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Tag Archives: Future of NHS and Social Care
Financial Sustainability in the NHS: Holding Up a Mirror? Reflection (BBC News / NHS Improvement / NHS England / BMJ / OECD)
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 →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, World Health Organization (WHO)
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Tagged American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP), Anatomy of the Model Hospital, £22 Billion Efficiency Savings by 2020-21, BBC Health News, Bedford Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSK) Referral Management Centre, Bedford Referral Management Centre (RMC), Better Together Vanguard, Birmingham and Solihull United Maternity and Newborn Pathway (BUMP) Early Adopter, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, British Medical Journal (BMJ), BUMP: Birmingham and Solihull United Maternity and Newborn Pathway, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Closing the Finance and Efficiency Gap, Closing the Funding and Efficiency Gap, Consumer Experiences of Health and Social Care, Continuous Learning Culture, Cumbria CCG’s Pain Management Service, Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC), Diabetes and Obesity, Durham and Darlington Children’s and Young Person’s Mental Health Services Crisis and Liaison team (CYPMHS), Duty of Best Value, East and North Hertfordshire CCG Vanguard, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency and Effectiveness, Efficiency Frontiers, Efficiency Opportunities, Efficiency Savings, End-User Experience, Enhanced Health in Care Homes, Estates and Technology Transformation Fund, Exemplar Clinical Pathways, Failing Services (NHS and Social Care), Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Issues, Financial Management, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Financial Sustainability of NHS Bodies, Financing of Health Care, Future Financial Sustainability, Future of NHS and Social Care, Fylde Coast Local Health Economy, General Surgery: GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report (August 2017), Geographical Variations, Getting it Right First Time, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), GIRFT and Other Improvement Initiatives, GIRFT Programme, GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report (August 2017), Global Health and Development Group: Imperial College London, Governance-Related Waste: Abuse, Governance-Related Waste: Administration Costs, Governance-Related Waste: Corruption, Governance-Related Waste: Fraud, Governance-Related Waste: Integrity Violations, Governance-Related Waste: Managerial Self-Interest, Governance-Related Waste: Managerial Spin and Self-Deception, Governance-Related Waste: Self-Regulation vs. Integrity Violations, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Costs, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Services, Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), Healthy New Towns, Imperial College London, Improvement Initiatives, Inappropriate Use of Antimicrobials, Institute of Global Health Innovation: Imperial College London, Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC), Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC) Programme, John Abercrombie: GIRFT Clinical Lead for General Surgery, Learning Culture, Learning from Data, Learning From Peers, Length of Stay (LoS), Local Health Services: Variations, Local Variations, Mental Health and Dementia, Model Hospital: Template for Standardisation, National Innovation Accelerator, NHS and Social Care Spending, NHS Efficiency Challenge, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), NHS England Annual Report and Accounts (2016/17), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Improvement, NHS North Kirklees CCG, NHS Providers, NHS Stockport CCG, NHS Sustainability, NHS Waltham Forest CCG, NHSI: NHS Improvement, North East London Choice and Personalisation Pioneer, Operational Productivity and Performance (Carter Report), Operational Waste: Hospital Care, Operational Waste: Pharmaceuticals, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment, Overtreatment (Speculative Concept), Patient Experiences, Patients Waiting More Than Four Hours For Hospital Beds (Trolley Waits), Paul Baumann: Chief Financial Officer at NHS England, Personalised Medicine, Potential NHS Provider Productivity improvements, PPIB: Purchasing Price Index Benchmark and Benchmark Tool, Productivity, Professor Sir Malcolm Grant, Professor Tim Briggs: GIRFT Programme Chair, Professor Tim Briggs: National Director for Clinical Quality and Efficiency at NHS Improvement, Public Opinion, Quality and Sustainability, Reducing Delayed Transfers of Care, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Renal e-clinics in Tower Hamlets, Right First Time, Royal College of Surgeons (RCS), Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSENG), Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust, Science and Innovation, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Sir Malcolm Grant: Chair of NHS England, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, Tackling Barriers to Innovation, Tackling Variation, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Tower Hamlets Together, Transformational Commissioning, Transformational Technologies, Transparency, Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Upward Spending Pressures, Urgent Response Assess at Home Pathway, Variation in General Surgery, Variations in Care, Variations in Procurement, Variations in Quality of Care, Variations in Spending, Wasted Resources, Wasteful Clinical Care, Winter Pressures Beyond Winter (Winter Re-Defined?), World Health Organisation (WHO)
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Public Opinion Update on the NHS and Social Care (Health Foundation)
Summary Public opinion has even greater significance in the context of the June 2017 General Election. “The Health Foundation commissioned Ipsos MORI to do a survey of the general public in Great Britain on their views about funding of the … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Health Foundation, In the News, Integrated Care, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 2017 General Election, Adult Social Care in England, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, Brexit, British Social Attitudes Survey, Consumer Experiences of Health and Social Care, End-User Experience, Failing Services (NHS and Social Care), Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Pressures, Future of NHS and Social Care, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Costs, Ipsos Mori, Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute, NatCen: British Social Attitudes survey (BSA), NHS and Social Care, NHS and Social Care (Public Opinion / Experience), NHS and Social Care Spending, NHS Sustainability, Patient Experiences, Public Opinion, Quality and Sustainability, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Social Care, Social Care Expenditure, Social Care Funding, Social Care Funding Gap, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, Waiting Times, What’s Wrong With Social Care in England
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Uncertain Reactions Concerning Changes to the Social Care Precept (BBC News)
Summary While social care budgets are widely claimed to be on a tipping-point of unsustainability, reactions to this week’s announcements have been ambivalent at best. Many commentators talk disparagingly of recent proposals for increases to the social care precept as … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Quick Insights, RCN, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Adult Social Care in England, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, Autumn Statement (2016), BBC Health News, Better Care Fund (BCF), British Red Cross, Care and Support Alliance, Central Government Social Care Funding Top Up of £240 Million, Commission on the Future of NHS and Social Care, Community Care, Coordinated Health and Social Care, Costs and Cost Pressures, Council Tax, Councillor Izzi Seccombe: Local Government Association (LGA), Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Former Minister of Care Services Norman Lamb, Future of NHS and Social Care, Geographical Variations, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Humanitarian Crisis in NHS Hospitals and Ambulance Services (Allegation), Integrating and Devolving Health and Social Care, Integrating Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Izzi Seccombe: Warwickshire County Council Leader, Jane Cummings: Chief Nursing Officer for England, Jeremy Corbyn (Labour Party Leader), Jill Colbert, LGA: Local Government Association, Local Government Association, Local Government Association: LGA, Local Government Financial Settlement For 2017-18, Local Variations, Lord Porter: Local Government Association Chairman, March 2017 Budget: Rescue Package for Social Care, National Living Wage, National Living Wage in Social Care Sector, New Homes Bonus, Norman Lamb MP (Former Minister of State for Care and Support), Opportunities For Efficiencies in Social Care, Parliamentarians, Philip Hammond, Prime Minster: Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Ray James: Commission on Improving Urgent Care for Older People, Ray James: President of Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and Director of Health Housing, Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Rt Hon Theresa May MP (Prime Minster), Sajid Javid: Communities Secretary, Sarah Wollaston: Chair of the House of Commons Health Select Committee, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Social Care, Social Care Expenditure, Social Care Funding, Social Care Funding 2016: Reality Checks (BBC News), Social Care Funding Shortfalls, Social Care Precept, Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (SOLACE), Spending Cuts, Spending on Local Authority Social Care, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, Tipping Point in Sustainability of Adult Social Care (Alleged), Unacceptable Variations, Upward Spending Pressures, Variations in Quality of Care, Variations in Social Care in England, Variations in Social Care Quality and Spending in England
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Concerning the Proposed Commission on the Future of NHS and Social Care (BBC News / House of Commons Library)
Summary Earlier this year, the former health secretaries / ministers Stephen Dorrell, Alan Milburn and Norman Lamb proposed creating a cross-party commission to review the future of the NHS and social care in England. Both systems are commonly said to … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, 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, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Adult Social Care in England, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, BBC Health News, Commission on the Future of NHS and Social Care, Community Care, Coordinated Health and Social Care, Costs and Cost Pressures, Delayed Discharges, Dr Daniel Poulter MP (Former Conservative Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health), Future of NHS and Social Care, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Demand, Health Finance, Health Services, Health Spending, House of Commons, House of Commons Library, Integrating and Devolving Health and Social Care, Integrating Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Liz Kendall, Making Our Care and Health Systems Fit for An Ageing Population, New Beveridge Commission for 21st Century (Proposal), NHS and Social Care Commission, NHS and Social Care Commission Debate Pack, Norman Lamb MP, Norman Lamb MP (Former Minister of State for Care and Support), Parliamentarians, Proposed Commission on the Future of NHS and Social Care Debate Pack (House of Commons Library), Rt Hon. Alan Milburn, Rt Hon. Stephen Dorrell MP, Social Services: Finance, Spending Review, Spending Review 2015, Spending Review 2015/16, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, Upward Spending Pressures, Whole System Change, Whole System Integration, Whole System Transformation, Whole Systems Design
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