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Tag Archives: Engagement and Patient Preferences.
Independent Mental Health Act Review (BBC News / DHSC / Centre for Mental Health / NHS England)
Summary The independent review of the Mental Health Act 1983, chaired by Professor Sir Simon Wessely, presents recommendations for reform based on four principles: Choice and autonomy. Least restriction. Therapeutic benefit. Understanding people as individuals: whereby patients are recognised and … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Diagnosis, 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, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Tagged Advance Care Planning (ACP), Advance Care Planning for People With Mental Illness, Aftercare, Alternative Forms of Support and Respite, Alternatives to Inpatient Care for People With Learning Disabilities, Autonomy, Autonomy and Choice, Autonomy and Safety, Baroness Julia Neuberger, Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Communities, Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Groups, BME Communities, BME People with Mental Illness, Care and Compassion, Care and Treatment Plan (CTP), Care Closer to Home, Carly Lynch: Mental Health Lead at London Ambulance Service, Centre for Mental Health, Claire Murdoch: NHS England’s National Director for Mental Health, Coercion, Community Services, Community Treatment Orders (CTOs), Community-Based Services, Compassionate Care, Compulsory Community Treatment to Prevent Readmissions, Compulsory Detentions in Psychiatric Hospitals, Compulsory Hospitalisation, Compulsory Treatment Orders, Control of Patient's Care if Sectioned: Nominated Persons, Criminal Justice System (CJS), Crisis Home Treatment, Crisis Prevention, Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams (CRHTTs), Crisis Response Teams (CRTs), Crisis Support, Criteria for Detention, Culture of Compassionate Care, Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD), Delivering Race Equality (DRE) Programme, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), Dignity, Dignity and Consent, Dignity and Respect, Dignity in Care, Disproportionate Proportion of Black and Minority Ethnic Groups Detained, Early Intervention and Prevention, East London Foundation Trust (ELFT), Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care, End-User Experience, Engagement and Patient Preferences., Ethnic Variations in Detention Under the Mental Health Act, European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), Experiences of Assessment and Detention Under Mental Health Legislation, Formal Legal Detentions (Under Mental Health Legislation), Fusion of MHA and MCA (Proposed), Gellinudd Recovery Centre (Hafal in Wales), Health and Care of People With Learning Disabilities, Health Inequalities and Premature Mortality for People With Learning Disabilities, How the Law Should Change: Final Report of Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983 Recommendations, Inappropriate Discharge and Aftercare: Persistent Failings in Mental Health Services in England, Independent Mental Health Act Review (2018), Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983, Informal Admission, Information Sharing: Advance Care Plans, Learning Disability and Autism, Least Restriction, Length of Detention, Less Frequent Use of Police Cars to Transport Patients, Liberty Protection Safeguards, Lived Experience Working Group (LEWG), London Ambulance Mental Health Nurse and Paramedic Pioneer Scheme, Maintaining Contact with Family and Outside World, Mark Winstanley: Chief Executive of Rethink Mental Illness, Mental Capacity, Mental Health Act (MHA), Mental Health Act 1983, Mental Health Act and Community Treatment Orders, Mental Health Aftercare, Mental Health and Community Services, Mental Health and Illness, Mental Health Car (London Ambulance Service Scheme), Mental Health Hospitals, Mental Health Legislation, Mode of Transport for Patients, Modernisation of Mental Health Act, Modernisation of Mental Health Care System, Nominated Person (NP) to Replace the Nearest Relative (Proposal), Opportunities to Challenge Detention (More Frequent), Organisational Competence Framework (OCF), Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework (PCREF), Patient Autonomy, Patient Preferences, Patients in Criminal Justice System (CJS), Patients Treated as Rounded Individuals, Patterns of Compulsory Hospitalisation, Paul Farmer (Mind), Person as an Individual, Personal Preferences, Police Custody, Professor Sir Simon Wessely: President of Royal College of Psychiatrists, Professor Wendy Burn: President of Royal College of Psychiatrists, Proportion of Re-Detentions Under Section 136 Within 90 Days of Previous Section 136 Detention, Psychiatric Hospitals, Recommendations in Final Report of Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983, Reducing Compulsory Psychiatric Admissions, Reducing Mental Health-Related Hospital Admissions, Reducing the Use of Police Cells, Reduction in Use of Compulsory Treatment Orders, Requirement of Doctors to Record When and Why Patient Requests Ignored, Respect for Autonomy, Restraint and Restrictions, Restriction, Right to Carer Input, Right to Choose a Nominated Person to Control of Patient's Care if Sectioned, Rights of Patients to Challenge Their Treatment (Legal Extensions), Rising Rates of Compulsory Detentions in Psychiatric Hospitals, Safe and Compassionate Care, SDM: Shared Decision Making, Second Opinion Appointed Doctor (SOAD), Second Opinion Appointed Doctors, Section 117 Aftercare, Sectioning under the Mental Health Act, Service User Experience, Service User Experience in Adult Mental Health, Service User Experience in Adult Mental Health Services, Shared Decision-Making, Statement of Wishes and Preferences, Statutory Care and Treatment Plan (CTP), Suicide and Safety in Mental Health, Themes from the Mental Health Act Survey: Independent Mental Health Act Review (Centre for Mental Health), Therapeutic Benefit, Therapeutic Benefit: Patients Supported to Recover, Thinking Ahead - Advance Care Planning, Trisha Bain: Chief Quality Officer at London Ambulance Service, UK National Preventive Mechanism (UKNPM), United Nation Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), Use of Ambulances (Section 136 Conveyances), Use of Police Custody as a Place of Safety for People with Mental Health Needs, User Experience, Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES)
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NICE Guidance on Best Interests Decision-Making and Mental Capacity: Theory and Practice? (NICE / British Journal of Psychiatry)
Summary The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released a guideline covering decision-making in adults, over 16 years of age, who may lack capacity. The aim to support people to exercise their own decision-making where they have the capacity, and … Continue reading →
Posted in NICE Guidelines, Universal Interest
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Tagged Advance Care Planning (ACP), Best Interests Decision-Making, Bristol Medical School: University of Bristol, British Journal of Psychiatry, Decision-Making and Mental Capacity, Decision-Making and Mental Capacity: NICE Guideline NG108, Division of Psychiatry: University College London, Empowering Patients, Empowerment and Dementia, Engagement and Patient Preferences., Ethical Considerations, Ethical Dilemmas, Ethical Issues of Dementia Care, Health Services Research: University of Exeter Medical School, Involvement of Patients With Dementia in Decisions on Medication Prescription, Involvement of Patients With Dementia in Decisions to Initiate Pharmacological Treatments, Lack of Empowerment, Later Life, Learning Disabilities, Medication Decisions in Dementia, Medication Decisions in Dementia: Assertions, Medication Decisions in Dementia: Offers, Medication Decisions in Dementia: Pronouncements, Medication Decisions in Dementia: Proposals, Medication Decisions in Dementia: Suggestions, Memory Clinics, Mental Health and Illness, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Neurological Disorders, Patient Acceptance, Patient Empowerment, Patient Involvement, Patient Preferences, Patient Satisfaction, Population Health Sciences: University of Bristol, SDM: Shared Decision Making, Shared Decision-Making, Supporting Decision-Making, Thinking Ahead - Advance Care Planning, Treatment Recommendation Coding Scheme, University College London, University of Bristol, University of Exeter, University of Exeter Medical School, Video-Recorded Dementia Diagnostic Meetings
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The NHS: Probably Still the World’s Best Health Service (BBC News / Commonwealth Fund / NEJM / NHS England / JAMA)
Summary The Commonwealth Fund, a US think-tank, has re-compared data from 11 countries and – to the surprise of some commentators – again ranked the UK’s NHS as the being the best national health system overall. The NHS comes first (highest rating) for … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, International, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access (Commonwealth Fund: Health Care System Performance Domain), Access to Care, Access to Services, Administrative Efficiency (Commonwealth Fund: Health Care System Performance Domain), Australia, Australia’s Single-Payer Insurance Program (Health Systems Achieve Excellence in Diverse Ways), Avoidable Premature Mortality, BBC Health News, Benchmarking, Benchmarking Tools, Canada, Cancer Survival, Cancer Survival Rates in England, Care Process (Commonwealth Fund: Health Care System Performance Domain), Care Quality, Closing the Cancer Survival Gap, Commonwealth Fund, Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Surveys, Commonwealth Fund: Mirror Mirror International Comparisons (2017), Communication, Continuity and Feedback, Coordinated Care, Cost-Related Access Problems, Cross-Country Comparisons, Department of Health Policy and Management and Harvard Global Health Institute: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Effective Care, Efficiency, Eleven-Country Summary Scores on Health System Performance, Engagement and Patient Preferences., Equality of Access, Equity, Equity (Commonwealth Fund Health: Care System Performance Domain), Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, France, Germany, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Cambridge MA), Health Care Outcomes, Health Care Outcomes (Commonwealth Fund: Health Care System Performance Domain), Health Care Spending as a Percentage of GDP (1980–2014), Health Care System Performance Compared to Spending, Health Care System Performance Rankings, Health System Performance Scores, International Comparisons, International Health Care Comparisons, International Perspectives, JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Kate Andrews: Institute of Economic Affairs, London School of Economics, Measurement for Quality and Cost, Mirror Mirror Measure Descriptions and Source Notes, Mortality Amenable to Health Care (2004 and 2014), National Healthcare Systems: International Comparative Rankings, Netherland’s Competing Private Insurers (Health Systems Achieve Excellence in Diverse Ways), Netherlands, New England Journal of Medicine, New Zealand, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS Performance, NHS Quality, NHS: Rated World’s Best Health Service, Norway, Outcomes Benchmarking, Patient Engagement, Patient Safety, Patient-Centeredness, Perceived Inefficiency, Performance Comparisons, Premature Death, Preventative Care, Prevention, Preventive Care, Public Health, Quality, Quality in the NHS, Reducing Premature Mortality, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Safe Care, Sweden, Switzerland, System Benchmarks, Timeliness of Care, UK’s National Health Service (Health Systems Achieve Excellence in Diverse Ways), United Kingdom, United States, United States Health Care System, USA
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Quality of Death Index: UK End-Of-Life Care Second To None? (BBC News / EIU / NHS England / CQC / National Palliative and End of Life Care Partnership)
Summary A comparative study of palliative care across 80 countries by the Economist Intelligence Unit has declared that end-of-life care in the UK can be ranked the best in the world. The UK was ranked first due to comprehensive national … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, CQC: Care Quality Commission, End of Life Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, International, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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New Models of Care Vanguards: Vanguard Support Package (NHS England)
Summary A support package for the new models of care vanguards has been created by the NHS Five Year Forward View partners. The 29 local NHS and care consortiums (known as Vanguard Sites), are exploring alternative models / better ways … 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), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Telecare, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), Acute Care Collaboration (ACC) Vanguards, Airedale, Airedale and Partners, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), Barriers to Engagement, Benchmarking, Benefits of Integrated Care, Better Care Together (Morecambe), Better Health and Care for Sunderland, Better Local Care (Southern Hampshire), Better Together (Workington), Bottom-Up NHS Reform, Bradford, Calderdale Health and Social Care Economy, Capitation for PACS Providers, Care Integration, Caregiver Support, Carer Support, Carer Support Services, Community Empowerment, Community Mental Health, Community Mental Health Services, Connected Digital Solutions and Information Systems, Coordinated Care, Craven, Dementia Long-Term Care and Support, Dementia Long-Term Services, Dr Donal Collins: Better Local Care (Southern Hampshire) Vanguard, Dr Nick Harding OBE: Partner at Handsworth Wood Medical Centre, Dudley Clinical Commissioning Group, East Lancashire, Employee Engagement, Empowering Communities for Health, Empowerment, Empowerment and Support, Engagement, Engagement and Co-Production, Engagement and Patient Preferences., Enhanced Health in Care Homes, Enhanced Personalised Care Plans, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Forward View Into Action, Forward View Into Action: New Care Models, Handsworth Wood Medical Centre, Information and Metrics, Integrated Care and Support, Integrated Care for Older People With Complex Needs, Integrated Commissioning, Integrated Commissioning Support, Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC), Integrated Primary and Acute Care Systems, Integrated Primary and Acute Care Systems (PACS), Integrated Primary and Acute Care Systems (PACS) Vanguard Sites, Integration Transformation Fund, Integration Transformation Fund (aka Better Care Fund), Jim Mackey: Chief Executive of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Jim Mackey: Partner in Northumberland Accountable Care Organisation Vanguard, Joint National and Local Leadership, Local Government Association: LGA, Local Integration, Local Leadership, Local Leadership for Healthy Communities, Local Leadership for Mental Health and Wellbeing, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Care and Support, Long-Term Conditions, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Long-Term Health and Social Support, Long-Term Services and Support (LTSS), Long-Term Treatment, Mid Nottinghamshire Better Together, Model Provider-to-Provider Sub-Contracts, Models of Care: Age-Related Models, Models of Care: Integrated Models, Models of Enhanced Health in Care Homes, Models of Enhanced Health in Care Homes Vanguard Sites, Multi-Specialty Community Providers, Multispecialty Community Providers (MCPs), Multispecialty Community Providers (MCPs) - Vanguard Site: Stockport Together, Multispecialty Community Providers (MCPs) Vanguard Sites, My Life a Full Life (Isle of Wight), New Care Models, New Care Models Programme, New Care Models Programme: Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) Vanguards, New Care Models: Vanguard Sites, New Models of Care, New Models of Care Vanguards, New Ways of Working, NHS Confederation, NHS England's Five Year Forward View (2014), NHS England’s Rightcare Programme, NHS Forward View, NHS Providers, NHS Workforce, North East Hampshire and Farnham Clinical Commissioning Group (PACS), Northumberland Accountable Care Organisation, Northumberland Accountable Care Organisation (PACS), Patient Empowerment, Patient Engagement, Prime Minister's Challenge Fund, Procurement and Patient Choice, Quality Payments in the NHS, Radical Innovation, Redesigning Care Pathways, Redesigning Local Healthcare Systems, Redesigning Services, Rightcare Programme, Royal Colleges, Salford Together, Samantha Jones: Director of New Models of Care at NHS England, Service Redesign, Service Redesign (Telehealth), Shared Learning and Practice, Sharing of Learning, Simple Replicable Frameworks, Simplified Quality Payments in the NHS, South Somerset Symphony Programme, South Somerset Symphony Programme (PACS), Staff Engagement, Stockport Together, Support for People with Complex Needs, Supporting Carers, Telemedicine, Transformation Fund, Vanguard Support Package, Vitality Vanguard, Wharfedale, Wirral Partners, Workforce Development, Working and Learning at Pace
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Scotland’s Updated Care of Older People in Hospital Standards (Healthcare Improvement Scotland)
Summary Revised Scottish standards concerning acute care of older people in hospital address all aspects of the patient care pathway, including initial assessment on admission, rehabilitation, care transitions and discharge planning. There are sixteen standards. Section headings comprise: Standard 1: … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Delirium, Depression, Diagnosis, Falls, 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, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Age Scotland, Alzheimer Scotland, Care of Older People in Hospital Standards, Care Transitions, Care Transitions of Older People, Cognitive Capacity and Consent, Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), Consent, Dignity, Dignity and Respect, Dignity on the Ward, Discharge Planning, Engagement and Patient Preferences., Frailty, Frailty Syndromes, Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Hospital Pharmacies, Hospital Pharmacy Services, Managing Transitions, NHS Education for Scotland, NHS Fife, NHS Forth Valley, NHS Grampian, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, NHS Lanarkshire, NHS Lothian, NHS Tayside, Older People in Acute Care, Patient Flows, Patient Preferences, Patients Charter, Personal Preferences, Pharmaceutical Care, Physical Rehabilitation, Pressure Sores, Pressure Ulcers, Pressure Ulcers: Prevention, Pressure Ulcers: Risk Assessment, Prevention and Management of Pressure Ulcers, Recognition and Diagnosis of Frailty, Recovery and Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Care Pathways, Reshaping Care for Older People, Royal College of Nursing Scotland, Safe Staffing Levels, Scottish Government, Scottish Government’s (2011) Standards of Care for Dementia in Scotland, Scottish Patient Safety Programme, Staffing Levels, Staffing Levels and Skill Mix, Standards for Food Fluid and Nutritional Care, Standards of Care for Dementia in Scotland, Understanding and Improving Transitions of Older People: User and Care Centred Approach, University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, Ward Staffing Levels, Whittle Review Group
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The NHS: Probably the World’s Best Health Service (Commonwealth Fund / BBC News / NHS Networks / EIU)
Summary The Commonwealth Fund, a US think-tank, compared data from 11 countries. Their report rates the NHS as the being best national health system. The NHS came first (highest rating) in almost every category. The NHS was ranked lowest, after … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, 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, International, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Care, Access to Services, Australia, BBC Health News, Benchmarking, Canada, Care Quality, Commonwealth Fund, Communication, Continuity and Feedback, Coordinated Care, Cost-Related Access Problems, Cross-Country Comparisons, Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Effective Care, Efficiency, Engagement and Patient Preferences., Equality of Access, Equity, France, Germany, Healthy lives, International Comparisons, International Health Care Comparisons, International Perspectives, Measurement for Quality and Cost, Netherlands, New Zealand, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS Performance, NHS Quality, NHS: Rated World’s Best Health Service, Norway, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (US 2010), Patient-Centeredness, Perceived Inefficiency, Performance Comparisons, Public Health, Quality, Quality in the NHS, Safe Care, Sweden, Switzerland, System Benchmarks, Timeliness of Care, United Kingdom, United States, United States Health Care System, USA
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