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Tag Archives: Emergency Admissions
Quality Improvement in Urgent and Emergency Care (NHS Improvement / NHS England / Department of Health)
Summary An earlier BBC News description of the problem: Full Text Link Reference Cawley, L. (2017). Four-hour accident and emergency waits rise 300% at some hospitals. London: BBC Health News, March 16th 2017. Further context and introductory analysis: Full Text … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS Confederation, NHS England, NHS Evidence, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nuffield Trust, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wolverhampton
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Tagged 2017-19 Integration and Better Care Fund Policy Framework, A&E, A&E Waiting Times and Activity, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Accident and Emergency Doctors, Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs), Acute Assessment (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Acute Care, Acute Care Collaboration, Acute Care Services, Acute Hospital A&E and Liaison Mental Health Teams, Acute Hospital A&E and Liaison Mental Health Teams: Transforming Mental Health Crisis Care (NHS England), Acute Hospital Care, Acute Medical Care for Frail Older People, Acute Medical Care of Elderly People, Acute Medicine Units (AMUs), Admission Transfer and Discharge (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Ambulance Handovers, Ambulance Handovers (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Ambulatory Emergency Care (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE), Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions, Barts Health NHS Trust, BBC Health News, Bristol Royal Infirmary, British Geriatrics Society (BGS), Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT), Centrally Coordinated Patient Flow (Use of Data in Hospital’s Dashboard), Clinical Decision Units (CDUs), Clinical Decision Units (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Cm, Commons Health Select Committee, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC), Demand Management, Developing Trusted Assessment Schemes, Discharge and Out of Hospital Care, Dysfunctional Patient Flow, Early Supported Discharge (ESD), ECIP, ECIP: Emergency Care Improvement Programme, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Ambulance Services, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Assessment Unit (EAU), Emergency Assessment Units, Emergency Assessment Units (EAUs), Emergency Attendances, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Care Improvement Programme (ECIP), Emergency Care Intensive Support Team (ECIST), Emergency Centres, Emergency Departments, Emergency Departments (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Emergency Medicine Consultants, Emergency Services, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Factors in Increased Use of Urgent and Emergency Care, Flow Within Hospitals, Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Frailty, Frailty (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Government Response to Health Select Committee Report on Winter Pressure in Accident and Emergency Departments (2017), GP Services Co-Located With A&E Department, GPs Co-Located With A&E Department, Health First (USA), Health Select Committee, Health Select Committee (HSC), Health Select Committee Inquiry, Health Select Committee Report on Winter Pressure in Accident and Emergency Departments, High Impact Change Model (HICM), Homes Regional Medical Centre (Florida), House of Commons Health Select Committee, Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care, Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Emergency Department (A&E), Luton and Dunstable University NHS Foundation Trust, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Mental Health (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Mental Health Crisis First Response Service (FRS) and Sanctuaries, Mid-Cheshire NHS Foundation Trust, National Priorities for Acute Hospitals (2017), Next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View (2017), NHS Improvement, NHS in Winter (BBC News), NHS Winter Crisis, NHS111 Directory of Services (DoS), NHSI: NHS Improvement, Out-of-Hours GP Services Co-Located With A&E Department, Patient flow, Patient Flow Within Hospitals, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Acute Frailty Service, Preparations for Winter, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Case Management, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Crisis Resolution Teams, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Intermediate Care, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Team-Based Interventions in A&E, Primary Care Streaming (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Priorities for Acute Hospitals, Real Time Locating Software (RTLS), Real-Time Locating Software (RTLS) to Improve Patient Flow, Reasons for Short Stay Emergency Admissions, Recognition and Diagnosis of Frailty, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Review of Winter 2016/17 (NHS Improvement and NHS England), Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Emergency Department, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Royal College of Surgeons (RCS), SAFER Patient Flow Bundle and Red2Green Days (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (SRFT), Sarah Wollaston: Chair of the House of Commons Health Select Committee, Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Short Stay Admissions, Society for Acute Medicine (SAM), South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, Specialties (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Team-Based Interventions in A&E, Tele-tracking Technology, TeleTracking, TeleTracking Technologies Inc, Trusted Assessment (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Trusted Assessment Implementation Checklist, Trusted Assessors, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Unscheduled Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Urgent and Emergency Care Services in England, Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Winter From Hell: 2016-7 (Allegation), Winter Preparedness, Winter Pressure in Accident and Emergency Departments (House of Commons Health Select Committee: HC 277), Winter Pressures
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Approaches to the Reduction of Preventable Hospital Admissions: a Systematic Review (BMJ Open)
Summary A recent systematic review examined the alternatives to hospital admission for older patients at risk of unplanned hospitalisation. The broad categories of interventions considered were (i) improved use of paramedic / emergency care practitioners, (ii) interventions based in emergency … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, Stroke, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Acute Hospital Care, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions, BMJ Open, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, Bristol, Bristol Randomised Trials Collaboration: University of Bristol, Brunelcare: Saffron Gardens (Bristol), Case Management, Centre for Academic Primary Care: University of Bristol, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Community Hospitals, COPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Crisis Resolution Teams, Department of Emergency Medicine: University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Emergency Admissions, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Care, Emergency Centres, Emergency Departments, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Emergency Services, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Factors in Increased Use of Urgent and Emergency Care, Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences: University of the West of England, HaH Interventions, HaH: Hospital at Home, Health Economics at Bristol: University of Bristol, Heart Failure, Intermediate Care, Pneumonia, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Case Management, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Crisis Resolution Teams, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Intermediate Care, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Team-Based Interventions in A&E, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Telehealth, Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Pulmonary Embolism, Reasons for Short Stay Emergency Admissions, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, School of Social and Community Medicine: University of Bristol, Systematic Review, Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, Uncomplicated Diverticulitis, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, University of Bristol, University of the West of England, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Unscheduled Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Urgent and Emergency Care Services in England
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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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Recent Assessments of Health and Social Care Integration in England: the Problems and the Promise (House of Commons Library / SCIE)
Summary The following House of Commons Library briefing investigates the challenges involved in the integration of health and social care. Recent Government policies to promote more integrated care are described, including Health and Wellbeing Boards, local strategic planning forums and … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, 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, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Barriers to Integration, Barriers to Integration: Costs for NHS bodies and Local Authorities When Integrating Services, Barriers to Integration: Different Funding Incentives for the NHS and Local Authorities, Barriers to Integration: Different Funding Models, Barriers to Integration: Different Inspection Frameworks, Barriers to Integration: Different Workforce Cultures, Barriers to Integration: Difficulties in Effective Information Sharing, Barriers to Integration: Government Policy Priorities Competing With Integration Agenda, Barriers to Integration: Integration of Budgets, Barriers to Integration: NHS Services Free Versus Means-Tested Social Care, Barriers to Integration: Organisational Integration, Barriers to Integration: Problems Regarding Joint-Departmental Oversight, BBC Panorama, BBC Panorama: Home Care Providers Investigation, Birmingham, Care for People with Dementia in the Community, Care in the Community, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Clenton Farquharson: Director of Community Navigator Services, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Community Care, Community Care Services, Community Rehabilitation, Community-Based Services, Continuity of Care, Creating the Five Year Forward View for Social Care (SCIE), Discharge Planning, Emergency Admissions, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Care, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, Financial Issues, Financial Pressures, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Five Year Forward View for Social Care (SCIE), Funding Transfer to Local Authorities, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Delivery Models, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Integration Fund, Health and Social Care Services, Health and Social Care: Integration Transformation Fund, Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs), House of Commons Library, House of Commons Library Briefing Paper CBP-7902, House of Commons Library Briefing Paper CBP07902, Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Innovation in Health and Social Care, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Care and Support, Integrated Care and Support Pioneers, Integrated Care and Support Pioneers Programme, Integrated Commissioning, Integrated Discharge Process, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integration of Budgets, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration Transformation Fund, Local Authorities, New Care Models, New Care Models Programme, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Funding, NHS Spending, NHS Sustainability, Organisational Integration, Over-Optimism (Brilliant Plans - Sluggish Systems), Over-Optimism (NHS Reform Versus Institutional Inertia), Panorama (BBC TV), Partnership and Collaboration, Partnership Working, Patient Experience, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Primary Care, Primary Care Alternatives to Emergency Hospital Admissions, Primary Care Service Interventions, Primary Healthcare Provision, Reducing Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, SCIE’s Total Transformation of Care and Support, Self-Care, Service Transformation, Service User Experience, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Support at Home (SHIELD), Sustainability, Total Transformation of Care and Support (SCIE), Total Transformation of Care and Support: Case Studies, Total Transformation of Care and Support: Local Total Transformation Conversations, Total Transformation of Care and Support: Logic Model(s), Total Transformation of Care and Support: Models of Care, Total Transformation of Care and Support: Vision, Transformation of Care and Support, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Whole System Integration, Whole Systems Approach, Whole Systems Design, Whole-System Approaches
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Health and Social Care Integration: a Tale of Over-Optimism? (NAO / BBC News)
Summary A recent National Audit Office (NAO) report warns that progress towards the integration of health and social care has been slower and less successful than expected. It has not yet delivered the efficiencies and savings that the Department of … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, 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, National Audit Office, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK
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Tagged Accountability in Health and Social Care, Ashley McDougall: Director of National Audit Office, Barriers to Integration, BBC Health News, Better Care Fund (BCF), Better Care Fund 2015-16 Performance, Care for People with Dementia in the Community, Care in the Community, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Community Care, Community Care Services, Community Rehabilitation, Community-Based Services, Continuity of Care, DCLG: Department for Communities and Local Government, Department for Communities and Local Government, Discharge Planning, Emergency Admissions, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Care, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, Financial Issues, Financial Pressures, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Funding Transfer to Local Authorities, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Delivery Models, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Integration Fund, Health and Social Care Integration Pioneers, Health and Social Care Services, Health and Social Care: Integration Transformation Fund, Implications of Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs): Pre-Determined Solutions, Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Innovation in Health and Social Care, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Care and Support, Integrated Care and Support Pioneers, Integrated Care and Support Pioneers Programme, Integrated Commissioning, Integrated Discharge Process, Integrated Emergency Department (A&E), Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC), Integrated Services, Integrating Health and Social Care Services Across England by 2020, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration Transformation Fund, Integration Transformation Fund (ITF), IPC: Integrated Personal Commissioning, Local Authorities, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), National Audit Office (NAO), New Care Models, New Care Models Programme, New Care Models: Vanguard Sites, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Funding, NHS Spending, NHS Sustainability, Over-Optimism (Brilliant Plans - Sluggish Systems), Over-Optimism (NHS Reform Versus Institutional Inertia), Partnership and Collaboration, Partnership Working, Patient Experience, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Primary Care, Primary Care Alternatives to Emergency Hospital Admissions, Primary Care Service Interventions, Primary Healthcare Provision, Professor Jane Dacre: President of Royal College of Physicians, Reconfiguration of Emergency Care System, Reducing Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Self-Care, Service Transformation, Service User Experience, Sir Amyas Morse: Head of National Audit Office, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Urgent and Emergency Services, Vanguards: New Care Models Programme, Web of Care For Patients With Dementia, Whole System Integration, Whole Systems Approach, Whole Systems Design, Whole-System Approaches
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Reducing Pressures on Hospitals: Exploring the Potential Impact of Occupational Therapists (BBC News / COT / BAOT)
Summary A report from the College of Occupational Therapists demonstrates the role(s) which occupational therapists (and physiotherapists) can play in helping to reduce avoidable admissions / re-admissions to hospitals and subsequent delayed discharges of care in transitioning patients back into … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Falls, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Hip Fractures, In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Physiotherapy, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Tagged : Policy Officer (Wales) at College of Occupational Therapists, A&E Pressures, Accident and Emergency Departments, Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), Argyle Street Primary Care Practice (Pembroke Dock), Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions, BBC Health News, Bed Days, Bed-Blockers, Bed-Blocking Patients (Non-Recommended Term), British Association of Occupational Therapists, British Association of Occupational Therapists (BAOT), Cardiff, Cardiff University, Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales, College of Occupational Therapists, College of Occupational Therapists (COT), Community Occupational Therapy Interventions, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Dr Alan Rees: Vice President of Royal College of Physicians Wales, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Department Assessment Unit: University Hospital of Wales, Emergency Departments, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Services, Frail Older Persons Assessment and Liaison (FOPAL) Team, Frail Older Persons Assessment and Liaison Team: University Hospital of Wales Emergency Department Assessment Unit, Health Boards, Home-Based Rehabilitation and Reablement, Hospital Admissions, Hospital Beds, Hospital Discharge, Hospital Emergency Departments, Improving Lives, Improving Lives Saving Money Campaign (COT/BAOT), Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Inpatient Beds, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Primary Secondary and Community Care, Julia Scott: Chief Executive Officer at College of Occupational Therapists, Length of Stay (LoS), Long Hospital Stays, Loss of Mobility During Long Hospital Stays, Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Agency Working, Multi-Disciplinary Working, Nurses and Allied Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapists: Addressing Over-Reliance on Social Care, Occupational Therapists: Keeping People Out of Hospital, Occupational Therapists: Reducing Pressure on Primary Care, Occupational Therapy, Occupational Therapy in General Practice (Pilot Project), Occupational Therapy: Improving Lives Saving Money Campaign, Patient Discharge, Patient Flows, Physical Therapy, Physiotherapists, Physiotherapy, Post-Discharge Support, Prevention and Reablement, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Team-Based Interventions in A&E, Reablement, Reablement Services, Readmissions, Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement (RRR), Reducing Bed Days, Reducing Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Reducing Over-Reliance on Social Care, Reducing Pressure on Primary Care, Reducing the Pressure on Hospitals Report (COT/BAOT), Reducing Waste in the NHS, Ruth Crowder, Sarah Rochira: Older People’s Commissioner for Wales, Sustainability, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, University Hospital of Wales, Value of Occupational Therapists (#ValueofOT), Value of Occupational Therapy in Wales, Vaughan Gething: Cabinet Secretary for Health Wellbeing and Sport (Wales), Vaughan Gething: Welsh Health Secretary, Vulnerable Older People, Wasted Resources, Welsh Ambulance Service Trust (WAST), Welsh Reablement Alliance, Whole System Patient Flows
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Carers UK’s Pressure Points Report: Building on the Role of Carers in Supporting the NHS (Carers UK)
Summary A recent Carers UK report examined the potential role(s) of carers in helping to reduce emergency admissions and re-admissions to hospital; and to minimise delayed transfers of care from hospital. Around 40% carers who have taken their dependents to A&E … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Carers UK, 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, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Ageing and Society, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions, Building Carer Friendly Communities, Care in the Community, Caregivers, Caregiving (Carers), Carer Awareness, Carer Experience, Carer Fatigue, Carer Friendly Communities, Carer Friendly NHS, Carer Friendly NHS Programme, Carer Friendly Primary Care Services, Carer Isolation, Carer Passports, Carer Support, Carer Support Services, Carer's Needs, Carer’s Perspective, Carers and Families, Carers UK’s Pressure Points Report, Carers’ Rights at Discharge, Case Management, Co-Production, Co-Production in Commissioning, Commissioning for Carers Principles, Community-Based Care, Crisis Resolution Teams, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfer of Care to Social Care (DToC), Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Emergency Admissions, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Care, Emergency Centres, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, Experiences of Health Care Services, Experiences of Social Care Services, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Factors in Increased Use of Urgent and Emergency Care, Families, Family Caregivers, Family Carers, Funding, Health and Social Care in the Community, Heléna Herklots: Chief Executive of Carers UK, Informal Caregiving, Informal Carers, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Approach to Identifying and Assessing Carer Health and Wellbeing (NHS England Toolkit), Integrated Discharge Process, Interface Between Primary and Secondary Care, Listening to Carers, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Case Management, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Crisis Resolution Teams, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Intermediate Care, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Proactive Personalised Care in the Community, Readmissions, Reasons for Delayed Discharge, Reducing Delayed Transfers of Care, Reducing Early Hospital Readmissions, Reducing Emergency Admissions Through Community-Based Interventions, Reducing Re-Admissions to NHS Hospitals, Role of Carers in Supporting the NHS, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainable Caring, Undervalued Hidden Workforce, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unpaid Caregivers (Carers), Unpaid Carers, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Unscheduled Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Urgent and Emergency Care Services in England, Valuing Carers, Working Together to Support Carers
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