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Tag Archives: Hospital Beds
Reducing Pressures on Hospitals: Exploring the Potential Impact of Occupational Therapists (BBC News / COT / BAOT)
Summary A report from the College of Occupational Therapists demonstrates the role(s) which occupational therapists (and physiotherapists) can play in helping to reduce avoidable admissions / re-admissions to hospitals and subsequent delayed discharges of care in transitioning patients back into … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Falls, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Hip Fractures, In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Physiotherapy, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
Tagged : Policy Officer (Wales) at College of Occupational Therapists, A&E Pressures, Accident and Emergency Departments, Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), Argyle Street Primary Care Practice (Pembroke Dock), Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions, BBC Health News, Bed Days, Bed-Blockers, Bed-Blocking Patients (Non-Recommended Term), British Association of Occupational Therapists, British Association of Occupational Therapists (BAOT), Cardiff, Cardiff University, Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales, College of Occupational Therapists, College of Occupational Therapists (COT), Community Occupational Therapy Interventions, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Dr Alan Rees: Vice President of Royal College of Physicians Wales, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Department Assessment Unit: University Hospital of Wales, Emergency Departments, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Services, Frail Older Persons Assessment and Liaison (FOPAL) Team, Frail Older Persons Assessment and Liaison Team: University Hospital of Wales Emergency Department Assessment Unit, Health Boards, Home-Based Rehabilitation and Reablement, Hospital Admissions, Hospital Beds, Hospital Discharge, Hospital Emergency Departments, Improving Lives, Improving Lives Saving Money Campaign (COT/BAOT), Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Inpatient Beds, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Primary Secondary and Community Care, Julia Scott: Chief Executive Officer at College of Occupational Therapists, Length of Stay (LoS), Long Hospital Stays, Loss of Mobility During Long Hospital Stays, Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Agency Working, Multi-Disciplinary Working, Nurses and Allied Health Professionals, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapists: Addressing Over-Reliance on Social Care, Occupational Therapists: Keeping People Out of Hospital, Occupational Therapists: Reducing Pressure on Primary Care, Occupational Therapy, Occupational Therapy in General Practice (Pilot Project), Occupational Therapy: Improving Lives Saving Money Campaign, Patient Discharge, Patient Flows, Physical Therapy, Physiotherapists, Physiotherapy, Post-Discharge Support, Prevention and Reablement, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Team-Based Interventions in A&E, Reablement, Reablement Services, Readmissions, Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement (RRR), Reducing Bed Days, Reducing Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Reducing Over-Reliance on Social Care, Reducing Pressure on Primary Care, Reducing the Pressure on Hospitals Report (COT/BAOT), Reducing Waste in the NHS, Ruth Crowder, Sarah Rochira: Older People’s Commissioner for Wales, Sustainability, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, University Hospital of Wales, Value of Occupational Therapists (#ValueofOT), Value of Occupational Therapy in Wales, Vaughan Gething: Cabinet Secretary for Health Wellbeing and Sport (Wales), Vaughan Gething: Welsh Health Secretary, Vulnerable Older People, Wasted Resources, Welsh Ambulance Service Trust (WAST), Welsh Reablement Alliance, Whole System Patient Flows
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“Poverty of Ambition” on Reducing Delayed Transfers of Care? Improvements Recommended (BBC News / House of Commons PAC / NICE)
Summary The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee’s latest report challenges the government, NHS Improvement and NHS England to tackle the extent of (i) the harm to patients and (ii) the financial costs, arising from delays in discharging older patients … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, 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, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, NICE Guidelines, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Accountability and Integration, Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, Areas With the Highest Delayed Transfers of Care, BBC Health News, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Four: Six O'Clock News, Bed Days, Bed-Blockers, Bed-Blocking Patients (Non-Recommended Term), Care for Vulnerable Older People, Cross-Sector Partnerships, Cumbria County Council, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Discharges Higher in Mental Health Trusts, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC), Delayed Transfers of Care by Responsible Organisation, Discharge From Acute and Mental Health Trusts, Discharge Programme Board, Efficiency Opportunities, Financial Incentives Across Local Health and Social Care Systems (Proposals), Fragility of Adult Social Care Provider Market, Geographical Variations, Good Practice, Good Practice Standards, Health and Adult Social Care Providers, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, Hospital Beds, Hospital Beds Use: Variations, Hospital Discharge, Hospital Discharge and Transfers, Hospital Long-Waiters, House of Commons, House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, Inpatient Beds, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration Transformation Fund (aka Better Care Fund), James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Length of Stay (LoS), Local Health Services: Variations, Local System Resilience Groups, Local Variations, Long Hospital Stays, Lord Carter Review, Loss of Mobility During Long Hospital Stays, Loss of Older Patients' Muscle Strength Per Day of Hospital Treatment, Measures to Capture the Number of Older People Who No Longer Benefit From Acute Hospital Care (Proposal), Meg Hiller MP: Chair of Public Accounts Committee, Mental Health Trusts, National Audit Office (NAO), National Discharge Programme Board, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), National Market Position Statement, NHS Mental Health Trusts in England, NHS Sustainability, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Parliamentarians, Patient Care, Patient Discharge, Patient Flows, Patient Safety, Personal Budgets in Adult Social Care, Post-Discharge Support, Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Public Accounts Commons Select Committee, Reducing Bed Days, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Regional Variations, Sharing Good Practice, Sharing Patient Information, Sir James Munby: President of Family Division of the High Court, Social Care Delays (Impact on Hospital Bed-Days and LoS), Social Care Providers, Sustainability, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Transition Between Inpatient Hospital Settings and Community or Care Home Settings, Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Variation in Performance, Variations in Quality of Care, Variations in Service, Variations in Spending, Vulnerable Older People, Wasted Resources, Whole System Patient Flows
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Delayed Transfers of Care, Public Health and Sustainability in the NHS: the Home Adaptations Dimension (Care & Repair England / BBC News)
Summary The Care and Repair England Integration Briefing No.3 “Home adaptation could ease delayed transfers of care”, which has the backing of Public Health England (PHE), explains how increased funding for home adaptations has the potential to help reduce delayed … Continue reading
Posted in Assistive Technology, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Housing, In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework, Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF), Age-Friendly Housing, Ageing Population, Assistive Technology and Telecare, BBC Health News, Bed Days, Bed-Blockers, Bed-Blocking Patients (Non-Recommended Term), Better Care Fund, Better Care Fund (BCF), Better Care Fund: Policy Framework, Building Research Establishment (BRE), Care & Repair England, Care & Repair England’s Catch 22 Project, Care Act 2014, Care and Repair England, Care and Repair England Integration Briefing No.1, Care and Repair England Integration Briefing No.2, Care and Repair England Integration Briefing No.3, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Centre for Ageing Better (CfAB), Cost to the NHS of Poor Housing, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC), Dementia-Friendly Housing, Determinants of Health, Directors of Public Health, Disabled Facilities Grant, Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG), Disabled Facilities Grant Finance, Disabled Facilities Grant Funding via Better Care Funds, Disabled Facilities Grants, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, EAC FirstStop, Falls Prevention, Handyman, Health and Housing Policy, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Delivery Models, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Wellbeing Boards, Home Adaptations, Home Adaptations Consortium, Home Adaptations Wigan, Home Adaptations: Integration and Care Act, Hospital Beds, Hospital Discharge, Housing and Care for Older People, Housing and Dementia, Housing for Older People, Housing in Later Life, Housing Learning and Improvement Network (LIN), Housing LIN, Independence, Independence at Home, Independent Living, Independent Living At Home, Inpatient Beds, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integrated Prevention Approaches, Integration, Integration and Care Act, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration Transformation Fund (aka Better Care Fund), Length of Stay (LoS), Local Councillors, Local Examples of Integrated Provision and Funding for Home Adaptations, Lord Carter Review, Money Well Spent, Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Agency Working, Multi-Disciplinary Working, NHS Outcomes Framework, NHS Sustainability, Patient and Service User Representatives, Patient Discharge, Patient Flows, PHE: Public Health England, Post-Discharge Support, Preventative Housing Interventions, Preventing and Managing Demand, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Public Health England (PHE), Public Health Outcomes Framework, Public Health Social Care and NHS Outcomes To Which Home Adaptations Contribute, Reducing Bed Days, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Secondary Prevention, Tertiary Prevention
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Delayed Discharges From Hospitals: Update (BBC News / Age UK)
Summary Age UK’s analysis of NHS England data from the past 5 years has identified 2.5 million days spent by patients delayed unnecessarily in hospitals over the five-year period. The reasons for, and the scale of, delay gleaned NHS England … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Age UK, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, 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, NHS, NHS England, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, BBC Cost of Care Project, BBC Health News, Bed Days, Bed-Blockers, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Caroline Abrahams: Director of Age UK, Community Nurse (Includes District Nursing Sister and District Nurse), Community-Based Care, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Cost of Care Project (BBC News), Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, FOI: Freedom of information, Free Care Home Places, Funding Sources of Care Home Places, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, Home Adaptations, Hospital Beds, Hospital Discharge, Hospital Long-Waiters, Inpatient Beds, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integration, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Primary Secondary and Community Care, Length of Stay (LoS), Patient Discharge, Patient Flows, Post-Discharge Support, Reducing Bed Days, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Social Care Delays (Impact on Hospital Bed-Days and LoS), Sustainability, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Vulnerable Older People, Wasted Resources, Whole System Patient Flows
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