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Tag Archives: Moving Healthcare Closer to Home
Dementia-Friendly Hospital Wards (NHS England)
Summary Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director for Dementia and Older People’s Mental Health at NHS England and NHS Improvement has issued comments about dementia-friendly design for hospital wards, and various steps towards delivering dementia-related priorities outlined in the NHS Long Term … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 1950s Style Reminiscence Rooms, Achieving Dementia Friendly Acute care, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Acute Medical Ward for Dementia, Ageing Population, Airedale Hospital, Alistair Burns: NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Dementia, Alistair Burns: NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Older People’s Mental Health, Butterfly Tea Rooms, Care Closer to Home, Colour Coding, Contrast, Creating Dementia Friendly Hospitals, Dementia Care in Acute General Hospitals, Dementia Care in Acute Settings, Dementia Care in General Hospitals, Dementia Friendly Acute Hospitals, Dementia Virtual Wards, Dementia-Friendly Adaptions, Dementia-Friendly Cities, Dementia-Friendly Design, Dementia-Friendly Environmental Design, Dementia-Friendly Environments, Dementia-Friendly Hospitals, Dementia-Friendly Specifications, Dementia-Friendly Wards, Early Supported Discharge (ESD), Emma Bould: Alzheimer’s Society, Environmental Design, Interactive Wall Features., Long Term Plan (LTP), Making Buildings Easier for People With Dementia, Memories Pubs, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, NHS Long Term Plan (2019), NHS Long Term Plan: Implementation, Patient Harms and Harm Free Care, Pop-Up Cinema Boothes, Pop-Up Pubs, Professor Alistair Burns, Reducing Agitation and Distress, Reducing Avoidable Harm, Reducing Harm, REM Pods, Reminiscence, Reminiscence Pods, Reminiscence Rooms, RemPods (Trade Mark), Shop Front Wall Murals, Vintage Memorabilia
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Care and Support of Older People With Learning Disabilities (NICE)
Summary The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has released a guideline on the care and support people with learning disabilities as they get older, including their access to suitable services. It covers: “ …identifying changing needs, planning for … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Housing, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NICE Guidelines, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, Telecare, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Care, Access to General Practice, Access to GP Services, Access to Healthcare Services, Annual Learning Disability Health Checks, Barriers to Support, Care and Support of Older People With Learning Disabilities, Care and Support of Older People With Learning Disabilities: NICE Guidance (NG96), Care Closer to Home, Care Planning, Care Planning (Community), Caregiver Support, Challenging Behaviour, Community Services, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Dementia-Friendly Care for People With Learning Disabilities, Down’s Syndrome and Dementia, End of Life Care for Older People With Learning Disabilities, Jonathan Senker: Chief Executive of VoiceAbility, Later Life, Learning Disabilities, Learning Disabilities-Friendly Environments, Learning Disabilities-Friendly Environments: Acute Hospitals, Learning Disabilities-Friendly Environments: Community Services, Learning Disabilities-Friendly Environments: Dentistry, Learning Disabilities-Friendly Environments: Emergency Departments, Learning Disabilities-Friendly Environments: Learning Disability Services, Learning Disabilities-Friendly Environments: Mental Health Services, Learning Disabilities-Friendly Environments: Primary Care (GPs), Learning Disabilities-Related Barriers to Accessing NHS Services, Learning Disabilities: Improving Health Outcomes, Learning Disabilities: Monitoring Service Quality, Learning Disability Statistics: Support, Management of Challenging Behaviour, Margaret Lally: Guideline Committee Chair, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, Named Case Managers, Named Contacts Providing Continuity, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Neurological Disorders, Older People With Learning Disabilities, Patient Advocates, Personalised Technology for Building Social Contact, Primary Care (GPs), Protecting Vulnerable People, Reducing Health Inequalities, Registration With Family Doctor as Having a Learning Disability to Access Extra Support, Social Contacts, Social Networks, Statistics on Challenging Behaviour in Learning Disability, Support for Carers, Supporting Health Wellbeing and Independence, Telemonitoring, Uptake of Health Checks for Adults with Learning Disabilities, Vulnerable Groups, Vulnerable Older People
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Transformation of Health and Care in Wales: a Revolution from Within (BBC News / Welsh Government)
Summary The Parliamentary Review of Health and Social Care in Wales provides an inspiring vision of future directions in service provision, with proposals which are likely to be studied more widely. Dr Ruth Hussey the former Chief Medical Officer for … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, 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, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Parkinson's Disease, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, Statistics, Stroke, Telecare, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Tagged A Revolution from Within: Transforming Health and Care in Wales, Achieving Better Value, Adoption of Innovations, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB), Bangor University, Best Value for Taxpayers, Board of Community Health Councils (CHCs), Bureaucracy and Culture, Canterbury District Health Board: DHB (New Zealand), Capacity and Capability, Capacity to Care, Care Closer to Home, Carer Support, Carer Support in Wales, Carer Support Services, Carers Trust Wales, Carers Wales, Change Management, Change Management and Empowerment, Commissioning Carer Support Services, Commissioning for Value, Communities First, Community Health Councils (CHCs), Continuing Learning and Development, Continuous Quality Improvement, Coordinated Health and Social Care, Dementia Awareness Training, Dementia Screening, Dementia Training, Dementia-Friendly Hospitals, Digital Technology, Digital Technology and Innovation, Discharge From Hospital to Primary Care, Dr Chineze Ivenso: Chair of Old Age Faculty at Royal College of Psychiatrists in Wales, Dr David Bailey: Chairman of BMA Wales, Dr Jennifer Dixon CBE (Health Foundation), Dr Ruth Hussey: Former Chief Medical Officer for Wales, Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease, Early Diagnosis of Dementia, Eric Gregory: Chair of the Assembly Commission Audit and Risk Assurance Committee, Experience of Care, First 1000 Days Collaborative, Future Generation Goals, Global and National Perspective on Dementia (National Assembly for Wales), Good Governance, Great Place to Work, Health and Social Care Reform, Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW), Health Technology Wales (HTW, Helen Howson: Director of Bevan Commission (Think-Tank), Impact of Delayed Health Treatment in Wales (Our Lives on Hold: Report), Improving Population Health, Innovation, Innovation Technology and Infrastructure, Integration, Integration of Health and Social Care, International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurements (ICHOM), Jönköping County Council, Jönköping County Council: Sweden, Joined-Up Care, Joined-Up Strategy to Improve Whole System Flow, Learning and Developing Continuously, Learning Culture, Life Sciences Hub Wales, Listening and Learning System, Listening to Patients, Listening to Patients Families and Staff, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Care and Support, Making Change Happen, Making Choices Together, Making Choices Together (Previously Choosing Wisely Wales), Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, My Health Text, National Assembly for Wales, National Transformation Programme (Wales), New Models of Care, New Models of Care Vanguards, New Models of Seamless Care, NHS 70 Celebrations, NHS Productivity, NHS Sustainability, NHS Wales Delivery Framework, NHS Wales Efficiency and Healthcare Value Improvement Group (NWEHVIG), NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP), NHS’s 70th Birthday, Nigel Edwards: Nuffield Trust, Nuka System, Nuka System of Care, Once for Wales Principles, Parliamentary Review of Health and Social Care in Wales, Parliamentary Review of Health and Social Care in Wales: Interim Report (2017), Partnership and Collaboration, Partnership Working, Patient Experience, People in Control, PET Scans, Population Health, Population Health and Prevention, Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Preventative Support for Adult Carers, Preventative Support for Adult Carers in Wales (SCIE Rapid Review), Preventative Support for Carers, Principles of Good Governance, Productivity, Professor Anne Marie Rafferty: Dean of Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King's College London, Professor Chris Marshall: Wales Research and Diagnostic PET Imaging Centre, Professor Dame Carol Black DBE, Professor Don Berwick, Professor Keith Moultrie: Institute of Public Care at Oxford Brookes University, Professor Sir Mansel Aylward, Prosperity for All (Welsh Government), Prudent Health Care, Prudent Healthcare (Bevan Commission), Public Health Wales, Public Service Boards (PSBs), Quadruple Aim for All, Quality and Sustainability, Quality Improvement, Quality of Care, Reduction in Bureaucracy, Royal College of Psychiatrists in Wales, Screening for Dementia, Seamless Care Between Settings, Seamless System for Wales, Shared Decision-Making, Shared Lives Wales, Situational Analysis, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Social Care Wales (SCW), Social Services and Wellbeing Act Principles, Staff Engagement, Staff Shortages, Systems for Change, Team Manager Development Programme for Wales, Technology and Infrastructure Development, Transforming Health and Care in Wales, Tredegar Workmen’s Medical Aid Society, University Hospital of Wales (UHW), Value for Money, Vanessa Young: Director of NHS Confederation, Vaughan Gething: Welsh Health Secretary, Wales Research and Diagnostic PET Imaging Centre, Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act, Wellbeing of the Health and Care Workforce, Welsh Community Care Information System (WCCIS), Welsh Government, Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care: University of South Wales, Welsh Language, WHO Global Action Plan on the Public Health Response to Dementia 2017-2025, Whole System Integration, Whole Systems Redesign, Whole-System Approaches
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Primary Care Home: a New Model of Primary Care (NAPC / Nuffield Trust / SCIE / PA Consulting Group)
Summary The National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) has recently proposed an alternative model pf primary care, which is intended to realign primary care resources around the health and social needs of local communities. It involves “primary, community, mental, social … 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, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nuffield Trust, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wolverhampton
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Tagged 1st Care Cumbria: Primary Care Home (PCH) Test Site, 3Sixty Care: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs), Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Ashford Clinical Providers Network Ltd (Federation): Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Barriers to the PCH Model, Beacon Medical Group: Primary Care Home (PCH) Test Site, Better Out-of-Hospital Care to Prevent Attendance and Admissions, Beyond Integrated Care: Population Health Systems, Broadstairs PCH: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Burgess Hill and Villages PCH: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Care Closer to Home, Care Homes, Central Crewe Cluster: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Clarity of Terminology (Improvement), Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Collaboration, Collaboration: Working Across Boundaries, Collaborative Care, Collaborative Care or Combined Teams, Collaborative Care Planning, Collaborative Care Teams, Collaborative Working, Community Health Initiatives, Community Involvement, Complex Patients at Risk of Hospital Admission, Derwentside Healthcare LTD: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Diabetes Care, Diabetes Epidemic, Diabetes Prevention, Discharge and Out of Hospital Care, Dorking Primary Care Home: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Durham Dales Easington and Sedgefield CCG: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, East Cornwall Primary Care Home: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, East Norfolk Medical Practice: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Economic Sustainability, Enablers for the PCH Model, Evaluation of PCH Model, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships, Frail Patients on Discharge From Hospital, Frailty, Frailty Clinics, Hammersmith and Fulham GP Federation (Network3): Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Hampstead Primary Care Neighbourhood: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Hard to Reach Groups, Hard-to-Engage Diabetics, Haywards Heath PCH: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Services, Healthy East Grinstead Partnership: Primary Care Home (PCH) Test Site, Herne Bay Health Care: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Horsham PCH: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, IHI Triple Aim, Improving Local Public Health, Improving Population Health, Inappropriate Hospital Admissions, Integrated care Exeter: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Integrated Out-of-Hospital Care, Integrated Teams, Integrated Teams of Practice and Community Staff, Integrating Health and Social Care, Inter-Team Working, Interdisciplinary Teams, Joint Working, Joint Working Between NHS and Social Care Systems, Larwood and Bawtry Primary Care Home: Primary Care Home (PCH) Test Site, Leadership Across Local Areas, Lewes Health Hub: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Lichfield / Burntwood Network: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Local Health and Social Care Economies, Local Leadership, Local Leadership for Healthy Communities, Local Public Health, Local Solutions: Place-Based Approaches, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Lostwithiel Fowey St Blazey Primary Care Network : Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Luton Primary Care Cluster: Primary Care Home (PCH) Test Site, Margate PCH: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Middlewood Ltd: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, Multi-Disciplinary Teams, Multiple Medications (Polypharmacy), National Association of Primary Care (NAPC), National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) Pilots, New Care Models, New Care Models Programme, New Models of Care, New Models of Primary Care, New Models of Service, Newgate Medical Group: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Newport District Neighbourhood Project: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Newport Pagnell Medical Centre: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, NHS England’s New Care Models Team, NHS England’s New Models of Care Programme, NHS Networks, NHS Sustainability, NHS Terminology, NHS Wolverhampton CCG, Nimbus Care York: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, North Cornwall MCP: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Nottingham North and East Community Alliance: Primary Care Home (PCH) Test Site, OneLeeds PCH: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Out of Hospital Community Care, Out-of-Hospital Care, Out-of-Hospital Services, PA Consulting, PA Consulting Group, Patients Needing Specialist Intervention, Patients Not Complying With Traditional Services, Patients With Diabetes, Patients With General Practice Access Issues, Patients With Polypharmacy Risks, PCH Rapid Test Sites (RTSs), Penwith PCH: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Perranporth and Penryn PCH: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Place-Based Collaboratives, Place-Based Leadership, Polypharmacy, Pooling Budgets, Population Health, Population Health Improvement, Population Health Perspective, Population Health Systems, Population Healthcare, Population-Level Data, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Primary Care, Primary Care Alternatives to Emergency Hospital Admissions, Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partners, Primary Care Home (PCH) Model, Primary Care Home (PCH) Test Sites, Primary Care Home Community of Practice, Primary Care Home in Wolverhampton, Primary Care Home Programme, Primary Care Home Test Sites: by CCG and STP Footprint, Primary Care Transformation, Provider Sustainability, Quality and Sustainability, Quex PCH: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Ramsgate PCH: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Redditch and Bromsgrave Alliance: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Redhill and Merstham: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Reducing Inappropriate Polypharmacy, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Regional Naming Authorities (RNAs), Richmond Primary Care Home: Primary Care Home (PCH) Test Site, Right Name Forever (RNF), Riverside Health Centre: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Rugeley Practices PCH: Primary Care Home (PCH) Test Site, Rutland Medical Group: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), South Bristol Primary Care Collaborative: Primary Care Home (PCH) Test Site, South Camden Primary Care Neighbourhood: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, South Cheshire and Vale Royal Primary Care Home Network: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, South Durham Health CIC: Primary Care Home (PCH) Test Site, South Kent Coast Integrated Accountable Care : Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, South Kerrier Locality PCH: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, St. Austell Healthcare: Primary Care Home (PCH) Test Site, Stafford Primary Care Alliance: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, STP Footprints, Strategic Nomenclature and Nuancing Unit (SNNU), Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Targeting Hard-to-Reach Groups, Thanet Health CIC: Primary Care Home (PCH) Test Site, The Breckland Alliance: Primary Care Home (PCH) Test Site, Treating Patients Without Hospital Admission, Triple Aim Initiative, Triple Aim: (1) Improved Health and Wellbeing (2) Redesigned Care and (3) Wise Financial Stewardship, Truro PCH: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, West Midlands Fire Service (WMFS), Winsford Group: Primary Care Home (PCH) Test Site, Wirral GP Provider Federation: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Wolverhampton Care Collaborative: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner, Wolverhampton Health Federation CIC, Wolverhampton Total Health Care (WTHC), Wolverhampton Total Health Care: Primary Care Home (PCH) Test Site, Working Across Boundaries, Wyre Forest Alliance: Primary Care Home (PCH) Community of Practice Partner
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On the Unrealised Potential of Intermediate Care (SCIE / Nuffield Trust)
Summary The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)’s “SCIE Highlights No.1” briefing explores the largely untapped potential of intermediate care. It is asserted that intermediate care could deliver better outcomes for patients, while reducing the pressures of demand faced by … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, 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, Management of Condition, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nuffield Trust, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, SCIE, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accountable Care Systems (ACSs), Acute Hospitals: Bed-Based Services, Ageing Population, Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Bed Based Intermediate Care, Bed Based Services, Bed Occupancy, Bed-Based Intermediate Care Services, Bed/Home and Step Up/Down Provision, Better Care Fund (BCF), Capitated Budgets, Care Closer to Home, Communication and Information Sharing, Community Hospitals: Bed-Based Services, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Rehabilitation Services, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Control and Independence, Cookson's Court (Yeovil), Crisis Home Treatment, Crisis Response Services, Crisis Support, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Demographic Time-Bomb, Dependency Levels, Destination on Discharge, Dignified Independent Living With Care, Discharge Destination, Discharge of Hospital Patients With Care and Support Needs, Discharge Planning, Economic Sustainability, Elderly Rehabilitation Services, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, Funding and Payment Mechanisms, Geographical Variations, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Reform, Home Based Intermediate Care, Home Based Services, Hospital Discharge, Independence, Independence and Wellbeing, Independent Sector Facilities: Bed-Based Services, Information Resources on Intermediate Care: Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Information Sharing, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integration, Intermediate Care, Intermediate Care - Draft Guideline: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2017), Intermediate Care Beds, Intermediate Care Capacity, Intermediate Care Teams, Intermediate Care: Elements of Effective Implementation, Intermediate Care: Evidence of Effectiveness, Intermediate Care: Return on Investment, Intermediate Care: SCIE Highlights No.1, Length of Stay, Length of Stay (LoS), Lessons and Challenges of Intermediate Care: Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Local Authority Facilities: Bed-Based Services, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Local Variations, Maintaining Independence, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, Multi-Disciplinary Case Management, Multi-Disciplinary Teams, Multi-Disciplinary Working, NHS Sustainability, Nursing Homes: Bed-Based Services, Other Bedbased Settings: Bed-Based Services, Partnership Working, Patient Flows, Policy Context and Models of Intermediate Care, Pooled Health and Social Care Budgets, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Preventing Future Crises, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Prevention and Wellbeing, Quality and Sustainability, Rapid Response Services: Intermediate Services, Re-ablement Services, Reablement, Reablement Services, Reablement: Stabilise and Make Safe (Trafford), Readmissions for Patients with Long Term Conditions, Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement Services, Regaining Independence, Rehabilitation Services, Residential Care Homes: Bed-Based Services, Return on Investment, Services Maximising Independence, Services Reducing Use of Hospitals, Single Point of Access (SPA), Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)’s SCIE Highlights No.1: Intermediate Care, Somerset Care, Somerset Care and Yeovil District Hospital: Cooksons Court, Somerset County Council, Stabilise and Make Safe (SAMS), Stabilise and Make Safe (Trafford), Standalone Intermediate Care Facilities: Bed-Based Services, Staying Independent, Supporting Health Wellbeing and Independence, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainable Care, Sustainable Health and Social Care, System Leadership, Theoretical Benefits of Intermediate Care, Tipping Point in Sustainability of Adult Social Care (Alleged), Trafford Council, Turning the Ship Around (Avoidance of NHS Unsustainability), Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Variations in Service, Waiting Times for Intermediate Care, Whole System Impact, Whole System Patient Flows, Whole System Performance, Whole-System Approaches, Year of Care Commissioning, Year of Care Funding Model, Yeovil District Hospital
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Funding for Research and Innovation in Health and Social Care (Department of Health / AHSNs / NHS Digital / MRC / UKRI)
Summary The government has announced new funding of up to £86 million for UK firms to develop and test new technologies in the NHS. This development is a follow-up to the Accelerated Access Review (AAR). This initiative for more rapid … Continue reading →
Posted in Assistive Technology, Commissioning, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Academic Health Science Network, Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) for South London, Academic Health Science Network for the North East and North Cumbria (AHSN NENC), Academic Health Science Network Led Projects, Academic Health Science Networks, Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), Accelerated Access Partnership, Accelerated Access Review, Accelerated Access Review Interim Report, Accelerating Innovation, Access to Transformative Health Technology, Adoption of Innovations, Ben Moody: Head of Health and Social Care at techUK, Care Closer to Home, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Commissioning for Transformation, Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy, Digital Health Innovations, Digital Health Technology Catalyst for Innovators, Doris-Ann Williams MBE: British In Vitro Diagnostics Association (BIVDA), Dr Christopher Parker: Managing Director of WMAHSN, Dr Liz Mear: Chair of AHSN Network, Early Access to Medicine Scheme (EAMS), East Midlands Academic Health Science Network, Eastern Academic Health Science Network Patient Safety Collaborative, Health Innovation Network, High Impact Innovations, Imperial College Health Partners, Innovate UK, Innovation, Innovation Agency: Academic Health Science Network for the North West Coast, Innovation Exchange Process, Innovation Exchanges, Innovation Scorecard (NHS Digital), Kent Surrey Sussex Academic Health Science Network, Lord O’Shaughnessy: Health Minister, Lord Prior: Business Minister, Medical Research Council (MRC), More Flexible Funding Systems (Facilitators of Innovation), Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, MyCOPD, New Models of Care, New Technology, NHS Digital, NHS Digital (Formerly the Health and Social Care Information Centre), NICE Technology Appraisals in the NHS in England, NWL Academic Health Science Network, Office for Life Sciences, Pathway Transformation Fund, Peter Ellingworth: Association of British Healthcare Industries (ABHI) CEO, Removal of Barriers to Transformative Health Technology (Facilitators of Innovation), Research and Innovation, Research Councils, Research England, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), SMEs, South West Academic Health Science Network, Support for Uptake of Transformative Health Technology (Facilitators of Innovation), Supporting Research and Innovation, UCLPartners, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), UK Research and Innovation Website, West Midlands Academic Health Science Network (WMAHSN), West of England Academic Health Science Network, West of England Academic Health Science Network: Improvement and Innovation Academy, WMAHSN: West Midlands Academic Health Science Network, Yorkshire and the Humber Academic Health Science Network
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Getting the Dementia Care Pathway Right (NHS RightCare / NHS England)
Summary NHS RightCare has produced a scenario which throws into contrast an optimal dementia care pathway as distinct from the possibly more common “sub-optimal” pathway alternative(s). Costings for an ideal pathway are presented, compared with those for an example sub-optimal … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accountable Care Systems (ACSs), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Berkshire West (Reading Newbury and Wokingham), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Blackpool and Fylde Coast (Lancashire and South Cumbria Later), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Buckinghamshire, Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Dorset, Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Frimley Health (Slough Surrey Heath and Aldershot), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Luton (Milton Keynes and Bedfordshire), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): Nottinghamshire (Greater Nottingham and Rushcliffe), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw (Barnsley Bassetlew Doncaster Rotherham and Sheffield), Accountable Care Systems (ACSs): West North and East Cumbria Plus Northumberland, Adult Social Care in England, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, Avoidable Harm, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions Enhanced Service (ES), Care Closer to Home, Care in the Community, Community Care, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Care for People With Dementia, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Coordinated Health and Social Care, Costs and Cost Pressures, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Dementia Advisor Services, Dementia Advisors, Dementia Care Pathways, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Pressures, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Accountable Care Systems, Getting the Dementia Pathway Right: Tom and Barbara’s Story (NHS RightCare), Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Providers, Health and Social Care Services, Hospital Discharge Delays, Improvement Opportunities in Local Commissioning, Inappropriate Acute Care, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Local Commissioning, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Interdependencies, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, NHS Right Care, NHS Right Care Approach, NHS RightCare, NHS RightCare and Commissioning for Value, Optimal Versus Sub-Optimal Dementia Care Pathways, Sub-Optimal Pathways: No Prevention, Sub-Optimal Pathways: Pillar to Post, Sub-Optimal Pathways: Preventable Harm, Sub-Optimal Pathways: Too Late, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, Typical Dementia Care Pathway, Unplanned Admissions Enhanced Service
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Integration 2020: Towards an Integration Standard for Health and Social Care (SCIE)
Summary The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)’s “Integration 2020” research was commissioned by the Department of Health to help plan for more integrated health and social care. This report clarifies what better integration of health and care is expected … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ageing Population, All Together Better, Association, Barriers and Facilitators to Integration by 2020, Barriers to Integration, Berkshire Healthcare NHS, Better Care Fund (BCF), Better Care Fund Graduation, Birmingham City Council, Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Care Closer to Home, Care England, Care Planning, Care Quality Commission, Careline, Collaborate, Continuously Improving Value for Money, Delayed Discharges, Department for Communities and Local Government, Devolution and Local Place-Shaping, Digital Interoperability, Digital Maturity Index, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, Dudley CCG, Dudley CVS, Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, Dudley Healthwatch, Dudley MBC, Dudley’s Multispecialty Community Provider Model, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), foundation trust, Health and Care Suitable for an Ageing Population, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Delivery Models, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Services, High-Risk Cohorts Targeted, Home Group, Innovation and Training (MERIT) in the West Midlands, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Care and Support, Integrated Care in Dudley, Integrated Care in Mid-Nottinghamshire, Integrated Care in Southampton, Integrated Care in York, Integrated Care Plans, Integrated Community Care, Integrated Health and Care 2020: Integration 2020, Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC), Integrated Urgent and Emergency Care, Integration 2020: an Integration Standard for Health and Social Care, Integration Agenda, Integration by 2020, Integration of Health and Care, Integration Pioneer, Integration Scorecard, Integration Scorecard 2020, Local Authorities, Local Government Association, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Mansfield District Council, MCP Logic Model, Measuring Progress and Outcomes, Mental Health, Mental Health Alliance for Excellence, Modality in Birmingham and Sandwell, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, National Care Forum, National Voices, New Care Models, New Models of Care Programme, NHS Confed, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Providers, North West London, Nottinghamshire County Council, Personal Budgets for Older People, Personalisation, Personalised Care Plans, Preventive Support: Risk Stratification for Case Finding, Priory Medical Group, Reconfiguration of Health Care Services, Resilience, Risk Stratification, Risk Stratification Programmes, Scottish Government, Single Assessment and Care Plans, Single Assessment and Integrated Care Planning, Social Care Embedded in Urgent and Emergency Care, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Southampton City CCG, Southampton City Council, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), The Health Foundation, The Leadership Centre, The Social Work for Better, Timely and Safe Discharges, United Kingdom Homecare, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Commissioning, Value for Money
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BBC’s State of the NHS: Keep Calm and Carry-On (BBC 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
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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
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Allied Health Professionals: AHPs Into Action (NHS England)
Summary NHS England has released a report explaining how the NHS, the social care system and society at large could be transformed if the Allied Health Professions (AHPs) were used more effectively. Fifty three case studies describe examples of innovative … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Assistive Technology, 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, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Physiotherapy, Quick Insights, Standards, Telecare, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, A&E Emergency Care Practitioners, Adult Social Care and Wellbeing, Advanced Life Support Trainers, Ageing Population, AHP Professional Bodies, AHPs Into Action, Allied Health Professionals, Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), Allied Health Professions (AHPs), Allied Health Professions into Action: NHS England (2016/17 - 2020/21), Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Art Therapists, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Care Closer to Home, Challenging Traditional Approaches to Care Practice for People With Dementia, Chief Allied Health Professions Officer (CAHPO), Community Rehabilitation, Costs and Cost Pressures, Crowdsourcing, Day Surgery, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiographers, Dietitians, Drama Therapists, First International Conference on Arts and Dementia Research, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Greater Manchester Dementia Action Alliance, Greenview Intermediate Care Unit, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Manchester Camerata, Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, Multi-Morbidity, Music in Mind, Music Therapists, Music Therapy, Music Therapy and Dementia, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Sustainability, Obesity, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy, Operating Department Practitioners (ODPs), Orthopists, Osteopaths, Osteopathy, Paramedics, Physician Associate Anaesthesia (PAAs), Physiotherapists, Podiatrists, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Prosthetists and Orthotists, Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement (RRR), Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Rehabilitation, Royal Bolton Hospital, Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Safe and Well Checks, Safe and Well Visits, Samantha Jones: Director of New Models of Care at NHS England, Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs), Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Suzanne Rastrick: NHS England’s Chief Allied Health Professions Officer, Transplant Co-ordinators, Using Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) to Transform Health Social Care and Wellbeing, Wythenshawe Hospital
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