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Tag Archives: NHS Sustainability
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 →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, New Cross Hospital, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wolverhampton
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Tagged Air Pollution, Air Pollution in the UK, Asthma, Asthma UK, BBC Health News, Black Country and West Birmingham, Black Country and West Birmingham STP, Black Country Respiratory Clinical Leadership Group, Breathlessness, British Thoracic Society, BTS Models of Care Committee, Cannock, Cannock Chase CCG, Cardio-Respiratory Fitness (CRF), Chronic Disease and Frailty, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Chronic Smoking-Related Lung Disease, Cigarette Smoking, Collaborative Care Teams, Collaborative Working, Collaborative Working in Local Communities, Collaborative Working in Local Communities for Benefit of Patients, Community Multidisciplinary Teams, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Compton Care, COPD, COPD: Avoidable Admissions, CURE Project, Deaths From Asthma in England and Wales, Deprivation and Leading Causes of Death: Chronic Respiratory Diseases, Disinvestment, Disinvestment Decisions, Dr Helen Ward: Consultant in Respiratory and Acute Medicine at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Dr Justine Hadcroft: Consultant Respiratory Physician and Chair of BTS Models of Care Committee, Frailty, Frailty and Lung Disease, Frailty Services, Geographical Health Inequalities, Geographical Variations, Geographical Variations in Disease Risk, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities in England, Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), Heavy Smoking, Home Oxygen, Home Oxygen Resources, Home Treatment Teams, IMPRESS Guide for Commissioners on Supportive and End of Life Care for People with COPD, IMPRESS: IMProving and Integrating RESpiratory Services in the NHS, Integrated Care Plans for Respiratory Disease, Integrated Care Teams, Integrated Respiratory Action Network Group for Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Jacqui Seaton: Head of Medicines Management at NHS Telford And Wrekin CCG, Joan Manzie: Consultant Respiratory Nurse at Cannock Chase, Local Action on Health Inequalities, Local Health Services: Variations, Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Local Variations, Lung Disease, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Multidisciplinary Specialist Teams, Multidisciplinary Teams, NACAP Secondary Care Audit, National Asthma and COPD Audit Programme (NACAP), National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP), National Paediatric Asthma Collaborative, New Care Models, New Models of Care, New Models of Care in Respiratory Disease, New Models of Care Programme, New Ways of Working, NHS England’s New Models of Care Programme, NHS England’s Rightcare Programme, NHS IQ Breathlessness Pilots, NHS New Care Models, NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG, NHS Sustainability, NHS Telford And Wrekin CCG, Northumberland Tyne and Wear and North Durham STP, Northumberland Tyne and Wear STP Footprint, Palliative Care for Patients With End Stage Respiratory Disease: Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and Compton Care, Premature Mortality Rate for Respiratory Disease, Prevalence of COPD, Psychological Support for People with COPD and Respiratory Teams, Pulmonary Fibrosis, Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Pulmonary Rehabilitation Forum, Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement Culture, Reducing Health Inequalities, Reducing Variation, Regional Variations, Respiratory Diseases, Respiratory Disorders, Respiratory Futures, Respiratory Futures Forum, Respiratory Futures: Debate, Respiratory Futures: Features, Respiratory Futures: New Models of Care, Respiratory Futures: Programmes, Respiratory Futures: Respiratory News, Respiratory Teams, RightCare Plans, Rightcare Programme, Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Sandwell, Smoked Tobacco, Smoking Cessation, Socio-Economic Drivers of Health Inequality, Strategic Disinvestment, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs), Taskforce for Lung Health, Tobacco Consumption, Tobacco Smoking, UK Inhaler Group, Variation in Commissioning, Variations in Service, Walsall, Wolverhampton
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More on the NHS Long Term Plan (DHSC / NHS England / BBC News / NAO / King’s Fund)
Summary The NHS Long Term Plan was released earlier this week. The plan is backed by the commitment of an extra £20.5 billion funding for the NHS per year. “The 10-year plan includes measures to prevent 150,000 heart attacks, strokes … Continue reading →
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Prevention: Central to the NHS Long Term Plan (BBC News / NHS Egland)
Summary Early announcements concerning the NHS Long Term Plan, previously billed as the “NHS Ten Year Plan”, indicate an even greater emphasis on the prevention agenda. This will involve, among other related schemes, the provision for problem drinkers and smokers … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, 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, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Patient Information, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Personal Health Records Online, Access to Primary Care, Ageing Population, Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol and Drug Consumption, Alcohol Care Teams, Alcohol Consumption, Alcohol Drugs and Tobacco, Alcohol Misuse, Alcohol or Tobacco Withdrawal, Alcohol-Related Activity in Hospitals, Alcohol-Related Admissions to Hospital, Alcohol-Related Burden on the NHS, Alcohol-Related Harm, BBC Health News, Benefits of Detection and Early Intervention, Benefits of Early Detection, Cancer Survival, Cancer Survival Rates in England, Childhood Obesity, Choice and Control, Choice and Control Over Decisions, Community Resilience, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Control and Independence, Deborah Arnott: Chief Executive of ASH (Health Charity), Dementia Risk Reduction and Prevention, Diabetes, Diabetes Prevention, Diet, Diet and Exercise, Diet-Related Ill Health, Dietary Risk Factors, Digital Health Innovations, Digital Innovation, Digital Innovations in Health, Digital Service Transformation, Digital Services, Digital Services for Patients, Digital Technology and Innovation, Duncan Selbie: Chief Executive of Public Health England, Early Detection of Disease, Early Detection of Preclinical Disease, Economic Sustainability, Efficiencies and Productivity Gains, Efficiency and Effectiveness, Efficiency Opportunities, Efficiency Savings, Electronic Care Record (ECR), Electronic Health Records, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Electronic Patient Record (EPR), Electronic Patient Record Systems, Former Prime Minster: Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Health Information Technology, Health Innovation, Healthy Ageing, Healthy Behaviours, Healthy Communities, Healthy Lifestyles, Hospital Stays for Alcohol-Related Harm (Adults’ Health and Lifestyle), Information Technology, Informed Choices About Health and Social Care, Informed Decision-Making, Integrated Prevention Approaches, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Long-Term Funding Settlement for NHS, Maternal Health and Wellbeing, Maternal Mental Health, Maternity Services, Matt Hancock: Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, National Childhood Obesity Strategy, NHS Long Term Plan (2019), NHS Long-Term Plan, NHS Sustainability, NHS Ten Year Plan, NHS Workforce, Optimising Benefits of Digital Technology, Optimising Patient Outcomes Using Digital Technology, Optimising Use of Digital Technology, Personal Budgets (PBs), Personal Budgets for Older People, Preventative Care, Preventative Services, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Prevention Agenda Linking Dementia and Other Non-Communicable Diseases, Prevention and Self Care, Prevention Programmes, Preventive Care, Preventive Services, Professor Andrew Goddard: President of Royal College of Physicians, Recruitment, Recruitment and Retention, Reducing Alcohol-Related Harm, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, Rt Hon Theresa May MP (Former Prime Minster), Self-Care, Self-Determination, Self-Management Support, Service User Involvement, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Smoking, Smoking Cessation, Specialist Alcohol Care Teams Trials, Support for Self-Care, Supporting Healthy Lifestyles, Sustainability, Theresa May's Mental Health Reforms, Tobacco, Tobacco Advisory Group: Royal College of Physicians, Tobacco Consumption, Tobacco Dependency, Tobacco Smoking, Transformational Technologies, Transformative Health Technology, Transformative Technology, Treating Patients Closer to Home, UK Cancer Survival Rates, Unhealthy Lifestyles, Use of Technology to Predict Illnesses and Target Advice, Workforce Competencies, Workforce Development, Workforce Issues
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NHS Focus Back on the Prevention Agenda (BBC News / DHSC / NHS England)
Summary The right public health measures and better self-care, duly implemented and resourced, might enable people to have five more years of healthy independent life by 2035. “In the UK, we are spending £97 billion of public money on treating … Continue reading →
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Recent Report on the State of Care (CQC / DHSC / BBC News / NHS England / SCIE)
Summary The Care Quality Commission (CQC) recently released their annual State of Care report, which examines the performance and effectiveness of health and social care in England, on every front. It appears that patients’ experiences of care tend to depend on how well the components … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), 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, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, Statistics, 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, Adult Social Care Workforce, Air Ambulances, Allied Healthcare, Ambulance Services, Asset-Based Approaches, Asset-Based Approaches to Health and Wellbeing, Autumn Budget (2018), Barriers to Joined-Up Care, BBC Health News, BBC Politics News, BBC Reality Check Team, Bed Occupancy, Beyond Alternative Approaches to Performance Management, Beyond Barriers Report: Alternative Approaches to Performance Management, Beyond Barriers Report: Local System Reviews, Beyond Barriers: Birmingham, Beyond Barriers: Bracknell Forest, Beyond Barriers: Bradford, Beyond Barriers: Coventry, Beyond Barriers: CQC Report (2018), Beyond Barriers: Cumbria, Beyond Barriers: East Sussex, Beyond Barriers: Halton and. Hampshire, Beyond Barriers: Hartlepool, Beyond Barriers: Liverpool, Beyond Barriers: Manchester, Beyond Barriers: Northamptonshire, Beyond Barriers: Oxfordshire, Beyond Barriers: Plymouth, Beyond Barriers: Sheffield, Beyond Barriers: Stockport, Beyond Barriers: Stoke-on-Trent, Beyond Barriers: Trafford, Beyond Barriers: Wiltshire, Beyond Barriers: York, Budget 2018: Key Points At-a-Glance, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Caring (CQC Inspection Question), Case Tracking, Chancellor Philip Hammond, Collaborative Working, Community Assets, Community Health Services, Comprehensive Model of Personalised Care, CQC Challenge to Health and Adult Social Care System, CQC Inspection Questions (Safe Effective Caring Responsive Well-Led), CQC Inspections of GP Surgeries, CQC Review of NHS Radiology Services (Planned), Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Dementia Care in the Acute Hospital, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), Digital Interoperability, East London NHS Foundation Trust, Effective (CQC Inspection Question), End to Silo Working, Everett McKinley Dirksen (Quotation: Apocryphal?), Extended Access to Primary Care, Future of Care Report: Number 8 (SCIE), General Practice Workforce, Geographical Variations, GP Cooperatives and Out-of-Hours Services, GP Out-of-Hours Services, GP Practices, High Impact Change Model, High Impact Change Model (HICM), Hospital Bed Capacity, Hospital Beds, Improved Better Care Fund (iBCF), Improvements Following Re-inspection, Improving Patient Safety, Incentivising Better Joint Working, Independent Ambulance Services, Inspection of GP Out-of-Hours Services, Inspection of GP Practices, Institutional Silos, Joined-Up Care, Joint Commissioning, Joint Workforce Planning, Leadership, Local Community Assets, Local System Reviews, Local Systems Reviews Report (CQC), Local Variations, Mental Health Crisis Care, Mental Health Crisis Centres in Every Accident and Emergency Unit, Mental Health Crisis Hotline, Mental Health Services, Multi-Disciplinary Working, New Settlement for Health and Social Care, NHS Budget, NHS Community Health Services, NHS Hospital Bed Numbers, NHS Mental Health Services, NHS Sustainability, Number of Nursing Home Beds, Nursing Home Beds, Older People: Moving Between Health and Social Care Services, Paradigm Shift: From Service Silos to Systems Outcomes, Patient Safety, Prevention Green Paper, Primary Medical Services, Quality and Sustainability, Quality Improvement, Reablement, Recruitment and Retention, Responsive (CQC Inspection Question), Responsiveness, Risk Sharing: Sharing Risks and Rewards Between Health and Social Care Organisations, Safe (CQC Inspection Question), Safeguarding, Safeguarding Adults at Risk, Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults, Silo Working, Single Point of Access (SPA), Social Care Green Paper, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Social Care Workforce, Staff Shortages, Staffing, State of Care 2017/18 (CQC), State of Care 2017/18 Report, State of Care 2017/8. Care Quality Commission (CQC): 2018, State of Care Report, State of Health Care and Adult Social Care in England 2017/18, Step Down, Sustainability, Training and Competency, Transforming Care and Support: Future of Care Report (SCIE), UK Homecare Association (UKHCA), UKHCA: UK Homecare Association, Unacceptable Variations, Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC), Variations in Quality of Care, Well-Led (CQC Inspection Question), Well-Led Indicators (CQC), Workforce Challenges, Workforce Issues
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First Government Strategy on Tackling Loneliness (BBC News / HM Govt)
Summary The first cross-government strategy to tackle loneliness recommends more emphasis on social prescribing, whereby – by 2023 – GPs in England will be able to refer lonely patients to community activities, voluntary services and other community infrastructure services; such … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Carers UK, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), 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, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Ageing Population, Alex Smith: Cares Family, Art Groups, Art Spaces, BBC Health News, British Red Cross, Care of Older People, Care of Older People Living at Home, Cares Family (Charity), Caroline Dinenage MP: Minister of State for Care, Caroline Dinenage: Care Minister, Chronic Care, Chronic Conditions, Chronic Diseases, Civil Service, Co-operative Group (Co-op), Community and Voluntary Sector, Community Cafes, Community Infrastructure: Empowering Social Connections, Community Referrals, Community Spaces, Community Volunteering, Community Workers, Community Working, Connected Communities, Connected Society: Strategy for Tackling Loneliness (2018), Cookery Classes, Culture Change, Culture Change in Health and Care, Culture Supportive of Connected Communities, Dance Lessons for Loneliness and Social Isolation, Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Department for Digital Culture Media and Sport, Department for Education, Department for Transport, Economic Sustainability, Employers, Experiences of Loneliness, Flexible and Inclusive Volunteering, Former Prime Minster: Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Government Strategy on Tackling Loneliness (2018), Health and Care of Older People, Health and Social Care Delivery Models, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Services, Health Volunteering, HM Government, Influence of Social Connections on Disease Morbidity and Mortality, Information and Signposting Services, Involvement in Social Relationships, Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness, Jo Cox Foundation, Jo Cox Loneliness Commission, Leadership for Culture Change, Liverpool, Local Community Services, Loneliness Policy Test (Embedded in Government's Social Planning), Margot James: Minister for Digital and Creative Industries, Ministry for Housing Community and Local Government, National Grid, New Malden, NHS Sustainability, Office for Civil Society, Organisations Supporting and Enabling Social Relationships, Parks and Gardens, Postal Delivery Workers Checking on Isolated People, Public Sector Employers, Reducing Downstream Spending (Connected Society), Reducing Downstream Spending (Prevention Public Health and Self-Care), Referral and Signposting, Relationships Education Classes (Primary and Secondary Schools), Royal Mail, Royal Mail: Postal Workers Front-Line Role in Tackling Loneliness, Rt Hon Theresa May MP (Former Prime Minster), Rt Hon Tracey Crouch: MP for Chatham and Aylesford, Sainsbury's, Signposting Frameworks, Signposting to Local Community Services, Signposting to Sources of Practical Help, Social Connections, Social Prescribing, Social Prescribing: Case Studies, Social Prescribing: Removing Barriers With Other Sectors (Social Care or Community Care or Mental Health Providers), Social Relationships, Staying at Home, Staying Independent, Sustainability, Sustainable Funding, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Tracey Crouch: Minister for Loneliness, Transport for London, Understanding Loneliness, Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS), Voluntary Care Services, Voluntary Sector, Volunteering, Walking Clubs, Whitby, Whole Systems Redesign
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Preparations for Winter Pressures: Funding Announced (DHSC / BBC News)
Summary The Department of Health and Social Care has announced £240 million extra funding, aimed at providing local authorities the assistance required to reduce anticipated Winter pressures in the NHS. It is hoped that reducing delayed transfers of care / … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), 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, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Primary Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Relative Needs Formulae, Ageing Population, BBC Health News, Crisis Planning, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC), Demand and Capacity, Demand Management, Demand Versus Capacity Gaps, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care, Emergency Planning and Resilience, Extended Access to Primary Care, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, Hear and Treat and See and Treat Services (Reducing A&E Attendances), Home Adaptations, Home Care, Hospital Beds, Housing Adaptations, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Long Hospital Stays, Make Ready Hubs at Ambulance Trust Headquarters, Matt Hancock: Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, New Allocation Formulae for Funding Care Act Reforms, NHS Ambulance Trusts, NHS Sustainability, NHS Tracker Service (BBC's NHS Winter Project), NHS Tracker Service (BBC), NHS Winter Project (BBC News NHS Tracker Service), Personal Social Services Research Unit: University of Kent, Quality and Sustainability, Reablement, Reablement Funding, Reablement Services, Reablement Services for People Leaving Hospital, Relative Needs Allocation Formulae for Adult Social Care, Relative Needs Formulae for Adult Social Care Funding, Relative Needs Formulae for Adult Social Care Funding (Study to Review and Update RNF Allocation Formulae for Adult Social Care), Relative Needs Formulae: Prioritising Adult Social Care Funding, Revision of the Relative Needs Formulae for Adult Social Care Funding and New Allocation Formulae for Funding Care Act Reforms (PSSRU: University of Kent), Royal Stoke University Hospital (Previously City General), Same-Day Emergency Care, Social Care Delays (Impact on Hospital Bed-Days and LoS), Social Care Reablement Services, Stephen Barclay MP: Minister of State for Health, Sustainability, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, University Hospital of North Midlands, University of Kent: Personal Social Services Research Unit, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Services, Urgent and Emergency Services: 2018-9 Winter Preparedness, Winter Preparedness, Winter Pressures
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Progress Towards Achieving Better Value / Reducing Waste in the NHS (King’s Fund / NHS Providers)
Summary A King’s Fund report investigates recent work on the value agenda, i.e. efforts aimed at reducing unnecessary costs while maintaining or improving the quality of care. This is based mostly on experience at three diverse NHS acute hospital trusts: … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, King's Fund, NHS, NHS Improvement, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Achieving Better Value, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, Allocative Efficiencies, Allocative Value, Better Procurement, Better Value, Better Value Healthcare, Better Value in the NHS, Better-Value Services, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Centralised Procurement, Centralised Procurement (Economies of Scale), Choosing Wisely, Choosing Wisely Campaign, Choosing Wisely in the NHS, Choosing Wisely in the UK, Clinical and Corporate Leadership, Clinical Leadership, Clinical Practice Groups (CPGs), Clinical Quality Improvement, Collaboration, Collaboration for Coordinated Care, Collaboration: Working Across Boundaries, Community Virtual Wards, Consultant-Led Services in the Community, Cost Reductions, Culture and Leadership, Delegated Decision Making, Devolved Budgets, Devolved Decision-Making, Economic Sustainability, Efficiencies and Productivity Gains, Efficiency, Efficiency Agenda, Efficiency Opportunities, Efficiency Savings, Empowerment, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding Gap in Secondary Care, General Hospitals, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), Health and Social Care Configuration, Healthcare Quality Improvement, Healthcare Value Improvement, Hospital Productivity, Hospital Reconfiguration, IHI Triple Aim, Innovative Leadership, Leadership, Lean and Quality Improvement, Local Health and Care Services, Local Health Economies, Lord Carter Review, Low-Value Care, Maximising Health Outcomes, Minimising NHS Costs, Model Hospital, Model Hospital: Template for Standardisation, NHS Challenges and New Solutions, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England’s Ten-Point Efficiency Plan, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Inappropriate Care: Overuse Underuse and Misuse, NHS Performance, NHS Productivity, NHS Providers, NHS RightCare, NHS Sustainability, Personalised Value, Practical Approaches to Delivering Better Value in NHS Clinical Services (King’s Fund), Productivity, Productivity in the NHS, QI: Quality Improvement, Quality and Efficiency Opportunities, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement Culture, Redesigning Care Pathways, Redesigning Services, Reducing Drains on the NHS, Reducing Overuse Underuse and Misuse, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust, Service Cost Reductions, Service Redesign, Service Redesign for Productivity, Service Redesign for Value Agenda, Shared Clinical Pathways, Staff Empowerment, Staff Empowerment in the NHS, Staff Engagement, Staff Engagement in the NHS, Strategic Leadership, Sustainability, System Efficiencies, Targeting Low-Value Care, Technical Value, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Triple Aim Initiative, Triple Aim: (1) Improved Health and Wellbeing (2) Redesigned Care and (3) Wise Financial Stewardship, Troubled NHS Foundation Trusts, Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Use of Resources Assessments (NHS Improvement), Value Agenda, Value Improvement, Variations in Care, Virtual Ward Approaches, Virtual Wards, Virtual Wards to Reduce Readmissions, Workforce Engagement
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Potentially Ineffective / Low-Value Treatments in the NHS Under Review (BBC News)
Summary NHS England is actively considering proposals to discontinue or reduce the availability of 17 routine procedures considered to be either ineffective or risky. The aim is to improve patient outcomes, reduce waste in the NHS (by an estimated 200 … 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, Integrated Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC), Achieving Better Value, BBC Health News, BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, BBC Radio 4: Today Programme, Better Value, Better Value Healthcare, Better Value in the NHS, Choosing Wisely, Dr Graham Jackson: Co-Chair of NHS Clinical Commissioners, Economic Sustainability, Improving Patient Safety, Improving Prescribing Practice, Ineffective or Risky Interventions, Lean and Quality Improvement, Less is More, Low Value Prescription Items, Low-Value Care, Low-Value Elective Procedures, Low-Value General Surgical Procedures, Low-Value Medicines, Lowering Costs, Medical Overuse, NHS Funding and Rationing, NHS Sustainability, Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment, Overuse of Medication, Patient Harms, Patient Safety, Potentially Ineffective / Low-Value Treatments Consultation: Breast Reduction, Potentially Ineffective / Low-Value Treatments Consultation: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Release, Potentially Ineffective / Low-Value Treatments Consultation: Chalazia (Lesions on Eyelids) Removal, Potentially Ineffective / Low-Value Treatments Consultation: Dilatation and Curettage for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding, Potentially Ineffective / Low-Value Treatments Consultation: Dupuytren's Contracture Release for Tightening of Fingers, Potentially Ineffective / Low-Value Treatments Consultation: Ganglion Excision: Removal of Noncancerous Lumps on the Wrist or Hand, Potentially Ineffective / Low-Value Treatments Consultation: Grommets for Glue Ear, Potentially Ineffective / Low-Value Treatments Consultation: Haemorrhoid Surgery, Potentially Ineffective / Low-Value Treatments Consultation: Hysterectomy for Heavy Menstrual Bleeding, Potentially Ineffective / Low-Value Treatments Consultation: Injections for Non-Specific Back Pain, Potentially Ineffective / Low-Value Treatments Consultation: Knee Arthroscopy for Osteoarthritis, Potentially Ineffective / Low-Value Treatments Consultation: Removal of Benign Skin Lesions, Potentially Ineffective / Low-Value Treatments Consultation: Removal of Bone Spurs for Shoulder Pain, Potentially Ineffective / Low-Value Treatments Consultation: Surgery for Snoring, Potentially Ineffective / Low-Value Treatments Consultation: Tonsillectomy for Sore Throats, Potentially Ineffective / Low-Value Treatments Consultation: Trigger Finger Release, Potentially Ineffective / Low-Value Treatments Consultation: Varicose Vein Surgery, Professor Carrie MacEwen: Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC), Professor Stephen Powis: NHS England's National Medical Director, Protecting Resources and Promoting Value, Rationing (Possibly Misplaced Allegation), Reducing Expenditure, Reducing Inappropriate Polypharmacy, Reducing Prescribing Costs, Reducing Productive Waste, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Sustainability, Targeting Low-Value Care, Value for Money, Value Improvement
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Brexit Dividend to Cover NHS Funding Settlement: Assisted by Undisclosed Tax Increases? (BBC News)
Summary The announcement of a 3.4% annual funding increase, over the next five years, represents a significant and politically astute compromise development, in advance of the NHS’s 70th birthday. Wise heads in the Treasury wanted to limit annual NHS budget … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Health Foundation, In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, National, NHS, NHS England, Northern Ireland, Nuffield Trust, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Tagged 10 Downing Street, Ageing in the UK, Ageing Population, £1.8 Billion NHS Cash Injection (August 2019), £850 Million Funding to Upgrade Outdated Facilities and Equipment (August 2019), Barnett Consequentials, Barnett Formula, BBC Business News, BBC Health News, BBC Politics News, BBC Reality Check Team, Better Access to Mental Health Services, Brexit, Brexit Dividend of £350 Million a Week Extra for NHS (Democratic Deficit Allegation), Capacity Pressures in the Health and Social Care System, Caroline Dinenage MP: Minister of State for Care, Caroline Dinenage: Care Minister, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Councillor Izzi Seccombe: Local Government Association (LGA), Economic Sustainability, Fair and Balanced Taxation Increase, Five Financial Tests for Sustainable NHS Funding and Appropriate Spending, Her Majesty’s Treasury, HM Treasury, Improving Cancer Care, Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr), Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, ippr: Institute for Public Policy Research, Jeremy Hunt: Former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Joined-Up Care, Long-Term Funding Settlement for NHS: Letter to Theresa May (June 2018), Lord Darzi Review of Health and Care: Interim Report, Lord David Prior (Deputy Chair of the Lord Darzi Review), New Settlement for Health and Social Care, NHS 70 (NHS 70th Birthday), NHS 70: Objectives and Narrative, NHS 70th Birthday, NHS Budget Growth: 1956/7 to 2016/7 (IFS Data), NHS Expenditure, NHS Finances, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Five Financial Tests for Sustainable Funding and Appropriate Spending, NHS Five Financial Tests for Sustainable Funding and Appropriate Spending: Better Use of Capital Investment, NHS Five Financial Tests for Sustainable Funding and Appropriate Spending: Effective Demand Management, NHS Five Financial Tests for Sustainable Funding and Appropriate Spending: Eliminating Provider Deficits, NHS Five Financial Tests for Sustainable Funding and Appropriate Spending: Improving Productivity and Efficiency, NHS Five Financial Tests for Sustainable Funding and Appropriate Spending: Reducing Unwarranted Variations, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Announcement (June 2018): 10-Year Plan to Follow, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Funding Projections Versus Historic 4% Growth, NHS Sustainability, NHS Trust Financial Deficits, NHS Trusts Debt Burden, Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), Performance Standards, Prevention, Prevention Approaches, Prime Minister's Office, Quality and Sustainability, Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP: Prime Minister, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, Rt Hon. Professor the Lord Darzi, Securing the Future: Funding Health and Social Care Into the 2030s Report (2018), Sustainability, Sustainable Funding, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Those Who Cannot Remember the Past Are Condemned to Repeat It (George Santayana), Tipping Point in Sustainability of Adult Social Care (Alleged), Transformation Funding, Turning the Ship Around (Avoidance of NHS Unsustainability), Upward Spending Pressures
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