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Tag Archives: Delayed Discharges
The Care Desert Phenomenon (BBC News / Incisive Health / Age UK)
Summary An exploration of the reported “care deserts” concept. An Incisive Health report, commissioned by Age UK, points to areas of the UK where older people are unable to access residential care and / or home care, regardless of their … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, 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, National, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Social Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Adult Social Care in England, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, BBC Health News, Biennial Survey of Carers, Care Deserts, Care Funding, Care Home BEDS, Care Home Beds With Nursing, Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Continuing Healthcare, Cost Pressures on Social Care Providers, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC), Demographics, Domiciliary Care, Domiciliary Care Agencies, Domiciliary Care Providers, Domiciliary Care Workforce, Dysfunctional Market in Adult Social Care Provision, Dysfunctional Patient Flow, Elderly People With Complex Health and Social Care Needs, Fragility of Adult Social Care Provider Market, Guildford, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Providers, Health and Social Care Services, High Dependency, Home Care, Home Care Needs of Older Population in England, Home Care Sector, Hull, Incisive Health, Incisive Health on Care Deserts, Inequalities in Access to Care, Inequalities in Access to Care: Impact on Informal Carers, Informal Caregiving, Informal Carers, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Late-Life, Leicester, Local Government Association: LGA, NHS Continuing Healthcare, NHS Outcomes (From Care Deserts), Norfolk, Paying for Care Home and Domiciliary Care, Proportion of Self-Funders in Residential Care, Residential Care, Social Care Outcomes, Social Care Services, Social Care Workforce, Social Care Workforce Crisis, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, Sustainable Local Funding, Totnes, Unacceptable Variations, Unpaid Caregivers (Carers), Unpaid Carers, Unwarranted Variations, Variation in Performance, Variations in Quality of Care, Variations in Service, Variations in Spending, Vulnerable Older People, Whole System Patient Flows, Workforce Capacity, Workforce Issues, Workforce Shortages in Adult Social Care, Workforce Shortages in Home Care
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Preparations for Winter Pressures: Funding Announced (DHSC / BBC News)
Summary The Department of Health and Social Care has announced £240 million extra funding, aimed at providing local authorities the assistance required to reduce anticipated Winter pressures in the NHS. It is hoped that reducing delayed transfers of care / … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Primary Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Relative Needs Formulae, Ageing Population, BBC Health News, Crisis Planning, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC), Demand and Capacity, Demand Management, Demand Versus Capacity Gaps, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care, Emergency Planning and Resilience, Extended Access to Primary Care, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, Hear and Treat and See and Treat Services (Reducing A&E Attendances), Home Adaptations, Home Care, Hospital Beds, Housing Adaptations, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Long Hospital Stays, Make Ready Hubs at Ambulance Trust Headquarters, Matt Hancock: Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, New Allocation Formulae for Funding Care Act Reforms, NHS Ambulance Trusts, NHS Sustainability, NHS Tracker Service (BBC's NHS Winter Project), NHS Tracker Service (BBC), NHS Winter Project (BBC News NHS Tracker Service), Personal Social Services Research Unit: University of Kent, Quality and Sustainability, Reablement, Reablement Funding, Reablement Services, Reablement Services for People Leaving Hospital, Relative Needs Allocation Formulae for Adult Social Care, Relative Needs Formulae for Adult Social Care Funding, Relative Needs Formulae for Adult Social Care Funding (Study to Review and Update RNF Allocation Formulae for Adult Social Care), Relative Needs Formulae: Prioritising Adult Social Care Funding, Revision of the Relative Needs Formulae for Adult Social Care Funding and New Allocation Formulae for Funding Care Act Reforms (PSSRU: University of Kent), Royal Stoke University Hospital (Previously City General), Same-Day Emergency Care, Social Care Delays (Impact on Hospital Bed-Days and LoS), Social Care Reablement Services, Stephen Barclay MP: Minister of State for Health, Sustainability, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, University Hospital of North Midlands, University of Kent: Personal Social Services Research Unit, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Services, Urgent and Emergency Services: 2018-9 Winter Preparedness, Winter Preparedness, Winter Pressures
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Intermediate Care Including Reablement: Quality Standard QS173 (NICE)
Summary National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has produced a quality standard on intermediate care, including reablement. This is intended to contribute to improvements across many fronts, including: Integration of health and social care. Patient and carer-related quality … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Integrated Care, Local Interest, National, NICE Guidelines, UK
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Tagged Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Alternatives to Hospital Care, Bed-Based Intermediate Care Services, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Rehabilitation Services, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Crisis Response, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Demand for Intermediate Care, Discharge of Hospital Patients With Care and Support Needs, Discharge Planning, Home Based Intermediate Care, Home Based Services, Hospital Discharge, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Intermediate Care, Intermediate Care Including Reablement: NICE Quality Standard QS173, Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), Multimorbidity, National Audit of Intermediate Care, NHS Benchmarking, NICE Quality Standard QS173, NICE Quality Standards, Partnership Working, People's Experience of Using Adult Social Care Services, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Intermediate Care, Quality Measures, Quality Statements, Re-ablement Services, Re-admission Avoidance Scheme (RAS), Reablement, Reablement Services, Reablement Services for People Leaving Hospital, Readmissions for Patients with Long Term Conditions, Recovery, Recovery Based Approaches, Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement (RRR), Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement Services, Recovery. Rehabilitation, Redesigning Services, Regaining Independence, Rehabilitation and Self Management, Rehabilitation Care Pathways, Rehabilitation Services, Services Maximising Independence, Services Reducing Use of Hospitals, Social Care for Older People With Multiple Long-Term Conditions, Social Care Reablement Services, Supporting Health Wellbeing and Independence, Transition Between Inpatient Hospital Settings and Community or Care Home Settings
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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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Tagged 2gether NHS Foundation Trust, 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Acute and Urgent Mental Healthcare Pathway, Average Length of Stay (Hospitals), Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Care Hours Per Patient Day (CHPPD), Carter Review of Operational Productivity in NHS Community Health Services, Carter Review of Operational Productivity in NHS Mental Health Services, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Acute Care Pathway, CHPPD and Cost Per Care Hour, Clinical Engagement, Clinical Leadership, Clinical Quality Improvement, Clinically-Led Quality and Efficiency Project (GIRFT), Co-Morbidities and Dementia, Co-Morbidities In Older Patients, Co-Morbidities of Old Age, Community Hospitals, Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs), Community Nursing, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Learning, Continuous Learning Culture, Cooperation, Corporate Services, Cost of Inpatient Care and Care Hours Per Patient Day, Cost Savings, Cost-Improvement Programmes (CIPs), Dashboards, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust, Digital Technology, Digital Technology and Innovation, Duplication of Effort / Expense, e-Rostering, East London NHS Foundation Trust, Economies of Scale, Efficiency Opportunities, Efficiency Savings, Engagement Champions, Estates and Facilities Management, Example Patient Journeys, Facilities Management, Finance and Procurement, FP10 Prescriptions, Future Operating Model for Procurement and Supply Chain in NHS, Getting it Right First Time, GIRFT Approach, GIRFT Approach Applied to Community Health Services, GIRFT Approach Applied to Mental Health Services, Healthcare Continuum, Healthcare Quality Improvement, Healthy Workforce Framework, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Homecare and Community Pharmacy Dispensed FP10 Prescriptions, Improving People Policies and Practices, Integrated Performance Framework, Kent Community Health NHS Trust, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, Learning Culture, Learning for Improvement, Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, Length of Stay (LoS), Lifetime Healthcare Costs, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Local Health and Care Economies, Local Health Economies, Lord Carter of Coles, Lord Carter Review, Lord Carter: Chair of NHS Procurement and Efficiency Board, Lower Leg Wounds (Ineffective Treatments / Delays), Management of Co-Morbidities, Meaningful Use of Standards and Incentives, Medicines Optimisation, Metrics, Metrics and Information, Model Hospital: Template for Standardisation, NHS Acute Hospitals, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Estates, NHS Finance, NHS Finances, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Operational Productivity, NHS Procurement, NHS Procurement and Efficiency Board, NHS Procurement Transformation Programme (PTP), NHS Productivity, NHS Sustainability, Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Nursing Cost Per Bed, Openness and Transparency, Operational Productivity and Performance (Carter Report), Operational Productivity in NHS Providers, Opportunities for Standardisation, Optimising Clinical Resources, Optimising Non-Clinical Resources, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Patient Safety, Procurement Performance Metrics, Procurement Review, Procurement Transformation Programme, Productivity, Quality and Efficiency Opportunities, Quality Efficiency and Performance (Often Go Together), Quality Improvement, Reducing Delayed Transfers of Care, Reducing Hospital Length of Stay, Reducing Variations in Clinical Costs, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Rehabilitation and Complex Needs Pathway, Restricted Patients, Restricted Patients: Offenders Diagnosed with Mental Health Disorders, South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, South West London and St. George’s NHS Mental Health Trust, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Sustainability, Tackling Variation, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, Unwarranted Variations, Variations in Procurement, Variations in Spending, Wasted Resources, Well-Led (CQC Inspection Question), Well-Led Framework for Governance Reviews, Well-Led Indicators (CQC), Wirral Community NHS Trust, Wound Care
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National Audit of Intermediate Care 2017 (NAIC)
Summary The National Audit of Intermediate Care (NAIC)’s latest annual report attempts to provide comprehensive data on intermediate care services. It supplies a refreshed audit of intermediate care services delivering care and support to “older people living with complex conditions; … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, 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, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Physiotherapy, Quick Insights, RCN, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accessibility of Intermediate Care, Ageing Population, AGILE, AGILE: Professional Network of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Alternatives to Hospital Care, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), Bed Based Intermediate Care, Bed Based Intermediate Care Services: Workforce, Bed Based Services, Bed Occupancy, Bed-Based Intermediate Care Services, Bed/Home and Step Up/Down Provision, Benchmarking, BGS, British Geriatrics Society, British Geriatrics Society (BGS), Care Integration, Challenging Behaviour, Challenging Behaviour in Dementia, Claire Holditch: Programme Director of NHS Benchmarking Network, Cognitive Impairment, College of Occupational Therapists, College of Occupational Therapists Specialist Section for Older People (COTSS-OP), Community Care Services, Community Hospitals, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Rehabilitation Services, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, COTSS-OP: College of Occupational Therapists Specialist Section for Older People, Crisis Home Treatment, Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHT), Crisis Response, Crisis Response Services, Crisis Support, David Bramley: Deputy Head and Programme Lead for Long-Term Conditions Older People and End of Life Care Team Medical Directorate at NHS England, Dawne Garrett: Older People and Dementia Care at Royal College of Nursing, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Demand for Intermediate Care, Demographics and Processes, Dependency Levels, Destination on Discharge, Discharge Destination, Discharge of Hospital Patients With Care and Support Needs, Discharge Planning, Dr Dawn Moody: Associate National Clinical Director for Older People (NHS England), Dr Martin Vernon: National Clinical Director for Older People and Integrated Care, Elderly Rehabilitation Services, Finance, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), Home Based Intermediate Care, Home Based Services, Hospital Discharge, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integration, Intermediate Care, Intermediate Care Beds, Intermediate Care Capacity, Intermediate Care Geriatrician, Intermediate Care Teams, Intermediate Care: Commissioner Spend, Iola Shaw: Long Term Conditions Older People and EOLC Medical Directorate at NHS England, Later Life, Length of Stay, Length of Stay (LoS), Local Strategic Planning, Mental Health Provision in Intermediate Care Services, Modified Barthel Index (MBI), Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), NAIC 2017, NAIC Steering Group, National Audit of Intermediate Care, National Audit of Intermediate Care (2017), National Audit of Intermediate Care: NAIC 2017, NHS Benchmarking, NHS Benchmarking Network, NHS RightCare, Occupational Therapists, Older People’s Specialists’ Forum, Partnership Working, Patient Flows, Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM), RCP: Royal College of Physicians, Re-ablement Services, Re-admission Avoidance Scheme (RAS), Reablement, Reablement Services, Readmissions for Patients with Long Term Conditions, Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement Services, Reference Costs, Referrals, Rehabilitation Services, Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT), Services Maximising Independence, Services Reducing Use of Hospitals, Skills / Disciplines Mix, Staffing Levels, Staffing Levels and Skill Mix, Step Down, Step Up, Strategic Planning, Strategic Planning and Commissioning, Sunderland Community Scheme, Therapy Outcome Measure (TOMS), Trans-Disciplinary Roles, Variation in Commissioning, Vulnerable Adults, Whole System Impact, Whole System Patient Flows, Workforce
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UK “Health at a Glance 2017” Using OECD Indicators (BBC News / OECD)
Summary The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s Health at a Glance provides “the latest comparable data and trends on the performance of health systems in OECD countries”. Britain appears to be the “most obese nation” in Western Europe, … Continue reading →
Posted in Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Care, Access to Services, Access to Treatment, Alcohol Consumption, Cancer Survival, Cancer Survival Rates in England, Delayed Discharges, Epidemiology, European Community Health Indicators (ECHI), European Health, European Union (EU), Finance, Financial Context, Financial Issues, Financing of Health Care, Health Expenditure, Health: Financing, Hospital Discharge and Transfers, International Comparisons, International Health Care Comparisons, International Perspectives, Life Expectancy, Men vs. Women (Diseease Prevalence), Mortality, NHS Workforce, Obesity, OECD, OECD Health Policy Studies, OECD Indicators, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Overweight, Public Health, Smoking, Social Epidemiology
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An Innovative Approach Hospital Overcrowding / Inadequate Bed Availability, Worthy of More Serious Consideration? (BBC News / CareRooms)
Summary The narrative about various inter-related crises in health and social care typically concerns the problem of excess demand for, and limited supply of, places in the community providing support for persons needing to be discharged from hospitals. Commentators commonly … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Housing, In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, Airbnb Beds Plan (Proposed), Alternative Residential Care Settings, Alternatives to Hospital Care, Barriers and Challenges in Discharge Planning, Barriers in Access to Transformative Care in the Community: Dominance of Residential Care Homes Paradigm, Barriers to Innovation, Barriers to Innovation: Dominance of Mainstream Preconceptions, Barriers to Innovation: Dominance of Vested Interests, Barriers to Innovation: Vested Interests in Opposition to New Market Entries, Barriers to Joined-Up Care, Barriers to Support, Barriers: Lack of Continuity of Care, BBC Essex, BBC Health News, Bed Availability and Occupancy, Bed Days, Bed Shortages, Bed-Blockers, Bed-Blocking Patients (Non-Recommended Term), Care Closer to Home, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care Home Admission Delay, Care of Older People, CareRooms, Cross-Sector Partnerships, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Discharges Higher in Mental Health Trusts, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC), Demand and Capacity, Disruptive Innovation, Dr Harry Thirkettle: CareRooms, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency Opportunities, Fewer Older People Receiving Help with Social Care, Financial Incentives Across Local Health and Social Care Systems (Proposals), Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Fragility of Adult Social Care Provider Market, Funding Deficits, Funding for Front-Line Healthcare Versus Social Care, Future of Residential Care, Health and Adult Social Care Providers, Health and Care of Older People, Health and Care Suitable for an Ageing Population, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Demand, Hospital Beds, Hospital Overcrowding, Inadequate Bed Availability, Innovation for an Ageing Population, Innovative Disruption (To a Failing Market), Loneliness and Isolation, Loss of Mobility During Long Hospital Stays, Market Failure, Market Failure in Social Care, NHS Airbnb-Style Scheme, NHS Sustainability, Operations Cancelled Due to Bed Shortages, Overcoming Barriers, Patient Discharge, Patient Flows, Patient Handover Delays, Patient Safety, Philip Dunne: Minister of State for Health, Physical Therapy, Physiotherapists, Physiotherapy, Poor Identification of People’s Capacity For Involvement in Their Care Planning and Management (Barriers to Involvement), Post-Discharge Support, Preventing Loneliness, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Team-Based Interventions in A&E, Proportionality in Safeguarding, Quality and Sustainability, Reablement, Reablement Services, Reducing Bed Days, Reducing Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Reducing Over-Reliance on Social Care, Reducing Pressure on Primary Care, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Safeguarding, Safeguarding Adults at Risk, Social Isolation and Loneliness, Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Sustainability, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Tom Abell: Deputy Chief Executive at Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Under-Utilisation of Housing Stock, Vested Interests, Vulnerable Older People, Wasted Resources, Whole System Patient Flows
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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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Getting the Dementia Care Pathway Right (NHS RightCare / NHS England)
Summary NHS RightCare has produced a scenario which throws into contrast an optimal dementia care pathway as distinct from the possibly more common “sub-optimal” pathway alternative(s). Costings for an ideal pathway are presented, compared with those for an example sub-optimal … 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, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accountable Care Systems (ACSs), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Berkshire West (Reading Newbury and Wokingham), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Blackpool and Fylde Coast (Lancashire and South Cumbria Later), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Buckinghamshire, Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Dorset, Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Frimley Health (Slough Surrey Heath and Aldershot), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Luton (Milton Keynes and Bedfordshire), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Nottinghamshire (Greater Nottingham and Rushcliffe), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw (Barnsley Bassetlew Doncaster Rotherham and Sheffield), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): West North and East Cumbria Plus Northumberland, Adult Social Care in England, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, Avoidable Harm, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions Enhanced Service (ES), Care Closer to Home, Care in the Community, Community Care, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Care for People With Dementia, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Coordinated Health and Social Care, Costs and Cost Pressures, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Dementia Advisor Services, Dementia Advisors, Dementia Care Pathways, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Pressures, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Accountable Care Systems, Getting the Dementia Pathway Right: Tom and Barbara’s Story (NHS RightCare), Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Providers, Health and Social Care Services, Hospital Discharge Delays, Improvement Opportunities in Local Commissioning, Inappropriate Acute Care, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Local Commissioning, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Interdependencies, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, NHS Right Care, NHS Right Care Approach, NHS RightCare, NHS RightCare and Commissioning for Value, Optimal Versus Sub-Optimal Dementia Care Pathways, Sub-Optimal Pathways: No Prevention, Sub-Optimal Pathways: Pillar to Post, Sub-Optimal Pathways: Preventable Harm, Sub-Optimal Pathways: Too Late, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, Typical Dementia Care Pathway, Unplanned Admissions Enhanced Service
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King’s Fund Videos Explaining How Social Care Works and is Funded (King’s Fund / NHS England)
Summary The King’s Fund has produced three videos to raise awareness of how social care operates in England. The topics covered include: What is social care? Who provides social care? How is social care paid for? Full Text Link Reference … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, King's Fund, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Information, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accountable Care Systems, Accountable Care Systems (ACSs), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Berkshire West (Reading Newbury and Wokingham), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Blackpool and Fylde Coast (Lancashire and South Cumbria Later), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Buckinghamshire, Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Dorset, Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Frimley Health (Slough Surrey Heath and Aldershot), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Luton (Milton Keynes and Bedfordshire), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Nottinghamshire (Greater Nottingham and Rushcliffe), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw (Barnsley Bassetlew Doncaster Rotherham and Sheffield), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): West North and East Cumbria Plus Northumberland, Adult Social Care in England, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, Community Care, Coordinated Health and Social Care, Costs and Cost Pressures, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Pressures, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Accountable Care Systems, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Providers, Health and Social Care Services, Hospital Discharge Delays, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Interdependencies, King’s Fund Barker Commission, Self-Funders Subsidising the Social Care System, Social Care, Social Care Expenditure, Social Care Funding, Social Care Funding Gap, Social Care Funding Shortfalls, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, What’s Wrong With Social Care in England
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