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Difficult Reflections on Certain Aspects of the NHS: Be Prepared to Look-Away Now (BBC News)

Posted on June 23, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary You don’t want to know: Full Text Link Reference Gosport hospital deaths: prescribed painkillers ‘shortened 456 lives’. London: BBC Health News, June 20th 2018. You don’t want to know: Full Text Link Reference Triggle, N. (2018). Shipman, Bristol, Stafford, … Continue reading →

Posted in Universal Interest | Tagged Accountability, Accountability and Transparency, Adults at Risk of Harm, Ageing in the UK, Ageing Population, Ageism, Attitudes to Ageing, Availability of Opioid Painkillers, Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Hospital Mortality, Avoidable Premature Mortality, Baker Report, BBC News Hampshire and Isle of Wight, BBC Panorama, BBC Panorama: Killed in Hospital, Bullying of Whistleblowers, Bureaucracy, Candour, Character Assassination of Whistleblowers, Closed Ranks Culture (Cover-Ups), Closed Ranks Culture (Denial), Closed Ranks Culture (Determination Not to Know), Closed Ranks Culture (Misplaced Loyalty), Closing Ranks, Collective Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Complaint Handling, Complaint Handling by Providers, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Culture and Leadership, Culture of Complacency, Culture of Delay and Denial, Defensive Culture, Diamorphine, Disregard for Human Life, Dr Katherine Sleeman: Cicely Saunders Institute at King's College London, Failings in Care in Hospitals, Faith-Shattering NHS Scandals, Former Minister of Care Services Norman Lamb, Freedom to Speak Up Report: Principle 3: Culture Free From Bullying, Fundamental Standards of Behaviour, Gosport Hospital Deaths: Timeline, Gosport Independent Panel, Gosport War Memorial Hospital, Gosport War Memorial Hospital: Report of the Gosport Independent Panel, Hampshire Constabulary, Harassment of Whistleblowers, Harms of Too Much Medicine, Hospital Mortality, House of Commons, In-Hospital Mortality, Inappropriate Prescribing, Inappropriate Prescribing of Painkillers, Institutionalised Determination Not to Know (Sir Brian Jarman: Allegation), Institutionalised Neglect, Institutionalised Unkindness, Matthew McClelland: Director of Fitness to Practise at Nursing and Midwifery Council, Negative Culture, NHS Corporate Self-Interest, NHS Managerial Self-Interest, Norman Lamb MP (Former Minister of State for Care and Support), Norman Lamb: Former Liberal Democrat Health Minister, Organisational Culture, Painkillers, Parliamentarians, Patient Harm, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Improvement, Peer Pressure, Postcode Lottery of Hospital Death Rates, Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing, Premature Mortality, Preventable Hospital Deaths, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Preventing Premature Mortality, Principles of Good Complaint Handling, Professor Richard Baker: Leicester University, Professor Sir Brian Jarman, Professor Sir John Strang: Director of National Addiction Centre at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience, Rachel Power: Chief Executive of Patients Association, Reducing Avoidable Premature Mortality, Reducing Premature Mortality, Right Reverend James Jones KBE: Chair of Gosport Independent Panel, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Super-Strength Painkillers, Syringe Drivers: Opioid Delivery, Top-Down Managerial Culture, Treatment of Whistleblowers (Shoddy), Unnecessary In-Hospital Deaths, Unresponsive Culture, USA Opioid Epidemic, Values, Victimisation of Whistleblowers, Warning Signs, Whistlelowing, Willful Blindness | Leave a comment

Latest NHS Whistleblowing Policy (NHS Improvement)

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary NHS Improvement has released a summary of NHS whistleblowing policy, in the form of a practical handbook. The aim is to promote an open and supportive culture which encourages staff to raise concerns about patient care quality or safety … Continue reading →

Care Home Residents’ Access to GPs For Basic Health Care: Far Sighted or Short Sighted GP Contract Changes? (BBC News)

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care 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 →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, 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, Models of Dementia Care, National, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | 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 | 1 Comment

The Foundations for a Patient-Centred NHS Learning Culture? (Department of Health / BBC News)

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary This “Learning Not Blaming” report presents the government’s response to (i) the Francis Freedom to Speak Up review, (ii) the Morecambe Bay Investigation, and (iii) the Public Administration Select Committee’s report on clinical incidents. The common theme for addressing … Continue reading →

Improvements for Patients at NHS Trusts in Special Measures (Monitor / CQC / NHSTDA)

Posted on August 23, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Monitor, the Care Quality Commission and the NHS Trust Development Authority have published a report on the progress made at the 11 trusts placed in special measures in July 2013. Practical measures resulting in significant changes include recruitment of extra staff, use of … Continue reading →

Whistleblowing in the NHS: Theory Versus Practice? (BBC News / Whistleblowing Helpline / NAO / SCIE)

Posted on April 18, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Dr Raj Mattu, a heart specialist was dismissed by University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust in 2010, after almost a decade of alleged unfair treatment by his employers, since exposing the cases of two patients who had … Continue reading →

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CQC Inspection Report Criticises Furness General Hospital Dementia Unit (BBC News)

Posted on November 29, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Care Quality Commission (CQC) attributed problems in the standards of care in the Ramsay Unit at Furness General Hospital primarily to “chronic staff shortages”. New admissions to the unit were halted by the Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust briefly, after an … Continue reading →

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Keogh’s Review into Care and Treatment at Fourteen Hospital Trusts in England (Department of Health / BBC News)

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary It can have escaped no-one’s attention (in England) that the much-publicised (and much “spun”) Keogh Review has been published. Eleven hospital trusts have been placed into special measures to ensure improvements in patient care because of major failings. Read more: BBC News. … Continue reading →

NHS Failings Suppressed for “Political” Reasons? (BBC News / Department of Health)

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A report (NHS England‘s Keogh review), ordered by the government after the publication of the Francis Inquiry into Stafford Hospital, indicates that 14 NHS trusts – with higher-than-expected mortality rates over recent years – may have contributed to 13,000 excess deaths compared with the national average in 2005-10. Professor Sir … Continue reading →

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