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Reducing Hospital Admissions From Care Homes (Health Foundation / PCC)

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A Health Foundation report indicates that perhaps over 40% of emergency hospital admissions on the part of permanent care home residents aged ≥65 years could have been avoided with better preventive primary care, community support / NHS care in care … Continue reading →

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Allied Health Professionals and Care Homes: the Enhanced Health in Care Homes Framework (NHS England)

Posted on July 21, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary NHS England has released a guide about ways in which allied health professionals (AHPs) can support the Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) framework, with a view to improving the health and wellbeing of care homes residents. Component activities … Continue reading →

Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, End of Life Care, Falls, 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, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nutrition, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Access and Equity For Care Home Residents to AHP Services, Access and Equity For Care Home Residents to Local NHS Services, Access to AHP Services, Active Residents in Care Homes (ARCH), Advanced Life Support Group, AHP Workforce Development, AHPs Improving End of Life Care and Dementia Care, AHPs Making Better Use of Technology, AHPs: Supporting Hydration and Nutrition, Airedale Digital Care Hub, Airedale Telehealth Model, Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), Allied Health Professions Team (Medical Directorate: NHS England), Awareness Training, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Better Use of Technology, BetterCareExchange (Better Care Exchange), Blackpool Teaching skill and so if we have residents Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bounce Back Clinic: Multidisciplinary Frailty Clinic in Primary Care, Bounce Back Service, Care Home Residents, Care Home Staff, Care Home-Associated Deconditioning, Care Homes, Care Homes Wellbeing, Care Homes-Related Deconditioning, CHORD Study, Clinical Input Into Care Homes, College of Occupational Therapists (COT), Commissioning Guidance for Rehabilitation, Community Multidisciplinary Teams, Community Specialist Paramedics, Decision Support Tools, Decision Support: Triage Tools, Deconditioning, Deconditioning in Care Homes, Demand Management, Dementia Support Services in Care Homes, Dementia-Focused Singing Groups, Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust, Diabetic Foot Attack, Drink Rounds, Dysphagia, Elderly Rehabilitation Services, Emergency Care Practitioner (ECP) Services Referrals, End of Life Care, End of Life Care in Care Homes, Enhanced Care Packages (Care Homes), Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) Framework, Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) Vanguards, Enhanced Primary Care Support, Enhancing Health in Care Homes Team: NHS England, Equity of Access for People Living in Care Homes, Falls Frailty and Sepsis Awareness Training, Falls Prevention in Care Homes, First Contact Practitioner (FCP) Roles, First Response to Care Homes by Emergency Care practitioner Paramedics, Food First Approach, Gateshead Health NHS Care home carer Foundation Trust, Good Practice in Care Homes, Grange and Lakes Integrated Care Community, Health Care Needs of Care Home Residents, High Quality Health Care for Older Care Home Residents, Improving Standards in Care Homes, Indirect Music Therapy Practice and Skill Sharing in Dementia Care, Integrated Care Homes Service, Integrated Whole Home Approach to Falls Prevention, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Malnutrition, Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) Assessments, Management of Eating and Drinking Disorders in Care Homes, Manchester Triage Group, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Medical Directorate: NHS England, Multi-Disciplinary Teams, Multi-Professional Approaches to Support for Care Homes, Multidisciplinary Teams, Music Therapy, Music Therapy Skill Sharing, NHS Services for Care Homes Residents, North West Ambulance Service (NWAS), Nurses and Allied Health Professionals, Nursing and Residential Triage Tool (NaRT), Nutrition and Hydration, Nutrition for Older People in Care Homes, Occupational Therapy in Care Homes, Older People Living in Care Homes, PEACE (Pro-active Elderly Advanced Care) Plans, Pimp my Zimmer, Pressure Ulcer Food First Initiative (PUFFINs), Primary Care Support Services, Reablement, Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement (RRR), Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement Services, Rotating Paramedic Model, Rotational Paramedic Programme: Health Education England, Royal College of Occupational Therapists, Singing Groups, Somerset Care and Yeovil District Hospital: Bed-Based Intermediate Care, St George's NHS Foundation Trust, Support for Care Home Staff, Support to Care Home Residents, Technology in Care Homes, Teleswallowing®, Thinking Food First, Triage Tools: Supporting Decision Making, Using Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) to Transform Health Social Care and Wellbeing, Virtual Clinics, Virtual Dysphagia Assessment, Whole Home Approaches to Commissioning, Workforce Development, Yeovil District Hospital: Intermediate Care in Cookson’s Court Nursing Home, Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) | Leave a comment

Integrated Care Research and Practice: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know (SCIE / DHSC)

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Integrated Care Research and Practice database, funded by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), aims to provide regularly updated information on the planning, commissioning and delivery of person-centred integrated care. Section headings comprise: Enablers of Integrated … Continue reading →

Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Achieving Integrated Care, Asset-Based Approaches, Asset-Based Areas, Asset-Based Places, Care and Support in Crisis, Care Planning, Care Transitions, Collaborative Care Planning, Community Multidisciplinary Teams, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Integrated Services, Community-Based Integrated Support, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Crisis Intervention and Prevention, Crisis Prevention, Crisis Support, Digital Care Records, Enablers of Integrated Care, Information Sharing, Information Sharing and Digital Care Records, Information Sharing: Care Plans, Innovation and Improvement, Integrated and Person-Centred Care, Integrated Care Research and Practice (SCIE / DHSC), Integrated Digital Care Records (IDCRs), Integrated Workforce, Joint Commissioning, Joint Needs Assessment and Care Planning, Joint Needs Assessments, Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, Local System Leadership, Logic Model for Integrated Care (SCIE): Components, Logic Model for Integrated Care (SCIE): Enablers, Logic Model for Integrated Care (SCIE): Impacts and Benefits, Logic Model for Integrated Care (SCIE): Outcomes, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), Multi-Disciplinary Teams, Multidisciplinary Population-Based Teams, Multidisciplinary Teams, NHS Social Care Interface Dashboard, Person-Centred Care and Support, Population-Based Budgets, Population-Based Care Person-Focused Care, Preventing Future Crises, Prevention, Prevention and Self Care, Proactive Care Planning, SCIE Logic Model for Integrated Care, SCIE's Logic Model (Integrated Care), Sector Led Improvement and Innovation, Self-Care, Self-Care Resources to Support Person Centred Care, Shared System Leadership, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Support for Self-Care, Supporting Self-Care, System Leadership, Total Transformation of Care and Support: Logic Model(s), Transitions Between Health and Social Care, Transitions of Care, Understanding and Improving Transitions of Older People: User and Care Centred Approach, Whole Population Approachess | Leave a comment

Interim NHS People Plan (NHS Improvement / BBC News)

Posted on June 9, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Interim NHS People Plan, formerly the Workforce Implementation Plan promised in the NHS Long Term Plan, covers staffing levels, recruitment and education issues. It also states a commitment to making the NHS the best place to work; to … Continue reading →

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On the Not Yet Fully Realised Potential of Integrated Care (NHS England)

Posted on May 3, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary It has been said before probably, but perhaps by none so great? Full Text Link Reference Leading healthcare professor Don Berwick says NHS could be world number one if it integrates care. [Online]: NHS England, May 1st 2018.

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NHS England’s Pharmacy Integration Fund (NHS England / BBC News)

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care 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 | Leave a comment

Primary Care Home: a New Model of Primary Care (NAPC / Nuffield Trust / SCIE / PA Consulting Group)

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

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 →

On the Unrealised Potential of Intermediate Care (SCIE / Nuffield Trust)

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

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 →

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Pharmacist Involvement in Hospital Ward Teams and Rates of Hospital Readmission (European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology)

Posted on April 22, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A recent Swedish trial was conducted to assess whether comprehensive medication reviews performed by clinical pharmacists working on hospital wards as part of healthcare multidisciplinary team might reduce drug-related hospital readmission rates for people with dementia or cognitive impairment. … Continue reading →

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Mental Health in General Hospitals: Patient Safety Improvement (NHS England / NCEPOD / NCCMH / NICE)

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary This year’s National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) “Treat as one” report identifies a number of problems in the treatment of patients with mental health problems admitted to acute hospitals. Recommendations are supplied. Professor Tim Kendall, … Continue reading →

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