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Tag Archives: Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People
Shaping Policy on the Dementia Care Crisis: Alzheimer’s Society Report in Advance of Government’s Green Paper (BBC News / Alzheimer’s Society)
Summary A report on inadequacies in the care system regarding dementia patients. The number of potentially unnecessary hospital admissions among dementia patients has risen by 73% across 65 hospital trusts, from 31,000 in 2012 to around 55,000 in 2017. Some … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Alzheimer's Society, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, Falls Prevention, 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, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Northern Ireland, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Tagged Access to Care, Access to Funding, Access to Healthcare Services, Access to Services, Access to Social Services, Acute Care, Acute Hospitals, Admission Rates, Admission to Hospital, Ageing Population, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Alzheimer's Society’s Fix Dementia Care Campaign, Alzheimer’s Society Ambassadors, Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions, Awareness, Awareness Campaigns, Awareness Raising, Barriers to Older People Accessing Help and Support, Barriers to Support, BBC Health News, Capacity Pressures in the Health and Social Care System, Care and Support Reform, Care and Support Services: Choice and Control, Care for People with Dementia in the Community, Care in an Ageing Society, Care in the Community, Care Navigators, Caregiver Burden, Caregiving (Carers), Carer Awareness, Carer Isolation, Carer Quality of Life: Demands of Caring, Carer Stress, Carer Support, Carer Support Services, Carer's Needs, Carer’s Perspective, Carers, Carers and Families, Carers for People with Dementia, Choice and Control, Collaborative Working, Collaborative Working in Local Communities, Community Care, Community Support Services, Coordinated Health and Social Care, Daily Mail, Daily Mail’s End the Dementia Care Cost Betrayal Campaign, Dame Barbara Windsor, Dementia Action Plan for Wales: 2018-2022, Dementia Ambassadors, Dementia Tax, Dementia Tax (Alzheimer's Society), Dementia: Cost of Fixing Care Crisis (Alzheimer’s Society Report 2018), Department of Health and Social Care Green Paper on Care and Support for Older People, Department of Health Northern Ireland, Department of Health Northern Ireland: Expert Advisory Panel on Adult Care and Support, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Planning, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, End the Dementia Care Cost Betrayal Campaign (Daily Mail 2019), Fix Dementia Care Campaign, Free Personal Care (Proposal): Labour Party Conference (2019), Health and Care of Older People, Health and Care Suitable for an Ageing Population, Health and Social Care Reform, Holistic Care Assessments, Holistic Co-ordinated Care, Holistic Needs Assessment, Home Care, Home Care Services, Hospital Discharge, Inequity, Integrated Discharge Process, Integration, Integration of Health and Care, Integration of Health and Social Care, Joined-Up Care, Joined-Up Strategy to Improve Whole System Flow, Joint Health and Care and Support Plans, Labour Party Conference (2019), Named Clinician, Named Consultants, Named GPs, Named Nurses, New Settlement for Health and Social Care, NHS 70 (NHS 70th Birthday), Patient Experience, Power to People: Proposals to Reboot Adult Care and Support in Northern Ireland, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Primary Care Navigators (PCNs), Proactive Care, Re-Admission NHS Hospitals, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Responsible Consultants, Responsible GPs, Responsible Nurses, Scott Mitchell, Social Care Crisis, Social Care Crisis: Abandoned by the System, Tipping Point in Sustainability of Adult Social Care (Alleged), Turning Up the Volume (Alzheimer’s Society), Workforce Development, Workforce Issues, Workforce Training
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Observations on Approaches to the Care of Persons With Dementia Who Have Had a Fall (Systematic Reviews)
Summary Falls are believed to occur for between 47% – 90% of people with dementia, and such falls are a common cause of hospital admissions / re- admissions. A recent narrative review examines the effectiveness of interventions intended to improve … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Community Care, Falls, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Activities of Daily Living, Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions, Care of Persons With Dementia Who Have Had a Fall, Defence R&D Organisation (Delhi), Dementia Research Collaborative: University of East Anglia, Department of Human Physiology with Community Health: Vidyasagar University, Department of Physiology: City College (Kolkata India), Emergency Care, Emergency Services, Ergonomics and Sports Physiology Division: Vidyasagar University, Ergonomics Group: Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS), Evidence-based Practice Center: Center for Health Research (USA), Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Factors in Increased Use of Urgent and Emergency Care, Fall-Related Outcomes, Falling Status Among Geriatric Population (India), Falls and Fracture Prevention, Falls in Cognitive Impairment and Dementia, Falls in Dementia, Falls Risk Factors, India, Institute of Health and Society: Newcastle University, Institute of Neuroscience: Newcastle University, Intravenous Zoledronic Acid, Journal of Geriatric Care and Research (JGCR), Kaiser Permanente Research Affiliates, NEADL: Nottingham Extended Activities of Daily Living Index, Newcastle University, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich, Norwich Medical School: University of East Anglia, Nottingham Extended Activities of Daily Living Index (NEADL), Pain Related Discomfort (PRD), Persons With Dementia Who Have Had a Fall, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Proactive Falls Prevention Schemes, Re-Admissions to Hospitals, Readmission Rates, Realist And Meta-narrative Evidence Syntheses: Evolving Standards (RAMESES), Reasons for Short Stay Emergency Admissions, Recurrent Falls, Reducing Re-Admissions to NHS Hospitals, Reducing Recurrence of Fractures, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Systematic Reviews, Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, United States, University of East Anglia, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Unscheduled Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Pathways, USA, Vidyasagar University (Midnapore West Bengal), Zoledronic Acid
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Alternative Approaches to Reducing Hospital Admissions / Re-Admissions (BBC News / British Red Cross / NESTA / King’s Fund)
Summary The British Red Cross has proposed that home assessments, and comparatively simple interventions, when discharging old and vulnerable people for hospitals would help to reduce avoidable but predictable hospital re-admissions (and prevent many hospital admissions in the first place). … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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UK’s First Dedicated A&E for Elderly Patients? (BBC News)
Summary Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are to open the first specialist A&E department for patients over 80 years old. This hospital’s existing emergency department typically receives 350 people per day, of whom 50 may be aged … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Age UK, BBC News, Commissioning, 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, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged A&E, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Acute Care Services, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Medical Care for Frail Older People, Acute Medical Care of Elderly People, Admission Transfer and Discharge (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, BBC Health News, BBC Norfolk News, Demand Management, Embedded Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in Emergency Assessment Units (EAUs), Emergency Admissions, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Assessment Unit (EAU), Emergency Assessment Units, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Centres, Emergency Departments, Emergency Departments (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Emergency Services, Evolving Demand, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Factors in Increased Use of Urgent and Emergency Care, Flow Within Hospitals, Geriatric Assessment and Care, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Preparations for Winter, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Case Management, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Team-Based Interventions in A&E, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Unscheduled Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Urgent and Emergency Care Services Dedicated to Elderly
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More Questions About NHS Sustainability and Service Quality: A Further Round in the Debate (BBC News / King’s Fund / BMA / RCEM / NHS Digital / Department of Health / NHS England / NHS Confederation)
Summary Professor Ted Baker, the new Chief Inspector of Hospitals for the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has voiced concerns about unsuitable antiquated models of care in the NHS (due to a historic 15-20 year mis-direction of funding), growing pressures for … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Local Interest, National, NHS, NHS Confederation, NHS England, Quick Insights, RCN, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Chief Executive of Care Quality Commission, Demand Management, Dr Chaand Nagpaul: British Medical Association, Dr Taj Hassan: President of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Economic Sustainability, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care, Emergency Services, Evolving Demand, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Factors in Increased Use of Urgent and Emergency Care, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Finished Admission Episodes (FAEs), Finished Consultant Episodes (FCEs), Flow Within Hospitals, Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Frailty, Frailty (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Funding, Future Sustainability of NHS Trust, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity (2016-17), Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity: 2016-17 (NHS Digital), Hospital Bed Capacity, Hospital Beds, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Humanitarian Crisis in NHS Hospitals and Ambulance Services (Allegation), Improving Patient Flow, Integrated Urent Care Comissioning Standards, Integrated Urgent Care Clinical Assessment Service (IUC CAS), Integrated Urgent Care Delivery Team, Integrated Urgent Care Service Specification, Integrated Urgent Care Services, Integrated Urgent Care Services in Wolverhampton, Integrated Urgent Care Services: National Service Specification, Intermediate Care, Intermediate Care Capacity, Isle of Wight NHS Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Lobbying, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), London Ambulance Service NHS Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), London North West Healthcare NHS Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Medway NHS Foundation Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS), National Service Specification for Integrated Urgent Care Services, New Care Models, New Models of Care, New Models of Service, NHS Confederation: NHS on the Brink (2017 Allegation), NHS Digital, NHS Digital (Formerly the Health and Social Care Information Centre), NHS Future Precarious (CQC Allegation), NHS Hospital Bed Numbers, NHS Providers, NHS Sustainability, North Manchester General Hospital: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Parliamentarians, Patient Flows, Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (Fairfield General Hospital): Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Philip Dunne: Minister of State for Health, Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Preparations for Winter, Professor Ted Baker: Chief Inspector of Hospitals at Care Quality Commission (CQC), Provider Sustainability, Quality and Sustainability, rcem, Reducing Reliance on Hospital Care, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Royal Hampshire County Hospital: Winchester: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Safety and Quality of Emergency Care (Letter From Ted Baker to NHS Trusts), South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), STP Proposals to 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Quality Improvement in Urgent and Emergency Care (NHS Improvement / NHS England / Department of Health)
Summary An earlier BBC News description of the problem: Full Text Link Reference Cawley, L. (2017). Four-hour accident and emergency waits rise 300% at some hospitals. London: BBC Health News, March 16th 2017. Further context and introductory analysis: Full Text … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS Confederation, NHS England, NHS Evidence, NHS Improvement, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nuffield Trust, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wolverhampton
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Approaches to the Reduction of Preventable Hospital Admissions: a Systematic Review (BMJ Open)
Summary A recent systematic review examined the alternatives to hospital admission for older patients at risk of unplanned hospitalisation. The broad categories of interventions considered were (i) improved use of paramedic / emergency care practitioners, (ii) interventions based in emergency … Continue reading →
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