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Where Best Next Campaign: Reducing Length of Hospital Stay (NHS England)

Posted on August 19, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Approximately 350,000 patients spend more than three weeks in a hospital each year, often with poor outcomes: “Many older people, particularly those who are frail and may have dementia, actually deteriorate while in hospital – a stay of more … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Education England (HEE), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged ActNow: an e-Learning Tool (e-LfH), Acute Frailty Network (AFN), Acute Frailty Services, Better Care Support Programme, Care Closer to Home, Clinical Criteria for Discharge (CCD), Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), Criteria Led Discharge, Deconditioning, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Discharge, Discharge at a Reasonable Time, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Coordinators, Discharge From General Inpatient Hospital Settings, Discharge Into the Care Sector, Discharge Patient Tracking List, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Dr Taj Hassan: President of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, e-Learning for Health (e-LfH) Hub (HEE), Emergency Care Intensive Support Team, Emergency Care Intensive Support Team (ECIST), Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care, End PJ Paralysis, Expected Date of Discharge, Expected Date of Discharge (EDD), Foci for Maximum Impact in Reducing Length of Stay, Guide to Reducing Long Hospital Stays: NHS Improvement, Health and Social Care Integration, Healthcare Associated Infections, Healthcare Associated Infections: Patient Safety, HEE: Health Education England, Hilary Garratt: Deputy Chief Nursing Officer for England, Holistic Needs Assessment (HNA), Home First: Supporting Patient Choice, Hospital-Associated Functional Decline: Role of Hospitalisation Processes, Identifying and Managing Frailty at the Front Door, Improving Hospital Discharge Into Care Sector, Improving Patient Care, Integrated Multi-Agency Care, Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Length of Stay (LoS), Local Government Association, Long-Stay Patient Reviews, Long-Stay Patients, Multi-Agency Collaboration, Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Agency Working, Multi-Disciplinary and Multi-Agency Working, Multiagency Teams, Patient Deconditioning Effect Related to Hospital Bed Rest (aka Pyjama Paralysis / PJ Paralysis), Patient Harms, Patient Harms and Harm Free Care, Patient Safety, PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) Cycles, People First: Manage What Matters, Plan Do Study and Act (PDSA), Professor Stephen Powis: NHS England's National Medical Director, Pyjama Paralysis, Quality Improvement, Reducing Healthcare Associated Infections in Hospitals, Reducing Hospital Length of Stay, Reducing Length of Hospital Stay, Reducing Length of Stay (RLoS) Programme, Reducing Long Stays (Where Best Next Campaign - NHS England) Principle 1: Plan for Discharge From the Start, Reducing Long Stays (Where Best Next Campaign - NHS England) Principle 2: Involve Patients and Families in Discharge Decisions, Reducing Long Stays (Where Best Next Campaign - NHS England) Principle 3: Establish Systems and Processes for Frail People, Reducing Long Stays (Where Best Next Campaign - NHS England) Principle 4: Embed Multi-Disciplinary Team Reviews, Reducing Long Stays (Where Best Next Campaign - NHS England) Principle 5: Encourage a Supported Home First Approach, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Reducing Waste in Dementia Care, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Rockwood Clinical Frailty Score, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), SAFER Patient Flow Bundle, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT), Supported Home First Approaches, What Matters Most (Healthwatch), Where Best Next Campaign (NHS England August 2019), Where Best Next? Campaign (NHS England), Why Not Home: Why Not Today, Why Not Home? Why Not Today? Campaign | Leave a comment

Blueprint for Complex Care: Care for Individuals with Complex Health and Social Needs (National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs / IHI / Duke University / NIHR)

Posted on December 29, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The latest Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) report covers multi-disciplinary and multi-agency approaches to better coordination in the provision of care for individuals with complex health and social needs, from a USA perspective. “The Blueprint for Complex Care is a joint … Continue reading →

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Improving Care for Older People (NHS England / Age UK / PHE / Chief Fire Officer’s Association / JGCR)

Posted on October 14, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The guide to Improving Care for Older People, developed by NHS England in partnership with Age UK, Public Health England, and the Chief Fire Officer’s Association, is actually a collection of resources (some dating back several years). This collection … Continue reading →

Posted in Age UK, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Public Health England, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Active Ageing, Active and Healthy Ageing, Age and Ageing, Age-Friendly Housing, Age-Related Hearing Loss (ARHL), Ageing Population, Ageing Population Carer Support, Ageing Society, Ageing Well, Ageing Well and Supporting People Living With Frailty (NHS England), Ageing Well With Technology, Amenable Mortality, Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoidable Mortality, Avoidable Premature Mortality, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Bladder Problems, Burden on Caregivers, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care Home Admission Delay, Care in an Ageing Society, Care 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Intermediate Care Including Reablement: Quality Standard QS173 (NICE)

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has produced a quality standard on intermediate care, including reablement. This is intended to contribute to improvements across many fronts, including: Integration of health and social care. Patient and carer-related quality … Continue reading →

Posted in Commissioning, Integrated Care, Local Interest, National, NICE Guidelines, UK | Tagged Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Alternatives to Hospital Care, Bed-Based Intermediate Care Services, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Rehabilitation Services, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Crisis Response, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Demand for Intermediate Care, Discharge of Hospital Patients With Care and Support Needs, Discharge Planning, Home Based Intermediate Care, Home Based Services, Hospital Discharge, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Intermediate Care, Intermediate Care Including Reablement: NICE Quality Standard QS173, Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), Multimorbidity, National Audit of Intermediate Care, NHS Benchmarking, NICE Quality Standard QS173, NICE Quality Standards, Partnership Working, People's Experience of Using Adult Social Care Services, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Intermediate Care, Quality Measures, Quality Statements, Re-ablement Services, Re-admission Avoidance Scheme (RAS), Reablement, Reablement Services, Reablement Services for People Leaving Hospital, Readmissions for Patients with Long Term Conditions, Recovery, Recovery Based Approaches, Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement (RRR), Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement Services, Recovery. Rehabilitation, Redesigning Services, Regaining Independence, Rehabilitation and Self Management, Rehabilitation Care Pathways, Rehabilitation Services, Services Maximising Independence, Services Reducing Use of Hospitals, Social Care for Older People With Multiple Long-Term Conditions, Social Care Reablement Services, Supporting Health Wellbeing and Independence, Transition Between Inpatient Hospital Settings and Community or Care Home Settings | Leave a comment

Improving Patient Care by Reducing Length of Hospital Stay (NHS Improvement / NHS England)

Posted on June 14, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The NHS, with the cooperation of local authorities, plans to reduce unnecessarily long stays in hospital for patients by a quarter. The aim is to free-up over 4,000 beds in readiness for anticipated Winter pressures on hospitals. Currently, around … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged 6As for Managing Emergency Admissions, Ambulatory Emergency Care, Ambulatory Emergency Care (AEC), Ambulatory Emergency Care (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Better Use of Care at Home, Breaking the Cycle SAFER Patient Flow Bundle, Care Closer to Home, Clinical Criteria for Discharge, Clinical Criteria for Discharge (CCD), Criteria Led Discharge, Criteria-Led Discharge (CLD), Daily Transfers of Care (DTOC), Deconditioning, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Discharge, Discharge at a Reasonable Time, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Coordinators, Discharge From General Inpatient Hospital Settings, Discharge Into the Care Sector, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Discharge to Assess (D2A) Model, Emergency Day Care, Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care, Expected Date of Discharge, Expected Date of Discharge (EDD), Foci for Maximum Impact in Reducing Length of Stay, Guide to Reducing Long Hospital Stays: NHS Improvement, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Multiagency Peer Reviews, Hospital-Associated Functional Decline: Role of Hospitalisation Processes, Ian Dalton: Chief Executive of NHS Improvement, Improving Hospital Discharge Into Care Sector, Improving Patient Care, Integrated Care Pathway for Frailty, Integrated Multi-Agency Care, Length of Stay (LoS), Local Multiagency Dementia Partnerships, Long-Stay Patient Reviews, Long-Stay Patients, Multi-Agency Collaboration, Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Agency Working, Multi-Disciplinary and Multi-Agency Working, Multiagency Discharge Event (MADE), Multiagency Teams, New Front Door to Urgent and Emergency Care Services, NHS Confederation Conference (2018), Patient Administration System (PAS), Patient Deconditioning Effect Related to Hospital Bed Rest (aka Pyjama Paralysis / PJ Paralysis), Patient Harms, Patient Harms and Harm Free Care, Patient Safety, PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) Cycles, Plan Do Study and Act (PDSA), Pyjama Paralysis, Quality Improvement, Rachel Power: Chief Executive of Patients Association, Red2Green Days, Reducing Hospital Length of Stay, Reducing Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Reducing Length of Hospital Stay, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Reducing Waste in Dementia Care, Reducing Waste in the NHS, SAFER Patient Flow Bundle, SAFER Patient Flow Bundle and Red2Green Days (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Sally Copley: Director of Policy and Campaigns at Alzheimer’s Society, Supporting Patients’ Choices To Avoid Long Hospital Stays, Tameside General Hospital, Weekend Discharge Rates, Why Not Home: Why Not Today (reducingdtoc.com) | Leave a comment

National Audit of Intermediate Care 2017 (NAIC)

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The National Audit of Intermediate Care (NAIC)’s latest annual report attempts to provide comprehensive data on intermediate care services. It supplies a refreshed audit of intermediate care services delivering care and support to “older people living with complex conditions; … 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, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Physiotherapy, Quick Insights, RCN, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Accessibility of Intermediate Care, Ageing Population, AGILE, AGILE: Professional Network of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Alternatives to Hospital Care, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), Bed Based Intermediate Care, Bed Based Intermediate Care Services: Workforce, Bed Based Services, Bed Occupancy, Bed-Based Intermediate Care Services, Bed/Home and Step Up/Down Provision, Benchmarking, BGS, British Geriatrics Society, British Geriatrics Society (BGS), Care Integration, Challenging Behaviour, Challenging Behaviour in Dementia, Claire Holditch: Programme Director of NHS Benchmarking Network, Cognitive Impairment, College of Occupational Therapists, College of Occupational Therapists Specialist Section for Older People (COTSS-OP), Community Care Services, Community Hospitals, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Rehabilitation Services, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, COTSS-OP: College of Occupational Therapists Specialist Section for Older People, Crisis Home Treatment, Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHT), Crisis Response, Crisis Response Services, Crisis Support, David Bramley: Deputy Head and Programme Lead for Long-Term Conditions Older People and End of Life Care Team Medical Directorate at NHS England, Dawne Garrett: Older People and Dementia Care at Royal College of Nursing, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Demand for Intermediate Care, Demographics and Processes, Dependency Levels, Destination on Discharge, Discharge Destination, Discharge of Hospital Patients With Care and Support Needs, Discharge Planning, Dr Dawn Moody: Associate National Clinical Director for Older People (NHS England), Dr Martin Vernon: National Clinical Director for Older People and Integrated Care, Elderly Rehabilitation Services, Finance, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), Home Based Intermediate Care, Home Based Services, Hospital Discharge, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integration, Intermediate Care, Intermediate Care Beds, Intermediate Care Capacity, Intermediate Care Geriatrician, Intermediate Care Teams, Intermediate Care: Commissioner Spend, Iola Shaw: Long Term Conditions Older People and EOLC Medical Directorate at NHS England, Later Life, Length of Stay, Length of Stay (LoS), Local Strategic Planning, Mental Health Provision in Intermediate Care Services, Modified Barthel Index (MBI), Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), NAIC 2017, NAIC Steering Group, National Audit of Intermediate Care, National Audit of Intermediate Care (2017), National Audit of Intermediate Care: NAIC 2017, NHS Benchmarking, NHS Benchmarking Network, NHS RightCare, Occupational Therapists, Older People’s Specialists’ Forum, Partnership Working, Patient Flows, Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM), RCP: Royal College of Physicians, Re-ablement Services, Re-admission Avoidance Scheme (RAS), Reablement, Reablement Services, Readmissions for Patients with Long Term Conditions, Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement Services, Reference Costs, Referrals, Rehabilitation Services, Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT), Services Maximising Independence, Services Reducing Use of Hospitals, Skills / Disciplines Mix, Staffing Levels, Staffing Levels and Skill Mix, Step Down, Step Up, Strategic Planning, Strategic Planning and Commissioning, Sunderland Community Scheme, Therapy Outcome Measure (TOMS), Trans-Disciplinary Roles, Variation in Commissioning, Vulnerable Adults, Whole System Impact, Whole System Patient Flows, Workforce | Leave a comment

Reducing Pressures on Hospitals: Exploring the Potential Impact of Occupational Therapists (BBC News / COT / BAOT)

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A report from the College of Occupational Therapists demonstrates the role(s) which occupational therapists (and physiotherapists) can play in helping to reduce avoidable admissions / re-admissions to hospitals and subsequent delayed discharges of care in transitioning patients back into … Continue reading →

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