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Tag Archives: Integrated Care Services
Personal Health Budgets: Briefing (NHS Confederation / BBC News / Pulse)
Summary This NHS Confederation briefing (Issue 275) offers guidance to commissioners, and providers of NHS-funded care, who are introducing personal health budgets. “A personal health budget is an amount of money to support a person’s health and wellbeing needs, planned … Continue reading
Posted in 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, NHS, NHS Confederation, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Personal Health and Care Budgets (BBC News / NHS England)
Summary Vulnerable patients will be offered their own personal health and care budgets, the says Simon Stevens, NHS England’s Chief Executive. Approximately five million people should be offered personal budgets which combine health and social care funding by 2018. Full … Continue reading
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House of Commons Health Select Committee Speaks-Out on Community-Based Care (BBC News)
Summary MPs have pointed-out that cutting back on hospital services in England, before community services are geared up to provide care out-of-hospital, is likely to pose a recipe for disaster. Full Text Link Reference Triggle, N. (2014). Out-of-hospital plan ‘a recipe … Continue reading
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Simon Stevens Address to NHS Confederation Annual Conference (BBC News / NHS England)
Summary Simon Stevens, NHS England’s Chief Executive, has spoken at the NHS Confederation Annual Conference about possible solutions to the main challenges for the NHS: Growing population: three million more people in England by the end of the decade. Ageing … Continue reading
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Baseline Assessment Tool on Dementia (NICE)
Summary An Excel spreadsheet (the “Baseline assessment tool on Dementia”) has been released by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to help organisations identify how well they comply with practice recommended in NICE guidance. It is intended … Continue reading
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