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Tag Archives: Hospital Admission Rates
Avoidable Hospital Admissions Crisis (BBC News / NAO)
Summary Too many emergency admissions to hospitals in England take place according to the National Audit Office. There were 5.3 million such admissions during the last financial year, which represents a 47% rise over 15 years. Many of the individuals involved are frail elderly patients who … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, 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, National Audit Office, NHS, NHS Confederation, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 999 Ambulance Service, Accident and Emergency Departments, Admission Avoidance, Alignment of Services Across Health and Social Care Sectors, Ambulance Services, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, BBC Health News, Bed Days, Bed Occupancy, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Demographics, Emergency Admission Rates in UK, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Care Pathway, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, Emergency Services, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Good Practice in Managing Emergency Admissions, Good Practice in Reducing Emergency Admissions, GP Home Visits, GP Out-of-Hours Services, Hospital Accident and Emergency Departments, Hospital Admission Rates, Hot Clinics, Marginal Rate Emergency Tariff, Multi-Specialty Teams Across Hospital and Community, NHS Direct / 111, Out of Hours Care, Out of Hours Services, Patient Admission, Patient Flow Diagrams, Patient Flows, Payment System for Hospital Activity, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Re-Admission NHS Hospitals, Reducing Bed Days, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Senior Clinical Input, Social Demographics, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Services, Whole System Patient Flows
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Demand on Accident and Emergency Services Unsustainable? (BBC News)
Summary Levels of demand on NHS accident and emergency departments in England have been described as unsustainable by David Prior, the head of the Care Quality Commission. Mr Prior has suggested there is a need for a diversion of resources from hospital services towards greater investment … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Accident and Emergency Departments: Planning and Design, Acute Hospital Care, Admissions, Avoidable Admissions, BBC Health News, Care in General Hospitals, Care Quality Commission (CQC), CCGs, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), College of Emergency Medicine, Dementia Care in Acute General Hospitals, Dementia Care in General Hospitals, Dementia Care in the Acute Hospital, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, General Hospitals, GPs, Health Care Reform, Home and Community Care Services, Hospital Accident and Emergency Departments, Hospital Admission Rates, Improving Care in General Hospital Settings, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry, NHS Reform in England, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Primary Care, Problems in Care in English Acute Hospitals, Public Service Reform, Re-Admission NHS Hospitals, Reform, Unplanned Hospital Admissions
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Patterns of Health and Social Care at the End of Life (The Nuffield Trust)
Summary This report summarises findings from a study – which was commissioned by the National End of Life Care Intelligence Network – following more than 73,000 people using publicly funded health and social care services during the last months of … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, End of Life Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, National, NEoLCIN, NHS, Nuffield Trust, Patient Care Pathway, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adult Social Care, Care Integration, Deaths in Usual Place of Residence (DiUPR), DiUPR: Deaths in Usual Place of Residence, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Readmissions, End of Life Care, End of Life Care Strategy, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, Hospital Admission Rates, Integrated Commissioning, Integration, National End of Life Care Intelligence Network, National End of Life Care Programme (NEoLCP), Place of Death, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Readmissions for Patients with Long Term Conditions, Service Integration
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Aged Residential Care Health Utilisation Study (ARCHUS) (BMC Geriatrics)
[A brief reference to this item appears in: Dementia and Elderly Care: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 3 Issue 3, October 2012]. Summary Hospitalisation can cause distress, disruption and often other medical complications for residents of long-term care. It … Continue reading
Posted in Community Care, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), International, Universal Interest
Tagged Aged Residential Care Health Utilisation Study (ARCHUS), Auckland, BMC Geriatrics, District Health Boards (DHBs): New Zealand, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Readmissions, Gerontology Nurse Specialist (GNS), Hospital Admission Rates, Interdisciplinary Teams, Interprofessional Relationships, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), Multidisciplinary Teams, New Zealand, Pharmacists, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Readmissions for Patients with Long Term Conditions, Residential Aged Care (RAC), Residential Care Homes
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