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Tag Archives: Avoidable Emergency Admissions
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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Tagged A&E, A&E Waiting Times and Activity, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Accident and Emergency Doctors, Acute Bed Capacity, Acute Care, Acute Care Collaboration, Acute Care Services, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Medical Care for Frail Older People, Acute Medical Care of Elderly People, Acute Medicine Units (AMUs), Ageing Population, Ambulance Handovers, Ambulance Handovers (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), BBC Health News, Bed Occupancy, British Medical Association (BMA), Care Quality Commission (CQC), Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals NHS Foundation Trusts: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Collaborative Provider Arrangements, David Behan: 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 Reduce Bed Numbers, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainable Funding, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), West Middlesex University Hospital: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Whittington Health NHS Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Winter Preparedness, Winter Pressures
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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, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nuffield Trust, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wolverhampton
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Tagged 2017-19 Integration and Better Care Fund Policy Framework, A&E, A&E Waiting Times and Activity, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Accident and Emergency Doctors, Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs), Acute Assessment (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Acute Bed Capacity, Acute Care, Acute Care Collaboration, Acute Care Services, Acute Hospital A&E and Liaison Mental Health Teams, Acute Hospital A&E and Liaison Mental Health Teams: Transforming Mental Health Crisis Care (NHS England), Acute Hospital Care, Acute Medical Care for Frail Older People, Acute Medical Care of Elderly People, Acute Medical Unit Consultant Input, Acute Medicine Units (AMUs), Admission Transfer and Discharge (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Ambulance Handovers, Ambulance Handovers (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Ambulance Response Programme (ARP), Ambulance Service Targets, Ambulance Services, Ambulatory Emergency Care (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE), Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions, Barts Health NHS Trust, BBC Health News, Bristol Royal Infirmary, British Geriatrics Society (BGS), Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT), Centrally Coordinated Patient Flow (Use of Data in Hospital’s Dashboard), Centre for Urgent and Emergency Care, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Clinical Decision Units (CDUs), Clinical Decision Units (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Cm, Commons Health Select Committee, Consultant Input, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC), Demand Driven by Alcohol Consumption, Demand Management, Developing Trusted Assessment Schemes, Discharge and Out of Hospital Care, Dispatch on Disposition (DoD), Dysfunctional Patient Flow, Early Senior Assessment, Early Senior Review of Patients, Early Supported Discharge (ESD), East and North Hertfordshire Care Home Vanguard, ECIP, ECIP: Emergency Care Improvement Programme, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Ambulance Services, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Assessment Unit (EAU), Emergency Assessment Units, Emergency Assessment Units (EAUs), Emergency Attendances, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Care ACP Curriculum, Emergency Care Improvement Programme (ECIP), Emergency Care Intensive Support Team (ECIST), Emergency Centres, Emergency Departments, Emergency Departments (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Emergency Flow Improvement Tool, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Emergency Medicine Consultants, Emergency Services, Evolving Demand, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Factors in Increased Use of Urgent and Emergency Care, Flow Within Hospitals, Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Frailty, Frailty (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Funding, Government Response to Health Select Committee Report on Winter Pressure in Accident and Emergency Departments (2017), GP Services Co-Located With A&E Department, GPs Co-Located With A&E Department, Health Education England West Midlands, Health First (USA), Health Select Committee, Health Select Committee (HSC), Health Select Committee Inquiry, Health Select Committee Report on Winter Pressure in Accident and Emergency Departments, High Impact Change Model (HICM), Homes Regional Medical Centre (Florida), Hospital Bed Capacity, House of Commons Health Select Committee, Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care, Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Increasing Bed Capacity, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Emergency Department (A&E), Luton and Dunstable University NHS Foundation Trust, Management of System, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Medical Workforce, Mental Health (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Mental Health Crisis First Response Service (FRS) and Sanctuaries, Mid-Cheshire NHS Foundation Trust, National Priorities for Acute Hospitals (2017), Next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View (2017), NHS England Urgent and Emergency Care Review Team, NHS Improvement, NHS in Winter (BBC News), NHS Winter Crisis, NHS111 Directory of Services (DoS), NHSI: NHS Improvement, Non-Medical Workforce, Out-of-Hours GP Services Co-Located With A&E Department, Patient flow, Patient Flow Within Hospitals, Pauline Philip: NHS England's National Director for Urgent and Emergency Care, Payment Mechanisms, Pharmacist Involvement, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Acute Frailty Service, Preparations for Winter, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Case Management, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Crisis Resolution Teams, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Intermediate Care, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Team-Based Interventions in A&E, Primary Care Streaming (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Priorities for Acute Hospitals, Rapid Improvement Guide to Trusted Assessors, Real Time Locating Software (RTLS), Real-Time Locating Software (RTLS) to Improve Patient Flow, Reasons for Short Stay Emergency Admissions, Recognition and Diagnosis of Frailty, Red2Green Bed Days, Red2Green Rapid Improvement Guide, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Review of Winter 2016/17 (NHS Improvement and NHS England), Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Emergency Department, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Royal College of Surgeons (RCS), SAFER Patient Flow Bundle, SAFER Patient Flow Bundle and Red2Green Days (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (SRFT), Sarah Wollaston: Chair of the House of Commons Health Select Committee, Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Senior Clinical Input, Senior Review of Patients, Short Stay Admissions, Society for Acute Medicine (SAM), South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, South Warwickshire’s Trusted Assessment Form, Specialties (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Staffing, Supporting Adult Social Care to Maintain Patient Flow, Team-Based Interventions in A&E, Tele-tracking Technology, TeleTracking, TeleTracking Technologies Inc, Trusted Assessment (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Trusted Assessment Implementation Checklist, Trusted Assessors, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Unscheduled Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care Review, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Urgent and Emergency Care Services in England, Using Primary Care to Reduce Demand, Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Winter From Hell: 2016-7 (Allegation), Winter Preparedness, Winter Pressure in Accident and Emergency Departments (House of Commons Health Select Committee: HC 277), Winter Pressures
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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 →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, Stroke, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Acute Hospital Care, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions, BMJ Open, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, Bristol, Bristol Randomised Trials Collaboration: University of Bristol, Brunelcare: Saffron Gardens (Bristol), Case Management, Centre for Academic Primary Care: University of Bristol, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Community Hospitals, COPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Crisis Resolution Teams, Department of Emergency Medicine: University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Emergency Admissions, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Care, Emergency Centres, Emergency Departments, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Emergency Services, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Factors in Increased Use of Urgent and Emergency Care, Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences: University of the West of England, HaH Interventions, HaH: Hospital at Home, Health Economics at Bristol: University of Bristol, Heart Failure, Intermediate Care, Pneumonia, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Case Management, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Crisis Resolution Teams, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Intermediate Care, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Team-Based Interventions in A&E, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Telehealth, Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Pulmonary Embolism, Reasons for Short Stay Emergency Admissions, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, School of Social and Community Medicine: University of Bristol, Systematic Review, Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, Uncomplicated Diverticulitis, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, University of Bristol, University of the West of England, 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 in England
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On the Unrealised Potential of Intermediate Care (SCIE / Nuffield Trust)
Summary The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)’s “SCIE Highlights No.1” briefing explores the largely untapped potential of intermediate care. It is asserted that intermediate care could deliver better outcomes for patients, while reducing the pressures of demand faced by … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nuffield Trust, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, SCIE, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accountable Care Systems (ACSs), Acute Hospitals: Bed-Based Services, Ageing Population, Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Bed Based Intermediate Care, Bed Based Services, Bed Occupancy, Bed-Based Intermediate Care Services, Bed/Home and Step Up/Down Provision, Better Care Fund (BCF), Capitated Budgets, Care Closer to Home, Communication and Information Sharing, Community Hospitals: Bed-Based Services, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Rehabilitation Services, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Control and Independence, Cookson's Court (Yeovil), Crisis Home Treatment, Crisis Response Services, Crisis Support, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Demographic Time-Bomb, Dependency Levels, Destination on Discharge, Dignified Independent Living With Care, Discharge Destination, Discharge of Hospital Patients With Care and Support Needs, Discharge Planning, Economic Sustainability, Elderly Rehabilitation Services, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, Funding and Payment Mechanisms, Geographical Variations, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Reform, Home Based Intermediate Care, Home Based Services, Hospital Discharge, Independence, Independence and Wellbeing, Independent Sector Facilities: Bed-Based Services, Information Resources on Intermediate Care: Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Information Sharing, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integration, Intermediate Care, Intermediate Care - Draft Guideline: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2017), Intermediate Care Beds, Intermediate Care Capacity, Intermediate Care Teams, Intermediate Care: Elements of Effective Implementation, Intermediate Care: Evidence of Effectiveness, Intermediate Care: Return on Investment, Intermediate Care: SCIE Highlights No.1, Length of Stay, Length of Stay (LoS), Lessons and Challenges of Intermediate Care: Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Local Authority Facilities: Bed-Based Services, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Local Variations, Maintaining Independence, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, Multi-Disciplinary Case Management, Multi-Disciplinary Teams, Multi-Disciplinary Working, NHS Sustainability, Nursing Homes: Bed-Based Services, Other Bedbased Settings: Bed-Based Services, Partnership Working, Patient Flows, Policy Context and Models of Intermediate Care, Pooled Health and Social Care Budgets, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Preventing Future Crises, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Prevention and Wellbeing, Quality and Sustainability, Rapid Response Services: Intermediate Services, Re-ablement Services, Reablement, Reablement Services, Reablement: Stabilise and Make Safe (Trafford), Readmissions for Patients with Long Term Conditions, Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement Services, Regaining Independence, Rehabilitation Services, Residential Care Homes: Bed-Based Services, Return on Investment, Services Maximising Independence, Services Reducing Use of Hospitals, Single Point of Access (SPA), Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)’s SCIE Highlights No.1: Intermediate Care, Somerset Care, Somerset Care and Yeovil District Hospital: Cooksons Court, Somerset County Council, Stabilise and Make Safe (SAMS), Stabilise and Make Safe (Trafford), Standalone Intermediate Care Facilities: Bed-Based Services, Staying Independent, Supporting Health Wellbeing and Independence, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainable Care, Sustainable Health and Social Care, System Leadership, Theoretical Benefits of Intermediate Care, Tipping Point in Sustainability of Adult Social Care (Alleged), Trafford Council, Turning the Ship Around (Avoidance of NHS Unsustainability), Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Variations in Service, Waiting Times for Intermediate Care, Whole System Impact, Whole System Patient Flows, Whole System Performance, Whole-System Approaches, Year of Care Commissioning, Year of Care Funding Model, Yeovil District Hospital
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Reducing Pressures on Hospitals: Exploring the Potential Impact of Occupational Therapists (BBC News / COT / BAOT)
Summary A report from the College of Occupational Therapists demonstrates the role(s) which occupational therapists (and physiotherapists) can play in helping to reduce avoidable admissions / re-admissions to hospitals and subsequent delayed discharges of care in transitioning patients back into … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Falls, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Hip Fractures, In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Physiotherapy, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Tagged : Policy Officer (Wales) at College of Occupational Therapists, A&E Pressures, Accident and Emergency Departments, Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), Argyle Street Primary Care Practice (Pembroke Dock), Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions, BBC Health News, Bed Days, Bed-Blockers, Bed-Blocking Patients (Non-Recommended Term), British Association of Occupational Therapists, British Association of Occupational Therapists (BAOT), Cardiff, Cardiff University, Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales, College of Occupational Therapists, College of Occupational Therapists (COT), Community Occupational Therapy Interventions, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Dr Alan Rees: Vice President of Royal College of Physicians Wales, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Department Assessment Unit: University Hospital of Wales, Emergency Departments, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Services, Frail Older Persons Assessment and Liaison (FOPAL) Team, Frail Older Persons Assessment and Liaison Team: University Hospital of Wales Emergency Department Assessment Unit, Health Boards, Home-Based Rehabilitation and Reablement, Hospital Admissions, Hospital Beds, Hospital Discharge, Hospital Emergency Departments, Improving Lives, Improving Lives Saving Money Campaign (COT/BAOT), Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Inpatient Beds, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Primary Secondary and Community Care, Julia Scott: Chief Executive Officer at College of Occupational Therapists, Length of Stay (LoS), Long Hospital Stays, Loss of Mobility During Long Hospital Stays, Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Agency Working, Multi-Disciplinary Working, Nurses and Allied Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapists: Addressing Over-Reliance on Social Care, Occupational Therapists: Keeping People Out of Hospital, Occupational Therapists: Reducing Pressure on Primary Care, Occupational Therapy, Occupational Therapy in General Practice (Pilot Project), Occupational Therapy: Improving Lives Saving Money Campaign, Patient Discharge, Patient Flows, Physical Therapy, Physiotherapists, Physiotherapy, Post-Discharge Support, Prevention and Reablement, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Team-Based Interventions in A&E, Reablement, Reablement Services, Readmissions, Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement (RRR), Reducing Bed Days, Reducing Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Reducing Over-Reliance on Social Care, Reducing Pressure on Primary Care, Reducing the Pressure on Hospitals Report (COT/BAOT), Reducing Waste in the NHS, Ruth Crowder, Sarah Rochira: Older People’s Commissioner for Wales, Sustainability, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, University Hospital of Wales, Value of Occupational Therapists (#ValueofOT), Value of Occupational Therapy in Wales, Vaughan Gething: Cabinet Secretary for Health Wellbeing and Sport (Wales), Vaughan Gething: Welsh Health Secretary, Vulnerable Older People, Wasted Resources, Welsh Ambulance Service Trust (WAST), Welsh Reablement Alliance, Whole System Patient Flows
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Carers UK’s Pressure Points Report: Building on the Role of Carers in Supporting the NHS (Carers UK)
Summary A recent Carers UK report examined the potential role(s) of carers in helping to reduce emergency admissions and re-admissions to hospital; and to minimise delayed transfers of care from hospital. Around 40% carers who have taken their dependents to A&E … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Carers UK, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Ageing and Society, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions, Building Carer Friendly Communities, Care in the Community, Caregivers, Caregiving (Carers), Carer Awareness, Carer Experience, Carer Fatigue, Carer Friendly Communities, Carer Friendly NHS, Carer Friendly NHS Programme, Carer Friendly Primary Care Services, Carer Isolation, Carer Passports, Carer Support, Carer Support Services, Carer's Needs, Carer’s Perspective, Carers and Families, Carers UK’s Pressure Points Report, Carers’ Rights at Discharge, Case Management, Co-Production, Co-Production in Commissioning, Commissioning for Carers Principles, Community-Based Care, Crisis Resolution Teams, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfer of Care to Social Care (DToC), Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Emergency Admissions, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Care, Emergency Centres, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, Experiences of Health Care Services, Experiences of Social Care Services, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Factors in Increased Use of Urgent and Emergency Care, Families, Family Caregivers, Family Carers, Funding, Health and Social Care in the Community, Heléna Herklots: Chief Executive of Carers UK, Informal Caregiving, Informal Carers, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Approach to Identifying and Assessing Carer Health and Wellbeing (NHS England Toolkit), Integrated Discharge Process, Interface Between Primary and Secondary Care, Listening to Carers, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Case Management, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Crisis Resolution Teams, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Intermediate Care, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Proactive Personalised Care in the Community, Readmissions, Reasons for Delayed Discharge, Reducing Delayed Transfers of Care, Reducing Early Hospital Readmissions, Reducing Emergency Admissions Through Community-Based Interventions, Reducing Re-Admissions to NHS Hospitals, Role of Carers in Supporting the NHS, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainable Caring, Undervalued Hidden Workforce, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unpaid Caregivers (Carers), Unpaid Carers, 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 in England, Valuing Carers, Working Together to Support Carers
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World Continence Week – Miscellaneous Contributions and Insights (NHS England / ICS)
Summary The ICS World Continence Week (WCW) is an annual event which aims to raise awareness about incontinence-related issues. The following piece covers the recent Excellence in Continence Care guidelines and the benefits of collaboration between health and social care … Continue reading →
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Tagged 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, 6 C’s of Nursing, Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) for South London, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Awareness Campaigns, Awareness Raising, Bladder and Bowel Dysfunction, Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) Campaign, Catheter Care Pack (Health Innovation Network and Age UK), Catheter Care: Pledge Card, Catheter Care: Social Media Approach, Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs), Commissioning Continence Services, Commissioning for Dignity and Value, Communication Between Care Homes and Hospitals, Continence Care, Continence Services, Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s the Bladder and Bowel Specialist Service, Dr Stephanie Machin: Robin Hood Health Centre in Sutton, Emergency Admissions, Empowering Patients to Practise Self-Care, Encourage Catheter Independence, Enhancing Patients' Catheter Knowledge, Excellence in Continence Care, Excellence in Continence Care Board (NHS England), Health Innovation Network, Health Innovation Network South London, ICS World Continence Week (WCW), Improving Communication Between Care Homes and Hospitals, Incontinence, International Continence Society (ICS), Jacq Emkes: NHS England’s Excellence in Continence Care Board, Models of Enhanced Health in Care Homes - Vanguard Site: Sutton CCG, New Models of Care, New Models of Care Vanguards, NHS England's Five Year Forward View (2014), NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS England’s New Models of Care Programme, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Sutton CCG, Partnership Working, Patient Documentation, Patient Experience, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Red Bag Initiative: Hospital Transfer Pathway, Red Bags, Reducing Healthcare-Related Harms and Costs, Reducing Stigma, Sarah Elliott: Regional Chief Nurse for NHS England in the South, Self-Management, Sharon Eustice: Nurse Consultant at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Six C’s of Nursing, South London Health Innovation Network, Stigma, Stigma Reduction, Sutton CCG, Sutton Homes of Care Vanguard, Sutton Homes of Care Vanguard – Hospital Transfer Pathway (Red Bag), The 6 Cs, Tiziana Ansell: South London’s Health Innovation Network, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), World Continence Week, World Continence Week (2016)
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