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Progress Towards Achieving Better Value / Reducing Waste in the NHS (King’s Fund / NHS Providers)

Posted on October 6, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A King’s Fund report investigates recent work on the value agenda, i.e. efforts aimed at reducing unnecessary costs while maintaining or improving the quality of care. This is based mostly on experience at three diverse NHS acute hospital trusts: … Continue reading →

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Some Implications of Seven Day Hospital Services Explored (Nuffield Trust)

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Nuffield Trust’s “London Quality Standards” report evaluates recently introduced standards to improve acute and emergency care in London hospitals. London-wide experiments with Seven Day Services Standards are soon to feature in STPs elsewhere in the UK. These standards … 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, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nuffield Trust, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Acute Medical Units (AMUs), Barriers and Enablers to Implementation of LQS, Barriers to Engagement, Challenges of Reconfiguration, Clinical Engagement, Clinical Leadership, Costing Seven Day Services, Costs and Benefits of Seven-Day Services for Emergency Hospital Admissions, Disconnectedness Between Senior Level Staff and Clinicians, Disconnects in NHS Reform, Emergency Care, Employee Engagement, Hospital Reconfiguration, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), London Health Programmes (LHP), London Quality Standards, London Quality Standards (LQS), LQS Audit Process, NHS Service Reconfiguration, NHS Services Seven Days a Week, Out-of-Hours Urgent Care, Perceived Impact of Implementing the LQS in Hospitals, Perceived Strengths and Weaknesses of the LQS, Reconfiguration of Emergency Care System, Seven Day Care in England, Seven Day Services Standards, Seven-Day Consultant-Delivered Care, Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day NHS Services, Seven-day Rounds and Supporting Services, Seven-Day Services for Emergency Hospital Admissions: Costs Versus Benefits, Seven-Day Services in Hospital, Seven-Day Working, Staff Engagement, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC), Weekend Working, Workforce Issues, Workforce Issues (Feeling Undervalued) | Leave a comment

NHS Reconfiguration + STPs = Cut-Backs?: Two Sides of Same Equation? (NHS England / King’s Fund / Nuffield Trust / BBC News)

Posted on August 28, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The “Keep calm and carry on”-style narrative from officialdom. Full Text Link Reference NHS England statement on Sustainability and Transformation Plans. [Online]: NHS England, August 26th 2016. Theoretical clarification concerning STPs, from the King’s Fund Full Text Link Reference … Continue reading →

NHS Model(s) of Care Essential for Ageing Population (NHS England / Guardian)

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s National Medical Director, has written about the NHS needing a revised model of care to meet rising demands for treatment from an ageing population. The existing model of delivery and service, involving an … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, 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, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency Departments, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Affordability, Affordability of Care, Ageing, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Care in Appropriate Settings, Care Integration, Challenges of Reconfiguration, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Complex Care, Complex Chronic Conditions, Complex Needs, Configuration of Services, Constrained Funding, Cost Pressures in Hospitals, Cost Savings, Demographic Change and Public Services, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Economic Sustainability, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Departments, Emergency Services, Enhanced Services from GPs, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Financing of Health Care, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding of Care and Support, General Hospitals, GP Surgeries, Gridlock (Under-Capacity) in A&E Departments / Hospitals, Guardian, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care Integration, Hospital Reconfiguration, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integration of Health and Social Care, Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England Five Year Forward View, NHS England's Five Year Forward View (2014), NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Service Reconfiguration, NHS Spending, NHS Timebomb [sic], Out of Hours Services, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Reconfiguration of Emergency Care System, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Health and Care Services, The Current NHS Model is Outdated, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Upward Spending Pressures, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Services, Urgent Care Services Outside of Hospitals, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Winter Pressure Funding, Winter Pressures | Leave a comment

Commission on Hospital Care for Frail Older People (HSJ / Serco / NHS Confederation)

Posted on November 28, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Commission on Hospital Care for Frail Older People reviewed probably the main question facing the NHS, namely how to care for the country’s increasing number of frail older people. The commission’s conclusion is that hospital providers and commissioners … Continue reading →

RCP’s Future Hospital Model: An Update (RCP)

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) earlier this month released a further document explaining their model for the future hospital. Roughly a year since publication of the original plan, and in readiness for the 2015 general election, the RCP … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged 10-Year Vision, 2015 Challenge: NHS Confederation, ACH: Acute Care Hub, Acute Care Coordinator, Acute Care Hub, Acute Care Hub (ACH), Acute Hospital Care, Admissions, Ageing Population, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Balance Between Care by Specialists and Generalists, Barriers to Engagement, Barriers to Integration, Barriers to Joined-Up Care, Bed/Ward Moves, Beyond Institutional Boundaries, Care and Compassion, Care by Specialists and Generalists, Care focused on Prevention and Recovery, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Care Seven Days a Week, 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Testing the RCP Future Hospitals Model: the Future Hospital Programme (BBC News / BMJ)

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Four NHS trusts in England and Wales are to implement and evaluate the Royal College of Physicians (RCP)’s vision of the future hospital. Under the Future Hospitals Programme, hospital doctors work together with colleagues in primary care, to provide … 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, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged A&E Workforce, ACH: Acute Care Hub, Acute Care Coordinator, Acute Care Hub, Acute Care Hub (ACH), Acute Care Toolkits (RCP), Acute Hospital Care, Acute Medical Unit (Norwich), Ageing Population, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Ambulatory Emergency Care, Assistive Technology, Balance Between Care by Specialists and Generalists, BBC Health News, BBC Wales, Bed/Ward Moves, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, Beyond Institutional Boundaries, BMJ, British Medical Journal (BMJ), Care and Compassion, Care by Specialists and Generalists, Care Closer to Home, Care 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