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Tag Archives: Interdisciplinary Teams
NHS England’s Pharmacy Integration Fund (NHS England / BBC News)
Summary Care home residents often have multiple long-term conditions and are often prescribed several different medicines (polypharmacy). NHS England plans to fund recruitment of 180 pharmacists and 60 pharmacy technicians who will work with care homes to try to reduce … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Falls Prevention, 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, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Achieving Better Value, Ageing Population, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, BBC Health News, Better Value, Better Value Healthcare, Better Value in the NHS, Care and Support for People With Dementia in Care Homes, Care Home Pharmacists, Care Home Pharmacists to Cut Overmedication, Care Homes, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Care of Older People Living in Care Homes, Clinical Pharmacists, Community Pharmacists, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Confusion in Care Homes, Dementia Care in Care Homes, Discontinuation of Multiple Medications in Older Adults, Drug Cost Savings, East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, Economic Sustainability, English Pharmacy Board, Financial Constraints, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Frail Older People, Good Practice in Care Homes, Harms of Too Much Medicine, Hospital Pharmacists, Hospital‑Based Multidisciplinary Teams: Pharmacists, Imelda Redmond: Healthwatch England, Improving Care for Frail Older People, Improving Patient Safety, Improving Pharmaceutical Care in Care Homes, Improving Prescribing Practice, Improving Standards in Care Homes, Inappropriate Drug Use, Inappropriate Medication, Inappropriate Prescribing, Integrated Care in Northumberland, Interdisciplinary Teams, Later Life, Less is More, Liaison and In-Reach Services for Frail Older People, Living Well in Care Homes, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Lowering Costs, Managing Medicines in Care Homes, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Medical Overuse, Medication Reviews, Medication Reviews in Care Homes, Models of Enhanced Health in Care Homes, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), Multi-Disciplinary Teams, Multi-Disciplinary Working, Multi-Morbidities, Multimorbidities and Long-Term Conditions, Multiple Long-Term Conditions, Multiple Medications (Polypharmacy), NHS East and North Hertfordshire CCG, NHS England Local Area Teams: Frail Older People With Complex Needs, NHS England Pharmacy Integration Fund, Northumberland, Older Care Home Residents, Older People, Older People With Complex Needs, Older People's Care, Oral Nutritional Support, Over-Medication, Over-Prescribing, Over-Treatment, Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment, Overmedicaton in Care Homes, Overprescription, Overuse of Medication, Patient Harms, Patient Safety, Patients With Polypharmacy Risks, Pharmacist-Led Care Home Medication Reviews, Pharmacist-Led Medication Reviews, Pharmacists, Pharmacists to Cut Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Pharmacy Integration Fund (NHS England), Pharmacy Technicians, Polypharmacy, Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventative Care, Preventing Acute Admissions from Care Homes, Prevention, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Preventive Care, Primary Care, Primary Care Alternatives to Emergency Hospital Admissions, Proactive Specialist In-Reach, Protecting Resources and Promoting Value, Redesigning Services, Reducing Expenditure, Reducing Inappropriate Polypharmacy, Reducing Prescribing Costs, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Reducing Wasted Medications, Research in Care Homes, Sandra Gidley: Chair of Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s English Pharmacy Board, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Transforming Care for Frail Older People, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Value for Money, Value Improvement, Wellbeing in Care Homes
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Organising and Managing Multidisciplinary Teams in Local Government (PHE)
Summary This Public Health England (PHE) document covers the employment of public health professionals working as consultants in public health and directors of public health. These individual are included on the GMC Specialist Register / GDC Specialist List or the … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, National, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH), Directors of Public Health, Faculty of Public Health (FPH), Flexible Workforce, GMC Specialist Register / GDC Specialist List, Improving Local Public Health, Interdisciplinary Teams, Local Authorities (LAs), Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs), Local Government, Local Government Association: LGA, Local Government National Joint Council (NJC) Unions, Local Public Health, Local Public Health Services, Local Public Health Specialists, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), Multi-Disciplinary Working, Multidisciplinary Approaches to Public Health, Multidisciplinary Teams, Multidisciplinary Teams in Local Government Context, National Joint Council for Local Government Services, NJC Job Evaluation Scheme, NJC Public Health Group, Northern Ireland LGA, PHE: Public Health England, Public Health, Public Health England (PHE), Public Health in the 21st Century, Public Health Practitioners, Public Health Skills Passport, Public Health Specialists in Local Authorities, Public Health Specialty Training, Public Health Workforce, Public Health Workforce Strategy, Royal College of Physicians: Faculty of Public Health (FPH), Skill Mix, Skills Mix, UK Public Health Register (UKPHR) for Public Health Specialists, UK Public Health Skills and Knowledge Framework, Welsh LGA, Workforce and Skill Mix, Workforce Development, Workforce Issues, Workforce Planning
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Human Brain Project (HBP): New Paradigm or New Confusion? (BBC News)
Summary Senior neuroscientists have released an open letter to the EC which is critical about the European Human Brain Project (HBP). Critics assert that this project, aimed at attempting to simulate the human brain, has drifted off-course. They are demanding … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, Quick Insights, Universal Interest
Tagged Artificial Intelligence, Big Science, BRAIN Initiative (US), BRAIN Initiative and Human Brain Project (Similarities), Brain Research, Brain Simulation, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme (Portugal), Cognitive Architectures, Collaboration, Collaborative Innovation Networks, Collaborative Projects, Collaborative Working, Computer Models, Convergence of ICT and Biology, Data Driven Paradigm in Neuroscience, Data Sharing, Databrary Project, Dementia Diagnosis, Diagnosis, Diagnostic Imaging, Differential Diagnosis, Digital Technology, eMERGE Consortium, Emerging Technology, EPFL: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Ethics and Society, Ethics and Society Programme, Europe, European Commission (EC), European Commission and Member States, European Human Brain Project, European Research Council, European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing, European Union, Exascale Roadmap of the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA), FET Flagship Project, Framework Proposal Agreement (FPA), Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Functional Neurology, Future Computing, Future Medicine, Future Neuroscience, Future of Brain Research, Graphene Flagship, HBP Consortium, High Performance Computing, Human Brain Project, Human Connectome Project, Human Genome Project, Human Genome Project (HGP), ICT, Information Technology, Interdisciplinary Teams, International Organisations, International Programmes, Machine Learning, Mathematical and Theoretical Foundations of Brain Research, Medical Informatics, Multi-Disciplinary Working, Multidisciplinary Research Teams, Multidisciplinary Teams, Neurodegeneration, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Neuroinformatics, Neurological Disease, Neurology, Neuromorphic Computers, Neuromorphic Computing, Neuromorphic Computing Systems (NCS), Neurorobotics, Neuroscience in Europe, Open Neuroscience Movement, Open Neuroscience Projects, Partnership and Collaboration, Politics of Openness, Research and Development, Research and Innovation, Research Funding, Research Mapping, Research Networks, Simulations, Society for Neuroscience, Strategic Human Brain Data, Strategic Mouse Brain Data, Supercomputing, Tianhe-2 Supercomputer, Transdisciplinary Education, Transformative Technology, U.S. BRAIN Initiative, Yottabytes (Bytes 10 to the Power 24)
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HBP: Human Brain Project (BBC News)
Summary Scientists from 135 research institutions, mostly Europe-based, are planning to participate in a 10-year, 1 billion pound neuroscience project, entitled the Human Brain Project (HBP). The HBP aims to explore how the human brain works, possibly ultimately developing computer simulations of brain activity, neurological processes and neurodegenerative … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Studies, BBC News, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Artificial Intelligence, Brain Research, Brain Simulation, Cognitive Architectures, Collaboration, Collaborative Innovation Networks, Collaborative Projects, Collaborative Working, Computer Models, Convergence of ICT and Biology, Dementia Diagnosis, Diagnosis, Diagnostic Imaging, Differential Diagnosis, Digital Technology, Emerging Technology, EPFL: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Ethics and Society, Ethics and Society Programme, Europe, European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing, European Union, Exascale Roadmap of the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA), Functional Neurology, Future Computing, Future Medicine, Future Neuroscience, Future of Brain Research, HBP Competitive Call, HBP Consortium, HBP Ethical Legal and Social Aspects Committee (ELSA), High Performance Computing, Human Brain Project, Human Genome Project, ICT, Information Technology, Interdisciplinary Teams, International Organisations, International Programmes, Machine Learning, Mathematical and Theoretical Foundations of Brain Research, Medical Informatics, Multi-Disciplinary Working, Multidisciplinary Research Teams, Multidisciplinary Teams, Neurodegeneration, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Neuroinformatics, Neurological Disease, Neurology, Neuromorphic Computers, Neuromorphic Computing, Neuromorphic Computing Systems (NCS), Neurorobotics, Neuroscience in Europe, Partnership and Collaboration, Research and Development, Research and Innovation, Research Ethics Committee (REC), Research Funding, Research Mapping, Research Networks, Simulations, SpiNNaker Project, Strategic Human Brain Data, Strategic Mouse Brain Data, Supercomputing, Tianhe-2 Supercomputer, Transdisciplinary Education, Transformative Technology, University of Manchester
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