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Tag Archives: Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA) Programme
Patient Flow or Patient Gridlock? (Health Foundation / BBC News)
Summary The Health Foundation’s latest report on whole systems approaches to patient flow attempts to supply a definitive guide on this topic for local health and social care economies in the UK. It summarises the state of current knowledge about … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Foundation, In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Adult Social Care and Wellbeing, Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA), Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA) Programme, Advancing Quality Alliance’s (AQuA) Integrated Care Discovering Communities, Ambulance Delays at Emergency Departments, Ambulance Delays at Hospitals, Ambulance NHS Trusts, Ambulance Patients: Long A&E Handover Delays, Ambulance Pressures - Possible Service Innovations or Stratagems: Deploying Paramedics to Manage Queues, Ambulance Pressures - Possible Service Innovations or Stratagems: Giving Call Handlers Longer to Assess Calls, Ambulance Pressures - Possible Service Innovations or Stratagems: Tackling Timewasters and Hoax Calls, Ambulance Pressures - Possible Service Innovations or Stratagems: Treating Fewer Patients as Emergencies, Ambulance Pressures - Possible Service Innovations or Stratagems: Working With Mental Health Patients, Ambulance Quality Indicators, Ambulance Response Times, Ambulance Response Times: NHS Performance Indicators, Ambulance Services, Ambulance Targets, Anyborough Diagram of Local Health and Social Care Economy Care Journeys, AQuA (NHS Organisation), Bottlenecks, Challenges of Urgent and Emergency Care, Darlington Dementia Collaborative, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Demand and Capacity, Discharge to Assess (D2A) Model, District Health Board for Canterbury (New Zealand), Dysfunctional Patient Flow, ECIP: Emergency Care Improvement Programme, Emergency Care Improvement Programme (ECIP), Failure Demand, Flow Cost Quality, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Foundation’s Flow Cost Quality Programme, Ideal Patient Flows, Improving Patient Flow, Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) Board: Wigan Borough, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Joined-Up Strategy to Improve Whole System Flow, Local Health and Care Economies, Local Health and Care Services, Local Health and Social Care Economy Care Pathways, Local Health and Social Care Economy Enablers, Local Health Economies, Managing Patient Flow, Measuring Whole System Performance, Mental Health Triage, National System Change Levers, NHS Performance, NHS Performance Indicators, Patient flow, Patient Flow Within Hospitals, Patient Flows, Patients Waiting More Than Four Hours For Hospital Beds (Trolley Waits), Performance Targets, Reducing Delayed Transfers of Care, Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Safer Faster Better: Good Practice in Delivering Urgent and Emergency Care, Scottish Government’s 2020 Vision for the NHS, Sheffield Big Room, Sheffield Microsystem Coaching Academy: Improving Flow Programme, Sheffield Patient Flow, Sherwood Forest Hospitals Foundation Trust, Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Smoother Patient Flows, Tackling Failure Demand in Scotland, Transforming Urgent and Emergency Care Services in England, Trolley Wait Between 4 and 12 Hours: NHS Local Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), Trolley Waits, Urgent and Emergency Care, Whole System Integration, Whole System Patient Flows, Whole System Transformation, Whole Systems Approach, Whole Systems Design, Wigan Deal: Adult Social Care and Wellbeing, Wigan Integrated Care Partnership Board, Winona Health Transformation (USA), Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust, WWLFT: Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust
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Commission on Improving Urgent Care for Older People’s Report (BBC News / NHS Confedertation)
Summary The NHS Confederation’s Commission on Improving Urgent Care for Older People has provided further evidence that many persons aged over-65 are admitted to hospitals via accident and emergency (A&E) unnecessarily, usually with relatively poor outcomes and incurring higher costs … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Age UK, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, 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, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS Confederation, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, Access to Health and Social Care Support, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Acute Care, Acute Care Collaboration, Acute Care Services, Acute Medical Care for Frail Older People, Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA), Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA) Programme, Advancing Quality Alliance’s (AQuA) Integrated Care Discovering Communities, Age UK in Cornwall, Age UK Pathfinders, Age-Related Disability, Ageing Population, Alternatives to A&E, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Alternatives to Hospital Care, Alternatives to Hospital for People with Dementia, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions Enhanced Service (ES), BBC Health News, Bed Occupancy, Befriending, Befriending Interventions, Befriending Schemes, Better Care Fund (BCF), Can-Do Attitude (Leadership), Care Closer to Home, Care Coordination and Navigation, Care Coordinators, Care Homes, Challenges of Urgent and Emergency Care, Clinical Leadership, Collaboration for Coordinated Care, Commission on Improving Urgent Care for Older People, Commission on Improving Urgent Care for Older People (NHS Confederation), Commissioning Urgent and Emergency Care for Older People, Complex Needs, Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), Contact Consulting (Oxford) Ltd, Culture and Leadership, Dedicated Care Coordination, Dr Mark Newbold: NHS Confederation, East and North Herts CCG, Effective Leadership, Eight Principles for Revolutionising Urgent Care for Older People, Emergency Admissions Unit In-Reach Project, Enhanced Health in Care Homes, Enhanced Services from GPs, Flexible New Models of Service, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Frailty, Frailty Services, Frailty Syndromes, Growing Old Together: Sharing New Ways to Support Older People (NHS Confederation), Health and Care of Older People, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Delivery Models, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Services Management Centre (HSMC): University of Birmingham, Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire Care Providers Association, Hertfordshire County Council, Hospital and Care Homes, HSMC, Identifying Alternatives to Hospital for People with Dementia, Impact of Dementia (Statistics), Impact of Dementia on Hospital Readmission, Impact of Dementia on Length of Stay, Impact of Dementia on Patients in Hospital, Improving Long-Term Care and Support, Improving Urgent Care for Older People, Independent Commission on Improving Urgent Care for Older People, Innovation in Health and Social Care, Integrated Care for Older People With Complex Needs, Integration of Health and Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Joint Leadership, Length of Stay, Length of Stay (LoS), Length of Stay Following an Emergency Admission to Hospital, Liaison and In-Reach Services for Frail Older People, Local Care and Support Navigators, Local Leadership, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust (LAS), Loneliness and Social Isolation, Long-Term Care and Support, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Mark Newbold: Chair of the NHS Confederation Hospitals Forum, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Metrics, Metrics and Information, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, Multi-Disciplinary Teams, Multidisciplinary CGA Approach, National and Local Metrics, Navigators: Coordinators of Care, New Models of Acute Care Collaboration: Vanguard Sites, New Models of Care, New Models of Care Vanguards, New Models of Primary Care, New Models of Service, NHS Confederation's Commission on Improving Urgent Care for Older People, NHS Confedertation, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS England’s New Models of Care Programme, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Sheffield, North East London, North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT), Older People and the NHS, Outcome Metrics, Oxford Terrace and Rawling Road Medical Group (Gateshead), Patient Targeting and Risk Stratification, Primary Care Alternatives to Emergency Hospital Admissions, Proactive Care, Proactive Case 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Overview of General Practice in England (House of Commons Library / BBC News / BMA / NAO / BMJ / Nuffield Trust)
Summary This House of Commons Library briefing note supplies information on NHS primary medical services provided by GPs in England. It has been updated to cover elements of the new GP contract; including the introduction of named GPs for people … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, National Audit Office, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 24/48 Hour GP Access Targets, 24/7 Urgent GP Services, 5000 More GPs by 2020 and Surgeries Open Seven Days Per Week ("Surreal Obsession" BMA Claim), 7 Day Primary Care, Access to Dental Services, Access to General Practice, Access to GP Services, Additional Workforce (New Deal), Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA) Programme, Ageing Population, Ageing Workforce, Alternative Provider Medical Service (APMS), AT Medics (London), £1 Billion for Infrastructure (New Deal), BBC Health News, BBC Politics News, BMA General Practitioners Committee (GPC), BMA's "Surreal Obsession" Attack on 5000 More GPs by 2020 and Surgeries Open Seven Days Per Week, BMA: British Medical Association, BMJ, Booking Appointments, British Journal of General Practice, British Medical Association (BMA), British Medical Association Annual Conference (June 2015), British Medical Journal (BMJ), Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research: University of Cambridge, Care Coordination for Complex Individuals: Greenwich, Care Integration, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Care Quality Commission’s Inspection Framework, Carr-Hill Formula, ChenMed (US), Clinical Practice Research Datalink, Clinical Responsibility for Patients (Choosing Wisely and New Deal), Commissioning and Funding of GP Services, Community Education Provider Networks (CEPNs), Conservative Conference (Birmingham: September 2014), Contractual Levers and National Targets, CQC Inspections of GP Surgeries, Data and Metrics to Assess Quality in General Practice, David Cameron, Demand, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health (University College London), Department of Primary Care: University of Exeter, Dr Chaand Nagpaul: British Medical Association, Dr Maureen Baker: Chair Royal College of General Practitioners, Dr Maureen Baker: President of Royal College of General Practitioners, Dr Michael Florin (Sale: Greater Manchester), Dr PJP Holden and Partners (Matlock), Dr Srinivas Dharmana (Liverpool), Emergency Admission Avoidance: Nene CCG, Emergency Admissions, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Services, EMIS Web, English General Practice Patient Survey (GPPS), English GPPS, Enhanced Services from GPs, Exeter Medical School, Extended Hours, Extended Hours Incentives, Extended Opening Hours, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Family Doctors, Federations, Financial Micro-Incentives, Flexible Working, Franchises: Practices Working in Partnerships, Funding GP Practices in England, Future of General Practice Survey (2015), Future of Urgent & Emergency Care Services in England, General Medical Services (GMS) Contract, General Practice, General Practice in England, General Practice Performance Data, General Practice Role in Public Health and Prevention (New Deal), General Practices, General Practitioners Committee (GPC), GenerationQ, Golden Hello Payments for Doctors to Work in Deprived Areas, GP Access, GP Contract, GP Cooperatives and Out-of-Hours Services, GP Expenditure and Earnings, GP Morale, GP Out-of-Hours Services, GP Out-of-Hours Services Provided by Commercial Companies, GP Patient Survey (GPPS), GP Patient Survey 2013-14, GP Recruitment, GP Services, GP Training, GP Training Opportunities, GP Training Places, GP Training Statistics, GP Workforce, GPPS 2012-2013, GPs, GPs Pay, Greenwich Coordinated Care, Greenwich Coordinated Care Pioneer Programme, Health Behaviour Research Centre: University College London, Holistic Care, House of Commons Library, ICM Research, ICMUnlimited, Improving Access to GP Services (New Deal), Improving General Practice, Improving Quality in General Practice, Improving the Quality of Care in General Practice, Independent Contractor Status of GPs, Information and Data Linkage to Support Transformation, Inner North West London Integrated Care, Institute of Public Health: University of Cambridge, Interoperable Electronic Health Records, Ipsos Mori, Leadership Development, Local Integration, London Innovation Challenge, London Strategic Commissioning Framework for Primary Care Transformation, Long Hours and Constant Demands, Long-Standing Health Conditions (LSHCs), LSHC: Long-Standing Health Condition, Maureen Baker: Royal College of GPs, Medical Students' Perceptions of General Practice (Transformation), Minimum Practice Income Guarantee, Minimum Practice Income Guarantee (MPIG), Minor Injury Units, Minor Injury Units (MIUs), Mobile (Tablet) Consultations, Multidisciplinary Team Working: Inner North West London, Named GPs, Named GPs for Over-75s, National Audit Office (NAO), National Audit Office on Out-of-Hours GP Services, National General Practice Profiles, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Nelson Medical Practice (London), New Deal for General Practice, New Deal for General Practice (June 2015): Department of Health, New General Medical Services (nGMS) Contract, NHS 111, NHS Clinical Commissioners (NHSCC), NHS Dental Access, NHS Dental Services, NHS Direct and NHS 111, NHS England Area Teams, NHS 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Practices (New Deal), Q Research Database, Quality and Continuity of Care for Vulnerable Patients (New Deal), Quality and Management Analysis System (QMAS), Quality and Management Analysis System (QMAS): Aggregated Data on All NHS GP Practices, Quality and Outcomes Framework Reduced by Over a Third, Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF), Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF): Tick-Box Culture, Queen’s Nursing Institute (2013): on Confusion of Titles and Roles in Community Nursing Workforce, Radbrook Green Surgery (Shrewsbury), RAND (Santa Monica), RCGP's Recruitment Video, Realistic Timeframes (for Transformation), Rebecca Rosen: GP Lead for Greenwich Coordinated Care Pioneer Programme, Rebecca Rosen: Senior Fellow in Health Policy at Nuffield Trust, Reducing the Reporting Burden (New Deal), Reduction in Bureaucracy, Responsible GPs, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Royal College of General Practitioners’ Curriculum, Same-Day Consultation Requests in General Practice (ESTEEM Trial), Same-Day GP Telephone Consultations, Scaled-Up Networks, Service Integration, Seven Day Primary Care (New Deal), Seven Days 12-Hours a Day Access to GPs (Policy Commitment), Seven-Day GP Access, Seven-Day GP Access by 2020, Single Operating Model for Primary Care, Smart Phone Consultations, Social Prescribing, Social Prescribing (New Deal), Social Prescribing: Removing Barriers With Other Sectors (Social Care or Community Care or Mental Health Providers), Special Measures for GP Practices, St Thomas Health Centre (Exeter), Staffing Changes (2010-14), Strategic Commissioning Framework for Primary Care Transformation in London, Super Partnerships of GPs, Super-Surgeries, Support for New Models of Care (New Deal), System Integration, Telemedicine Consultations, Telephone Consultations, Telephone Triage for Management of Same-Day Consultation Requests in General Practice (ESTEEM Trial), Transformation in GP Training, Transformation in GP Workforce Development, Transforming General Practice, Transforming General Practice... 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