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Tag Archives: GP Cooperatives and Out-of-Hours Services
Patient Perspectives on Urgent and Emergency Care (Royal College of Emergency Medicine / Patients’ Association)
Summary The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) and the Patients Association have published a joint report, entitled “Time to Act. Urgent Care and A&E: the Patient Perspective”, which incorporates results of a survey of patients conducted between September 2014 … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS Confederation, Nuffield Trust, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 2020 Vision for the NHS, Acute and Emergency Care: Prescribing the Remedy, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Co-Location, Co-Location Models, Co-Location of Other Out-Of-Hours Services With A&E Departments, Collaborative Approach to Unscheduled Care, College of Emergency Medicine Scotland, CQC’s Right Here Right Now Report, Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Emergency Departments, Elecsys Troponin T High-Sensitive Assay for Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial, Emergency Care, Future of GP Out of Hours Care: Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), GP Cooperatives and Out-of-Hours Services, GP Out-of-Hours Services, Information Needs of Carers, Information Needs of Patients, Integrated Joint Boards, Martin McKechnie: Scottish Vice-President of the College of Emergency Medicine, NHS 111, Out-of-Hours General Practice, Out-of-Hours GP Services in England, Out-of-Hours Urgent Care, Patient Awareness of Alternative Services to A&E for Urgent Health Needs, Patient Perspectives on Urgent and Emergency Care, Patient Perspectives on Urgent Care and A&E, Patients Association, Preferred Treatment Location for Patients with Urgent Health Needs, Prescribing the Remedy: Ignoring the Prescription, Reducing Inappropriate NHS 111 Referrals to 999 and A&E, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Referrals From NHS 111 to A&E, Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Royal College of Nursing Scotland, Scottish Government, Scottish Government’s 2020 Vision for the NHS, Signposting, Signposting Patient Information, Signposting Services and Knowledge, Signposting to Sources of Practical Help, Theresa Fyffe: Director of the Royal College of Nursing Scotland, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Unscheduled Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC), Urgent and Emergency Care Commissioning, Urgent and Emergency Care Forum, Urgent and Emergency Care Networks, Urgent and Emergency Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care Review, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Urgent and Emergency Care Services in England, Urgent and Emergency Services, Urgent Care Services Outside of Hospitals, Urgent Health UK, Walk-in Centres (WiCs)
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Broad Overview: the State of Health and Adult Social Care Report (CQC)
Summary The Care Quality Commission (CQC) review of the quality of care provided by hospitals, care homes and GP practices in England, published earlier this month, discloses information about the persistence of unjustifiable variations in quality and safety. Safety, safeguarding and … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Adult Safeguarding, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Provision (CQC), Adult Social Care Services, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Care Skillsbase, Caring (CQC Inspection Question), Community Health Services, CQC Challenge to Health and Adult Social Care System, CQC Challenge to Providers, CQC Inspection Areas Mapped to SCIE Products and Services, CQC Inspection Questions (Safe Effective Caring Responsive Well-Led), CQC Inspections of GP Surgeries, CQC Royal Berkshire Hospital inspection Report (June 2014), Dementia Care in the Acute Hospital, Effective (CQC Inspection Question), GP Cooperatives and Out-of-Hours Services, GP Out-of-Hours Services, GP Practices, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Hope House Children’s Hospice, Improving Patient Safety, Independent Ambulance Services, Inspection of GP Out-of-Hours Services, Inspection of GP Practices, Leadership, Local Variations, Medway Maritime Hospital, Mental Health Care, Multi-Disciplinary Working, NHS Community Health Services, NHS Mental Health Services, Patient Safety, Primary Medical Services, Quality Improvement, Responsive (CQC Inspection Question), Responsiveness, Safe (CQC Inspection Question), Safeguarding, Safeguarding Adults at Risk, Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults, SCIE's Support Tools for Care Providers on Care Quality Improvement, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Staffing, State of Care 2013/14 (CQC), Training and Competency, Unacceptable Variations, Well-Led (CQC Inspection Question), Well-Led Indicators (CQC)
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Focus on Accident and Emergency: December 2013 (BBC News / HSCIC / BMJ Open / British Journal of General Practice / CEM)
Summary A statistical briefing from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) indicates that there has been a small – but significant – increase in the number of over-65s attending the major A&E units. The problem lies in the … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, 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, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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