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Reducing Hospital Admissions From Care Homes (Health Foundation)

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 →

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 →

Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, International, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NICE Guidelines, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Access to Care, Access to Healthcare Services, Access to Primary Care, Access to Services, Activity in Care Homes, Adult Mental Health Services, AMT-4 (Abbreviated Mental Test – 4) Case-Finding Tools, Assessment and Referral, Best Practice in Care Homes, Care and Support for People With Dementia in Care Homes, Care Homes, Care Homes Wellbeing, Care Homes: Last Year of Life, Care of Older People Living in Care Homes, Case Finding, Case Finding for Patients with Dementia, Case Finding in Care Home Sector, Commissioning for Excellence in Care Homes, Community Mental Health, Community Referrals, Confusion in Care Homes, Delirium in Care Homes, Dementia (QS1), Dementia Assessment Referral to GP (DeAR-GP), Dementia Care in Care Homes, Dementia Case Finding, Dementia Case-Finding Tools (Evaluation in Care Homes), Dementia Support Services in Care Homes, Dementia-Friendly Care Homes, Department of HealthCare Management, Diagnosis and Referral, Elderly Mental Health, Emotional and Psychological Wellbeing, Enhanced Health in Care Homes, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University (Greifswald Germany), Faculty of Law and Economics: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Germany, Health Innovation Network (HIN), Identification and Referral, Improving Standards in Care Homes, Living Well in Care Homes, Memory Assessment Services, Memory Assessments, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Mental Health Services, Mental Wellbeing, Mental Wellbeing and Older People, Mental Wellbeing of Older People in Care Homes, Mental Wellbeing of Older People in Care Homes (QS50), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), NICE Quality Standard 1 (QS1), NICE Quality Standards, Nursing Older People, Nursing Standard, People with Dementia in Care Homes, Quality of Life for People Living in Care Homes, Rapid Diagnosis and Referral, Referral, Referral Protocols, Residential Care Homes, South London, Timely Referral, Wellbeing and an Ageing Population, Wellbeing in Later Life | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), Academy of Fabulous NHS Stuff, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC), AHSN Atlas, AHSN Atlas of Solutions in Healthcare, Beautiful Information, Best Possible Value: Future-Focused Finance Programme, Better Care Exchange, BMJ Quality, Care Improvement Works, Chief Scientific Officer's Quality Improvement Champions, Commissioning Handbook, Commissioning Handbook for Librarians, Compassionate Collaborative and Inclusive Leadership, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Learning, 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Methodology, Peer-to-Peer Exchange of Ideas, Peer-to-Peer Learning, Plan Do Study and Act (PDSA), Promise to Learn: Berwick Report, Public Health England (PHE), Public Health Profiles, QI at East London NHS Foundation Trust, Quality and Service Improvement Tools, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement Approaches, Quality Improvement Champions Group, Quality Improvement in General Practice, Quality Improvement Tools, RCP: Royal College of Physicians, Realising the Value, Rehab 4 Alcoholism, Richmond Group of Charities, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Royal College of Surgeons (RCS), Skills for Care (SfC), Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Social Care Online, Social Partnership Forum, Spreading Change, Statistical Process Control, Statistical Process Control Methodology, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainable Development Unit (SDU), System Leadership, Talent Management, Team Working, The Edge (Horizons Group of NHS England), Theory of Constraints, Time to Change, Time to Change Programme, Total Quality Management (TQM), Unicef: Baby Friendly Initiative, Urgent and Emergency Care Vanguards, Workforce Development | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS Evidence, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, Accountable Clinical Network for Cancer, Accountable Clinical Network for Cancer (Acute Care Collaboration), Accountable Clinical Networks, Accountable Clinical Networks for Cancer, Active and Healthy Ageing, Acute Care Collaboration (ACC) Vanguards, Acute Care Collaboration Vanguards, Ageing Policy in the UK, Airedale and Partners, Airedale and Partners (Enhanced Health in Care Homes), Awareness and Campaigns, Awareness and Understanding, Awareness of Potential Risks, Awareness Raising, Better Care Together, Better Care Together (Morecambe Bay Health Community) (Integrated Primary and Acute Care System), Better Care Together (Morecambe Bay Health Community) Vanguard, Campaigning, Care and Support for People With Dementia in Care Homes, Co-Production, Co-Production for Wellbeing, Coalition of the Willing, Commissioning and Funding, Commissioning for Carers Principles: Principle 2 Support What Works For Carers Share And Learn From Others, Commissioning for Value, Commissioning on Grounds of Quality and User Involvement, Community and Voluntary Sector, Community Services, Community Volunteering, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Constrained Funding, Coordinated Health and Social Care, Culture, Culture and Leadership, Culture Change, Demand and Capacity, Demand-Side Effectiveness, Demand-Side Factors, Dementia: People With Dementia in Care Homes, Economic Sustainability, Embedding Co-Production, Empowerment, Engagement, Enhanced Health in Care Homes, Epidemiological Concepts, Epidemiology, Exemplar Social Movements, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Forward View Into Action: New Care Models, Funding Challenges, GM Cancer Vanguard, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care Costs, Health and Social Care Integration, Health as a Social Movement (NHS England), Health Demand, Health Determinants, Health Improvement, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities in England, Health Policy, Health Wellbeing and Independence, Health-Creating Society, Healthy Ageing, Healthy Behaviours, Healthy Communities, Healthy Lifestyles, Healthy Living, Improving Local Public Health, Improving Public Health, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Primary and Acute Care Systems, Integrated Primary and Acute Care Systems (PACS), Integrated Primary and Acute Care Systems (PACS) Vanguard Sites, Interventions to Increase Patient Activation, Joined-Up Care, Life Course Approach, Life-Course Approach to Healthy and Active Ageing, Lifestyle, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Local Empowerment, Models of Enhanced Health in Care Homes - Vanguard Site: Airedale NHS Foundation, Models of Enhanced Health in Care Homes Vanguard Sites, Multispecialty Community Providers (MCPs) - Vanguard Site: Stockport Together, National and Local Information Campaigns, National Campaigns, nef (the new economics foundation), NESTA, NESTA: National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts, New Care Models, New Care Models: Vanguard Sites, New Economics Foundation (nef), New Models of Acute Care Collaboration: Vanguard Sites, NHS Airedale Wharfedale and Craven CCG, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Erewash CCG, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), Nudge, Obesity Time-Bomb, Overlapping Risk Factors, Patient Activation, Patient Empowerment, Patient Empowerment Movement, Patient Engagement, Patient Engagement Strategies, Patient Factors (Demand Side), Patient Involvement, People Not Medicine to Save the NHS (NEF), Preventative Care, Preventative Services, Preventing and Managing Demand, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Prevention Programmes, Preventive Care, Preventive Services, Public Awareness, Public Health, Public Health Campaigns, Public Health Promotion Campaigns, Raising Awareness, Redesigning More Productive Services, Reducing Demand (Treatment and Recovery), Reducing Downstream Spending (Prevention Public Health and Self-Care), Reducing Waste in the NHS, Risk Factors, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Society of Arts, RSA Action and Research Centre, Self-Administration, Self-Care, Self-Determination, Self-Directed Services, Self-Directed Support, Self-Directed Support for Long Term Conditions, Self-Help, Self-Management, Self-Management in Chronic Illness, Self-Management Support, Service User Involvement, Social Determinants of Health Inequalities, Social Epidemiology, Social Movements, Social Networks, Social Prescribing, Social Wellbeing, Staying Healthy for Longer, Stockport Together, Stockport Together (Multispecialty Community Provider), Support for People with Complex Needs, Supporting People to Manage Their Health, Sustainability, Sustainable Health and Care Services, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Transformation Funding, Unhealthy Behaviours, Unhealthy Lifestyles, Unhealthy Living, Vanguard Programme, Vanguards: New Care Models Programme, Wellbeing, Wellbeing Erewash – Your Life Your Way (Multispecialty Community Provider), Wellbeing Erewash: Your Life Your Way, What Works | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, 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, Models of Dementia Care, National, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Access and Equity For Care Home Residents to Local NHS Services, Access to Care, Access to General Practice, Access to GP Services, Access to Hospital Services, Access to Primary Care, Access to Services, Age Discrimination, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Mortality, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Barriers to Integration, Barriers to Joined-Up Care, Barriers to Older People Accessing Help and Support, Barriers to Support, Barriers: Access to Funding, Barriers: Discrimination, Barriers: Inconsistency in Care Standards, Barriers: Lack of Continuity of Care, Barriers: Lack of Timely and Appropriate Diagnosis, Barriers: Potential Age Discrimination, Care England, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care Home Residents, Care Home Sector, Care Homes, Care Homes Wellbeing, Care Homes: Quality Indicators, Care of Vulnerable Adults, Charges for GP Visits, Clinical Input Into Care Homes, Consumer Vulnerability, Corporate Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Dementia-Friendly Care Homes, Empowering GPs to Help Vulnerable Patients (and Carers) to Access Services, Enhanced Health in Care Homes, Factors Contributing to Vulnerability, General Practice, GP Access, GP Contracts, GPs, Health Care for Older Care Home Residents, Health Care Needs of Care Home Residents, High Quality Health Care for Older Care Home Residents, Improving Standards in Care Homes, Integrated Primary and Acute Care Systems (PACS) Vanguard Sites, NHS Managerial Self-Interest, Nursing Homes, Older Care Home Residents, Patient Experience, Patient Safety, Preventable Harm, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Primary and Acute Care Systems (PACS), Primary Care: GP Consultations / Visits, Quality and Continuity of Care for Vulnerable Patients (New Deal), Rationing, Rationing Care, Residential Homes, Retainer Fees for GPs, Support to Care Home Residents, Supporting Vulnerable People, Targeting Resources on Vulnerable Populations, Vulnerable and Disadvantaged Groups | 1 Comment

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