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Tag Archives: Avoidable Rehospitalisations
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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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 →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Delirium, Diagnosis, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Health Foundation, Integrated Care, International, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, NHS, Nuffield Trust, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Academic Geriatric Medicine: University of Southampton, Adults at Risk of Harm, Age and Ageing, Ageing and Long-Term Care, Ageing Population, Ageing Research, Amenable Mortality, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoidable Mortality, Avoidable Premature Mortality, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Cardiff University, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Charlson Comorbidity Index, College of Life Sciences: University of Leicester, Commissioning for Older People, Count-Based Multimorbidity Measures, Data Analytics Team: Health Foundation, Department of Business Intelligence: Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Geriatric Medicine: Lyon Teaching Hospital, Department of Health Policy: London School of Economics, Department of Health Sciences: University of Leicester, Department of Public Health: Cardiff University, Diagnostic Codes, Electronic Care Record (ECR), Electronic Care Records, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Frailty, Frailty Status at Admission to Hospital, France, Fried and Rockwood Scales, Fried Phenotype, Hospital Frailty Risk Score, ICD-10 Codes, Identification of Frailty, Identification of Frailty (Routine Screening), Identifying People Living With Frailty, Identifying Vulnerable People, Improving Care for Frail Older People, Institute for Ageing: Newcastle University, International Classification of Diseases (ICD), International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10), Lancet, London School of Economics, Lyon Teaching Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Morbidity and Wellbeing, Multimorbidity Measures, Newcastle University, Optimising Acute Frailty, Patient Targeting and Risk Stratification, Risk Assessment, Risk Evaluation, Risk Stratification, Rockwood Frailty Index, Screening For Frailty, Screening for Frailty (in Hospitals), Targeted Screening, Targeting Resources on Vulnerable Populations, University of Leicester, University of Southampton, Vulnerable Adults, World Health Organization's (WHO) International Classification of Diseases: Tenth Revision (ICD-10)
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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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Screening For Frailty: as Easy as eFI? (NHS England / Age and Ageing)
Summary The “electronic Frailty Index (eFI)” is discussed, by NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Older People and Person Centred Integrated Care, as a validated tool which might assist in the proactive identification, diagnosis and management of frailty. Potentially, the … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Statistics, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Academic Unit of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation: University of Leeds, Age and Ageing, Ageing and Long-Term Care: Projections, Ageing Population, Ageing Research, Amenable Mortality, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoidable Mortality, Avoidable Premature Mortality, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, BMJ Open, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, Bradford, British Geriatrics Society, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care Home Admission Delay, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination: University of York, Charlson Comorbidity Index, Commissioning for Older People, Connected Bradford, Connected Health Cities, Count-Based Multimorbidity Measures, Cumulative Deficit Frailty Model, Cumulative Deficit Model, Deficits Contained in eFI Calculations, Disease Counts, Dr Martin Vernon: Consultant Geriatrician and Associate Head of Division for Medicine and Community Services for Central Manchester, Dr Martin Vernon: National Clinical Director for Older People and Integrated Care, Dr Martin Vernon: NCD for Older People and Integrated Person Centred Care, Dublin, Effectiveness Matters, Electronic Frailty Index, electronic Frailty Index (eFI), Electronic Health Records, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Faculty of Health Studies: University of Bradford, Frail Older People, Frailty, Frailty Identification and Frailty Care, Frailty Services, Frailty Syndromes, Functional Decline, General Practice, General Practices, General Practitioners, GP Assessment, Guidance on Supporting Routine Frailty Identification and Frailty Care Through the GP Contract 2017/2018, Holistic Medical Reviews (Automated Electronic Heuristics), Holistic Medical Reviews by GPs, HRB Centre for Primary Care Research: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), Identification of Frailty, Identification of Frailty (Routine Screening), Identifying People Living With Frailty, Identifying Vulnerable People, Improving Care for Frail Older People, Improving General Practice, Improving Quality in General Practice, Improving the Quality of Care in General Practice, Inappropriate Hospital Admissions, Independence at Home, Institute of Applied Health Research: University of Birmingham, Ireland, John Young: Academic Unit of Elderly Care and Rehabilitation at University of Leeds, Long-Term Care and Support, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Maintaining Independence, Medication Counts, Mortality in Older People, Mortality Morbidity and Wellbeing, Multimorbidity Measures, Older Community-Dwelling Adults, Older People At Home, Opportunities to Treat Patients Without Hospital Admission, Pathways for Frail and Vulnerable People, People Living With Frailty, Point-of-Care Screening, Population Health Sciences Division: Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (RCSI), Preventable Hospital Admissions, Primary Care, Professor John Young, Professor John Young: Former National Clinical Director for Integration and Frail Elderly at NHS England, Rapid Screening, Recognising and Managing Frailty in Primary Care, Reducing Unplanned Hospitalisation, Rehospitalisations, ResearchOne (TPP Leeds West Yorkshire), ResearchOne Health and Care Database, ResearchOne Primary Care Database, Risk of Nursing Home Admission, Routine Primary Care Electronic Health Record Data, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (RCSI), RxRisk-V, Screening, Screening For Frailty, Screening Tests, Selected Conditions Counts, Shakespeare: Seven Ages of Man, Staying Independent, Supporting Older People Living With Frailty in the Community, Supporting People With Hospital Admissions, Supporting Vulnerable People, SystmOne (TPP Leeds West Yorkshire), SystmOne Electronic Health Record System, Targeted Screening, Targeting Resources on Vulnerable Populations, The Health Improvement Network (THIN) Databases, THIN Database, Toolkit for General Practice in Supporting Older People Living With Frailty (NHS England), TPP SystmOne Clinical System, Treating Patients Without Hospital Admission, University of Leeds, University of York, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospitalisation, Validation of electronic Frailty Index (eFI), Vulnerable Adults, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and Humber AHSN Improvement Academy
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Safe and Well Visits: Partnership Working Between Health, Social Care, Fire and Rescue Services and Volunteers (NHS England, PHE, LGA / CFOA / Age UK)
Summary Further information has become available concerning the programme of “health checks” for the homes of elderly people and patients with complex long-term conditions. Collaboration on establishing the working principles of these “Safe and Well” visits has involved cooperation between … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, Assistive Technology, 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), Housing, In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Standards, Telecare, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, Age-Friendly Housing, Ageing Population, Alcohol, Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoidable Mortality, Avoidable Premature Mortality, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Burns and Scalds, Candles, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, 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 Response Intervention Teams, Community Risk Intervention, Community Risk Intervention Team (CRIT), Community Volunteering, Complex Needs, Consensus Statement on Improving Health and Wellbeing (2015), Consent to Share Information, Cooking Arrangements, Culture Change in Health and Care, Delivering Better Health and Care Outcomes, Dementia Long-Term Care and Support, Dementia Long-Term Services, Dementia-Friendly Housing, Design Principles for Safe and Well Visits, Determinants of Health, Drugs, E-Cigarettes, Electrical Equipment, Employment, Escape Plans, Falls, Falls Prevention, Falls Reduction, Falls Risk Assessment Tool (FRAT), 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, Frailty, FRS Volunteers, Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester FRS (GMFRS), Greater Manchester FRS Community Risk Intervention Teams (CRITs), Health, Health and Care of Older People, Health and Social Care Integration, Hoarding, Home Adaptations, Home Modifications, Home Safety, Home Security, Independence, Independence at Home, Independent Living, Independent Living At Home, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integrated Prevention Approaches, Integration of Health and Care, Integration of Health and Social Care, Jacquie White: NHS England’s Deputy Director for People with Long Term Conditions, Learning Disability, 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 Conditions, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Mental Health, Mobility, Modifiable Risk Factors, Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Agency Working, Multi-Disciplinary Working, Multi-Morbidity, National Long Term Conditions Year of Care Commissioning Programme, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), North West Ambulance Service (NWAS), Older People With Complex Needs, Partnership and Collaboration, Partnership Working, Partnership(s) Between NHS and Fire Service, PHE: Public Health England, Portable Heaters and Open Fires, Potentially Modifiable Socio-Environmental Risk Factors, Prescription Medicines, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Provision of Clinical and Other Equipment in Home Potentially Increasing Fire Risk, Provision of Risk Appropriate Domestic Fire Detection and Warning, Public Health England (PHE), Public Health Social Care and NHS Outcomes To Which Home Adaptations Contribute, Public Health Social Care and NHS Outcomes To Which Safe and Well Visits Contribute, RCGP e-learning Package For GPs, Reducing Health Inequalities, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Risk Factors, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Alcohol, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Burns and Scalds, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Candles, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Consent to Share Information, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Cooking, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Drugs, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: E-Cigarettes, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Electrical Equipment, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Employment, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Escape Plans, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Falls, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Fire, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Frailty, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Health, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Hoarding, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Home Security, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Learning Disability, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Loneliness and Social Isolation, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Mental Health, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Mobility, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Portable Heaters and Open Fires, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Prescription Medicines, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Provision of Clinical and Other Equipment in Home Potentially Increasing Fire Risk, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Provision of Risk Appropriate Domestic Fire Detection and Warning, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Safety of Under Five Year Olds, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Sensory Impairment, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Smoking, Safe and Well Visit (Light Touch) Checks: Weight, Safe and Well Visits, Safety of Under Five Year Olds, Sensory Impairment, Smoking, Socio-Environmental Risk Factors, Support for People with Complex Needs, Voluntary and Community Sector, Voluntary Sector, Weight, Working Together: Health and Social Care Plus Fire and Rescue Services
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Unsafe Discharges From Hospitals Breach NICE Guidelines (BBC News / PHSO)
Summary The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) has reported on complaints received about hundreds of vulnerable and elderly patients, sometimes including those with dementia and / or frailty, who have been discharged inappropriately from hospital. It seems likely that … Continue reading →
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Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospitals, Adults With Social Care Needs, Ageing Population, Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Mortality, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Barriers and Challenges in Discharge Planning, Breakdowns or Failures in Communication, Care Transitions, Care Transitions Involving Adults With Social Care Needs, Care Transitions of Older People, Collaboration, Collaborative Care, Collaborative Care Planning, Collaborative Communication, Communication, Communication During Handovers, Compassionate Care, Coordinated Health and Social Care, Culture of Compassionate Care, Dame Julie Mellor: Parliamentary and Health Ombudsman Service, Deficient Checking and Oversight, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Destination on Discharge, Dignity, Dignity and Respect, Discharge, Discharge and Out of Hospital Care, Discharge at a Reasonable Time, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Coordinators, Discharge From General Inpatient Hospital Settings, Discharge Guidelines, Discharge Information, Discharge Planning, Dysfunctional Patient Flow, Geriatric Assessment and Care, Handover, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, Hospital Admissions, Hospital Discharge, Hospital Readmission Risk Factors, Improving Patient Safety, Information Sharing, Information Sharing: Care Plans, Information Sharing: Communication Needs, Integrated Discharge Process, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Managing Transitions, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Multi-Agency Collaboration, Multi-Disciplinary Teams, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), Partnership and Collaboration, Patient Dignity, Patient Safety, Patient Transitions of Care, Post-Discharge Support, Promoting Dignity in Dementia, Quality Improvement, Reducing Delayed Transfers of Care, Reducing Early Hospital Readmissions, Safe and Compassionate Care, Transition Between Inpatient Hospital Settings and Community or Care Home Settings, Transition Planning, Transitions, Transitions Between Health and Social Care
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Care Home Residents’ Access to GPs For Basic Health Care: Far Sighted or Short Sighted GP Contract Changes? (BBC News)
Summary Care home residents are generally 50% more likely to be admitted to hospital as an emergency than other older persons, and might be expected to be a high priority for primary care. Paradoxically, there are reports that GPs have … Continue reading →
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Tagged Access and Equity For Care Home Residents to Local NHS Services, Access to Care, Access to General Practice, Access to GP Services, Access to Hospital Services, Access to Primary Care, Access to Services, Age Discrimination, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Mortality, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Barriers to Integration, Barriers to Joined-Up Care, Barriers to Older People Accessing Help and Support, Barriers to Support, Barriers: Access to Funding, Barriers: Discrimination, Barriers: Inconsistency in Care Standards, Barriers: Lack of Continuity of Care, Barriers: Lack of Timely and Appropriate Diagnosis, Barriers: Potential Age Discrimination, Care England, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care Home Residents, Care Home Sector, Care Homes, Care Homes Wellbeing, Care Homes: Quality Indicators, Care of Vulnerable Adults, Charges for GP Visits, Clinical Input Into Care Homes, Consumer Vulnerability, Corporate Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Dementia-Friendly Care Homes, Empowering GPs to Help Vulnerable Patients (and Carers) to Access Services, Enhanced Health in Care Homes, Factors Contributing to Vulnerability, General Practice, GP Access, GP Contracts, GPs, Health Care for Older Care Home Residents, Health Care Needs of Care Home Residents, High Quality Health Care for Older Care Home Residents, Improving Standards in Care Homes, Integrated Primary and Acute Care Systems (PACS) Vanguard Sites, NHS Managerial Self-Interest, Nursing Homes, Older Care Home Residents, Patient Experience, Patient Safety, Preventable Harm, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Primary and Acute Care Systems (PACS), Primary Care: GP Consultations / Visits, Quality and Continuity of Care for Vulnerable Patients (New Deal), Rationing, Rationing Care, Residential Homes, Retainer Fees for GPs, Support to Care Home Residents, Supporting Vulnerable People, Targeting Resources on Vulnerable Populations, Vulnerable and Disadvantaged Groups
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Care and Treatment Reviews: Soon to be Mainstream? (NHS England)
Summary Care and Treatment Reviews (CTRs) were introduced, as a means to reduce unnecessary admissions and avoid lengthy stays in hospital, within NHS England’s commitment to improving the care of people with learning disabilities. The underlying philosophy behind CTRs is … Continue reading →
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Public Health England’s Annual Plan (PHE)
Summary Public Health England (PHE) have released their annual plan, which presents this organisation’s core functions and outlines intended actions for the coming year. “We … continue to support local authorities, the NHS and others to help people live longer, … Continue reading →
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