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Tag Archives: Commissioning Cycle
Commissioning Home Care for Older People Guide (SCIE)
Summary Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)’s “Commissioning Home Care for Older People” guide has been designed to help commissioners improve the assessment, planning, contracting and monitoring of home care services for older people with complex needs. This guide may also … Continue reading
Posted in Assistive Technology, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adult Social Care for People with Complex Needs, Bristol City Council, Care Act, Care Act 2014, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Caring Support: Croydon, Case Management, Co-Production, Co-Production Network (SCIE), Commissioning Cycle, Commissioning Home Care, Commissioning Home Care for Older People Guide, Complex Needs, Debenham Project, Dementia Quality Standard, Dementia Quality Standard (QS), Dementia Quality Standards, Essex County Council, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, HCP: Home Care Packages, Home Care, Home Care Funding and Costs, Home Care Organisations, Home Care Packages (HCP), Home Care Providers, Home Care Services, Home Care Standards, Home Care: Commissioning, Home Care: Unit / Reference Costs, Individual Care Plans (Complex Needs), L4A: Learning for the Fourth Age, Learning for the Fourth Age (L4A), Local Care Providers, Local Service Providers, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, Loneliness and Social Isolation, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Maximising Mobility, Missed Opportunities in the Commissioning Cycle, Norman Lamb MP (Former Minister of State for Care and Support), Older People With Complex Needs, Providers, Raglan Project: Monmouthshire County Council, Recommendations for Providers, SCA Group, SCIE Guide 54, SCIE's Co-Production Network, Service Providers, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Social Care Providers, Social Isolation, Southwark Council, St Monica Trust: Bristol, Support for People with Complex Needs, Swansea University, Transforming Primary Care, Transforming Primary Care Report, United Kingdom Homecare Association (UKHCA), Unpaid Caregivers (Carers), Unpaid Carers, Wiltshire Council’s Help to Live at Home Service, Wirral Home Care
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Age Discrimination in Availability of Surgery (BBC News / Royal College of Surgeons / Age UK)
Summary The Royal College of Surgeons and Age UK again found a wide variations in access to treatment. Their recent investigation examined surgery rates for six common procedures across England’s 211 CCGs and detected worrying differences in access to surgery between … Continue reading
Posted in Age UK, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Local Interest, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Access All Ages, Access to Care, Access to Services, Access to Surgery Among Older People, Age, Age Discrimination, Age Discrimination in Availability of Surgery, Ageing, Ageing and Society, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Ageism, Atlas of Variation, Avoidable Ill-Health, Avoidable Mortality, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, BBC Health News, Breast Excision, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Cholecystectomy, Clare Marx: President of Royal College of Surgeons, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Colorectal Excision, Commissioning Cycle, Commissioning Guidance, Commissioning Guides, Decline in Access to Treatment With Increasing Age, Equal Access to Treatment, Female Life Expectancy, Gallstones, Geographical Variations, Health and Social Care Act (2012), Hip Replacement, Inguinal Hernia Repair, Invest to Save: Cost Saving Benefits of Delayed Transfer to Residential Home, Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), JSNAs: Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, Knee Replacement, Life Expectancy, Life Expectancy Gaps, Local Variations, Male Life Expectancy, Missed Opportunities in the Commissioning Cycle, NHS Waiting Times, Reducing Avoidable Premature Mortality, Reducing Bed Days, Reducing Premature Mortality, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unplanned Hospitalisation, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Reducing Variation, Routine Operations, Royal College of Surgeons, Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSENG), Surgical Care for Older Patients, Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Variation Analysis, Variation in Commissioning, Variations in Quality of Care, Waiting Target for Routine Operations, Waiting Times, Waiting Times for Routine Operations
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Baseline Assessment Tool on Dementia (NICE)
Summary An Excel spreadsheet (the “Baseline assessment tool on Dementia”) has been released by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to help organisations identify how well they comply with practice recommended in NICE guidance. It is intended … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Antipsychotics, Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, End of Life Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NICE Guidelines, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Pharmacological Treatments, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK
Tagged Auditing, Baseline Assessment Tool on Dementia (NICE), Benchmarking, Caregiver Support, Carer Support, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Commissioning Cycle, Commissioning Dementia Care, Commissioning Dementia Services, Commissioning Development, Commissioning for Outcomes, Commissioning Pack for Dementia, Commissioning Support, Commissioning Support Tools, Commissioning Task, Dementia Benchmarking Framework, Diagnosis and Assessment, Diagnosis Rates, Early Diagnosis, Equality and Diversity, Guideline on Supporting People with Dementia and Their Carers in Health and Social Care, Inpatient Dementia Services, Integrated Care Services, Integrated Commissioning, Local Commissioning, Local Strategic Planning, Memory Services, National Clinical Practice Guideline Number 42, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), NHS Benchmarking, NICE–SCIE Guideline on Supporting People with Dementia and Their Carers in Health and Social Care, Pain Relief, Prescribing Anti-Psychotic Drugs to People with Dementia, Timely Diagnosis
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Commissioning Quality Care for People with Long-Term Conditions (NIHR HSDR / Nuffield Trust)
Summary A detailed study of commissioning funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research (NIHR HS&DR) Programme, and a short executive briefing from the Nuffield Trust, reminds CCGs that it will be necessary to prioritise. … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Management of Condition, National, NIHR, NIHRSDO, Nuffield Trust, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, CCGs, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Commissioners, Commissioning Cycle, Commissioning Dementia Care, Commissioning Support, Commissioning Task, Contract Specification, CQUIN Frameworks, Decommissioning, Dementia in Calderdale and Wirral, Dementia Services in Calderdale, Extra Care Housing, Extra Care Housing and Dementia, GP Commissioners, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO), National Institute for Health Research Evaluations, National Institute for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research (NIHR HS&DR) Programme, National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation Programme, NHS Wirral, Queen Mary University of London, Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO), Service Delivery and Organisation Programme, Service Reviews, South West Yorkshire Partnership Trust, Southampton University, Transactional Work, Transformation Programme Group, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC), University of Southampton, Wirral Memory Assessment Service
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