Care, Community Care Assessments, Criminal Justice, Crown Prosecution Service, Crown Prosecution Service: Complaints, Deprivation of Liberty, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Disclosing Information and Consent, False Imprisonment, Health and Safety Executive, Housing Providers: Complaints, Human Rights, Human Rights in Care Homes, Infection, Infection Control, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Justice and Empowerment, Legal Framework, Mental Capacity, Mental Capacity Act, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Mental Health Act 1983, Mental Health Act 2007, National Patient Safety Agency, Negligence: Duty of Care, No Secrets Guidance, Nutrition and Hydration, Police: Complaints, Professional Conduct, Professional Lapses or Misjudgements, Proportionality in Safeguarding, Proportionality: Human Rights and Mental Capacity Legislation, Protecting a Person Without Consent (with Compulsion), Protection, Psychological Abuse, Respect for Person’s Home Private and Family Life, Right to Life, Safeguarding Adults at Risk, Safeguarding Adults Boards, Safeguarding in the NHS, Self-Neglect, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Stranger Abuse, The Bournewood Case, Trespass, Undue Influence, Unsafe Care, Vulnerable Adults, Whistleblowing
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