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Tag Archives: General Hospital Care
Qualitative Research Into the Acute Hospital Care Weekend Effect (BMC Health Services Research)
Summary While much recent research has cast doubt upon the validity of the “Weekend Effect” construct, the authors of this qualitative research focus instead on the perceptions of patients and hospital workers regarding the quality and safety of care at … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Diagnosis, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Dementia Case-Finding in Hospitals: Qualitative Research Into Disparate Perceptions of Primary and Secondary Care Staff in England (BMJ Open)
Summary Hospitals in England have been conducting case-finding of people with dementia among older people, who were admitted on an unplanned basis, since 2012/13; although the methods to be used were undefined. A recent article investigates the views of staff … Continue reading →
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Review of Feeding Support for Hospitalised Adults at Risk of Under-Nourishment (Cochrane Database / JGCR)
Summary A systematic review has been conducted to assess the efficacy of nutritional support for improving clinical outcomes in hospitalised adult patients at risk of disease-related malnutrition. It was already known that roughly 30% of patients in Western European hospitals … Continue reading →
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Variations in Excess Hospital Mortality Rates (BBC News / NHS Digital)
Summary Significantly higher than expected death rates have been recorded at 19 of the 133 NHS Trusts in England, according to the Dr Foster Unit at Imperial College London. “There were 15,396 more deaths than expected at the trusts in … Continue reading →
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Creating a Dementia Friendly Hospital: Local Contributions Have Global Influence (ICN / WHO / NHS England)
Summary International Nurses’ Day, taking the theme “Nurses – A Force For Change: Improving Health Systems’ Resilience” this year, fell on May 12th 2016. Just a few days earlier, International Day of the Midwife took place on May 5th 2016. … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Diagnosis, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, International, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, New Cross Dementia Project, New Cross Hospital, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Authorial Affiliation, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wolverhampton
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Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Communication Failures in Hospital End-of-Life Care (BBC News / RCP)
Summary The latest Royal College of Physicians (RCP) audit has estimated that one in five families may not be consulted when hospital staff decide not to revive their relatives and issue “Do Not Resuscitate” (DNR) orders. “Guidelines issued by the … Continue reading →
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Tagged 24/7 Care, Access to Face-To-Face Specialist Palliative Care, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Advance Care Planning (ACP), Agreed Care Plans, Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: National framework for Local Action 2015-2020 (Ambitions Framework), Ambitions Framework, Auditing, Audits, BBC Health News, Care and Communication, Care and Compassion, Care in General Hospitals, Care of Dying Adults in Last Days of Life, Care Planning, Care Planning and Proxy Decision Making, Care Seven Days a Week, Clinical Audits, Communication, Communication Skills Training For Care in Last Hours or Days of Life, Compassion in Practice, Compassionate Care, Culture of Compassionate Care, Dehydration, Dementia Care in Acute General Hospitals, Difficult Conversations, Dignity and Respect, DNACPR: Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Do Not Resuscitate (DNR), Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Communication Failures, Documented Evidence in Last 24 Hours of Life of Holistic Assessment of Patient’s Needs for Individual Plan of Care, Documented Evidence Patient Given Opportunity to Have Concerns Listened To, Documented Evidence That Needs Of Person(S) Important to Patient Were Asked About, Documented Evidence That Patient Would Probably Die (Imminent Death) Had Been Discussed With Nominated Person(S) Important to Patient, Documented Evidence That Patient Would Probably Die in Coming Hours or Days, Dr Adrian Tookman: Clinical Director at Marie Curie, Dr Kevin Stewart: Medical Director of RCP’s Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit, Education Programmes on End of Life Care, End of Life Care, End of Life Care Audit: Dying in Hospital (RCP 2016), End of Life Care Facilitators, End of Life Care Pathway, End of Life Care Plans, End of Life Care Quality Indicators, End of Life Care Research, End of Life Care Strategy, End-of-Life Care in Acute Hospitals, End-of-Life Care Pathways, End-of-Life Support, General Hospital Care, Geographical Variations, Good Communication, Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), Holistic Assessments, Hospital End-of-Life Care, Hydration and Nutrition, Improving Care in General Hospital Settings, Lay Member on Trust Board With Responsibility For End of Life Care, Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP), Local Variations, Marie Curie, National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC), NG31: Care of Adults in Last Days of Life, NHS Services Seven Days a Week, Palliative and End of Life Care, Palliative and End-of-Life Care in Hospitals, Palliative Care, Palliative Care in the UK, People Recognised as Likely to Die, Professor Sam Ahmedzai: Chair of RCP End of Life Care Audit Steering Group, Quality Idicators For End of Life Care, Quality of Care, RCP: Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Royal College of Physicians. End of Life Care Audit – Dying in Hospital (2016), Specialist Palliative Care Services (SPC), Staffing and Training, Symptom Control. Provision of Palliative Care Services 24-7, Tackling Variation, Treatment at End of Life, Trust Seeks Bereaved Relatives’ or Friends’ Views, UK End-of-Life Care, Unwarranted Variations, Variations in Care, Variations in Quality of Care, Withdrawal of Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP)
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Brief Audit of the New Cross Hospital Specialised Dementia Unit: a “New” Discovery (European Geriatric Medicine)
Summary A short conference abstract relating to the New Cross Hospital Dementia Project has been discovered, entirely fortuitously, over three years after the event held in Brussels. This brief piece communicates the results of an audit into the effectiveness of … Continue reading →
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Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Medical Ward for Dementia, Care Bundle Approach, Care in General Hospitals, Caring for People with Dementia on Hospital Wards, Congress of the EUGMS (Brussels 2012), Critique and Evaluation of Dementia Care at New Cross Hospital, Critique and Evaluation of Specialist Hospital Dementia Care in the UK, Dementia Care Bundle (DCB), Dementia Care in Acute General Hospitals, Dementia Care in Acute Settings, Dementia Care in an Acute Hospital (New Cross Hospital), Dementia Care in General Hospitals, Dementia Care in the Acute Hospital. Wolverhampton, Dementia Friendly Acute Hospitals, Dementia in General Hospital Inpatients, Department of Geriatric Medicine: Royal Wolverhamptom NHS Trust, Education Health and Care Plans (EHCP), European Geriatric Medicine, General Hospital Care, General Hospitals, Geriatric Medicine: Good Hope Hospital, Good Hope Hospital: Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, National Audit of Dementia Care, National Audit of Dementia Care in Hospitals 2011, New Cross Hospital Dementia Care Bundle, New Cross Hospital Dementia Project, New Cross Hospital Dementia Ward, NHS West Midlands, Patients With Physical Illness and Dementia, Physical Illness and Dementia Ward, Purpose-Designed Dementia Ward, Retrospective Case-Notes Audit, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
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New Cross Hospital Dementia Care Bundle: a “New” Discovery (Health Foundation)
Summary The following case study from the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust covers how the Dementia Care Bundle (DCB) was implemented at New Cross Hospital and how this has improved patient safety. This apparently neglected item from the University of Worcester, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Medical Ward for Dementia, All About Me Board, Association for Dementia Studies, Association for Dementia Studies: University of Worcester, Bundle Approach to Improving Care, Bundle Design, Care and Compassion, Care Bundle Approach, Care Bundle: Defined, Care Bundles (Approaches to Improving Care), Care in General Hospitals, Caring for People with Dementia on Hospital Wards, Cheryl Etches: Chief Nurse at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Cognitive Impairment in Hospital Settings, Comfort and Pain Management, Communication, Communication Problems, Compassion, Compassion and Care, Compassionate Care, Compassionate Care in Acute Hospital Settings, Critique and Evaluation of Dementia Care at New Cross Hospital, Critique and Evaluation of Specialist Hospital Dementia Care in the UK, Dementia Action Network (DAN), Dementia and Physical Illness Ward, Dementia Care Bundle, Dementia Care Bundle (DCB), Dementia Care in Acute General Hospitals, Dementia Care in Acute Settings, Dementia Care in an Acute Hospital (New Cross Hospital), Dementia Care in General Hospitals, Dementia Care in the Acute Hospital. Wolverhampton, Dementia Friendly Acute Hospitals, Dementia in General Hospital Inpatients, Dementia Outreach Team, Dementia Training Programme (RWHT), Dementia Ward, Dementia-Friendly Environmental Design, Dementia-Friendly Wards, Designing Care Bundles, General Hospital Care, General Hospitals, Grace Hampson (Project Manager of the New Cross Hospital Dementia Project), Improvement Methods for Re-design of Care Processes, Improving Patient Safety, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Jennifer Bray: Association for Dementia Studies at University of Worcester, Julie Willoughby (Consultant Nurse: Dementia Services at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust), Matron Karen Bowley, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), Multidisciplinary Teams, New Cross Hospital Dementia Care Bundle, New Cross Hospital Dementia Project, New Cross Hospital Dementia Ward, NHS West Midlands, Nutrition and Hydration, Organisational and Cultural Barriers, Overcoming Barriers, Patient Safety, Patient Safety in the NHS, Patient Safety Strategies, Patients With Acute Physical Illness and Co-Existing Dementia, Patients With Physical Illness and Dementia, Pauline Smith: Strategic Health Authority (NHS West Midlands), Physical Illness and Dementia Ward, Professor Dawn Brooker, Professor Dominic Upton, Purpose-Designed Dementia Ward, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, University of Worcester, University of Worcester: Association for Dementia Studies, Worcester Association for Dementia Studies, Worcester University
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Behaviour and Pain in People With Dementia Admitted to Acute Hospitals (Alzheimer’s Society / BMC Geriatrics / PAIN® / QMM)
Summary Research into pain in 230 people with dementia at two hospitals, conducted by University College London, indicates that the occurrence of pain experienced in hospitals may be significantly under-reported. This observational study found around two-thirds (57%) of people with … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abbey Pain Scale, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Aggression, Agitation, Alzheimer's Society Quality Research Monitors, Antipsychotics in Elderly People with Dementia, Antipsychotics Limitation in Dementia, Anxiety, Australia, Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care Accreditation Standard, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust Liaison Team, Barriers: Poor Pain Management, Behave-AD (Behaviour in Alzheimer's Disease), Behaviour and Pain in Dementia Study (BePAID), Behaviour and Pain in People With Dementia in Hospitals, Behaviour Assessment Management Service: Northern Sydney Local Health District, Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Behavioural Problems in People With Dementia on Hospital Wards, BMC Geriatrics, BPSD, BPSD: Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia, Care and Compassion, Care in General Hospitals, Clinical Interventions in Aging, CMAI (Cohen Mansfield Agitation Inventory), Cognitive Impairment in Hospital Settings, Comfort and Pain Management, Communication, Compassion, Compassion and Care, Compassion in Practice, Compassionate Care, Compassionate Care in Acute Hospital Settings, Confusion Assessment Method (CAM), COST: European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research, Dementia Behaviour Management Advisory Service (Australia), Dementia Care Bundle, Dementia Care in Acute General Hospitals, Dementia Care in Acute Settings, Dementia Care in General Hospitals, Division of Psychiatry: University College London, EU COST Program for COST Action TD1005, FACES Pain Scale, Functional Assessment Staging Scale (FAST), General Hospital Care, General Hospitals, Health Services for Older People at the Royal Free NHS Trust, Inappropriate Use of Antipsychotics in Dementia, London, Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department: University College London, North Middlesex University Hospital, North Middlesex University Trust, Northern Sydney Local Health District, Pain, Pain Agitation and Behavioural Problems in People With Dementia in General Hospital Wards, Pain and Disruptive Behaviour, Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia Scale (PAINAD), Pain Assessment in Patients with Impaired Cognition, Pain Assessment Tools, Pain Control, Pain Management, Pain Management for People With Severe Dementia in Care Homes, Pain Prevalence, PAINAD (Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia), QMM: the Student Magazine of the University of Birmingham College of Medical and Dental Sciences, Specialist Mental Health Services for Older People Mental Health Drug and Alcohol: Northern Sydney Local Health District, Treatment of Pain to Reduce Behavioural Disturbances, Underlying Causes of BPSD, University College London, University of NSW, University of Sydney, Untreated Pain
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Standards for the Care of Patients with Dementia in Acute Hospitals (CHKS)
Summary CHKS was assisted by the Alzheimer’s Society in developing their assurance programme specifying standards for the care of patients with dementia in acute settings. This programme combines a framework of standards concerning the organisational structure and processes in acute … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Alzheimer's Society, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, 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, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Standards, UK
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Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Alzheimer's Society, Better Care for Older Patients With Dementia, Case Finding for Patients with Dementia, CHKS, CHKS Ltd, CHKS Thought Leadership Programme, Creating Dementia Friendly Hospitals, Dementia Care in Acute General Hospitals, Dementia Care in Acute Settings, Dementia Care in General Hospitals, Dementia Care in the Acute Hospital, Dementia Champions, Dementia in General Hospital Inpatients, Dementia-Friendly Hospitals, General Hospital Care, General Hospitals, National Audit of Dementia, National Audit of Dementia (Care in General Hospitals), National Audit of Dementia Care, Patient Experience, Patient Safety, Quality Assurance, Quality Improvement, Supporting Patients With Dementia, Top Hospitals Awards Programme
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