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World Mental Health Day (WHO / BBC News / DHSC / Lancet / PHE / Education Policy Institute / NAO / HEE / APPG on Mental Health)

Posted on October 10, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Today is World Mental Health Day, which has aroused lots of announcements and initiatives. First Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care re-visited the national ambition for mental health to have … Continue reading →

Quality Improvement in Urgent and Emergency Care (NHS Improvement / NHS England / Department of Health)

Posted on August 18, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary An earlier BBC News description of the problem: Full Text Link Reference Cawley, L. (2017). Four-hour accident and emergency waits rise 300% at some hospitals. London: BBC Health News, March 16th 2017. Further context and introductory analysis: Full Text … Continue reading →

NHS England’s Five Year Forward View: Next Steps On (NHS England)

Posted on April 1, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The latest official review of progress against the NHS Five Year Forward View, marking two and a half years since it was launched in October 2014, presents practical and realistic strategic steps intended to allow the NHS deliver better … Continue reading →

NHS Performance Targets: Something Had to Give? (BBC News / NHS England)

Posted on March 31, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary NHS patients in England will experience longer waits for routine elective hospital operations, such as knee and hip replacements, as compliance with the 18-week performance target is “relaxed”, pragmatically, as a trade-off for achieving improved services in cancer care, … 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, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged 62 Day Cancer Waiting Standard, 62 Day Cancer Waiting Standard: Breaches, Ageing Population, BBC Health News, Cancer Survival, Cancer Survival Rates in England, Cancer Waiting Times, Closing the Cancer Survival Gap, Closing the Finance and Efficiency Gap, Closing the Funding and Efficiency Gap, Duty of Best Value, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency Savings, Elective Waiting Times, Failure to Meet Patients’ Needs, Finance, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Issues, Financial Management, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Five Year Forward View (FYFV) for Mental Health, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Hospital Waiting Times, Long Waiting Times, Next steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View (2017), NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Five Year Forward View: Two and a Half Years On, Patient Safety, Performance Targets, Planned Failure, Pragmatic Strategy (NHS England), Rationing, Rationing Care, Rationing: Limiting the NHS, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Sustainability, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, UK Statistics Authority (UKSA), Upward Spending Pressures, Waiting Time Standards, Waiting Time Target Breaches | Leave a comment

BBC’s State of the NHS: Keep Calm and Carry-On (BBC News)

Posted on February 10, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Continuing in the vein of the broad theme of BMJ’s mini-series on the NHS in 2017, BBC News is currently running a short season of news pieces on the State of the NHS (and social care). Concentrating the Mind … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Delirium, Department of Health, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Northern Ireland, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wales | Tagged A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, Ageing Population, Assaults, Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, BBC Health News, BBC News: Today (Radio 4), BBC Panorama, BBC Politics News, BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, BBC's NHS Week (2017), BBC's World At One Programme, Beacon Medical Group (Plymouth), Bed Availability and Occupancy, Bed Availability and Occupancy: NHS Statistical Trends, Bed Shortages, Better Care Fund (BCF), Bristol Royal Infirmary, Care Closer to Home, Care Home Admission Delay, Care of Older People, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Councillor Izzi Seccombe: Local Government Association (LGA), David McNulty: Surrey County Council, David Williams: Chief Officer for Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Demand and Capacity, Demand for A&E, Economic Sustainability, Fewer Older People Receiving Help with Social Care, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Funding Deficits, Funding for Front-Line Healthcare Versus Social Care, Germany, Germany's Healthcare System, Gesundes Kinzigtal, Gesundes Kinzigtal Model, Glasgow City Council, Health and Care of Older People, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Demand, Historic Increases in NHS Funding Slowing (Relatively), Hospital Discharge Delays, Humanitarian Crisis in NHS Hospitals and Ambulance Services (Allegation), Hywel Dda University Health Board, Increases in NHS Spending Slowed (Relatively), International Comparisons, Ipsos Mori, Ipsos MORI Issues Index (January 2017), Izzi Seccombe: Warwickshire County Council Leader, Local Government Association: LGA, London Borough of Newham, London Borough of Sutton, Long Waiting Times, Low Morale, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, More Spent on Front-Line Healthcare Than Social Care, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, Multidisciplinary Teams, Multidisciplinary Teamwork, National Living Wage in Social Care Sector, NHS Assaults, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, NHS Health Check Series: BBC News (2017), NHS in 2017: Service Under Pressure, NHS Protect, NHS Protect: Formerly NHS Counter Fraud Services, NHS Sustainability, Niall Dickson: NHS Confederation, Operations Cancelled Due to Bed Shortages, Panorama (BBC TV), Patient Handover Delays, Patient Safety, Physical Assaults on NHS Staff, Primary Care Home Model, Primary Care Homes, Professor Keith Willett: NHS England, Proportion of Public Spending on Health, Provider Sustainability, Public Perceptions of the NHS and Social Care Tracker (Ipsos MORI), Quality and Sustainability, RCEM’s Steps to Rebuilding Emergency Medicine, Reverse-Acting Hawthorne Effect (Speculative Construct), Robert Bosch Foundation, Routine Operations (Cancellations), Royal Blackburn Hospital, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Sir Robert Francis QC, Social Care Funding 2017: Reality Checks (BBC News), Staffing Levels, State of the NHS (BBC News), Steps to Rebuilding Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainable Funding, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Today, Urgent and Emergency Services: 2016-7 Winter From Hell (Allegation), Waiting Times, Wakefield Vanguard Care Homes Scheme, Winter From Hell: 2016-7 (Allegation), Winter Pressures, Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust | Leave a comment

Five Priorities for NHS and Social Care in 2017 (King’s Fund / BBC News / BMJ / Nuffield Trust)

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

Summary 2017 is going to be challenging for the NHS and social care, as the demand for care outstrips the supply of funding / resources. A King’s Fund briefing identifies five main priorities for the year ahead: Supporting new care … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, 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, Nuffield Trust, Quick Insights, RCN, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, A&E Safe Staffing Levels, Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs), Adult Social Care Funding, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Alleged Humanitarian Crisis in NHS (Under-Funding for Social Care), Ambulance Diversions (Away From Over-Stretched Hospitals), Ambulance Diversions (“Diverts”), Available Beds, Bailouts and Rewards for Failure, Barker Commission, BBC News: Today (Radio 4), BBC Newsnight, BBC Politics News, BBC Radio 4 Today, BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, BBC Radio 4: Today Programme, BBC Regional News: Hereford and Worcester, Bed Availability and Occupancy, 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Pressures, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, Worcestershire Royal Hospital | Leave a comment

Overstretched and Under-Resourced Elderly Hospital Eye Services? (BBC News / BBC News Magazine)

Posted on March 20, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary It is likely that “hundreds” of NHS patients in England every year may suffer irreversible sight loss, or potentially avoidable deterioration of vision, due to hospital eye services being overstretched and under-resourced. Increased demand for follow-up appointments has arisen … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Ageing in the UK, Ageing Population, Avoidable Harm, BBC Health News, BBC News Magazine, BBC's Scrubbing Up Magazine, Better Care Together Vanguard in South Cumbria and North Lancashire, Chronic Eye Diseases, Clinical Council for Eye Health Commissioning, College of Optometrists, Common Eye Conditions, Community Ophthalmology Services, David Geddes: National Head of Primary Care Commissioning at NHS England, David Parkins: Chair of Clinical Council for the Commissioning of Eye Health, Demand and Capacity, Demand Management, Demand on Eye Clinics, Demand-Side Factors, Diabetic Eye Disease, East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, East Lancashire Integrated Eyecare Service, Elderly Hospital Eye Services, Eye Clinic Attendances, Follow-Up Appointments, Follow-Up Appointments Waiting Times, Follow-Up Appointments Waiting Times: Absence of Hospital Targets, Follow-Up Appointments Waiting Times: Absence of Statistics, Geographical Variations, Glaucoma, Harm From Hospital-Initiated Delays for Follow-Up Appointments, Hospital Eye Services, Hospital-Initiated Delays for Follow-Up Appointments, Local Optical Committee Support Unit, Local Variations, Long Waiting Times, Macular Degeneration, Moorfields Eye Hospital, National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS), NHS Eye Health Summit (June 2016), Ophthalmology (Hospital Episode Statistics), Ophthalmology Departments, Outpatient Appointments: Ophthalmology, Prof Carrie MacEwen: President of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Regional Variations, Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Sight Loss, Step-Down Eye Care in High-Street Optical Practices, Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Variations in Care, Variations in Quality of Care, Variations in Spending, Visual Impairment | Leave a comment

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