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Tag Archives: Choosing Wisely Campaign
Cognitive Symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease: Management and Prevention? (BMJ)
Summary A review investigates pharmacological treatments for cognitive symptoms in Alzheimer’s Disease at different phases in progression of the disease, in the context of the paucity of effective disease-modifying interventions. Discrepancies between different national and international guidelines, regarding the prescription … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), International, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Universal Interest
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Tagged Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors, Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors (AChEIs), ADAS-Cog: Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale - Cognitive Subscale, Alzheimer Disease Research Center: Keck School of Medicine at USC, Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale Cognitive Subscale (ADAS-Cog), American Geriatrics Society (AGS), Anti-Amyloid Immunotherapies, BMJ, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, British Medical Journal (BMJ), Cambridge Institute of Public Health: University of Cambridge, Care of the Elderly Medicine Department: Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, ChEIs: Cholinesterase Inhibitors, Cholinergic Agents, Cholinergic Agonists, Cholinergic Enhancers, Cholinesterase Inhibitors, Choosing Wisely, Choosing Wisely Campaign, Cognitive Enhancing Medications, DAPA - Dementia and Physical Activity Trial, Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), Department of Neurology: Keck School of Medicine at USC, Department of Public Health and Primary Care: University of Cambridge, Deprescribing, Disease-Modifying Therapies for Dementia, Disease-Modifying Treatments for Dementia, Disease-Modifying Treatments for Dementia (Hypothetical Scenarios), Disease-Modifying Trials in Mild-to-Moderate Dementia, Donepezil, Donepezil (Aricept), Donepezil and Memantine, Donepezil-Memantine Combination, Donepezil-Memantine: Monotherapy Versus Combination Therapy, Drug Efficacy, Drug Side-Effects, Drugs Alleged to Raise False Hopes (Speculative Construct), European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS), Fish Oil, Fortasyn Connect, Galantamine, Galantamine-Memantine Combination Versus Donepezil-Memantine Combination, Galantamine-Memantine Drug Combination, German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Healthcare (IQWiG), Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS), Incidence and Prevalence of Alzheimer’s Disease, Keck School of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine at USC, Keck School of Medicine: University of Southern California, LEARNit Study (Midlife Exercise), Medical Foods, Memory Improvement Through Nicotine Dosing (MIND) Study, New Cross Hospital, New Cross Hospital: Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Nicotine Patches, Nicotinic Agonists, NINCDS-ADRDA (National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke and the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association) Criteria for Alzheimer's Disease, NINCDS-ADRDA Criteria, NINCDS-ADRDA: National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke and the Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders Association, Outcome Measures for Disease-Modifying Trials in Mild-to-Moderate Dementia, Physical Activity, Prescribing Guidelines: Acetyl Cholinesterase Inhibitors, Prescribing Review: Acetyl Cholinesterase Inhibitors, Razadyne, Reducing Waste in Dementia Care, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Rivastigmine, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Souvenaid Drink (Nutricia), Symptomatic Treatment: Inhibitors of Acetylcholinesterase, Tacrine, Treatment Algorithm for Alzheimer’s Disease, University of Cambridge, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Vitamin E
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Progress Towards Achieving Better Value / Reducing Waste in the NHS (King’s Fund / NHS Providers)
Summary A King’s Fund report investigates recent work on the value agenda, i.e. efforts aimed at reducing unnecessary costs while maintaining or improving the quality of care. This is based mostly on experience at three diverse NHS acute hospital trusts: … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, King's Fund, NHS, NHS Improvement, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Achieving Better Value, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, Allocative Efficiencies, Allocative Value, Better Procurement, Better Value, Better Value Healthcare, Better Value in the NHS, Better-Value Services, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Centralised Procurement, Centralised Procurement (Economies of Scale), Choosing Wisely, Choosing Wisely Campaign, Choosing Wisely in the NHS, Choosing Wisely in the UK, Clinical and Corporate Leadership, Clinical Leadership, Clinical Practice Groups (CPGs), Clinical Quality Improvement, Collaboration, Collaboration for Coordinated Care, Collaboration: Working Across Boundaries, Community Virtual Wards, Consultant-Led Services in the Community, Cost Reductions, Culture and Leadership, Delegated Decision Making, Devolved Budgets, Devolved Decision-Making, Economic Sustainability, Efficiencies and Productivity Gains, Efficiency, Efficiency Agenda, Efficiency Opportunities, Efficiency Savings, Empowerment, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding Gap in Secondary Care, General Hospitals, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), Health and Social Care Configuration, Healthcare Quality Improvement, Healthcare Value Improvement, Hospital Productivity, Hospital Reconfiguration, IHI Triple Aim, Innovative Leadership, Leadership, Lean and Quality Improvement, Local Health and Care Services, Local Health Economies, Lord Carter Review, Low-Value Care, Maximising Health Outcomes, Minimising NHS Costs, Model Hospital, Model Hospital: Template for Standardisation, NHS Challenges and New Solutions, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England’s Ten-Point Efficiency Plan, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Inappropriate Care: Overuse Underuse and Misuse, NHS Performance, NHS Productivity, NHS Providers, NHS RightCare, NHS Sustainability, Personalised Value, Practical Approaches to Delivering Better Value in NHS Clinical Services (King’s Fund), Productivity, Productivity in the NHS, QI: Quality Improvement, Quality and Efficiency Opportunities, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement Culture, Redesigning Care Pathways, Redesigning Services, Reducing Drains on the NHS, Reducing Overuse Underuse and Misuse, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust, Service Cost Reductions, Service Redesign, Service Redesign for Productivity, Service Redesign for Value Agenda, Shared Clinical Pathways, Staff Empowerment, Staff Empowerment in the NHS, Staff Engagement, Staff Engagement in the NHS, Strategic Leadership, Sustainability, System Efficiencies, Targeting Low-Value Care, Technical Value, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Triple Aim Initiative, Triple Aim: (1) Improved Health and Wellbeing (2) Redesigned Care and (3) Wise Financial Stewardship, Troubled NHS Foundation Trusts, Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Use of Resources Assessments (NHS Improvement), Value Agenda, Value Improvement, Variations in Care, Virtual Ward Approaches, Virtual Wards, Virtual Wards to Reduce Readmissions, Workforce Engagement
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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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Medication Errors: an Open Learning Culture Recommended to Reduce Patient Harm (BBC News / Department of Health / EEPRU / Department of Health and Social Care)
Summary Medication errors, which include (i) wrong medications given, (ii) incorrect doses and (iii) delays in medication being administered, cause an estimated 700 deaths per year and might play a role in something between 1,700 to 22,300 further avoidable deaths. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Acute Care and Quality, Acute Care and Workforce, Adult Psychiatric Intensive Care Services, Adverse Drug Reactions, Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs), Adverse Drug Reactions in the Elderly, BBC Health News, Blame Culture, Care Home Culture, Care Home Environments, Care Homes, Centre for Health Economics: University of York, Choosing Wisely Campaign, Choosing Wisely in the NHS, CHUMS Study, Clinical Pharmacists, Clinical Responsibility for Patients (Choosing Wisely and New Deal), Community Pharmacists, Continuous Learning Culture, CQC Investigations and Quality Policy, Culture and Behaviour Change, Culture and Leadership, Culture Change, Culture of Raising Concerns, Department of Health Policy Research Programme, Division of Population Health Health Services Research and Primary Care: University of Manchester, Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA), Electronic Prescribing Systems, EQUIP Study, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Global Patient Safety Challenge (WHO), HePMA, Hospital E-Prescribing and Medicines Administration, Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (HePMA), Hospital Pharmacists, Learning Culture, Making Choices Together (Previously Choosing Wisely Wales), Manchester Centre for Health Economics: University of Manchester, Medication Errors, Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Reactions, Medication Without Harm (WHO), Medicines Safety Programme (WHO), Medicines Value Programme (NHS England), NHS Culture, NHS Culture Change, NHS Patient Safety Culture, NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service, No Harm Culture, Old Age Psychiatry, Open and Transparent Culture, Openness, Openness and Collaboration, Openness and Honesty When Things Go Wrong, Openness and Transparency, Partnering with Patients and Families, Patient and Family Engagement, Patient and Public Engagement (PPE), Patient and Public Involvement, Patient and Public Involvement (PPI), Patient Engagement, Patient Engagement Strategies, Patient Harm, Patient Harms and Harm Free Care, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Champions, Patient Safety Improvement, Patient Safety Indicators, Patient Safety Strategies, Patients With Polypharmacy Risks, Pharmacist Buddy Scheme (County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust), Pharmacist-Led Information Technology Intervention (PINCER), Pharmacists, PINCER Intervention, Policy Research Programme (PRP), Policy Research Unit in Economic Evaluation of Health and Care Interventions (EEPRU), Polypharmacy, Potentially Preventable Complications in Hospitalis, PREPARE: Partnership for Responsive Policy Analysis and Research, PRescribing Outcomes for Trainee Doctors Engaged in Clinical Training (PROTECT) Study, Prescription Errors in Psychiatry, Preventable Deaths in English Acute Hospitals, Preventable Hospital Deaths, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Preventable Mortality, Primary Care Adverse Drug Reactions, PROTECT Programme, Putting Patients First, Quality Improvement Culture, Reducing Inappropriate Polypharmacy, Reducing Litigation Costs, Report of the Short Life Working Group on Reducing Medication-Related Harm, Reporting Culture, Reporting of Incidents, Research on Medication Error, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, ScHARR: University of Sheffield, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR): University of Sheffield, SDM: Shared Decision Making, Secondary Care Adverse Drug Reactions, Serious Mistakes, Severe Harm, Shared Care and Education, Shared Decision-Making, Short Life Working Group (SLWG), 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, UK Department of Health Policy Research Programme, United States National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention, University of Manchester, University of Sheffield, University of York, University of York Centre for Health Economics (CHE), WHO Domain: Health Care Professionals, WHO Domain: Medicines, WHO Domain: Patients and the Public, WHO Domain: Systems and Practice of Medication, WHO Domains, WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge
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Choosing Wisely: A New Review of Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment (BBC News / Academy of Medical Royal Colleges / BMJ)
Summary Continuing the debate concerning avoidable overuse in medical care, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has drawn-up a list of forty treatments which are thought to confer little or no benefit to patients. Full Text Link Reference Doctors name … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC), Achieving Better Value, Approaches to Quantifying Overdiagnosis, BBC Health News, Better Value, Better Value Healthcare, Better Value in the NHS, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, British Medical Journal (BMJ), Broadening of Disease Definitions, Choosing Wisely, Choosing Wisely Campaign, Choosing Wisely in the NHS, CIPFA, Clinical Responsibility for Patients (Choosing Wisely and New Deal), Department of Medicine and Center for Health Policy and Outcomes: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Cente, Division of General Internal Medicine: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Drivers of Overdiagnosis, Estimated Proportions of Cancers Representing Likely Overdiagnosis, False Positives, Financial Incentives for Screening and Testing, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Forty Treatments With Little or No Benefit For Patients (Academy of Medical Royal Colleges), Great Prostate Mistake, Great Prostate Mistake (PSA sic Promoting Stress and Anxiety), Harms From Overdiagnosis, Harms of Too Much Medicine, Health Screening Programmes, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York), Improving Patient Safety, Improving Prescribing Practice, Improving Value in Diagnostic Services, Labeling, Labeling of Patients, Lack of Clarity Regarding Disease Severity Spectrum, Lean and Quality Improvement, Less is More, Lowering Costs, Lowering of Diagnostic Thresholds, Medical Overuse, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: New York, Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment, Overdiagnosis in Context of Benefits and Harms of Prostate Cancer Screening, Overdiagnosis in Primary Care, Overestimation of Benefit of Therapy in Mild or Low Risk Disease, Overmedicalization, Overuse of Diagnostic or Monitoring Tests / Procedures, Overuse of Medication, Patient Harms, Patient Safety, Prostate Cancer Screening, Protecting Resources and Promoting Value, Quantifying Overdiagnosis, Reducing Expenditure, Reducing Inappropriate Laboratory Investigations, Reducing Inappropriate Polypharmacy, Reducing Prescribing Costs, Reducing Productive Waste, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Screening and Overdiagnosis in Primary Care, Screening Programmes, Screening Tests, Terms Related to Overdiagnosis, Too Much Medicine, Unnecessary Tests, Value for Money, Value Improvement, Valueing Diagnosis for Own Sake
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Rising Deficits and the Search for Better Value in the NHS: New Approaches to Financial Sustainability? (King’s Fund / BBC News / Health Foundation / BMJ)
Summary Regulators have demanded that hospitals and NHS trusts in England review their financial plans, because rising deficits indicate that existing plans are increasingly unaffordable. Full Text Link Reference Health regulator tells NHS trusts to ‘look again’ at finances. London: … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Foundation, In the News, Integrated Care, International, King's Fund, Mental Health, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Achieving Better Value, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Alignment of Financial Incentives, Atlas of Health Care, Avoiding Avoidable Care, Benchmarking, Better Value, Better Value Healthcare, Better Value in the NHS, Bond University, Bond University (Robina: Australia), Canada’s CAD800m Primary Health Care Transition (PHCT) Fund, Canada’s Primary Health Care Transition Fund, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Center For Medical Consumers: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker And Poorer, Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice: Bond University, Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, Choosing Wisely, Choosing Wisely Campaign, Choosing Wisely in the NHS, CIPFA, Clinical Responsibility for Patients (Choosing Wisely and New Deal), CNWL: NHS Camden Provider Services, Cost-Effectiveness, Cost-Effectiveness in Health Care, Creative Use of NHS Estate, Crisis Response Falls Team (CRFT), Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care (US), Dartmouth Institute for Health and Clinical Practice, Deinstitutionalisation of UK Mental Health Services, Denmark’s Quality Fund, Discharge to Assess Programme, Drivers of Improvement, Dysfunctional Patient Flow, East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Efficiency Savings, Estimated Cost Savings From Implementing NICE Guidelines, Faustian Pact: Trading £8 Billion in Extra Funding For £22 Billion in Efficiency Savings, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressure on Hospitals, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Frail Older People, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, General Hospitals, Geographical Variations, Girls’ Education Challenge (GEC) Fund, Health of Health Finances CIPFA Briefing, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Higher Quality Care at Lower Cost: Examples from NICE Local Practice Collection, Hospital Productivity, Improving Patient Flow, Improving Prescribing Practice, Inappropriate Care, Inappropriate Prescribing, Integrated Care and Support, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Key Performance Indicators, Length of Stay (LoS), Local Variations, London Challenge, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Low-Value Care, Low-Value Elective Procedures, Management of Repeat Prescriptions in Walsall, Medical Overuse, Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Reactions, Misuse: Resulting in Preventable Complications or Harm, Models of Care Across Organisational Boundaries, Monitor, Multimorbidities, Multimorbidities and Long-Term Conditions, National Service Framework for Mental Health in England (NSF-MH), NHS Benchmarking, NHS Challenges and New Solutions, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England Funding, NHS Expenditure, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Foundation Trust Performance, NHS Foundation Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts (NHSFTs), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Inappropriate Care: Overuse Underuse and Misuse, NHS Performance, NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Productivity, NHS Safe Staffing, NHS Spending, NHS Timebomb [sic], NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA), NHS Trust Financial Deficits, NHS Trusts’ and Foundation Trusts’ Income and Expenditure, NHS Walsall CCG, NHSFT Sector, NICE Local Practice Collection: Examples of Higher Quality Care at Lower Cost, Nicholson Challenge, Non-Foundation Trusts (Finances), Nurse Staffing Levels, Operating Expenses, Outcomes and Monitoring, Overkill: Unnecessary Medical Care, Overprescribing, Overuse, Overuse of Diagnostic or Monitoring Tests / Procedures, Overuse of Medication, Overuse Underuse and Misuse, Oxford University Hospitals, Patient flow, Patient Flow for Older People (in Sheffield), Patient Flows, Patient Safety Incidents in England, Performance Indicators, Performance Targets, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Policy, Policy Context, Preventable Harm, Preventing Falls in the NHS, Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference, Productivity, Productivity in the NHS, RDEL, Redesigning Care Pathways, Redesigning Services, Reducing Drains on the NHS, Reducing Overuse Underuse and Misuse, Reducing Prescribing Costs, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Releasing Value From Surplus Estate, Repeat Prescriptions, Rising Expectations, Safe Staffing, Selling Sickness, Sheffield Patient Flow, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Smith Review, Stevens Challenge, Stroke REACH Early Discharge Scheme (REDS), Stroke Services at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Targeting Low-Value Care, Transformation Fund, Transformation Fund for the NHS, Troubled NHS Foundation Trusts, Unacceptable Variations, Underuse, Underuse of Effective Interventions, Unwarranted Variations, Variation in 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Potential Costs and Risks of Over-Diagnosis and Over-Treatment? (BBC News / AoMRC / BMJ)
Summary The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) has again warned of the culture of a “more is better” approach regarding potentially unnecessary healthcare interventions. Their “Choosing Wisely” campaign (imported from the USA) exhorts medical organisations each to identify five … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Depression, Diagnosis, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC), American Board of Internal Medicine, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Mortality, Barriers to Involvement, BBC Health News, Better Value Healthcare, BMJ, British Medical Journal (BMJ), Cardiff, Cardiff Medicentre, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, Choosing Wisely Campaign, Choosing Wisely in the NHS, Choosing Wisely in the UK, Collaborative Decision Making, Decision Aids for People Facing Health Treatment or Screening Decisions, Decision Support Interventions, Department of Primary Health Care: University of Oxford, Do Something / More is Better Culture, Envisioning Healthcare 2020, Evidence-Based Decision Making, Finance and Incentives, Financial Incentives, Harding Centre for Risk Literacy in Berlin, Harms of Too Much Medicine, Improving Patient Safety, Incentive Payments, Incentives, Informed Decision-Making, Institute of Child Health, Involvement and Participation, Less is More, Medical and Surgical Overtreatment, Medical Overuse, Medicalisation, Medicalising Unhappiness, Over-Diagnosis, Over-Medicalisation (Speculative Concept), Over-Treatment, Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment, Oxford, Patient Decision Support, Patient Involvement, Patient Safety, Pill For Every Ill, Prescription Drugs, Protecting Resources and Promoting Value, Reducing Waste in the NHS, SDM: Shared Decision Making, Service User Involvement, Shared Decision-Making, Too Much Medicine, University of Oxford, Unnecessary Diagnostic Tests, Unnecessary Healthcare Interventions, Unnecessary Medicalisation, Unnecessary Tests, Unnecessary Tests and Procedures, User Involvement, Welsh Institute for Minimal Access Therapy: Cardiff Medicentre
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