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Information Governance and the Delayed Care.Data Programme (BBC News)

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Dame Fiona Caldicott, Chair of the Independent Information Governance Oversight Panel (IIGOP) which advises the NHS and ministers on the handling of patient information, has commented that the currently delayed care.data programme could have been planned better. Full Text Link … Continue reading →

The NHS Mandate: a Mandate from the Government to NHS England, April 2013 to March 2015 (Department of Health)

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary This updated mandate describes the renewed ambitions for the health service, for the period 2013 – 2015. As with previous editions, it is structured around the five key areas where NHS England (previously called the NHS Commissioning Board) is … Continue reading →

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South Devon and Torbay: Community Virtual Wards and Proactive Case Management (King’s Fund)

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary This King’s Fund case study (funded by Aetna and the Aetna Foundation) investigates community virtual wards based in GP practices within South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). The community virtual wards were introduced by Devon Primary Care … Continue reading →

Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, King's Fund, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Aetna (US), Aetna Foundation, Avoidable Admissions, Care Coordinators, Case Management, CCGs, Chronic and Severe Illness, Chronic Care, Chronic Diseases, Chronic Illnesses, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Combined Predictive Model, Community Care, Community Care Services, Community Nursing, Community Support Services, Community Virtual Wards, Coordinated Care, Coordination of Care, Dedicated Care Coordination, Devon County Council, Devon Predictive Model (DPM), Devon Primary Care Trust, Direct Enhanced Service (DES) Payments, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, Exeter City Council, GP Facilitators, GP Practice, GP-Led Commissioning, GPs, Holistic Approaches, Holistic Care, Holistic Care Assessments, Holistic Co-ordinated Care, Holistic Needs Assessment, Integrated Care Coordinators, Integration, Locality Working, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Agency Working, Multi-Disciplinary Working, Multiagency Teams, Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation Team Care, Multidisciplinary Team Care, Multiple Chronic Disease, Multiple Needs, Patient Assessment, Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC), Patient Care, Personalised Case Management, Plymouth, Predictive Modelling, Predictive Risk Models, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Prevention, Preventive Care, Preventive Services, Preventive Support: Risk Stratification for Case Finding, Proactive Care, Proactive Case Management, Quality of Care, Responsible GPs, Risk Prediction and Stratification Activities, Risk Stratification, Risk Stratification for Case Finding, Secondary Uses Service (SUS), Shortlisting, South Devon, South Devon and Torbay, South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Torbay, Torbay Council, Torbay Primary Care Trust (PCT), Virtual Wards, Virtual Wards to Reduce Readmissions | Leave a comment

Better Use of Patient Data (NHS England / NHS Choices)

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary NHS England has announced the introduction of an NHS information service called care.data. This service will use information from patients’ medical records to improve healthcare delivery and research. The Health and Social Care Information Centre, British Medical Association and the … Continue reading →

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Care Quality Commission Guide for Patient Participation Groups (CQC)

Posted on July 5, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published a guide for patient participation groups (PPGs). It explains what patient participation groups (PPGs) are meant to do, and what is involved when the CQC inspects their GP practices. Section headings in this … Continue reading →

Posted in Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Local Interest, National, NHS, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Complaints, Daisy Court Medical Centre, GP Practice, GPs, Information Shared Between CQC and PPGs, Inspecting GP Practices, Moreley House Practice PPG, Moreley House Practice Surgery, NAPP (National Association for Patient Participation), National Association for Patient Participation (NAPP), Patient Complaints, Patient Engagement, Patient Involvement, Patient Participation, Patient Participation Directed Enhanced Service (DES), Patient Participation Groups (PPGs), Patient Reference Groups, Sounding Board, Towncross City Practice, Virtual PPGs | Leave a comment

Computerised Cognitive Testing: Cutting Delays in Dementia Assessments (Cambridge Cognition and IXICO)

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Cambridge Cognition (a leading British developer of neuropsychological tests) and IXICO (a leading brain imaging specialist), have developed tools which promise to assist in achieving more accurate and rapid dementia assessments. Their innovations consist of (i) the Dementia Friendly GP … Continue reading →

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Next Steps for Dementia Challenge (Department of Health, The Dementia Challenge)

Posted on November 17, 2012 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

[A version of this item features in Dementia and Elderly Care: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWNHST), Volume 3 Issue 5, January 2013]. Summary In parallel with the publication of the Dementia Challenge Progress Report, and the launch of the Dementia Friends … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Community Care, Diagnosis, End of Life Care, Enhancing the Healing Environment, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Advocacy and Advice Services, BioBank (National Cohort), Brain Scans, Dementia Care and Support Compact, Dementia Toolkit for GP Commissioners, Enhanced Services from GPs, Enhancing the Healing Environment (EHE), GP Practice, GPs, GPs' Dementia Toolkit, Information and Advice, Information Needs of Carers, Information Needs of People with Dementia, MRI Scans, Our Health, Our Health Online Service Directories., Our Health Website, Our Health: Local Information on Stroke and Dementia, Schools and Youth Projects (Awareness Raising), UK Biobank | Leave a comment

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