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Reducing Hospital Admissions From Care Homes (Health Foundation / PCC)

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A Health Foundation report indicates that perhaps over 40% of emergency hospital admissions on the part of permanent care home residents aged ≥65 years could have been avoided with better preventive primary care, community support / NHS care in care … Continue reading →

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Financial Sustainability in the NHS: Holding Up a Mirror? Reflection (BBC News / NHS Improvement / NHS England / BMJ / OECD / BJS)

Posted on August 6, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The authors of the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) report believe that the NHS may not actually need further money from the taxpayer, asserting that efficiency savings identified (in the field of general surgery alone, and without looking … Continue reading →

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Dementia Assessment and Referral to GPs: DeAR-GP (NICE / HIN)

Posted on June 10, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary It was already known that between 75% – 89% of care home residents have dementia, but many of these persons do not receive a diagnosis. The Health Innovation Network (HIN) worked with five care homes to design the Dementia … Continue reading →

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Introducing the NHS Improvement Directory (NHS Improvement)

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary NHS Improvement have compiled an online directory listing a wide variety of websites and online resources which supply online improvement tools, case studies or networks to support innovation and quality improvement in health and social care. Full Text Link … Continue reading →

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Improving the Quality of Care For Care Home Residents With Dementia (NHS England / Clinical Medicine / BBC News)

Posted on June 15, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Professor Alistair Burns, NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Dementia, discusses multi-pronged progress to improve the quality of care – and to enhance health and wellbeing – for people with dementia living in care homes. It has been estimated … Continue reading →

Health as a Social Movement (NHS England)

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary NHS England has launched a three-year programme to support what is hoped will become a broad social movement to encourage wider patient and public participation in improving health and care. Full Text Link Reference Health as a social movement. … Continue reading →

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Care Home Residents’ Access to GPs For Basic Health Care: Far Sighted or Short Sighted GP Contract Changes? (BBC News)

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Care home residents are generally 50% more likely to be admitted to hospital as an emergency than other older persons, and might be expected to be a high priority for primary care. Paradoxically, there are reports that GPs have … Continue reading →

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Commission on Improving Urgent Care for Older People’s Report (BBC News / NHS Confedertation)

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The NHS Confederation’s Commission on Improving Urgent Care for Older People has provided further evidence that many persons aged over-65 are admitted to hospitals via accident and emergency (A&E) unnecessarily, usually with relatively poor outcomes and incurring higher costs … Continue reading →

Barbican Consensus on Better Care and Support for People With Dementia in Care Homes (NHS England)

Posted on December 26, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary It has been reported elsewhere that 80% of residents in care homes may have dementia, and that there may still be over-prescription of antipsychotics in these settings to control challenging behaviour. The Barbican Consensus presents a general agreement, arrived … Continue reading →

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New Models of Care Vanguards: Vanguard Support Package (NHS England)

Posted on August 1, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

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 | 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 | Leave a comment

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