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Tag Archives: NHS Sustainability
BBC’s NHS Tracker Service: Re-Launched (BBC News)
Summary The BBC has launched a new improved version of the online NHS Tracker, in readiness for anticipated Winter-pressures. This service allows local variations in service performance to be viewed by postcode. Updates will be added to reflect monthly and … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, 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, National, NHS, Northern Ireland, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Tagged 62 Day Cancer Waiting Standard, A&E Four-Hour Wait Standard, A&E Quality Indicators, Access Targets, Access Times for Planned Treatments, Access to Hospital Care, Accident & Emergency, Accident and Emergency Departments, Accident and Emergency: NHS Performance Indicators, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, BBC Health News, BBC's NHS Winter Project, Cancer Care Waiting Time Target, Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Geographical Variations, Key Performance Indicators, Local NHS Performance Tracking Service (NHS Winter Project), Local Variations, NHS in Winter (BBC News), NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Sustainability, NHS Tracker Service (BBC's NHS Winter Project), NHS Winter Crisis, NHS Winter Project (BBC News NHS Tracker Service), NHS Winter Project (BBC News), Performance Indicators, Performance Targets, Planned Operations Waiting Time Target, Planned Treatment, Quality and Sustainability, Quality of Health Care, Quality Standards, Sustainability, Target Culture, Target-Driven Behaviour, Target-Driven Priorities, Targets and Performance Management, Unscheduled Admissions, Unwarranted Variations, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Review, Urgent and Emergency Services, Variations in Service, Waiting Time Target Breaches, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Waiting Times for Planned Treatments, Winter Preparedness, Winter Pressures
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The Latest CQC State of Care Report (BBC News / CQC / File on Four)
Summary The Care Quality Commission (CQC) annual State of Care report assesses the overall status of health and social care in England. The head of the CQC has alleged that parts of the NHS and social care may soon be … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Adult Safeguarding, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Provision (CQC), Adult Social Care Services, Adult Social Care Staff Vacancy Rates, Ambulance Services, Barriers to Joined-Up Care, BBC Radio Four’s “File on Four” Programme, Bed Occupancy, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Caring (CQC Inspection Question), Collaborative Working, Community Health Services, CQC Challenge to Health and Adult Social Care System, CQC Inspection Questions (Safe Effective Caring Responsive Well-Led), CQC Inspections of GP Surgeries, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Dementia Care in the Acute Hospital, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), East London NHS Foundation Trust, Effective (CQC Inspection Question), Embedding Equality, File on Four (BBC Radio 4), Geographical Variations, GP Cooperatives and Out-of-Hours Services, GP Out-of-Hours Services, GP Practices, Hospital Bed Capacity, Hospital Beds, Improvements Following Re-inspection, Improving Patient Safety, Independent Ambulance Services, Inspection of GP Out-of-Hours Services, Inspection of GP Practices, Joined-Up Care, Leadership, Local Variations, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Medicines Optimisation, Mental Health Care, Multi-Disciplinary Working, NHS Community Health Services, NHS Future Precarious (CQC Allegation), NHS Hospital Bed Numbers, NHS Mental Health Services, NHS Sustainability, Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Number of Nursing Home Beds, Nursing Home Beds, Patient Safety, Primary Medical Services, Quality and Sustainability, Quality Improvement, Responsive (CQC Inspection Question), Responsiveness, Safe (CQC Inspection Question), Safeguarding, Safeguarding Adults at Risk, Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults, Staff Shortages, Staffing, State of Care 2016/17 (CQC), State of Care 2016/17 Report, State of Care Report, Sustainability, Tipping Point in Sustainability of Adult Social Care (Alleged), Training and Competency, Unacceptable Variations, Variations in Quality of Care, Well-Led (CQC Inspection Question), Well-Led Indicators (CQC)
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More Questions About NHS Sustainability and Service Quality: A Further Round in the Debate (BBC News / King’s Fund / BMA / RCEM / NHS Digital / Department of Health / NHS England / NHS Confederation)
Summary Professor Ted Baker, the new Chief Inspector of Hospitals for the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has voiced concerns about unsuitable antiquated models of care in the NHS (due to a historic 15-20 year mis-direction of funding), growing pressures for … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Local Interest, National, NHS, NHS Confederation, NHS England, Quick Insights, RCN, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged A&E, A&E Waiting Times and Activity, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Accident and Emergency Doctors, Acute Bed Capacity, Acute Care, Acute Care Collaboration, Acute Care Services, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Medical Care for Frail Older People, Acute Medical Care of Elderly People, Acute Medicine Units (AMUs), Ageing Population, Ambulance Handovers, Ambulance Handovers (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), BBC Health News, Bed Occupancy, British Medical Association (BMA), Care Quality Commission (CQC), Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals NHS Foundation Trusts: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Collaborative Provider Arrangements, David Behan: Chief Executive of Care Quality Commission, Demand Management, Dr Chaand Nagpaul: British Medical Association, Dr Taj Hassan: President of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Economic Sustainability, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care, Emergency Services, Evolving Demand, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Factors in Increased Use of Urgent and Emergency Care, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Finished Admission Episodes (FAEs), Finished Consultant Episodes (FCEs), Flow Within Hospitals, Four-Hour A&E Waiting Time Target, Frailty, Frailty (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Funding, Future Sustainability of NHS Trust, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity (2016-17), Hospital Admitted Patient Care Activity: 2016-17 (NHS Digital), Hospital Bed Capacity, Hospital Beds, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Humanitarian Crisis in NHS Hospitals and Ambulance Services (Allegation), Improving Patient Flow, Integrated Urent Care Comissioning Standards, Integrated Urgent Care Clinical Assessment Service (IUC CAS), Integrated Urgent Care Delivery Team, Integrated Urgent Care Service Specification, Integrated Urgent Care Services, Integrated Urgent Care Services in Wolverhampton, Integrated Urgent Care Services: National Service Specification, Intermediate Care, Intermediate Care Capacity, Isle of Wight NHS Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Lobbying, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), London Ambulance Service NHS Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), London North West Healthcare NHS Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Medway NHS Foundation Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), National Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS), National Service Specification for Integrated Urgent Care Services, New Care Models, New Models of Care, New Models of Service, NHS Confederation: NHS on the Brink (2017 Allegation), NHS Digital, NHS Digital (Formerly the Health and Social Care Information Centre), NHS Future Precarious (CQC Allegation), NHS Hospital Bed Numbers, NHS Providers, NHS Sustainability, North Manchester General Hospital: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Parliamentarians, Patient Flows, Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (Fairfield General Hospital): Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Philip Dunne: Minister of State for Health, Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Preparations for Winter, Professor Ted Baker: Chief Inspector of Hospitals at Care Quality Commission (CQC), Provider Sustainability, Quality and Sustainability, rcem, Reducing Reliance on Hospital Care, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Royal Hampshire County Hospital: Winchester: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Safety and Quality of Emergency Care (Letter From Ted Baker to NHS Trusts), South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), STP Proposals to Reduce Bed Numbers, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainable Funding, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), West Middlesex University Hospital: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Whittington Health NHS Trust: Preparations Ahead of Winter 2017/8 (Extra Funding), Winter Preparedness, Winter Pressures
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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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Financial Sustainability in the NHS: Holding Up a Mirror? Reflection (BBC News / NHS Improvement / NHS England / BMJ / OECD)
Summary The authors of the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) report believe that the NHS may not actually need further money from the taxpayer, asserting that efficiency savings identified (in the field of general surgery alone, and without looking … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, World Health Organization (WHO)
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Tagged American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP), Anatomy of the Model Hospital, £22 Billion Efficiency Savings by 2020-21, BBC Health News, Bedford Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSK) Referral Management Centre, Bedford Referral Management Centre (RMC), Better Together Vanguard, Birmingham and Solihull United Maternity and Newborn Pathway (BUMP) Early Adopter, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, British Medical Journal (BMJ), BUMP: Birmingham and Solihull United Maternity and Newborn Pathway, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Closing the Finance and Efficiency Gap, Closing the Funding and Efficiency Gap, Consumer Experiences of Health and Social Care, Continuous Learning Culture, Cumbria CCG’s Pain Management Service, Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC), Diabetes and Obesity, Durham and Darlington Children’s and Young Person’s Mental Health Services Crisis and Liaison team (CYPMHS), Duty of Best Value, East and North Hertfordshire CCG Vanguard, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency and Effectiveness, Efficiency Frontiers, Efficiency Opportunities, Efficiency Savings, End-User Experience, Enhanced Health in Care Homes, Estates and Technology Transformation Fund, Exemplar Clinical Pathways, Failing Services (NHS and Social Care), Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Issues, Financial Management, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Financial Sustainability of NHS Bodies, Financing of Health Care, Future Financial Sustainability, Future of NHS and Social Care, Fylde Coast Local Health Economy, General Surgery: GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report (August 2017), Geographical Variations, Getting it Right First Time, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), GIRFT and Other Improvement Initiatives, GIRFT Programme, GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report (August 2017), Global Health and Development Group: Imperial College London, Governance-Related Waste: Abuse, Governance-Related Waste: Administration Costs, Governance-Related Waste: Corruption, Governance-Related Waste: Fraud, Governance-Related Waste: Integrity Violations, Governance-Related Waste: Managerial Self-Interest, Governance-Related Waste: Managerial Spin and Self-Deception, Governance-Related Waste: Self-Regulation vs. Integrity Violations, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Costs, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Services, Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), Healthy New Towns, Imperial College London, Improvement Initiatives, Inappropriate Use of Antimicrobials, Institute of Global Health Innovation: Imperial College London, Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC), Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC) Programme, John Abercrombie: GIRFT Clinical Lead for General Surgery, Learning Culture, Learning from Data, Learning From Peers, Length of Stay (LoS), Local Health Services: Variations, Local Variations, Mental Health and Dementia, Model Hospital: Template for Standardisation, National Innovation Accelerator, NHS and Social Care Spending, NHS Efficiency Challenge, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), NHS England Annual Report and Accounts (2016/17), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Improvement, NHS North Kirklees CCG, NHS Providers, NHS Stockport CCG, NHS Sustainability, NHS Waltham Forest CCG, NHSI: NHS Improvement, North East London Choice and Personalisation Pioneer, Operational Productivity and Performance (Carter Report), Operational Waste: Hospital Care, Operational Waste: Pharmaceuticals, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment, Overtreatment (Speculative Concept), Patient Experiences, Patients Waiting More Than Four Hours For Hospital Beds (Trolley Waits), Paul Baumann: Chief Financial Officer at NHS England, Personalised Medicine, Potential NHS Provider Productivity improvements, PPIB: Purchasing Price Index Benchmark and Benchmark Tool, Productivity, Professor Sir Malcolm Grant, Professor Tim Briggs: GIRFT Programme Chair, Professor Tim Briggs: National Director for Clinical Quality and Efficiency at NHS Improvement, Public Opinion, Quality and Sustainability, Reducing Delayed Transfers of Care, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Renal e-clinics in Tower Hamlets, Right First Time, Royal College of Surgeons (RCS), Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSENG), Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust, Science and Innovation, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Sir Malcolm Grant: Chair of NHS England, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, Tackling Barriers to Innovation, Tackling Variation, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Tower Hamlets Together, Transformational Commissioning, Transformational Technologies, Transparency, Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Upward Spending Pressures, Urgent Response Assess at Home Pathway, Variation in General Surgery, Variations in Care, Variations in Procurement, Variations in Quality of Care, Variations in Spending, Wasted Resources, Wasteful Clinical Care, Winter Pressures Beyond Winter (Winter Re-Defined?), World Health Organisation (WHO)
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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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Public Opinion Update on the NHS and Social Care (Health Foundation)
Summary Public opinion has even greater significance in the context of the June 2017 General Election. “The Health Foundation commissioned Ipsos MORI to do a survey of the general public in Great Britain on their views about funding of the … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Health Foundation, In the News, Integrated Care, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 2017 General Election, Adult Social Care in England, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, Brexit, British Social Attitudes Survey, Consumer Experiences of Health and Social Care, End-User Experience, Failing Services (NHS and Social Care), Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Pressures, Future of NHS and Social Care, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Costs, Ipsos Mori, Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute, NatCen: British Social Attitudes survey (BSA), NHS and Social Care, NHS and Social Care (Public Opinion / Experience), NHS and Social Care Spending, NHS Sustainability, Patient Experiences, Public Opinion, Quality and Sustainability, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Social Care, Social Care Expenditure, Social Care Funding, Social Care Funding Gap, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, Waiting Times, What’s Wrong With Social Care in England
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