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Tag Archives: Division of Population Health Health Services Research and Primary Care: University of Manchester
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 →
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), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, World Health Organization (WHO)
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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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Historic Reduction in the Use of Antipsychotics for BPSD in UK General Practice? (Drug Safety)
Summary Data from 111,346 patients with dementia but without a concomitant diagnosis of psychosis indicates that prescribing of certain categories of antipsychotic drugs did reduce from 8.9% in 2001 to 1.4% in 2014. At face value, this reduction in inappropriate … Continue reading →
Posted in Antipsychotics, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NICE Guidelines, Person-Centred Care, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK
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Tagged Alistair Burns: NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Dementia, Alistair Burns: NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Older People’s Mental Health, Alistair Burns: Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at University of Manchester, Alternatives to Antipsychotic Drugs, Alternatives to Antipsychotic Medication, Amisulpride, Antipsychotic Drugs, Antipsychotic Prescribing in Primary Care, Antipsychotics, Antipsychotics and Risk of Venous Thromboembolism, Antipsychotics in Elderly People with Dementia, Antipsychotics Limitation in Dementia, Antipsychotics-Related Mortality Risks, Atypical Antipsychotics, Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Mortality, Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Centre for Health Informatics: University of Manchester, Centre for Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety: University of Manchester, Centre for Primary Care (University of Manchester), Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), Discontinuation of Antipsychotics, Division of Informatics Imaging and Data Sciences: University of Manchester, Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology: University of Manchester, Division of Pharmacy and Optometry: University of Manchester, Division of Population Health Health Services Research and Primary Care: University of Manchester, Division of Primary Care: University of Manchester, Division of Psychology and Mental Health: University of Manchester, Drug Safety (Journal), English National Dementia Strategy, First-Generation Antipsychotic Drugs, General Practice, Inappropriate Use of Antipsychotics in Dementia, Longitudinal Changes in Inappropriate Prescribing, Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, MHRA Committee for the Safety of Medicines, National Dementia Challenge, National Dementia Strategy, National Institute for Health Research Greater Manchester Primary Care Patient Safety Translational Research Centre: University of Manchester, Neuroleptic Discontinuation, Neuroleptics, Olanzapine, Potential Harms of Antipsychotic Use, Prescribing of Antipsychotic Drugs For People With Dementia, Prevalence of Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing of Antipsychotic Drugs, Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge, Professor Alistair Burns, Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Queen's Medical Centre: University of Nottingham, Quetiapine, Reducing Antipsychotic Prescriptions in Dementia, Reducing Inappropriate Use of Antipsychotics in Dementia, Risperidone, School of Biological Sciences: University of Manchester, School of Health Sciences: University of Manchester, School of Medicine: University of Nottingham, Second-Generation Antipsychotic Drugs, Temporal Changes in Prescribing of Antipsychotic Drugs from 2001 to 2014, University of Manchester, University of Nottingham, Use of Antipsychotics for BPSD in UK General Practice
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Updated Overview of General Practice in England (House of Commons Library / BBC News / RCGP / BMA / NHS England / BMJ Open)
Summary This briefing paper from the House of Commons Library covers many aspects of GP services. This update covers recent changes, including those relating to funding, commissioning and named GPs for the over 75s. Many other considerations are summarised, with … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 2014 General Practice Patient Survey, 24/48 Hour GP Access Targets, 24/7 Urgent GP Services, 5000 More GPs by 2020 and Surgeries Open Seven Days Per Week ("Surreal Obsession" BMA Claim), 7 Day Primary Care, 7 Day Services, 7-Day NHS, Academic Unit of Primary Care: University of Leeds, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC), Access Targets for GP Appointments, Access to Dental Services, Access to General Practice, Access to GP Services, Ageing Population, Ageing Workforce, Alternative Provider Medical Service (APMS) Contracts, Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS), APMS Contracts: Commissioning of Additional Primary Care Services From Independent Sector, Ask NHS App, Babylon, BBC's Inside Out Programme, BJGP: British Journal of General Practice, BMA General Practitioners Committee (GPC), BMJ Open, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, Boundary Changes, Bristol Medical School: University of Bristol, British Journal of General Practice, Building the Workforce: the New Deal for 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Therapists, Primary Care Infrastructure Fund, Primary Care Research Group: University of Exeter Medical School, Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund (PMCF), Quality First: Managing Workload to Deliver Safe Patient Care, Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF), Reason’s Three Bucket Model, Reducing Inappropriate Demands on General Practice, Reduction in Bureaucracy, Referral Management Centres, Reformed Urgent Care, Safety Implications of Fatigue, Seven Day Primary Care (New Deal), Seven Day Services, Shared Appointments, Shared GP Appointments, Shared Medical Appointments, Smartphone and Tablet Apps, Smartphone GP Appointments, Smartphones, Social Deprivation, Socio-Economic Deprivation, South West England, Streamlining the Care Quality Commission Inspection Regime, Struggling GP Surgeries: Modernisation and Consolidation, Sunday GP Appointments, Super Partnerships of GPs, Super-Surgeries, Support for New Models of Care (New Deal), System Integration, Transformation in GP Training, Transformation in GP Workforce Development, Transforming General Practice, Transforming Primary Care, Trust Me I'm A Doctor (BBC Two TV Programme), Twin-Track General Practice Risk (RCGP Assertion), University of Bristol, University of East Anglia, University of Exeter, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Kent at Canterbury, University of Leeds, University of Manchester, University of Oxford, Use Of Locums In Most Affuent NHS Areas, Use Of Locums In Most Deprived NHS Areas, Variations in Use Of Locums In Deprived Versus Affluent NHS Areas, Walk-in Centres (WiCs), West Midlands, Workforce and Care Redesign, Workforce Issues (Feeling Undervalued), Workforce Planning, Working at Scale, Working at Scale in English General Practice, Workload in General Practice
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