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Tag Archives: Leicester
NHS Reconfiguration + STPs = Cut-Backs?: Two Sides of Same Equation? (NHS England / King’s Fund / Nuffield Trust / BBC 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
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, 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, King's Fund, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Nuffield Trust, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 38 Degrees (Campaign Group), 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, Accountability and Transparency, Achieving Better Value, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, £1.8 Billion One-Off NHS Trust Deficits Bailout, Better Care Fund (BCF), Better Care Together (BCT), Better Value, Better Value Healthcare, Better Value in the NHS, Challenges of Reconfiguration, Chorley and South Ribble Hospital, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Collaboration, Collaboration for Coordinated Care, Collaboration: Working Across Boundaries, Councillor Izzi Seccombe: Local Government Association (LGA), County Hospital (Previously Stafford Hospital), David Pearson: Director of Adult Social Care of Nottinghamshire County Council - Nottinghamshire STP Footprint Lead, Deficits in the NHS 2016 (King’s Fund), Dr Clifford Mann: President of the College of Emergency Medicine, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency Opportunities, Efficiency Savings, Emergency Care Improvement Programme (ECIP), Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response (EPRR), Faustian Pact: Trading £8 Billion in Extra Funding For £22 Billion in Efficiency Savings, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Incentives Across Local Health and Social Care Systems (Proposals), Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressure on Hospitals, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Frail Older People, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding Gap in Secondary Care, General Hospitals, Grantham and District Hospital, Health and Social Care Configuration, Honesty and Transparency, Hospital Productivity, Hospital Reconfiguration, House of Commons Health Committee’s Inquiry Into Winter Pressures (2016), How Things Went £3.7 Billion Wrong, Implications of Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs): Inadequate Public Consultation (King’s Fund Allegation), Implications of Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs): Pre-Determined Solutions, Improving Patient Flow, Incipient Negativism, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integration of Health and Social Care, Jeremy Taylor (Chief Executive of National Voices), Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, Leicester, Leicester Leicestershire and Rutland STP Footprint, LLR STP, Local Solutions: Place-Based Approaches, Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Midlands and East Commissioning Region, Midlands and East of England Commissioning Region, Multi-Agency Collaboration, Multisectoral Collaboration, NHS Challenges and New Solutions, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England Funding, NHS Expenditure, NHS Finances to 2020, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Foundation Trust Performance, NHS Foundation Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts (NHSFTs), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Midlands and East, NHS Performance, NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Productivity, NHS Providers, NHS Safe Staffing, NHS Service Reconfiguration, NHS Spending, NHS Sustainability, NHS Timebomb [sic], Openness and Collaboration, Optimism Bias (In the Face of Difficulties), Partnership and Collaboration, Performance Indicators, Performance Targets, Policy, Policy Context, Population Health, Population Health Systems, Population Healthcare, Productivity, Productivity in the NHS, RDEL, Redesigning Care Pathways, Redesigning Services, Reducing Drains on the NHS, Reducing Overuse Underuse and Misuse, Richard Murray: Director of Policy at the King’s Fund, Richard Taylor Effect [sic], Rising Expectations, Safe Staffing, Sir Bruce Keogh (Former Chief Executive of the NHS Commissioning Board; now NHS England), Stevens Challenge, STP Footprints, STP Process Timeline Summary, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Fund (STF), Sustainability and Transformation Leaders, Sustainability and Transformation Plan, Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP), Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainability and Transformation Plans: Questions Over Opaque Development Practices, System Control Totals (Financial Targets), System Leadership, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Toby Sanders: Accountable Officer of West Leicestershire CCG - Leicester of Leicestershire and Rutland STP Footprint Lead, Toby Sanders: Chief Officer at NHS West Leicestershire CCG, Top-Down Policy (Masquerading as Collaboration), Towards Excellence in Adult Social Care Programme (LGA), Transformation Footprints, Transformation Funding, Transparency, Transparency Versus The Richard Taylor Effect, Troubled NHS Foundation Trusts, Turning the Ship Around (Avoidance of NHS Unsustainability), Unit Costs Up + Activity Up = Commissioners Go Bust, Upward Spending Pressures, Waiting Time Standards, Waiting Time Target Breaches, Weston Area Health NHS Trust, Weston General Hospital, Winter Pressures, Winter Pressures Beyond Winter (Winter Re-Defined?)
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Seven Day NHS Services: Coming Soon? (BBC News / Department of Health / HSCIC)
Summary It was announced, coinciding with the Conservative Party Conference, that GPs in England will be offered a voluntary contract to provide seven day services for patients. Seven day hospital services should be operational in half of England by 2018 … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 7-Day GP Services by 2020, 7-Day Hospital Services, Admitted Patient Care (APC) Dataset, £10 Billion of Investment in NHS, £750 Million Primary Care Infrastructure Fund, BBC Health News, Care Seven Days a Week, Chesterfield, Clinical Indicators Team (HSCIC), Conservative Party, Conservative Party Conference (2015), Consultant-Led Services, David Cameron, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital Within 7 Days of Discharge, Federations, General Practice Networks, GP Contract to Deliver 7 Day Access, Greater Manchester, Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), HES APC Dataset, Indicators, Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, Length of Stay, Length of Stay (LoS), Length of Stay Following an Emergency Admission to Hospital, Making Healthcare More Human-Centred and Not System-Centred, NHS Alliance, North East, North West London, Northumberland, Northumbria, Primary Care Foundation, Primary Care Infrastructure Fund, Prime Minister's Office, Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund (PMCF), Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund for GP Access, Readmissions, Reduction in Bureaucracy, Roll-Out of 7-day Services in Hospitals, Seven Day Care in England, Seven Day Services, Seven Day Services and Destabilisation of Care (Allegation), Seven-Day Consultant-Delivered Care, Seven-Day GP Access, Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day NHS Services, Seven-Day Opening, Seven-Day Services – England: Provisional January 2014 - December 2014 Statistics, Seven-Day Working, Southampton, Staffing Levels, Sustainable Funding, Sweating the Assets, Weekend Services, Weekend Working, Wigan
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Reducing Unplanned Admissions by People Aged 85 Years+ (NIHR / Health Services and Delivery Research / BBC News)
Summary Three sites where hospital admission rates for people aged 85 years and over had risen sharply, and three sites where these rates had declined, were studied in order to investigate local differences in strategies for avoiding the need for … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, 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, NIHR, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK
Tagged Access to Health and Social Care Support, Acute Care, Acute Care Collaboration, Acute Care Services, Acute Medical Care for Frail Older People, Ageing Population, Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions (ACSCs), Ambulatory Emergency Care (AEC), Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Better Care Together, Business School: University of Nottingham, Care Closer to Home, Care Homes, Commissioning Home Care, Community Care, Community Care Services, Community Health Services, Community Health Services Ease Winter Pressures on Hospitals, Community Health Services Forum, Community Nursing, Department of Health Sciences: University of Leicester, Department of Public Health: NHS Northamptonshire, Dr Stephanie Machin: Robin Hood Health Centre in Sutton, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Ambulance Services, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Services, ESCAPE 85+: Establishing System Change for Admissions of People 85+, Establishing System Change for Admissions of People 85+ (ESCAPE 85+), Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Factors in Increased Use of Urgent and Emergency Care, Health and Care of Older People, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Services and Delivery Research, Health Services and Delivery Research (HS&DR) Programme, Health Services and Delivery Research Programme (NIHR), Home Care, Integration of Health and Care, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Leicester, Local Health and Care Economies, Local Health and Care Services, Loughborough, Loughborough University, Matthew Winn: Chair of NHS Confederation Community Health Services Forum, McKinsey 7S Framework, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), NHS Confederation Community Health Services Forum, NHS Northamptonshire, NHS Service Reconfiguration, NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Programme, Northampton, Nottingham, Out of Hospital Community Care, Out-of-Hospital Urgent Care, Out-of-Hospital Urgent Care Programme, Out-of-Hours General Practice, Out-of-Hours Primary Care, Pathways for Frail and Vulnerable People, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Readmissions, Reducing Early Hospital Readmissions, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unplanned Admissions in People Aged 85 Years and Over, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Residential Care Homes, SPA: Single Point of Access, STARS: Short Term Assessment and Reablement Service, Sutton Homes of Care Vanguard, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, University of Leicester, University of Nottingham, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Unscheduled Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Services, Urgent Care Axis (Silver Book), Urgent Care Axis: Points for Intervention (Jay Banerjee’s Silver Book), Urgent Care Centres (UCCs), Urgent Care Centres (Walk-In and Minor Injuries Units), Urgent Care Services Outside of Hospitals, Whole System Change, Whole System Integration, Whole System Partnership, Whole System Patient Flows, Whole Systems Approach, Whole Systems Redesign, Winter Pressures, Winter Pressures: Role of Community Health Services, Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering: Loughborough University
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