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Demand for Mental Health Inpatient Beds in England (BBC News / NHS Strategy Unit)

Posted on November 12, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Hundreds more NHS mental health beds would be required in England to end the practice of sending patients far from home for treatment (so called “out-of-area placements”). An NHS Strategy Unit report explores the pressures on inpatient mental health … 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, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS), Average Distances Travelled by Patients at CCGs and Local Area Teams, Care Integration, Commission on Acute Adult Psychiatric Care, Commissioning for Parity of Esteem, Commissioning Support Units (CSUs), Community Care, Community Care Beds and Services, Community Mental Health, Community Mental Health Services, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Mental Health and Social Care Services, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Far-Away Placements in Mental Health Services: Adults in Acute Inpatient Care, Improving Acute Psychiatric Care for Adults in England, Inappropriate Far-Away Placements, Inappropriate OAPs (sic), Inappropriate Out of Area Treatments, Independent Commission on Acute Adult Psychiatric Care, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Mental Health Inpatient Capacity, Mental Health Patients Forced to Travel, Mental Health Policy, Mental Health Services, NHS Commissioning Support Units (CSUs), NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU, NHS Strategy Unit, Out of Area Placements (OAPs), Out of Area Placements in Mental Health Services: Adults in Acute Inpatient Care, Out-of-Area Care, Parity Between Mental and Physical Health, Parity of Esteem, Reducing Out of Area Placements (OAPs), Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP), Sustainability and Transformation Partnership, Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) | Leave a comment

Reducing Hospital Admissions From Care Homes (Health Foundation / PCC)

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A Health Foundation report indicates that perhaps over 40% of emergency hospital admissions on the part of permanent care home residents aged ≥65 years could have been avoided with better preventive primary care, community support / NHS care in care … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Foundation, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nutrition, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Access to Health and Social Care Support, Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infections, Ageing Population, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust, Care Home Assessment Teams (CHATs), Care Home-Associated Deconditioning, Care Homes, Care Homes Wellbeing, Care Homes-Related Deconditioning, Chronic Disease and Frailty, Chronic Lower Respiratory Tract Infections, Co-Production, Co-Production for Wellbeing, Co-Production in Commissioning, Co-production in Quality Improvement, Continuing Health Care, Coproduction, Deconditioning, Deconditioning in Hospital, Dementia Care in Care Homes, Dementia: People With Dementia in Care Homes, Embedding Co-Production, Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care, Enfield Care Home Assessment Team (CHAT), Enhanced Care Packages (Care Homes), Enhanced Health in Care Homes, Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) Framework, Enhanced Specification of General Practice Care for Frail Older People Living in Care Homes, Enhanced Support, Frailty, Haringey, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care Delivery Models, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Hospital Admissions, Hospital-Associated Deconditioning, Hospital-Related Deconditioning, Hydration and Nutrition, Improved Support from Community Nurses for Nurses Employed in Care Homes, Improvement Analytics Unit (IAU), Improvement Analytics Unit (NHS England and Health Foundation Partnership), Improvement Analytics Unit: Health Foundation, Influence of Primary Care Quality Upon Hospital Admissions by People with Dementia in England, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integration of Health and Care, Interface Between Primary and Secondary Care, Later Life, Living Well in Care Homes, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Medication Reviews, Medication Reviews in Care Homes, Medicine Reviews, Models of Enhanced Health in Care Homes, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), Multi-Disciplinary Teams, Multi-Disciplinary Working, Multiple Long-Term Conditions, Multispecialty Community Providers (Integrated Out-of-Hospital Care), Multispecialty Community Providers (MCPs), Named GPs, Named GPs for Over-75s, New Care Models, New Care Models: Vanguard Sites, New Models of Care, New Models of Primary Care, NHS Nottingham City CCG, Nottingham City, Out-of-Hours Urgent Care, People with Dementia in Care Homes, Pharmacist-Led Care Home Medication Reviews, Pneumonia, Pneumonitis (Inflammation of Lung Tissue) Caused by Inhaled Food or Liquid, Pressure Sores, Pressure Ulcers, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Quality and Safety Improvement Approaches in Care Homes, Quality Improvement, Quality of Life for People Living in Care Homes, Rates of Hospital Admissions by Care Home Residents, Reducing Hospital Attendance, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Regular Medication Reviews, Residential Care Homes, Rushcliffe, Staff Training, Support for Care Homes, Sustainability, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Sutton, Sutton Homes of Care Vanguard, Training and Support, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Urinary Tract Infections, Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs), Wakefield, Wakefield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) | Leave a comment

Statistical Process Control Applied to Delayed Transfers of Care (NHS Improvement)

Posted on June 22, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Delayed transfers of care (DToC) are widely recognised to be a significant cause of unnecessary harm to patients, and potentially avoidable financial costs to the taxpayer. NHS Improvement’s “Delayed transfer of care (DToC) improvement tool” incorporates the latest data from … Continue reading →

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Improving Care for Older People (NHS England / Age UK / PHE / Chief Fire Officer’s Association / JGCR)

Posted on October 14, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The guide to Improving Care for Older People, developed by NHS England in partnership with Age UK, Public Health England, and the Chief Fire Officer’s Association, is actually a collection of resources (some dating back several years). This collection … Continue reading →

Posted in Age UK, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Public Health England, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Active Ageing, Active and Healthy Ageing, Age and Ageing, Age-Friendly Housing, Age-Related Hearing Loss (ARHL), Ageing Population, Ageing Population Carer Support, Ageing Society, Ageing Well, Ageing Well and Supporting People Living With Frailty (NHS England), Ageing Well With Technology, Amenable Mortality, Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoidable Mortality, Avoidable Premature Mortality, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Bladder Problems, Burden on Caregivers, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care Home Admission Delay, Care in an Ageing Society, Care 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Intermediate Care Including Reablement: Quality Standard QS173 (NICE)

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has produced a quality standard on intermediate care, including reablement. This is intended to contribute to improvements across many fronts, including: Integration of health and social care. Patient and carer-related quality … Continue reading →

Posted in Commissioning, Integrated Care, Local Interest, National, NICE Guidelines, UK | Tagged Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Alternatives to Hospital Care, Bed-Based Intermediate Care Services, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Rehabilitation Services, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Crisis Response, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Demand for Intermediate Care, Discharge of Hospital Patients With Care and Support Needs, Discharge Planning, Home Based Intermediate Care, Home Based Services, Hospital Discharge, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Intermediate Care, Intermediate Care Including Reablement: NICE Quality Standard QS173, Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), Multimorbidity, National Audit of Intermediate Care, NHS Benchmarking, NICE Quality Standard QS173, NICE Quality Standards, Partnership Working, People's Experience of Using Adult Social Care Services, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Intermediate Care, Quality Measures, Quality Statements, Re-ablement Services, Re-admission Avoidance Scheme (RAS), Reablement, Reablement Services, Reablement Services for People Leaving Hospital, Readmissions for Patients with Long Term Conditions, Recovery, Recovery Based Approaches, Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement (RRR), Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement Services, Recovery. Rehabilitation, Redesigning Services, Regaining Independence, Rehabilitation and Self Management, Rehabilitation Care Pathways, Rehabilitation Services, Services Maximising Independence, Services Reducing Use of Hospitals, Social Care for Older People With Multiple Long-Term Conditions, Social Care Reablement Services, Supporting Health Wellbeing and Independence, Transition Between Inpatient Hospital Settings and Community or Care Home Settings | Leave a comment

More on Self-Care, Patient Activation and NHS Sustainability (Health Foundation / BMJ Quality and Safety / Self Care Forum / NHS England / AMROC)

Posted on August 28, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A Health Foundation briefing explores the potential of increasing patient activation for better self-care in the management of long-term conditions (including asthma, diabetes and depression) and reducing avoidable hospital admissions. “ …patients who were most able to manage their … Continue reading →

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Non-Pharmacological Community-Based Interventions for Persons With Dementia: Deciding What Works and What Does Not (Trials)

Posted on May 4, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Work is underway in developing a standardised Core Outcome Set (COS) for use in the evaluation of non-pharmacological health and social care interventions for people living with dementia at home. “ …this study will move closer to providing researchers … Continue reading →

Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Community-Based Arts and Health interventions, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Interventions for Persons With Dementia, Community-Based Support, Consensus-Based Standards for the Selection of Health Measurement (COSMIN), Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials, Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials (COMET), Cost-Effectiveness, Cost-Effectiveness in Health Care, Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Dementia Care, Efficacy of Dementia Care Interventions, Efficacy of Non-Pharmacological Community-Based Interventions for Persons With Dementia, Efficiency and Effectiveness, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Increasing Comparability Across Dementia Studies, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Lancaster University, Linköping University, Manchester Metropolitan University, Non-Pharmacological Community-Based Interventions for Persons With Dementia, Opportunities for Standardisation, Participation in Research, Participation in Research Studies, Public Participation in Research, Reducing Reporting Bias, Reducing Waste in Dementia Care, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Standardisation, Sweden, Trials, Unconscious Bias, University of Liverpool, University of Manchester | Leave a comment

National Audit of Intermediate Care 2017 (NAIC)

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The National Audit of Intermediate Care (NAIC)’s latest annual report attempts to provide comprehensive data on intermediate care services. It supplies a refreshed audit of intermediate care services delivering care and support to “older people living with complex conditions; … Continue reading →

Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Physiotherapy, Quick Insights, RCN, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Accessibility of Intermediate Care, Ageing Population, AGILE, AGILE: Professional Network of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Alternatives to Hospital Care, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), Bed Based Intermediate Care, Bed Based Intermediate Care Services: Workforce, Bed Based Services, Bed Occupancy, Bed-Based Intermediate Care Services, Bed/Home and Step Up/Down Provision, Benchmarking, BGS, British Geriatrics Society, British Geriatrics Society (BGS), Care Integration, Challenging Behaviour, Challenging Behaviour in Dementia, Claire Holditch: Programme Director of NHS Benchmarking Network, Cognitive Impairment, College of Occupational Therapists, College of Occupational Therapists Specialist Section for Older People (COTSS-OP), Community Care Services, Community Hospitals, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Rehabilitation Services, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, COTSS-OP: College of Occupational Therapists Specialist Section for Older People, Crisis Home Treatment, Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHT), Crisis Response, Crisis Response Services, Crisis Support, David Bramley: Deputy Head and Programme Lead for Long-Term Conditions Older People and End of Life Care Team Medical Directorate at NHS England, Dawne Garrett: Older People and Dementia Care at Royal College of Nursing, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Demand for Intermediate Care, Demographics and Processes, Dependency Levels, Destination on Discharge, Discharge Destination, Discharge of Hospital Patients With Care and Support Needs, Discharge Planning, Dr Dawn Moody: Associate National Clinical Director for Older People (NHS England), Dr Martin Vernon: National Clinical Director for Older People and Integrated Care, Elderly Rehabilitation Services, Finance, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), Home Based Intermediate Care, Home Based Services, Hospital Discharge, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integration, Intermediate Care, Intermediate Care Beds, Intermediate Care Capacity, Intermediate Care Geriatrician, Intermediate Care Teams, Intermediate Care: Commissioner Spend, Iola Shaw: Long Term Conditions Older People and EOLC Medical Directorate at NHS England, Later Life, Length of Stay, Length of Stay (LoS), Local Strategic Planning, Mental Health Provision in Intermediate Care Services, Modified Barthel Index (MBI), Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), NAIC 2017, NAIC Steering Group, National Audit of Intermediate Care, National Audit of Intermediate Care (2017), National Audit of Intermediate Care: NAIC 2017, NHS Benchmarking, NHS Benchmarking Network, NHS RightCare, Occupational Therapists, Older People’s Specialists’ Forum, Partnership Working, Patient Flows, Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM), RCP: Royal College of Physicians, Re-ablement Services, Re-admission Avoidance Scheme (RAS), Reablement, Reablement Services, Readmissions for Patients with Long Term Conditions, Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement Services, Reference Costs, Referrals, Rehabilitation Services, Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT), Services Maximising Independence, Services Reducing Use of Hospitals, Skills / Disciplines Mix, Staffing Levels, Staffing Levels and Skill Mix, Step Down, Step Up, Strategic Planning, Strategic Planning and Commissioning, Sunderland Community Scheme, Therapy Outcome Measure (TOMS), Trans-Disciplinary Roles, Variation in Commissioning, Vulnerable Adults, Whole System Impact, Whole System Patient Flows, Workforce | Leave a comment

Quick Animation on How the NHS in England Works (King’s Fund / CreativeConnection)

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

Summary The King’s Fund has produced an animated video, and a brief accompanying slide-set, which provide a quick overview of how the NHS “works”, in terms of evolving structure and the functional inter-relationships between the many component parts. Full Text Link Reference Mantell, K. … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, 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, King's Fund, Local Interest, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs), Acute Care Collaboration (ACC) Vanguards, Adult Social Care, Ageing Population, Animation on How the NHS in England Works, Care Closer to Home, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), CreativeConnection, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Forward View Into Action: Support For Vanguards, Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Reform, Hospital Chains, Hospitals Collaboration Vanguards, How the NHS in England Works, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Primary and Acute Care Systems (PACS), Integration, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Primary Secondary and Community Care, Local Authorities, Local Service Design, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Multihospital Chains, Multispeciality Community Providers (MCPs), Multispecialty Community Providers (MCPs), New Care Models: Support for Acute Care Collaboration (ACC) Vanguards, New Models of Care, New Models of Care Vanguards, NHS Organograms, NHS Providers, NHS Providers: Regulation and Commissioning, NHS Sustainability, Public Health England (PHE), Service Design, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), System Re-Design, Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) Vanguards | Leave a comment

Scoping the Potential Role(s) of Community Pharmacists in Medication Management for Community-Dwelling People With Dementia (Health Expectations)

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A new article has appeared on the roles for community pharmacists in assisting people with dementia dwelling in the community, their informal carers – and health and social care professionals more widely – in achieving safer and more effective … Continue reading →

Posted in Antipsychotics, Commissioning, Community Care, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Ability of Community Pharmacists to Limit Use of Antipsychotics Prescribed Inappropriately For BPSD, Aston Health Research and Innovation Cluster, Aston University, Birmingham (UK), Caregiving (Carers), Caring for Carers, Communication Between Community Pharmacists and Caregivers, Communication Between Community Pharmacists and GPs, Community Pharmacies, Community Pharmacists, Community Pharmacy, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Care for People With Dementia, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Community-Centred Approaches, Community-Dwelling Older People with Dementia, Dementia Friendly Community Pharmacists, Dementia-Friendly Businesses, Dementia-Friendly Cities, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Community Pharmacies, Dementia-Friendly Information, Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia-Friendly Organisations, Dementia-Friendly Pharmacies, Healthy Lifestyles, Improving the Quality of Life for People with Long Term Conditions, Informal Carers, Information and Signposting Services, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Long Term Conditions and Mental Health, Long-Term Conditions, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Long-Term Conditions and Dementia, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Medication Management, Medicines Adherence, Medicines Optimisation, Medicines Optimisation in Primary Care, Multidisciplinary Care, Multidisciplinary Team Care, Multidisciplinary Teamwork, Multiple Long-Term Conditions, NHS Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF), NHS Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (the Pharmacy Contract), Older Community-Dwelling Adults, Pharmacist-Led Home Medication Reviews, Pharmacy Quality Payments Scheme, Pharmacy: Aston University, Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing, Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing (PIP), Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Primary Care and Community Pharmacy Network, Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Qualitative Exploratory Study, Qualitative Research, Qualitative Studies, Quality of Life for People With Long Term Conditions, Reducing Emergency Admissions Through Community-Based Interventions, School of Life and Health Sciences: Aston University, Self-Care, Self-Directed Support for Long Term Conditions, Self-Management, Self-Management Education, Self-Management in Chronic Illness, Self-Management in Early Stage Dementia, Self-Management of Long-Term Illnesses, Self-Management Support, Signposting, Signposting Patient Information, Signposting to Appropriate Health Services, Signposting to Sources of Practical Help, Support for Self-Care, Supporting Self-Care, University of East Anglia, University of Hull, Unmet Needs of Community-Dwelling Older Persons, Unpaid Carers | Leave a comment

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