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Tag Archives: Health and Care Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme
Voluntary Sector Organisations: Improving Care for People With Learning Disabilities and Dementia (VODG)
Summary A recent Voluntary Organisations Disability Group “Staying put” report covers the work of the voluntary sector with care providers which aims to improve the quality of life of people with a learning disability and dementia. It addresses the issues … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Alternatives to Inpatient Care for People With Learning Disabilities, Alzheimer’s Society, Care at Home, Care Closer to Home, Christine Burke: Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities Programme Lead, Community and Voluntary Sector, Dementia and Black and Minority Ethnic Communities, Dementia and Disabilities, Dementia Care and LGBT Communities, Dementia Challenge for LGBT Communities, Dementia Equity and Rights: Dementia and Black and Minority Ethnic Communities, Dementia Equity and Rights: Dementia and Disabilities, Dementia Equity and Rights: Mental Health and Dementia, Dementia Equity and Rights: Oldest People With Dementia, Dementia Equity and Rights: Sexual Orientation and Gender Reassignment, Dementia Equity and Rights: Socio-Economic Status, Dementia Equity and Rights: Women With Dementia, Dementia Equity and Rights: Young Onset Dementia, Dementia-Friendly Care and Support for People With Learning Disabilities, Dementia: Equity and Rights (VODG), Department of Health Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme, Dr Rhidian Hughes: VODG Chief Executive, Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities, Health and Care of People with Learning Disabilities: Experimental Statistics: 2014 to 2015 (NHS Digital), Health and Care Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme, Health and Care Voluntary Sector Strategic Partnership Programme, Learning Disabilities, Learning Disabilities and Dementia, Learning Disabilities and Dementia: Prevalence, Learning Disabilities-Friendly Environments, Learning Disabilities: Data and Information, Learning Disabilities: Transforming Care, MacIntyre, Maintaining Independence, Mental Health and Dementia, National Care Forum, National Care Forum (NCF), National Care Forum and the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group, NHS Digital, NHS Digital (Formerly the Health and Social Care Information Centre), Oldest People With Dementia, People With Learning Disabilities, People With Learning Disabilities and Dementia, Sexual Orientation and Gender Reassignment, Socio-Economic Status, Staying Put: Developing Dementia-Friendly Care for People With Learning Disabilities, Support From Voluntary Sector Strategic Partners, Supporting Health Wellbeing and Independence, Timely Diagnosis, Vic Rayner: National Care Forum Executive Director, VODG, Voluntary Organisations and Disability Groups (VODG), Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG), Voluntary Sector and Ageing, Voluntary Sector Organisations, Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme, Voluntary Sector Strategic Partnerships, Women With Dementia, Young-Onset Dementia
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Government’s Plans For High Quality End Of Life Care (Department of Health / CQC / BBC News)
Summary The government is introducing care plans for people at the end of life, with a view to ensuring consistently high quality, compassionate care. Altogether, there are six commitments to end unacceptable variations in end of life care by 2020. … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Education England (HEE), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 24/7 Care, 24/7 Hospice at Home Service, 24/7 Service, 24/7 Specialised Nursing Services for End of Life Care, Accountability and Transparency, Airedale and Southend Pilots, Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care Framework, Ben Gummer: Health Minister, Ben Gummer: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care Quality, Care Coordinators, CCG Improvement and Assessment Framework (CCG IAF), Choice in End of Life Care, Claire Henry MBE, Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Clinical Commissioning Group Improvement and Assessment Framework, Commitment to Carers (NHS England), Commitment(s) For End of Life Care (2016), Community Care Pilots, Community Education Provider Networks (CEPNs), Community Resilience, Dying Matters Coalition, Dying Matters Coalition and Campaign, Dying Well Community Charter, Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems (EPaCCS), Electronic Patient Records: Recording and Sharing of End of Life Care Choices, End of Life Care For Infants Children and Young People (NICE Consultation), End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Ineffective Advance Care Planning, Faith at the End of Life, Family and Carers, Family Involvement, First Point of Contact (Main Contact), Generic Professional Capabilities (GPCs), Government Response to Review of Choice in End of Life Care, Guy's and St Thomas’s Hospital’s AMBER Care Bundle, Health and Care Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme, High Quality End Of Life Care (2016), Honest Discussions With Care Professionals, ImproveCare: Management of Clinical Uncertainty, Informed Choices, Informed Choices About End of Life Care, Integrated Care Pioneers, Involvement, Involvement of Family and Carers, Involvement of Family Friends and Carers, James Lind Alliance, Local Education and Training Boards, Macmillan Cancer Support’s Building on the Best Programme, Meaningful Conversations With Dying People, Namaste Care Intervention to Improve Quality of Dying for People with Advanced Dementia in Care Homes, Named Care Coordinators, National Commitment For End of Life Care, National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC), NHS Clinical Services (Department of Health), NHS Electronic Patient Records, NHS England’s Commitment to Carers, NHS Five Year Forward View, NHS Mandate, Palliative and End of Life Care for Children and Young People, Palliative and End of Life Care Priority Setting Partnership, Personalised Care Planning, Point of Care Foundation’s Patient and Family Centred Care Programme, Poor Identification of People’s Capacity For Involvement in Their Care Planning and Management (Barriers to Involvement), Responsible Clinician (Main Contact), Review of Choice in End of Life Care, Serious Illness Care Programme UK, Shared Digital Palliative and End of Life Care Records, Skills for Care and Skills for Health, Specialist Support in End of Life Care (First Point of Contact), Summary Care Record (SCR), Supporting Family and Carers, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Transforming End of Life Care Programme, Transforming Nursing for Community and Primary Care, Transparency and Accountability, Urgent and Emergency Care Hubs, Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme
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Time to Deliver on the Five Year Forward View (BBC News / NHS England / Department of Health)
Summary The seven main national health bodies (namely NHS England, Monitor, the NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA), the Care Quality Commission (CQC), Public Health England, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and Health Education England) jointly published … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Education England (HEE), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, NICE Guidelines, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 100000 Genomes Project, 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, Accelerating Innovation, Access to Elective Care, Access to Mental Health Services, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, Agency Staff, Agency Staff (Exorbitant Waste of NHS Funding), Arm’s Length Bodies, Arm’s Length Bodies (Department of Health's ALBs), Atlas of Variations in Procurement, Bank And Agency Staff, Baroness Cumberlege, BBC Health News, Better Out-of-Hospital Care to Prevent Attendance and Admissions, Better Procurement, Cancer Treatment, Cancer Treatment Standards, Cancer Waiting Times, Center for Conservation Biology: Stanford University, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Children and Young People IAPT Programme, Chronic Conditions, Clinical Networks, Coalition of the Willing, Commissioning and Funding, Commissioning for Value, Community and Voluntary Sector, Community Services, Community Volunteering, Constrained Funding, Contract and Agency Staff, Controls on VSM Pay, Coordinated Health and Social Care, Creative Use of NHS Estate, Culture, Culture and Leadership, Culture Change, Dalton Review (2014), Demand Management, Department of Biology and Woods Institute: Stanford University, Department of Psychology: Stanford University, Devon, Diabetes Prevention Programme, Efficiency Savings, Efficiency Savings: Diverting Resources to Front-Line Care, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources: Stanford University, Encouraging Innovation, Enforced Support (New Success Regime), Essex, Estate Efficiencies, Expert Patient Programme, Failing Hospitals, Failing Services (NHS and Social Care), Faustian Pact: Trading £8 Billion in Extra Funding For £22 Billion in Efficiency Savings, Finance and Procurement, Finance Directorate, Financial Context, Financial Pressures, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Five Year Forward View, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Forest Bathing, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Forward View, Forward View Progress: Pilot Programmes Map, Funding Challenges, Gary Caplin: Chief Executive of Virginia Mason Hospital (Seattle), Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Governance Arrangements Driving the Five Year Forward View, GP Services Co-Located With A&E Department, GPs Co-Located With A&E Department, Greater Manchester, Greening Grey Britain Campaign, Harpal Kumar: Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK, Harpal Kumar: Head of NHS Cancer Taskforce, Health and Care Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care Costs, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Providers, Health and Social Care Reform, Health and Social Care Services, Health and Social Care: Integration Transformation Fund, Hospital Chains, Hospital Waiting Times, IAPT: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Improving Access to Mental Health Services by 2020, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), Integrated Out-of-Hospital Care, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Integration Transformation Fund, Integration Transformation Fund (aka Better Care Fund), Integration Transformation Fund (ITF), International Recruitment, Jeremy Taylor (Chief Executive of National Voices), Laureate Institute for Brain Research (Tulsa), Lean and Quality Improvement, Lean and Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing Techniques, Lean Thinking, Local Communities and Voluntary Groups, Local Government Association, Loneliness and Social Isolation, Lord Carter Review, Maximising the value of NHS £115 Billion Spend, Monitor, Multispecialty Community Providers, National Buying Power of NHS, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), National Prevention Board (Public Health England), National Quality Board (NQB), National Voices, Nature and Wellbeing, Nature Experience Reduces Rumination, Never Events, New Care Models Programme: Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) Vanguards, New Care Models: Vanguard Sites, New Deal for Primary Care, New Models of Care, New Success Regime (NHS England), NHS Clinical Commissioners, NHS Confederation Annual Conference 2015, NHS Confederation Conference (2015)), NHS Culture, NHS Culture Change, NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), NHS England Five Year Forward View, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS England’s New Success Regime, NHS England’s Success Regime, NHS Expert Patient Programme (EPP), NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Five Year Forward View Board, NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Procurement, NHS Providers, NHS Safe Staffing, NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA), NHS Trust Development Authority (NTDA), NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA), NHS Waiting Times, NHS Warrington CCG, NHS: Rated World’s Best Health Service, NICE Abandoning Work on Safe Staffing Standards, North Cumbria, North East and West Devon, Obesity, Out-of-Hospital Care, Out-of-Hospital Services, Out-of-Hours GP Services Co-Located With A&E Department, Over-Reliance on Agency Staff, Patient Safety, Patient-Centred Culture, Paul Farmer (Mind), Peoples and Communities Board, PNAS, Pooled Budgets (Pooled Funds), Pooled Funding, Population Growth, Preventing and Managing Demand, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), Redesigning More Productive Services, Reducing Demand (Treatment and Recovery), Reducing Downstream Spending (Prevention Public Health and Self-Care), Removal of Two Waiting Time Targets, Return to Practice Campaign, RightCare’s NHS Atlas of Variation, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Rumination, Safe Staffing Advisory Committee (NICE), Safe Staffing Standards, School of Community Medicine (Tulsa USA), Self-Care, Self-Help, Service Redesign, Service Transformation, Shared Strategic Planning, Shinrin-Yoku: Taking in the Forest Atmosphere aka Forest Bathing, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Sir David Dalton: Chief Executive of Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Social Care, Social Isolation, Social Prescribing, Specialists in Out-Of-Hospital Settings, SSAC: Safe Staffing Advisory Committee, Staff Retention, Staff Sickness Levels, Stanford University, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Subgenual Prefrontal Cortex (sgPFC), Subgenual Prefrontal Cortex Activation, Success Regime (NHS England), Success Regimes in England, Surgical Never Events, Sustainable Funding, SWASFT Right Care Right Place Right Time Initiative, Sweden, Thinking Outside of the Box, Transformational Commissioning, UEC Vanguards, Upstream Interventions, Urbanization and Mental Illness, Urgent and Emergency Care Vanguards, Vanguard Programme, Variations in Procurement, Virginia Mason Hospital: Seattle, Voluntary and Community Sector, Waiting Time Standards, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Waiting Times and Access Standards, Workforce Advisory Board, Workforce Advisory Board Exemplars, Workforce Race Equality Standard
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Voluntary Groups Assist Government to Improve Health and Wellbeing (Department of Health)
Summary The Department of Health has announced the 21 voluntary sector organisations which will participate in the Health and Care Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme for 2013/14. The programme helps to keep policy makers in touch with the many voluntary and community sector organisations which exist already and … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, Carers UK, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS England, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Action for Prisoners’ Families and Clinks, Agency Networks, Big Society, Big Society and Community Development, Carers Trust, CHANGE, Co-operative Community Action, Co-operatives, Community Networks, Community Partners, Community Service Volunteers (CSV), Cooperation, Department of Health Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme, Disability Partnership (Royal Mencap Society; Scope; Sense; The National Autistic Society), Disability Rights UK, FaithAction, Health and Care Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme, Health and Care Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme for 2013/14, Help the Hospices, Local Partnerships, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Men’s Health Forum (MHF), Mental Health Providers Forum (MHPF), NACRO, National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (NAVCA), National Autistic Society, National Care Forum (NCF), National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC), National Housing Federation, National Voices, Partners in Care, Partnership, Partnership and Collaboration, Partnership Working, Public Health England (PHE), Race Equality Foundation (REF), Regional Voices, Royal Mencap Society, Scope, Sense, Shaping our Lives National User Network, Sue Ryder, UK Health Forum, Voluntarism, Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations, Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG), Voluntary Sector, Voluntary Sector Strategic Partnerships, Volunteering, Volunteers, Women’s Health and Equality Consortium (WHEC)
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