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Tag Archives: NHS Winter Pressures (aka Winter Crisis 2017-2018)
Ongoing Reflections on the State of the NHS (BBC News / NAO / NHS Providers / PAC / Health Foundation / NHS England)
Summary The Prime Minister is in favour of another multi-year funding plan for the NHS in England, deigned to permit planned re-structuring, tackle long-term financial shortages, and avoid recurrent annual cash top-ups / the persistent need for unexpected bailouts. This … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Foundation, In the News, Integrated Care, National, National Audit Office, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Ageing Population, Capacity Pressures in the Health and Social Care System, Committee of Public Accounts, Cross-Party and Public Consensus On Sustainable Funding, Economic Sustainability, Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: Funding and Efficiency, Health and Social Care Committee, Health and Social Care Committee Inquiry into Integrated Care, Health and Social Care Committee: Integrated Care Organisations Partnerships and Systems Inquiry, House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts, House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, Improvement Analytics Unit (NHS England and Health Foundation Partnership), Local Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), National Audit Office (NAO), New Care Models, New Models of Care, New Models of Care for Health and Social Care Systems, New Models of Care Vanguards, NHS 70 (NHS 70th Birthday), NHS England Funding and Resource 2018/19, NHS England Funding and Resources, NHS England Funding Support for Next Steps on NHS Five Year Forward View, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View: Next Steps On, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Performance, NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Productivity, NHS Providers, NHS Sustainability, NHS Winter Crisis, NHS Winter Pressures (aka Winter Crisis 2017-2018), NHS’s 70th Birthday, Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Quality and Sustainability, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Transformation Funding, Transparency Culture and the NHS Constitution, Upward Spending Pressures, Waiting Time Standards, Waiting Time Target Breaches, Waiting Time Targets in the NHS in England, Winter Pressures
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Alternative Approaches to Reducing Hospital Admissions / Re-Admissions (BBC News / British Red Cross / NESTA / King’s Fund)
Summary The British Red Cross has proposed that home assessments, and comparatively simple interventions, when discharging old and vulnerable people for hospitals would help to reduce avoidable but predictable hospital re-admissions (and prevent many hospital admissions in the first place). … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Acute Hospital Care, Age Friendly Homes, Age-Friendly Housing, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Assessment Before Discharge, Assisting Patients Inside Their Homes (Opportunity to Check Home Environment), Aston University, Avoidable Acute Hospital Admission in Older People, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Avoiding Unplanned Admissions, BBC Health News, Bed Occupancy Rates, Between Home and Hospital: With British Red Cross, Birmingham, British Red Cross, Community Service Volunteers (CSV), Community-Based Care, Community-Based Support, Community-Based Volunteering, Costs and Harms of Delays in Discharging Older Patients From Hospital, Crises Facing Independent Living Service Users, Crisis Prevention, Criteria Led Discharge, Delayed Discharge: Patient Awaiting Care Package in Own Home, Delayed Discharge: Social Care Delays, Discharge Checklists, Discharge Decisions, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Discharging Older Patients From Hospital, Dr Nick Scriven: Society of Acute Medicine, Early Discharge Support, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Care, Emergency Medicine Journal, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital Within 28 Days of Discharge, Emergency Readmissions Within 30 Days, Emergency Services, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Factors in Increased Use of Urgent and Emergency Care, Failed Discharges, Feeling Unsafe, Frail Patients on Discharge From Hospital, Future Healthcare Journal, Health and Housing, Health Volunteering, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (HEFT), Helping in Hospitals, Home Assessments (on Hospital Discharge), Home Assessments (Prior to Discharge), Hospital Discharge, Hospital Re-Admission Risks, Housing and Care for Older People, Housing Quality, Imelda Redmond: Healthwatch England, In and Out of Hospital (British Red Cross), In-Home Assessments, Inappropriate Discharge, Living Alone, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Mike Adamson: Chief Executive of British Red Cross, Missed Opportunities, Multidisciplinary Teams, National Data for Better Analysis of Emergency Readmissions (Proposal), National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA), NESTA: National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts, NHS Winter Pressures (aka Winter Crisis 2017-2018), Overnight Effect, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Case Management, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Home Conditions, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Team-Based Interventions in A&E, Proactive Falls Prevention Schemes, Re-Admissions to Hospitals, Readmission Rates, Reasons for Short Stay Emergency Admissions, Red Cross, Reducing Re-Admissions to NHS Hospitals, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, School of Health and Related Research: University of Sheffield, Social Prescribing, Solihull, Solihull Hospital, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, South Warwickshire Foundation Trust, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, Struggling and Caring For Others, Struggling With Everyday Tasks, Tackling Health Inequality Through Housing, University of Sheffield, University of Wolverhampton (Walsall), Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Unscheduled Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Urgent and Emergency Care Vanguards: Solihull Together for Better Lives, Value of Volunteering, Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS), Volunteering in General Practice, Volunteering in Hospitals, Warmer and Safer Homes, Winter Pressures
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Preparations for the NHS’s 70th Birthday Year: Happy Watershed Moment? (NHS England / Department of Health and Social Care / BBC News / King’s Fund / HFMA)
Summary In preparation for the NHS’s 70th Birthday on July 5th 2018, NHS England has started work, with numerous partner organisations, on plans for celebrating the NHS’s past achievements and ongoing aims / philosophy. Full Text Link Reference About NHS … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Charitable Bodies, 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, National, National Voices, NHS, NHS Confederation, NHS Digital (Previously NHS Choices), NHS Employers, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Ageing Population, Ashley Hodges: Executive Director of Speakers for Schools, Barker Commission, Bed Days Occupied by Delayed Transfers of Care, Boris Johnson, Capacity Pressures in the Health and Social Care System, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Chronic Disease and Frailty, Commissioning For Value and RightCare, Coordinated Health and Social Care, Daily Telegraph, DCLG: Department for Communities and Local Government, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Department for Housing Communities and Local Government (Formerly DCLG), Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG), Department of Health and Social Care (Formerly the Department of Health), Dilnot Commission Recommendations, Dilnot Commission Report on Funding of Care and Support, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Funding of Care and Support (Dilnot Commission), Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), Health and Social Care Reform, Health Finance Managers Association (HFMA), History of the NHS in England (NHS Choices' Potted Summary), Integration, Integration of Health and Social Care, Jeremy Hunt: Former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Joined-Up Care, Joined-Up Strategy to Improve Whole System Flow, Katy Hampshire: Inspiring the Future, Knowing Your NHS, Knowing Your NHS (Lesson Plan for Secondary Schools), Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Care and Support, National Audit Office (NAO), National Audit Office Report (HC 719), New Settlement for Health and Social Care, NHS 70 (NHS 70th Birthday), NHS 70 Celebration Partner: Academic Health Science Networks, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: Association of NHS Charities, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: British Medical Association, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: Department of Health, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: Health and Wellbeing Alliance, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: Health Education England, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: Health Service Executive (NHS in Ireland), NHS 70 Celebration Partner: Healthwatch England, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: Local Government Association, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: National Institute for Health Research, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: National Voices, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: NHS Blood and Transplant, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: NHS Clinical Commissioners, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: NHS Confederation, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: NHS Digital, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: NHS Employers, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: NHS Leadership Academy, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: NHS Providers, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: NHS Scotland, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: NHS Wales, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: Patients Association, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: Public Health England, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: Royal College of Midwives, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: Royal College of Nursing, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: Unison, NHS 70 Celebration Partner: Unite, NHS 70 Celebration Partners, NHS 70 Celebrations, NHS 70 Partners, NHS 70: Objectives and Narrative, NHS 70th Birthday, NHS Constitution, NHS Efficiency Challenge, NHS Efficiency Map, NHS Efficiency Map: Chronic Disease and Frailty, NHS Efficiency Map: Commissioning For Value and RightCare, NHS Efficiency Map: Enablers for Efficiency, NHS Efficiency Map: Improving Arrangements For Enhanced Nursing Care, NHS Efficiency Map: Managing Cost Improvement Programmes, NHS Efficiency Map: Prevention and Self-Care, NHS Efficiency Map: Provider Efficiency, NHS Efficiency Map: System Efficiency, NHS Efficiency Map: Theatre Management, NHS Efficiency Map: Turning Around Procurement Function, NHS Efficiency Map: Urgent and Emergency Care, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS Finance, NHS Five Year Forward View, NHS Statistics Facts and Figures (NHS Confederation Summary), NHS Sustainability, NHS Winter Crisis, NHS Winter Pressures (aka Winter Crisis 2017-2018), NHS’s 70th Birthday, Partnership and Collaboration, Partnership Working, Patient Safety, Paying for Long-Term Care, Population Winter Pressures, Prevention and Self Care, Prioritisation, Productivity Improvements, Productivity in the NHS, Proportion of Public Spending on Health, Quality and Sustainability, Rationing, Re-Branding Department of Health (January 2018 Cabinet Re-Shuffle), Reducing Waste in the NHS, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Self-Care, Self-Management, Spending on Front-Line Healthcare Versus Social Care, Spending Review 2015, Study of Science Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM) Subjects subjects, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation in the NHS (NAO 2018), Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Transparency Culture and the NHS Constitution, Tredegar Workmen’s Medical Aid Society, Urgent and Emergency Care, Using Services Wisely, Value of Volunteering, Voluntary Sector, Voluntary Sector Provision, Voluntary Sector Strategic Partnerships, Volunteering
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New Year – Same Old NHS Winter Pressures: Some Recent Responses to Excess Public Demand for Services (BBC News / RCGP / NHS England / King’s Fund)
Summary Other Northern European nations, North America etc. have more extreme and colder Winters, yet their health systems appear not to buckle under these predictable seasonal pressures. Here are some recent responses and initiatives, as mentioned in the news, aiming … Continue reading →
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Tagged Accident and Emergency Departments, Ageing Population, Artificial Inflation of A&E Performance Data (Allegation), BBC Bristol, BBC News Northampton, BBC Politics News, BBC Regional News: Hereford and Worcester, BBC Scotland, BBC Scotland News, Black Alerts, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, City of Coventry Walk In Centre, Community Pharmacists, Crisis Planning, Demand and Capacity, Demand Management, Demand Versus Capacity Gaps, Dr Taj Hassan: President of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Ed Humpherson: Director General for Regulation at UK Statistics Authority (UKSA), Elective Waiting Times, Emergency Care, Emergency Departments, Emergency Planning and Resilience, Emergency System Resilience, Flu-Related Hospital Admissions, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Former Prime Minster: Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Gaming Public Opinion, GPs Co-Located With A&E Department, Health Demand, Hospital Waiting Times, Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Mixed Sex Accommodation, Mixed‐Sex Accommodation, Mythology of the Times, National Emergency Pressures Panel (NEPP), National Emergency Pressures Panel (NHS England NEPP), National Emergency Pressures Panel (NHS England), NHS 70th Birthday, NHS England's National Emergency Pressures Panel, NHS England’s National Emergency Pressures Panel (NEPP), NHS Spending on Older People (Disproportionately High), NHS Sustainability, NHS Tracker Service (BBC's NHS Winter Project), NHS Winter Crisis, NHS Winter Pressures (aka Winter Crisis 2017-2018), NHS Winter Project (BBC News NHS Tracker Service), NHS Winter Tracker (BBC), Non-Emergency Waiting Times, Northampton General Hospital, Online Guidance From NHS Choices, Openness and Transparency, Patient Dignity, Patient Factors (Demand Side), Patient Safety, Population Winter Pressures, Preparations for Winter, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Professor Suzanne Mason: Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Proportion of Public Spending on Health, Quality and Sustainability, Rationing, Rationing of Surgery in the NHS, RCGP's 3 Before GP Mantra Awareness Campaign, Reducing Avoidable Demand, Reverse-Acting Hawthorne Effect (Speculative Construct), Right Care - First Time Campaign (Community Pharmacists), Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Rt Hon Theresa May MP (Former Prime Minster), Self-Care, Self-Management, Shona Robison: Health Secretary for Scotland, Single Sex Accommodation, Spending on Front-Line Healthcare Versus Social Care, Sustainability, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Three Before GP Mantra (RCGP), UK Statistics Authority, UK Statistics Authority (UKSA), University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (A&E Performance), Urgent Care Centres, Winter Flu Outbreak: 2017/8, Winter Preparedness, Winter Pressures, Winter Pressures in General Practice
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