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Tag Archives: Emergency Care Intensive Support Team
Where Best Next Campaign: Reducing Length of Hospital Stay (NHS England)
Summary Approximately 350,000 patients spend more than three weeks in a hospital each year, often with poor outcomes: “Many older people, particularly those who are frail and may have dementia, actually deteriorate while in hospital – a stay of more … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Education England (HEE), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged ActNow: an e-Learning Tool (e-LfH), Acute Frailty Network (AFN), Acute Frailty Services, Better Care Support Programme, Care Closer to Home, Clinical Criteria for Discharge (CCD), Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), Criteria Led Discharge, Deconditioning, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Discharge, Discharge at a Reasonable Time, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Coordinators, Discharge From General Inpatient Hospital Settings, Discharge Into the Care Sector, Discharge Patient Tracking List, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Dr Taj Hassan: President of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, e-Learning for Health (e-LfH) Hub (HEE), Emergency Care Intensive Support Team, Emergency Care Intensive Support Team (ECIST), Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care, End PJ Paralysis, Expected Date of Discharge, Expected Date of Discharge (EDD), Foci for Maximum Impact in Reducing Length of Stay, Guide to Reducing Long Hospital Stays: NHS Improvement, Health and Social Care Integration, Healthcare Associated Infections, Healthcare Associated Infections: Patient Safety, HEE: Health Education England, Hilary Garratt: Deputy Chief Nursing Officer for England, Holistic Needs Assessment (HNA), Home First: Supporting Patient Choice, Hospital-Associated Functional Decline: Role of Hospitalisation Processes, Identifying and Managing Frailty at the Front Door, Improving Hospital Discharge Into Care Sector, Improving Patient Care, Integrated Multi-Agency Care, Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Length of Stay (LoS), Local Government Association, Long-Stay Patient Reviews, Long-Stay Patients, Multi-Agency Collaboration, Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Agency Working, Multi-Disciplinary and Multi-Agency Working, Multiagency Teams, Patient Deconditioning Effect Related to Hospital Bed Rest (aka Pyjama Paralysis / PJ Paralysis), Patient Harms, Patient Harms and Harm Free Care, Patient Safety, PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) Cycles, People First: Manage What Matters, Plan Do Study and Act (PDSA), Professor Stephen Powis: NHS England's National Medical Director, Pyjama Paralysis, Quality Improvement, Reducing Healthcare Associated Infections in Hospitals, Reducing Hospital Length of Stay, Reducing Length of Hospital Stay, Reducing Length of Stay (RLoS) Programme, Reducing Long Stays (Where Best Next Campaign - NHS England) Principle 1: Plan for Discharge From the Start, Reducing Long Stays (Where Best Next Campaign - NHS England) Principle 2: Involve Patients and Families in Discharge Decisions, Reducing Long Stays (Where Best Next Campaign - NHS England) Principle 3: Establish Systems and Processes for Frail People, Reducing Long Stays (Where Best Next Campaign - NHS England) Principle 4: Embed Multi-Disciplinary Team Reviews, Reducing Long Stays (Where Best Next Campaign - NHS England) Principle 5: Encourage a Supported Home First Approach, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Reducing Waste in Dementia Care, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Rockwood Clinical Frailty Score, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), SAFER Patient Flow Bundle, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT), Supported Home First Approaches, What Matters Most (Healthwatch), Where Best Next Campaign (NHS England August 2019), Where Best Next? Campaign (NHS England), Why Not Home: Why Not Today, Why Not Home? Why Not Today? Campaign
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Reducing Length of Stay in Hospitals (Nuffield Trust / Monitor)
Summary Variations in patients’ length of stay imply there should be significant opportunities to reduce length of hospital stay; whether through improvements to internal processes or development of alternative community-based services. This Nuffield Trust report explores which approaches to reducing … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Delirium, Diagnosis, End of Life Care, Falls, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nuffield Trust, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Acute Savings per Bed Day, Advance Planning, Alignment of Routine Follow-Up Intensity to Patient Risk Profiles, Assessment Before Discharge, Average Length of Stay (Hospitals), Bed Days, Bed Use (Acute Hospitals), Bed-Blockers, Bed-Blocking Patients (Non-Recommended Term), Blaylock Assessment, British Geriatrics Society (BGS), Bundled Approaches, Care Bundle Approach, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Care Seven Days a Week, Care Transitions, Care Transitions of Older People, Clinical Engagement, Communication During Handovers, Complex Discharge, Complex Needs, Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), Consultant Led Ward Rounds, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Learning, Continuous Monitoring, Culture of Assumed Trust and Professionalism, Culture: Constantly Challenging Preconceptions That Patients Need to be in Hospital, David Bennett: Chief Executive of Monitor, Day-of-Surgery Admission, Delirium Superimposed on Dementia, Dementia Care in the Acute District General Hospital, Dementia Care in the Acute Hospital, Dementia Friendly Acute Hospitals, Dementia in the Acute Hospital, Devolved Decision-Making, Discharge, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Coordinators, Discharge Planning, Discharge Seven Days a Week, Discharge Support, Early Discharge Support, Emergency Care Intensive Support Team, End-of-Life Care in Acute Hospitals, Enhanced Recovery, Enhanced Recovery (ER) Pathways, Enhanced Recovery Care Pathways, Enhanced Recovery Programmes (ERPs), Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Frailty Units, Frailty Units and Services, Greater Manchester Commissioning Support Unit, Handover, Handover Records, Healthcare Closer to Home (Monitor), Hospital Discharge, Hospital-Acquired Infections, Identification of Patients At Risk of Complex Discharge on Admission, Immobility, Impact of Delirium on Length of Stay, Impact of Dementia on Length of Stay, Improving Patient Flow, Improving Productivity in Elective Care: Operational Opportunities, Information Systems, Inpatient Palliative Care, Integrated Care for Older People With Complex Needs, Integrated Care Pathways, Integrated Discharge Process, Integrated Out-of-Hospital Care, Lean Enterprise Academy, Length of Stay, Length of Stay (LoS), Managing Transitions, Mayo Audit Tool: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Medical Care Assessment Protocol (MCAP), Monitor, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, Multidisciplinary Patient Management, Multidisciplinary Team Care, Multidisciplinary Teams, National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), Nine Areas of Operational Improvement in Elective Care: Alignment of Routine Follow-Up Intensity to Patient Risk Profiles, Nine Areas of Operational Improvement in Elective Care: Day-of-Surgery Admission, Nine Areas of Operational Improvement in Elective Care: Optimised Theatre Scheduling and Management, Nine Areas of Operational Improvement in Elective Care: Proactive management of infections and readmissions, Nine Areas of Operational Improvement in Elective Care: Specialisation and Extended Roles in Theatre or Outpatient Procedure Teams, Nine Areas of Operational Improvement in Elective Care: Standardisation of Ward Care and Enhanced Recovery, Nine Areas of Operational Improvement in Elective Care: Stratification of Patients by Risk, Nine Areas of Operational Improvement in Elective Care: Streamlined Outpatients and Diagnostics, Nine Areas of Operational Improvement in Elective Care: Surgical Teams Informed and Supported to Use Theatres Effectively, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Nutrition and Hydration, Oak Group and Greater Manchester Commissioning Support Unit, Optimised Theatre Scheduling and Management, Out-of-Hospital Care, Out-of-Hospital Services, Palliative Care, Patient Discharge, Patient flow, Patient Flow Within Hospitals, Patient Flows, Patient Handovers, Patient Transfer to Alternative Settings, Positive and Proactive Care, Pressure Ulcers: Prevention, Priorites Within Acute Hospitals, Proactive Care Plans, Proactive Case Management, Proactive management of infections and readmissions, Proactive Patient Management, Proactive Patient Rounds, Productivity in Elective Care, Quality Improvement, Reducing Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections, Reducing Immobility, Rehabilitation in Acute Hospitals, Separating Elective Surgical Admissions, Seven Day Consultant Led Multidisciplinary Ward Rounds, Seven Day Services, Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day NHS Services, Seven-day Rounds and Supporting Services, Seven-Day Services in Hospital, Seven-Day Working, Shared Decision-Making, Short Stay Units for Elderly Patients, Short-Stay Observation and Assessment Units, Short-Stay Units, Single Point of Access (SPA), Smoother Patient Flows, SPA: Single Point of Access, Specialisation and Extended Roles in Theatre or Outpatient Procedure Teams, Specialist Frailty Services, Specialist Frailty Units, Staff Engagement, Standardisation of Ward Care and Enhanced Recovery, Stratification of Patients by Risk, Streamlined Outpatients and Diagnostics, Surgical Teams Informed and Supported to Use Theatres Effectively, Targeted Care, Tracking Patient Progress, Transition Planning, Transitions, Trends in Acute Activity: Trends to 2022, Trends in Emergency Admissions in England, Understanding Patient Flow in Hospitals (Nuffield Trust), Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), Ward Rounds, Weekend Ward Rounds, Whole System Patient Flows
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NHS Culture Change Moves Forwards / Waiting Time Targets (BBC News / CQC / Nuffield Trust / QualityWatch)
Summary David Prior, the Care Quality Commission chairman, has commented that the NHS had become “too powerful to criticise” in the recent past, despite some patients receiving an unsatisfactory service. Even the most senior staff were sometimes afraid to speak out. He … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, CQC: Care Quality Commission, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Foundation, In the News, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Nuffield Trust, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Accident and Emergency Departments, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Barriers to Speaking Out About Poor Care, BBC Health News, Care in Appropriate Settings, Care in the Community, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Care Settings, Case-Mix, Challenges of Urgent and Emergency Care, Community Care, CQC Hospital Inspections, Culture, Culture Change, David Prior: Care Quality Commission Chairman, Defensive Leadership, Emergency Care, Emergency Care Intensive Support Team, Emergency Care Intensive Support Team (ECIST), Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Gaming the System, GP Services, Home and Community Care Services, Hospital Inspections, Inappropriate Care Settings, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Negative Culture, NHS Constitution and Whistleblowing, NHS Culture, NHS Reform, NHS Reform in England, NHS Services, Occupancy Levels of A&E Departments, Place in the Middle, QualityWatch, QualityWatch Focus On Reports, QualityWatch Programme, Richard Murray: Director of Policy at the King’s Fund, Speaking Out About Poor Care, Speaking Up Charter, Target Culture, Target-Chasing (Hitting the Target Missing the Point), Target-Driven Priorities, Targets, Trust Blame and the Culture of Defensiveness, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Review, Urgent and Emergency Services, Whistleblowing, Whistlelowing, Winter Pressures, Workplace Culture
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