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Tag Archives: National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC)
National End of Life Care (EoLC) Knowledge Hub / Palliative and End of Life Care Resource Hub (NHS England / National Council for Palliative Care)
Summary NHS England and the National Council for Palliative Care have produced the Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care hub / website. This aims to become the “one stop shop” for discovering information resources relating to the “Ambitions for … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Advance Decisions to Refuse Treatment, Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care, Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care (2015), Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care Framework, Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: National framework for Local Action 2015-2020 (Ambitions Framework), Caring for Carers, Collaborative Working, Collaborative Working in Local Communities, Community Development in End of Life Care, Electronic Palliative Care Co-ordination Systems (EPaCCS), Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems (EPaCCS), End of Life Care in Advanced kidney Disease: A Framework for implementation, End of Life Locality Registers (Evaluation), Gina King: Quality Improvement Lead at South West Strategic Clinical Network, Good Care Group, Live-In Care, Live-in Carers, National Council for Palliative Care, National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC), National Council for Palliative Care Resources, National End of Life Care (EoLC) Knowledge Hub, National Palliative and End of Life Care Partnership, National Palliative and End of Life Care Partnership Ambition Five: All staff Prepared to Care, National Palliative and End of Life Care Partnership Ambition Four: Care is Coordinated, National Palliative and End of Life Care Partnership Ambition One: Each Person Seen as an Individual, National Palliative and End of Life Care Partnership Ambition Six: Each Community Prepared to Help, National Palliative and End of Life Care Partnership Ambition Three: Maximising Comfort and Wellbeing, National Palliative and End of Life Care Partnership Ambition Two: Each Person Gets Fair Access to Care, NCPC: The National Council for Palliative Care, Nicola Spencer: Programme Support Manager for NHS England’s End of Life Care Team, Nicola Spencer: Programme Support Manager in NHS England's Long Term Conditions (Children and Adults) Unit, Palliative and End of Life Care, Palliative and End of Life Care Resource Hub, Palliative Care, Palliative Care in the UK, Preferred Priorities for Care (PPC), Professor Bee Wee: NHS England’s National Clinical Director for End of Life Care, Working Together to Transform EoLC in Acute Hospitals
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Government’s Plans For High Quality End Of Life Care (Department of Health / CQC / BBC News)
Summary The government is introducing care plans for people at the end of life, with a view to ensuring consistently high quality, compassionate care. Altogether, there are six commitments to end unacceptable variations in end of life care by 2020. … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Education England (HEE), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 24/7 Care, 24/7 Hospice at Home Service, 24/7 Service, 24/7 Specialised Nursing Services for End of Life Care, Accountability and Transparency, Airedale and Southend Pilots, Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care Framework, Ben Gummer: Health Minister, Ben Gummer: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Care Quality, Care Coordinators, CCG Improvement and Assessment Framework (CCG IAF), Choice in End of Life Care, Claire Henry MBE, Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Clinical Commissioning Group Improvement and Assessment Framework, Commitment to Carers (NHS England), Commitment(s) For End of Life Care (2016), Community Care Pilots, Community Education Provider Networks (CEPNs), Community Resilience, Dying Matters Coalition, Dying Matters Coalition and Campaign, Dying Well Community Charter, Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems (EPaCCS), Electronic Patient Records: Recording and Sharing of End of Life Care Choices, End of Life Care For Infants Children and Young People (NICE Consultation), End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Ineffective Advance Care Planning, Faith at the End of Life, Family and Carers, Family Involvement, First Point of Contact (Main Contact), Generic Professional Capabilities (GPCs), Government Response to Review of Choice in End of Life Care, Guy's and St Thomas’s Hospital’s AMBER Care Bundle, Health and Care Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme, High Quality End Of Life Care (2016), Honest Discussions With Care Professionals, ImproveCare: Management of Clinical Uncertainty, Informed Choices, Informed Choices About End of Life Care, Integrated Care Pioneers, Involvement, Involvement of Family and Carers, Involvement of Family Friends and Carers, James Lind Alliance, Local Education and Training Boards, Macmillan Cancer Support’s Building on the Best Programme, Meaningful Conversations With Dying People, Namaste Care Intervention to Improve Quality of Dying for People with Advanced Dementia in Care Homes, Named Care Coordinators, National Commitment For End of Life Care, National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC), NHS Clinical Services (Department of Health), NHS Electronic Patient Records, NHS England’s Commitment to Carers, NHS Five Year Forward View, NHS Mandate, Palliative and End of Life Care for Children and Young People, Palliative and End of Life Care Priority Setting Partnership, Personalised Care Planning, Point of Care Foundation’s Patient and Family Centred Care Programme, Poor Identification of People’s Capacity For Involvement in Their Care Planning and Management (Barriers to Involvement), Responsible Clinician (Main Contact), Review of Choice in End of Life Care, Serious Illness Care Programme UK, Shared Digital Palliative and End of Life Care Records, Skills for Care and Skills for Health, Specialist Support in End of Life Care (First Point of Contact), Summary Care Record (SCR), Supporting Family and Carers, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Transforming End of Life Care Programme, Transforming Nursing for Community and Primary Care, Transparency and Accountability, Urgent and Emergency Care Hubs, Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme
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Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Communication Failures in Hospital End-of-Life Care (BBC News / RCP)
Summary The latest Royal College of Physicians (RCP) audit has estimated that one in five families may not be consulted when hospital staff decide not to revive their relatives and issue “Do Not Resuscitate” (DNR) orders. “Guidelines issued by the … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, End of Life Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 24/7 Care, Access to Face-To-Face Specialist Palliative Care, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Advance Care Planning (ACP), Agreed Care Plans, Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: National framework for Local Action 2015-2020 (Ambitions Framework), Ambitions Framework, Auditing, Audits, BBC Health News, Care and Communication, Care and Compassion, Care in General Hospitals, Care of Dying Adults in Last Days of Life, Care Planning, Care Planning and Proxy Decision Making, Care Seven Days a Week, Clinical Audits, Communication, Communication Skills Training For Care in Last Hours or Days of Life, Compassion in Practice, Compassionate Care, Culture of Compassionate Care, Dehydration, Dementia Care in Acute General Hospitals, Difficult Conversations, Dignity and Respect, DNACPR: Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Do Not Resuscitate (DNR), Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Communication Failures, Documented Evidence in Last 24 Hours of Life of Holistic Assessment of Patient’s Needs for Individual Plan of Care, Documented Evidence Patient Given Opportunity to Have Concerns Listened To, Documented Evidence That Needs Of Person(S) Important to Patient Were Asked About, Documented Evidence That Patient Would Probably Die (Imminent Death) Had Been Discussed With Nominated Person(S) Important to Patient, Documented Evidence That Patient Would Probably Die in Coming Hours or Days, Dr Adrian Tookman: Clinical Director at Marie Curie, Dr Kevin Stewart: Medical Director of RCP’s Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit, Education Programmes on End of Life Care, End of Life Care, End of Life Care Audit: Dying in Hospital (RCP 2016), End of Life Care Facilitators, End of Life Care Pathway, End of Life Care Plans, End of Life Care Quality Indicators, End of Life Care Research, End of Life Care Strategy, End-of-Life Care in Acute Hospitals, End-of-Life Care Pathways, End-of-Life Support, General Hospital Care, Geographical Variations, Good Communication, Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), Holistic Assessments, Hospital End-of-Life Care, Hydration and Nutrition, Improving Care in General Hospital Settings, Lay Member on Trust Board With Responsibility For End of Life Care, Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP), Local Variations, Marie Curie, National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC), NG31: Care of Adults in Last Days of Life, NHS Services Seven Days a Week, Palliative and End of Life Care, Palliative and End-of-Life Care in Hospitals, Palliative Care, Palliative Care in the UK, People Recognised as Likely to Die, Professor Sam Ahmedzai: Chair of RCP End of Life Care Audit Steering Group, Quality Idicators For End of Life Care, Quality of Care, RCP: Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Royal College of Physicians. End of Life Care Audit – Dying in Hospital (2016), Specialist Palliative Care Services (SPC), Staffing and Training, Symptom Control. Provision of Palliative Care Services 24-7, Tackling Variation, Treatment at End of Life, Trust Seeks Bereaved Relatives’ or Friends’ Views, UK End-of-Life Care, Unwarranted Variations, Variations in Care, Variations in Quality of Care, Withdrawal of Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP)
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Further Room For Improvements in End of Life Care (BBC News / RCP)
Summary End of life care in the UK has previously been assessed to be possibly the best in the world, but a Royal College of Physicians audit report identifies local variations in the quality of hospital care for the dying. Full … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, End of Life Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 24/7 Care, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Advance Care Planning (ACP), Agreed Care Plans, Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: National framework for Local Action 2015-2020 (Ambitions Framework), Ambitions Framework, Auditing, Audits, BBC Health News, Care of Dying Adults in Last Days of Life, Clinical Audits, Communication, Compassion in Practice, Compassionate Care, Culture of Compassionate Care, Dehydration, Difficult Conversations, Dignity and Respect, Dr Adrian Tookman: Clinical Director at Marie Curie, Dr Kevin Stewart: Medical Director of RCP’s Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit, Education Programmes on End of Life Care, End of Life Care, End of Life Care Audit: Dying in Hospital (RCP 2016), End of Life Care Pathway, End of Life Care Plans, End of Life Care Strategy, End-of-Life Care in Acute Hospitals, End-of-Life Care Pathways, End-of-Life Support, Geographical Variations, Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), Holistic Assessments, Hydration and Nutrition, Local Variations, Marie Curie, National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC), NG31: Care of Adults in Last Days of Life, Palliative and End of Life Care, Palliative and End-of-Life Care in Hospitals, Palliative Care, Palliative Care in the UK, People Recognised as Likely to Die, Professor Sam Ahmedzai: Chair of RCP End of Life Care Audit Steering Group, Quality Idicators For End of Life Care, RCP: Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Royal College of Physicians. End of Life Care Audit – Dying in Hospital (2016), Staffing and Training, Symptom Control. Provision of Palliative Care Services 24-7, Tackling Variation, UK End-of-Life Care, Unwarranted Variations, variation, Variations in Care, Variations in Quality of Care, Withdrawal of Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP)
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Five Year Forward View’s New Care Models: Updated Support for UEC and ACC Vanguards (NHS England)
Summary NHS England has released an update to the initial support package for new models of care vanguards, which now reflects the needs of all 50 vanguards. In particular, this document addresses the needs of the latest 21 vanguards; i.e. … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Age UK, Charitable Bodies, 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, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 24/7 Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, 7 Day Services, Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), Access to Mental Health Services, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Accountable Clinical Networks: East Midlands Radiology Consortium (EMRAD), Accountable Clinical Networks: MERIT - Mental Health Alliance for Excellence Resilience Innovation and Training (West Midlands), Action for Prisoners and Offenders Families (APOF), Active Communities Programme, Acute and Emergency Care: Prescribing the Remedy, Acute Care, Acute Care Collaboration, Acute Care Collaboration (ACC) Vanguards, Acute Care Collaboration Vanguards, Acute Care Services, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Addaction, Alan Steward: Chief Operating Officer for Havering Clinical Commissioning Group, Alan Steward: Vanguard Programme Lead for Barking and Dagenham Havering and Redbridge System Resilience Group, Alignment of Incentives Across UEC Systems, Amanda Sullivan: Chief Officer for Mansfield and Ashfield and Newark and Sherwood Clinical Commissioning Groups, Association for Young People’s Health (AYPH), Better Care Together (Morecambe Bay Health Community) Vanguard, Better Local Care (Southern Hampshire), Brook, Building Health Partnerships, Building Health Partnerships (BHP), Bundled Contracts, Capitation for MCPs, Capitation for PACS Providers, Care and Support Planning, Carers Identified Supported and Involved, CHANGE, Clic Sargent, Clinks, Coalition for Collaborative Care (C4CC), Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRCs), Community and Voluntary Sector, Community Service Volunteers, Comprehensive Longitudinal Assessment of Salford Integrated Care, Design Principle 1: Joint National and Local Leadership, Design Principle 2: Simple Replicable Frameworks, Design Principle 3: Support For Radical Innovation, Design Principle 4: Working and Learning at Pace (For Change), Design Principles: Vanguard Approach to Change, Directory of National Support Services for Vanguards, Directory of Support for Vanguards, Disability Rights UK, Dr Mahiben Maruthappu: Chairman of the UK Medical Students’ Association (UKMSA), Dr Mahiben Maruthappu: NHS England's NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA), Dudley Multispecialty Community Provider, East Midlands Radiology Consortium: EMRAD (Radiology), Enabler Metrics, Equality Delivery System (EDS2), Equality Delivery System for NHS, FaithAction, Family Lives, Federations, Fit For Work Team (East Midlands), Five Workforce Characteristics (5WFCs), Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Five Year Forward View Partners: NHS and Social Care, Five Year Forward View People and Communities Board, Forward View Into Action, Forward View Into Action: Directory of Support, Forward View Into Action: Empowering Patients and Communities, Forward View Into Action: New Care Models, Forward View Into Action: Support For Vanguards, Foundation Healthcare Group, Framework 15, Framework 15: Health Education England's Strategic Framework (2014 - 2029), Franchises, Geographically Disperse Multi-Service Chains, Governance Accountability and Provider Regulation, Greater Nottingham System Resilience Group, Health and Care Strategic Partner Programme, Health and Care Strategic Partnership Programme, Health Services Research Network (HSRN), Health Volunteering, Health Work and Wellbeing Group, Hospice UK, Hospital Chains, Hospital Chains and Specialty Chains, Hospital Franchises, Hospitals Collaboration Vanguards, Ian Ellis: New Care Models Programme, Insight and Feedback Unit, Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR), Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Care and Support, Integrated Care for Older People With Complex Needs, Integrated Care Systems, Integrated Commissioning, Integrated Commissioning and Provision, Integrated Commissioning Support, Integrated Organisational Forms, Integrated Physical and Mental Health, Integration of Physical and Mental Health, Integration of Primary Secondary and Community Care, IPC: Integrated Personal Commissioning, Jeremy Taylor, Jeremy Taylor: Chair of Five Year Forward View People and Communities Board, Joint Ventures on Shared Services, Joint Workstreams, Justice Partnership, Marie Curie Cancer Care, MCP Voluntary Contract Advisory Group, Men’s Health Forum (MHF), MERIT: Mental Health Alliance for Excellence Resilience Innovation and Training: West Midlands (Birmingham and Solihull) (Mental Health Accountable Clinical Network), Mid Nottinghamshire Better Together, Model Provider-to-Provider Sub-Contracts, Multihospital Chains, Multihospital Chains: Salford and Wigan Foundation Chain, Multisite Specialty Franchises: Neuro Network (Walton Centre in Liverpool), NACRO, National and Local Metrics, National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (NAVCA), National Care Forum (NCF), National Children’s Bureau (NCB), National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC), National Council for Voluntary Youth Services (NCVYS), National Housing Federation, National Voices, Neuro Network (Walton Centre in Liverpool) (Neurology and Spinal Specialty Franchise), New Care Models, New Care Models Programme, New Care Models Programme: Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) Vanguards, New Care Models: Support for Acute Care Collaboration (ACC) Vanguards, New Care Models: Support for Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) Vanguards, New Care Models: Vanguard Sites, New Models of Acute Care Collaboration: Vanguard Sites, New Models of Care, New Models of Care Vanguards, New Models of Service, New Operating Models, New Payment Models, New Ways of Working, NHS Citizen, NHS Efficiency Challenge, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England's Five Year Forward View (2014), NHS England's Insight and Feedback Unit, NHS England's Patient Experience Team, NHS England: Building Health Partnerships, NHS England’s New Models of Care Programme, NHS England’s Right Care Programme, NHS Equality and Health Inequalities Unit (EHIU), NHS Five Year Forward 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Voluntary Sector Organisations, Voluntary Sector Strategic Partner Programme (SPP), Voluntary Sector Strategic Partnerships, Voluntary Voices, Volunteering, Volunteering and Social Action, Volunteering Matters, Volunteering Matters (Formerly CSV), Win-Win Alliance, Young People’s Health Partnership, Youth Access
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Improvements to Care in the Last Days / Hours of Life (Department of Health)
Summary This report assesses progress made against commitments in the “One Chance to Get it Right” report, which was released just over a year ago as a response to the Independent Review of the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) on improving … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, End of Life 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, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, NICE Guidelines, NIHR, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, RCN, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Agreed Care Plans, Ambitions for End of Life Care, Association for Palliative Medicine (APM), Availability of Specialist Palliative Care (Including Out of Hours), Capacity and Advance Decisions, Care Homes, Care Homes End of Life Care Programme, Care Planning, Care Quality Commission’s Inspection Regime, Chaplaincy, Chaplaincy Involvement in Education and Training, College of Health Care Chaplains (CHCC), College of Health Care Chaplains: End of Life Care Resource Group, Community Health Services, CQC Inspections: Community Health Services, CQC Inspections: Hospices, CQC Ratings: End of Life Care - Acute Hospitals, CQC's Thematic Review of Inequalities and Variation in End of Life Care, Duty of Candour, Dying Well Community Charter, e-ELCAs (End of Life Care for All: Online Learning Modules), Education and Training, Electronic Palliative Care Coordination System (EPaCCS) Lessons Learnt Report, Embedding the Priorities for Care in Commissioning, Emergency Admissions Unit In-Reach Project, End of Life Care, End of Life Care Ambitions Partnership, End of Life Care and Communication Record, End of Life Care Commissioning Tool Kit, End of Life Care Education Training and Workforce Planning, End of Life Care Facilitator Events, End of Life Care Facilitators, End of Life Care Facilitators Network, End of Life Care Pathway, End of Life Care Plans, End of Life Care Resources for Doctors, End of Life Care Strategy, End of Life Care Training Workshops, Falsification of Records, Fica Approach, Five Priorities for Care, Framework of Generic Professional Capabilities, General Medical Council (GMC), General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), Guidance on Care of Dying People, Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), Health Education England End of Life Care Working Group, HEE End of Life Care Working Group, Hospice UK, Hospices, Hydration, IMCAs and Safeguarding, Impact of Opioids, Implementation of the Priorities for Care, Independent Advocacy, Independent Review of the Liverpool Care Pathway, Inspection, James Lind Alliance, James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership (PSP), LACDP: Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People, Leadership Alliance, Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People (LACDP), Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP), Liverpool Care Pathway Review, Liverpool Care Pathway Review: Response to 2014 Recommendations, Local Documentation and Resources, Mapping Review of Evidence Requirements, Marie Curie Research, Medically Assisted Hydration, Medically Assisted Nutrition, Monitor, National Clinical Audit of the Care of Dying People, National Common Core Competences and Principles for End of Life Care, National Council for Palliative Care, National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC), National End of Life Care Intelligence Network (NEoLCIN), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), National Institute for Health Research Call for Clinical and Applied Health Research Into End of Life Care, National Palliative and End of Life Care Network, National Survey of Bereaved People (VOICES-SF), NHS Commissioning Assembly, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ), NHS IQ End of Life Care, NHS Services: Seven Days a Week Forum, NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA), NHS Trust Development Authority (NTDA), NICE Guidance on Management of Care for Dying Adults, NICE Quality Standards, NICE Quality Standards in End of Life Care, NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Nutrition and Hydration, One Chance to Get it Right Report (2014), One Chance to Get it Right: One Year On Report, Pain Relief, Palliative and End of Life Care, Palliative and End of Life Care Networks, Palliative and End of Life Care: James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership (PSP), Palliative Care, PaPaS Cochrane Group, Personalised Care Planning, Personalised Carer Support, Priorities for Care for the Dying Person, Priorities for Care of the Dying Person, Priorities for care of the Dying Person: Duties and Responsibilities of Health and Care Staff, Priorities for Care of the Dying Person: Implementation Guidance for Service Providers and Commissioners, Priorities for Care: Implementation Guidance for Service Providers and Commissioners, Professional Standards, Public Health Approaches End of Life Care Toolkit, Public Health England Palliative and End of Life Care Research Summit, Public Health England: Use of Intelligence to Improve End of Life Care, Quality, Quality Assurance for Care in the Last Days of Life, RCN's Fundamentals of End of Life Care Resource, Regulation, Research into Palliative and End of Life Care, Research Projects Funded by Marie Curie, Responsible Clinician, Responsible Consultant / Clinician, Responsible Consultants, Review of Choice in 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Recommendations for Improving End-of-Life Care (BBC News / House of Commons Health Committee)
Summary The House of Commons Health Select Committee has issued a report which makes a range of suggestions for improving end-of-life care. Many people still die in hospital, rather than their preferred place of death. It is proposed that social … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, End of Life Care, 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, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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End-of-Life Care: Under-Recognition of People With Dementia? (BBC News / Marie Curie Cancer Care)
Summary A report by Marie Curie Cancer Care and the Alzheimer’s Society asserts that dementia sufferers may not always get the quality of care needed, possibly because their condition is not recognised sufficiently (at a societal level and in commissioning … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Alzheimer's Society, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, End of Life Care, 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, Models of Dementia Care, National, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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SCIE Dementia Gateway: Useful Dementia-Related Information Resources (SCIE)
Summary The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has produced, and maintains, an uptodate and impressively broad collection of links to dementia-related websites and information resources. A wide range of topics and themes in dementia care are covered, including: Dementia-Friendly … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Age UK, All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Dementia, Alzheimer's Society, Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI), Alzheimer’s Research UK, Antipsychotics, Assistive Technology, Carers UK, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Dementia Action Alliance, Department of Health, Diagnosis, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Housing, Housing LIN, Integrated Care, International, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, King's Fund, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Mental Health Foundation, Models of Dementia Care, National, National Voices, New Cross Dementia Project, NHS, NHS Digital (Previously NHS Choices), NIHR, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Patient Information, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, RCN, Royal College of Psychiatrists, SCIE, Standards, Statistics, Telecare, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest
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RCP Audit of End-of-Life Care in Hospitals (BBC News / RCP)
Summary A joint Royal College of Physicians and Marie Curie review of end-of-life care in hospitals has discovered that only one fifth of hospitals provided specialist end-of-life care seven days a week. The same audit highlights deep concerns about the … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, NHS Digital (Previously NHS Choices), Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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