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Tag Archives: Avoidable Hospital Admissions
Dementia-Related Hospital Admissions (BBC News / Alzheimer’s Society)
Summary Patients with dementia are being admitted to hospitals at an increasing rate, often because of the lack of community care, according to the Alzheimer’s Society. “The Alzheimer’s Society analysed hospital records covering emergency admissions in the six years to … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Alzheimer's Society, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, 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, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Statistics, 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, Barriers: Inappropriate Hospital Admissions, Community Crisis Teams, Community Response Teams, Community Urgent Care Services, Community Urgent Care Services Accelerator Sites: Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire and Berkshire System, Community Urgent Care Services Accelerator Sites: Cornwall System, Community Urgent Care Services Accelerator Sites: Leicester Leicestershire and Rutland system, Community Urgent Care Services Accelerator Sites: Norfolk and Waveney System, Community Urgent Care Services Accelerator Sites: South East London System, Community Urgent Care Services Accelerator Sites: Warrington Together (Cheshire and Merseyside STP), Community Urgent Care Services Accelerator Sites: West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership (Kirklees), Community Urgent Care Services: Accelerator Sites, Crisis Teams, Crisis Teams for the Management of Older People With Dementia, Dementia Crisis Teams, Dementia-Related Hospital Admissions, Emergency Admissions, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Factors in Increased Use of Urgent and Emergency Care, Guaranteed Care Packages in Two Days for Hospital Patients Ready for Discharge (Proposed), Helen Childs: Chief Operating Officer at NHS Kernow Clinical Commissioning Group, HES: Hospital Episode Statistics, Hospital Admissions, Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Inappropriate Hospital Admissions, Independence at Home, Jon Wilson: Director of Adult and Communities at Leicestershire County Council, Length of Stay (LoS), Long Term Plan (LTP), Matthew Winn: Chief Executive of Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust, Matthew Winn: NHS Director of Community Health, NHS England’s Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS Long Term Plan (2019), NHS Long Term Plan: Implementation, Nursing Care, Occupational Therapy, Partnership Working, Physiotherapy, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Rapid Response Community Crisis Teams, Reablement and Rehabilitation, Reablement Services, Reasons for Short Stay Emergency Admissions, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Staying Put, Total Bed-Days in Hospital, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Urgent Community Response Teams, Urgent Response Standards
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Reducing Hospital Admissions From Care Homes (Health Foundation / PCC)
Summary A Health Foundation report indicates that perhaps over 40% of emergency hospital admissions on the part of permanent care home residents aged ≥65 years could have been avoided with better preventive primary care, community support / NHS care in care … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Foundation, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nutrition, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Health and Social Care Support, Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infections, Ageing Population, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust, Care Home Assessment Teams (CHATs), Care Home-Associated Deconditioning, Care Homes, Care Homes Wellbeing, Care Homes-Related Deconditioning, Chronic Disease and Frailty, Chronic Lower Respiratory Tract Infections, Co-Production, Co-Production for Wellbeing, Co-Production in Commissioning, Co-production in Quality Improvement, Continuing Health Care, Coproduction, Deconditioning, Deconditioning in Hospital, Dementia Care in Care Homes, Dementia: People With Dementia in Care Homes, Embedding Co-Production, Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care, Enfield Care Home Assessment Team (CHAT), Enhanced Care Packages (Care Homes), Enhanced Health in Care Homes, Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) Framework, Enhanced Specification of General Practice Care for Frail Older People Living in Care Homes, Enhanced Support, Frailty, Haringey, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care Delivery Models, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Hospital Admissions, Hospital-Associated Deconditioning, Hospital-Related Deconditioning, Hydration and Nutrition, Improved Support from Community Nurses for Nurses Employed in Care Homes, Improvement Analytics Unit (IAU), Improvement Analytics Unit (NHS England and Health Foundation Partnership), Improvement Analytics Unit: Health Foundation, Influence of Primary Care Quality Upon Hospital Admissions by People with Dementia in England, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integration of Health and Care, Interface Between Primary and Secondary Care, Later Life, Living Well in Care Homes, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Medication Reviews, Medication Reviews in Care Homes, Medicine Reviews, Models of Enhanced Health in Care Homes, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), Multi-Disciplinary Teams, Multi-Disciplinary Working, Multiple Long-Term Conditions, Multispecialty Community Providers (Integrated Out-of-Hospital Care), Multispecialty Community Providers (MCPs), Named GPs, Named GPs for Over-75s, New Care Models, New Care Models: Vanguard Sites, New Models of Care, New Models of Primary Care, NHS Nottingham City CCG, Nottingham City, Out-of-Hours Urgent Care, People with Dementia in Care Homes, Pharmacist-Led Care Home Medication Reviews, Pneumonia, Pneumonitis (Inflammation of Lung Tissue) Caused by Inhaled Food or Liquid, Pressure Sores, Pressure Ulcers, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Quality and Safety Improvement Approaches in Care Homes, Quality Improvement, Quality of Life for People Living in Care Homes, Rates of Hospital Admissions by Care Home Residents, Reducing Hospital Attendance, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Regular Medication Reviews, Residential Care Homes, Rushcliffe, Staff Training, Support for Care Homes, Sustainability, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Sutton, Sutton Homes of Care Vanguard, Training and Support, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Urinary Tract Infections, Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), Wakefield, Wakefield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)
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Support Workers for General Practice: Part of the NHS Comprehensive Personalised Care Model (BBC News / NHS England)
Summary Over 20,000 physiotherapists, pharmacists, paramedics, physician associates, and social prescribing support workers will be recruited by NHS England to work with general practices. The aim is to help relieve workload pressures on GPs. Full Text Link Reference GPs create … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Community Care, 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, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Ageing Population, Alistair Burns: NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Dementia, Alistair Burns: Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at University of Manchester, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, BBC Health News, BMA General Practitioners Committee (GPC), Clinical Pharmacists, Directed Enhanced Service (DES), Dr Keith Ridge: Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, Expanded Services at Local GP Practices, Five-Year GP Services Contract, GP Contract Five-Year Framework, GP Contract Reform to Implement the NHS Long Term Plan: NHS England, Improving Access to Family Doctors, Integrated Care Systems, Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), Integrated Personal Budgets (IHBs), Longer Appointments for Complex Patients, Medication Reviews, NHS Comprehensive Personalised Care Model, NHS Long Term Plan (2019), NHS Long Term Plan: GP Services, NHS Long Term Plan: Implementation, Over-Medication, Paramedics, Patient Activation, People Powered Health and Supported Self-Management, Personal Health Budgets (PHBs), Personalised Care and Support Planning (PCSP), Pharmacists, Pharmacists to Cut Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Pharmacy Reviews, Pharmacy Technicians, Physician Associates, Physiotherapists, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Primary Care Network (PCN) Contract, Primary Care Network Model, Primary Care Networks, Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF): Blood Pressure Control, Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF): Diabetes, Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF): End of Life Care, Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF): Prescribing Safety, Reducing Delayed Transfers of Care, Reducing Over-Medication (NHS England), Reducing Re-Admissions to NHS Hospitals, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unnecessary Medication (NHS England)), Reducing Unnecessary Transitions, Reducing Unnecessary Trips to Hospital, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Social Prescriber Link Workers, Social Prescribing, Social Prescribing Support Workers, Social Prescribing: Link Workers, Tackling Over-Medication, Technology to Support Personalised Health and Care, Technology-Supported Self-Management, Universal Personalised Care: Implementing the Comprehensive Model
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Improving Care for Older People (NHS England / Age UK / PHE / Chief Fire Officer’s Association / JGCR)
Summary The guide to Improving Care for Older People, developed by NHS England in partnership with Age UK, Public Health England, and the Chief Fire Officer’s Association, is actually a collection of resources (some dating back several years). This collection … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, 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, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Public Health England, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Active Ageing, Active and Healthy Ageing, Age and Ageing, Age-Friendly Housing, Age-Related Hearing Loss (ARHL), Ageing Population, Ageing Population Carer Support, Ageing Society, Ageing Well, Ageing Well and Supporting People Living With Frailty (NHS England), Ageing Well With Technology, Amenable Mortality, Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoidable Mortality, Avoidable Premature Mortality, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Bladder Problems, Burden on Caregivers, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care Home Admission Delay, Care in an Ageing Society, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Caregiver Assessments, Caregiver Burden, Caregivers, Caregiving (Carers), Carer Awareness, Carer Experience, Carer Fatigue, Carer Isolation, Carer Organisations, Carer Support, Carer Support Services, Carer's Needs, Carer’s Perspective, Carers Strategy, Carers Trust, Carers UK Adviceline, Carers' Assessments, Carers’ Benefits, Carers’ Health and Wellbeing, Caring and Family Finances, Caring into Later Life, Case Finding and Risk Stratification, Chief Fire Officers Association, Chief Fire Officers Association (CFOA), Chief Fire Officers Association: Ageing Safely Strategy, Cognitive Impairment, Cold Homes, Collaboration, Collaborative Commissioning, Collaborative Models of Delivery, Collaborative Working, Collaborative Working in Local Communities, Community Care Assessments, Community Response Intervention Teams, Community Risk Intervention, Community Risk Intervention Team (CRIT), Community Volunteering, Community-Based Services, Complex Needs, Consensus Statement on Improving Health and Wellbeing (2015), Consent to Share Information, Cooking Arrangements, Coping With Stress, Culture Change in Health and Care, Delivering Better Health and Care Outcomes, Dementia-Friendly Housing, Design Principles for Safe and Well Visits, Determinants of Health, Electronic Frailty Index, electronic Frailty Index (eFI), Emily Holzhausen: Director of Policy and Public Affairs at Carers UK, Falls Prevention, Falls Reduction, Falls Risk Assessment Tool (FRAT), Family Caregivers, Family Carers, Feeling Under the Weather (Campaign), Fire and Rescue Service Delivering Home Modifications, Fire and Rescue Services (FRS), Fire and Rescue Services (FRS): Health Ambassadors, Fire and Rescue Services Act (2004), Fire and Rescue Services Checks on Older People, Fire and Rescue Services Checks on People With Long Term Health Conditions, Fire as a Health Asset: Consensus, Fire Safety Check Programmes, Fires, Frail Older People, Frailty, Frailty Identification and Frailty Care, Frailty Services, Frailty Syndromes, FRS Volunteers, Geriatric Care and Research Organisation (GeriCaRe), Greater Manchester FRS Community Risk Intervention Teams (CRITs), Guide to Healthy Ageing, Happiness and Wellbeing, Health and Care of Older People, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Wellbeing, Healthy Ageing, Healthy Ageing Conference 2018 (India), Healthy Ageing in India, 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of Geriatric Care and Research (JGCR), Keep Warm Keep Well, LGA: Local Government Association, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Links Between Mental Health and Fire Risk, Local Government Association: LGA, Local Government Authority: Beyond Fighting Fires, Local Health and Care Services, Loneliness, Loneliness and Social Isolation, Long Term Health Conditions, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Care and Support, Long-Term Conditions, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Maintaining Independence, Maintaining Relationships, Mental Health Needs of Carers, Mental Wellbeing, Mental Wellbeing and Older People, Mobile Technology, Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Agency Working, Multi-Disciplinary Working, Multi-Morbidity, Needs of Carers, NHS England Risk Stratification Guidance, Older Community-Dwelling Adults, Older People At Home, Older People With Complex Needs, Older People: Independence and Mental Wellbeing, Opportunities to Treat Patients Without Hospital Admission, Partnership and Collaboration, 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Patients Without Hospital Admission, Unpaid Caregivers (Carers), Unpaid Carers, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospitalisation, Urinary Incontinence, Urinary Infections, Use of Social Media, Vaccination Programmes, Visual Impairment, Voluntary and Community Sector, Voluntary Sector, Warm Homes, Winter Friends
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NHS Operational Productivity: GIRFT Meets Mental Health and Community Health Services (Lord Carter / DHSC)
Summary Lord Carter’s latest report in the NHS Operational Productivity series shifts the attention to unwarranted variations in mental health and community health services. Potential savings of around £1 billion in efficiencies could be made by 2020/21, allegedly, if the … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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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, Social Care for Adults Aged 18-64: Health Foundation, 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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System to Measure and Prevent Medication Errors Under Development (Department of Health and Social Care / EEPRU / BBC News)
Summary The Department of Health and Social Care now has a system to help identify, monitor and prevent medication errors. The aim is to help ensure the NHS becomes the safest healthcare system in the world, as well as avoiding … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, National, NHS, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, World Health Organization (WHO)
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Tagged Adverse Drug Reactions, Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs), Adverse Drug Reactions in the Elderly, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoidable Ill-Health, Avoidable Mortality, Avoidable Premature Mortality, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Caroline Dinenage: Care Minister, Choosing Wisely, Choosing Wisely Campaign, Community Pharmacists, Continuous Learning Culture, Culture Change, Culture of Raising Concerns, Defences for Pharmacists: Accidental Dispensing Errors, Department of Health and Social Care (Formerly the Department of Health), Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA), Electronic Prescribing Systems, ePACT2, Epidemiology and Statistics, Gastric Bleed Statistics, Global Patient Safety Challenge (WHO), Hospital Admissions, Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (HePMA), Inappropriate Hospital Admissions, Learning Culture, Measurement and Prevention of Medication Errors, Medication Errors, Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Reactions, Medication Reviews, Medication Safety, Medication Safety Dashboard, Medication Without Harm (WHO), Medicines Optimisation, Medicines Optimisation Dashboard, Medicines Safety Programme (WHO), NHS Culture Change, NHS England Medicines Optimisation Intelligence Group, NHS Patient Safety Culture, NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service, NHS: Safest Healthcare System in the World (Ambition), No Harm Culture, Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) Without Gastro Protective Medicine, Openness and Honesty When Things Go Wrong, Openness and Transparency, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Improvement, Patient Safety Indicators, Patient Safety Strategies, Patients With Polypharmacy Risks, Pharmacist-Led Medication Reviews, Policy Research Unit in Economic Evaluation of Health and Care Interventions (EEPRU), Polypharmacy, Preventable Deaths in English Acute Hospitals, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventable Hospital Deaths, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Preventable Mortality, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Primary Care Adverse Drug Reactions, Putting Patients First, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement Culture, Reducing Inappropriate Polypharmacy, Reducing Litigation Costs, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Regular Medication Reviews, Report of the Short Life Working Group on Reducing Medication-Related Harm, Reporting Culture, Reporting of Incidents, Research on Medication Error, Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), ScHARR: University of Sheffield, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR): University of Sheffield, Short Life Working Group on Reducing Medication-Related Harm, Stop the Over-Medication of People With a Learning Disability or Autism (STOMP) Campaign, Transparency, Transparency and Accountability, Transparent Learning Culture, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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