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Integrated Urgent Care Commissioning Standards (NHS England)

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary NHS England’s Urgent and Emergency Care Review will involve the delivery of NHS 111 and General Practice Out-of-Hours services being brought closer together. The aim is to provide patients with a simplified “front door” to urgent and emergency health … Continue reading →

Towards the Second Wave: Update on Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund For Improving Access to GP Services (NHS England)

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary GPs are able to bid for a share of £100m access fund, in the second wave of the Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund available for improving patient access to GP services. The aim is to incentivise GP practices into opening … Continue reading →

International Consensus on Quality Indicators for Palliative Cancer and Dementia Care (BMC Health Services Research)

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Quality indicators have been developed concerning palliative care for patients with cancer and / or dementia in different settings in various European countries. This article presents the efforts of a multidisciplinary international panel of experts to compile a set … Continue reading →

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GP Access Fund Could Help 7 Milllion Patients (BBC News)

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The GP Access Fund, intended to make it easier for people to access their GPs during evenings or weekends, and/or to contact them remotely by phone, email and Skype, could benefit over seven million patients (a higher number than … Continue reading →

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Avoidable Hospital Admissions Crisis (BBC News / NAO)

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Too many emergency admissions to hospitals in England take place according to the National Audit Office. There were 5.3 million such admissions during the last financial year, which represents a 47% rise over 15 years. Many of the individuals involved are frail elderly patients who … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, 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, Management of Condition, National, National Audit Office, NHS, NHS Confederation, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged 999 Ambulance Service, Accident and Emergency Departments, Admission Avoidance, Alignment of Services Across Health and Social Care Sectors, Ambulance Services, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, BBC Health News, Bed Days, Bed Occupancy, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Demographic Changes, Demographic Time-Bomb, Demographics, Emergency Admission Rates in UK, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Bed Use, Emergency Care, Emergency Care Pathway, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, Emergency Services, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Good Practice in Managing Emergency Admissions, Good Practice in Reducing Emergency Admissions, GP Home Visits, GP Out-of-Hours Services, Hospital Accident and Emergency Departments, Hospital Admission Rates, Hot Clinics, Marginal Rate Emergency Tariff, Multi-Specialty Teams Across Hospital and Community, NHS Direct / 111, Out of Hours Care, Out of Hours Services, Patient Admission, Patient Flow Diagrams, Patient Flows, Payment System for Hospital Activity, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Re-Admission NHS Hospitals, Reducing Bed Days, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Senior Clinical Input, Social Demographics, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Services, Whole System Patient Flows | Leave a comment

NICE Eyes on Evidence: Cumulative Index 2013 (NICE Evidence)

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The NICE Evidence‘s Eyes on Evidence service covers significant new evidence across a range of topics. Here is an alphabetical list of the items, which have appeared so far this year, of broad interest to readers of this information … Continue reading →

Refreshing the NHS Mandate (Department of Health)

Posted on July 12, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The government is consulting on an update to the Mandate to NHS England for 2014 to 2015. The NHS Mandate (published first in November 2012) defines the government’s ambitions for the NHS and relates these to the funding available. The … Continue reading →

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