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Tag Archives: Multidisciplinary Teams
Review of Tube Feeding in Advanced Dementia (Journal of Aging Research)
Summary A narrative literature review has investigated tube feeding in persons with advanced dementia, offering a comprehensive and unbiased attempt to achieve a balanced assessment of the perceived benefits and common disadvantages of such interventons, in broad terms of quality … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), International, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nutrition, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Abdominal Discomfort, American Geriatrics Society (AGS), Anticipatory Decision-Making, Artificial Nutrition in Dementia, Aspiration Pneumonia, Benefit-Harm Ratio of Tube Feeding in People with Advanced Dementia, Best Interests Decision-Making, Burdens of Tube Feeding in People with Advanced Dementia, Colonic Fistulae, Community Haywood Hospital (Stoke-on-Trent), Constipation, Costs of Tube Feeding, Decision-Making at End of Life, Decision-Making Capacity, Dementia Disease Progression, Diarrhoea, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, Eating in Advanced Dementia, Eating Problems in Advanced Dementia, Electrolyte Imbalance and Fluid Retention, Enteral Tube Feeding, Feeding Tube Placement in Advanced Dementia, Infection Risk, Informed Decision-Making, Journal of Aging Research, Literature Reviews, Local Pain and Bleeding, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), Multidisciplinary Meetings, Multidisciplinary Teams, Nasogastric and Gastrostomy Tubes, Nasogatric Tube Feeding, Nutrition and Survival Benefits of Tube Feeding in Advanced Dementia, Oral Health-Related Problems, Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Perceived Benefits of Tube Feeding in Advanced Dementia Individuals, Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG), Peristomal Wound Leakage, Poor Oral Intake in Patients With Advanced Dementia, Pressure Sores, Proxy Decision Making, Radiologically Inserted Gastrostomy (RIG) Tube Feeding, Refeeding Syndrome, Reported Benefits of Tube Feeding in Advanced Dementia Individuals, Royal Stoke University Hospital (Previously City General), Sepsis From Abdominal Abscesses, Shared Decision-Making, Supporting Decision-Making, Surrogate Decision-Making, Survival Rates, Systematic Literature Reviews, Tube Feeding, Tube Feeding in Advanced Dementia, Tube Feeding in Advanced Dementia Versus Other Diseases, Tube Feeding Versus Oral Feeding, Tube Feeding: Cost-Effectiveness Studies, Tube Leaks or Blockages, William Harvey Hospital (Ashford)
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Allied Health Professionals and Care Homes: the Enhanced Health in Care Homes Framework (NHS England)
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
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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)
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Integrated Care Research and Practice: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know (SCIE / DHSC)
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
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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
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Respiratory Futures (NHS England / NHS Improvement / British Thoracic Society / BBC News)
Summary Respiratory Futures is an online hub, developed by NHS England, NHS Improvement and the British Thoracic Society, which provides an interactive regional map of integrated care plans for respiratory disease. There are also case studies, video interviews, links to … Continue reading →
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Frailty: Core Capabilities Framework (Skills for Health)
Summary Skills for Health have produced the Frailty Core Capabilities Framework. This framework was commissioned by Health Education England and NHS England, and aims to formalise the skills to provide high quality, holistic, compassionate care and support for persons with … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Age UK, Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Guidelines, Health Education England (HEE), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals: Spotlight Audit on the Assessment of Delirium (HQIP / RCP / JGCR)
Summary The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) has published a spotlight audit on delirium in the care received by people with dementia in general hospitals in England and Wales. This audit finds: A large proportion (32%) of patients with dementia admitted … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Delirium, Diagnosis, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, International, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Alternative Approaches to Reducing Hospital Admissions / Re-Admissions (BBC News / British Red Cross / NESTA / King’s Fund)
Summary The British Red Cross has proposed that home assessments, and comparatively simple interventions, when discharging old and vulnerable people for hospitals would help to reduce avoidable but predictable hospital re-admissions (and prevent many hospital admissions in the first place). … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, 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, King's Fund, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Acute Hospital Care, Age Friendly Homes, Age-Friendly Housing, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Assessment Before Discharge, Assisting Patients Inside Their Homes (Opportunity to Check Home Environment), Aston University, Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions, BBC Health News, Bed Occupancy Rates, Between Home and Hospital: With British Red Cross, Birmingham, British Red Cross, Community Service Volunteers (CSV), Community-Based Care, Community-Based Support, Community-Based Volunteering, Costs and Harms of Delays in Discharging Older Patients From Hospital, Crises Facing Independent Living Service Users, Crisis Prevention, Criteria Led Discharge, Delayed Discharge: Patient Awaiting Care Package in Own Home, Delayed Discharge: Social Care Delays, Discharge Checklists, Discharge Decisions, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Discharging Older Patients From Hospital, Dr Nick Scriven: Society of Acute Medicine, Early Discharge Support, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Care, Emergency Medicine Journal, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital Within 28 Days of Discharge, Emergency Readmissions Within 30 Days, Emergency Services, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Factors in Increased Use of Urgent and Emergency Care, Failed Discharges, Feeling Unsafe, Frail Patients on Discharge From Hospital, Future Healthcare Journal, Health and Housing, Health Volunteering, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (HEFT), Helping in Hospitals, Home Assessments (on Hospital Discharge), Home Assessments (Prior to Discharge), Hospital Discharge, Hospital Re-Admission Risks, Housing and Care for Older People, Housing Quality, Imelda Redmond: Healthwatch England, In and Out of Hospital (British Red Cross), In-Home Assessments, Inappropriate Discharge, Living Alone, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Mike Adamson: Chief Executive of British Red Cross, Missed Opportunities, Multidisciplinary Teams, National Data for Better Analysis of Emergency Readmissions (Proposal), National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA), NESTA: National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts, NHS Winter Pressures (aka Winter Crisis 2017-2018), Overnight Effect, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Case Management, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Home Conditions, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Team-Based Interventions in A&E, Proactive Falls Prevention Schemes, Re-Admissions to Hospitals, Readmission Rates, Reasons for Short Stay Emergency Admissions, Red Cross, Reducing Re-Admissions to NHS Hospitals, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, School of Health and Related Research: University of Sheffield, Social Prescribing, Solihull, Solihull Hospital, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, South Warwickshire Foundation Trust, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, Struggling and Caring For Others, Struggling With Everyday Tasks, Tackling Health Inequality Through Housing, University of Sheffield, University of Wolverhampton (Walsall), Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Unscheduled Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Urgent and Emergency Care Vanguards: Solihull Together for Better Lives, Value of Volunteering, Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS), Volunteering in General Practice, Volunteering in Hospitals, Warmer and Safer Homes, Winter Pressures
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Elderly Major Trauma Patients: Guidelines (London Major Trauma System / Emergency Medicine Journal)
Summary The 11.5 million people aged 65 and older is the fastest growing age group in the UK They comprise 18% of the population today, and this figure is projected to rise to 25% of the population by 2040. According … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Falls, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Hip Fractures, In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, UK
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Tagged British Orthopaedic Association Standards for Trauma (BOAST), Demographics, Derriford Hospital (Plymouth), Elderly Major Trauma Patients, Elderly Trauma, Emergency Department Screening Tool For Elderly Trauma, Emergency Medicine Journal, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, London Major Trauma System, London Operational Delivery Networks: Trauma ODNs, London Trauma System, Major Trauma Centres (MTCs), Management of Delirium in Elderly Trauma Patients, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Multidisciplinary Team Care, Multidisciplinary Teams, Multidisciplinary Teamwork, Office for National Statistics (ONS), Operational Delivery Networks (ODNs), Pan London Elderly Trauma Group, Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Professor Keith Willett: NHS England’s Director of Acute Care, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (Research & Academia): Medical Directorate (Birmingham), Trauma Audit Research Network (TARN), Trauma Audit Research Network (TARN): University of Manchester, Trauma Quality Improvement Network System (TQuINS), Trauma Units (TUs), UK Academic Department of Military Emergency Medicine, UK Centre for Clinical Trials and Population Studies: Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Manchester
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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 →
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Reshaping the Workforce: More Thoughts on Staff Engagement (NHS England / Nuffield Trust / BBC News)
Summary A recent Nuffield Trust report, commissioned by NHS Employers, discussed providing NHS nursing, community and support staff with additional skills to deliver care, as a means to improving the system’s capacity to cope with increasing (and changing) patient demand. … Continue reading →
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Tagged Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs), Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs), Advanced Roles, Ageing Population, Assistant Practitioners (APs), Associate Practitioners, Barriers to Engagement, BBC Health News, Beyond Institutional Boundaries, Building Trust, Calderdale Framework: Seven Stages, Candace Imison: Director of Policy at the Nuffield Trust, Care Closer to Home, Clinical Engagement, Collaboration: Working Across Boundaries, Community Care, Cross-Sector Partnerships, Culture and Behaviour Change, Culture Change, Dudley, Dudley Multispecialty Community Provider, Efficiency and Effectiveness, Efficiency Opportunities, Employee Engagement, Engagement, Engagement and Co-Production, Engagement on Quality, Extended Roles, Extending Roles, Financial Efficiency, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Front Line Engagement, Haxby Group Practice, Health and Care Innovation Expo, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Holistic Workers in Community Care, Institutional Boundaries, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Primary Secondary and Community Care, Isle of Wight, Link Workers: Visiting Patients at Home, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Models of Care Across Organisational Boundaries, Multidisciplinary Population-Based Teams, Multidisciplinary Team Care, Multidisciplinary Teams, Multidisciplinary Teamwork, Multimorbidities and Long-Term Conditions, My Life a Full Life (Isle of Wight) Vanguard, New Care Models, New Care Models Programme, New Care Models: Vanguard Sites, New Ways of Working, NHS Culture, NHS Culture Change, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Health and Care Innovation Expo (2016), Non-Medical Workforce, Northumberland Accountable Care Organisation, Northumberland Accountable Care Organisation (PACS), Nurses and Midwives: Reducing Barriers / Boundaries Across Care Settings, Organisational Boundaries, Paramedic Practitioners, Pharmacy and Primary Care Practitioners, Physician Associates, Positive Engagement, Principles for Engagement, Provider Engagement, Quality and Efficiency Opportunities, Reshaping the Workforce (Nuffield Trust), Satisfaction, Shortages of NHS Front-Line Staff, Six Steps Model, Skill Flexibility, Speed of Trust Methodology, Staff Engagement, Staff Engagement in the NHS, Staff Satisfaction, Staff Training, Teams Without Walls, Terminology For New and Extended Roles, Vanguards: New Care Models Programme, Workforce Satisfaction, Workforce Training, Working Across Boundaries, Yorkshire and Humber: Toblerone Model
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