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Tag Archives: Overnight Effect
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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Hotly Debated Weekend Effect May Have Been A Statistical Mirage? (Journal of Health Services Research and Policy / BBC News / Lancet / BMJ)
Summary Research does not take place in a socio-political vacuum. The ongoing junior doctors’ dispute has supplied fertile ground for allegations of “spin” and politically-motivated distortion in the interpretation of the so-called “weekend effect”, and raises questions concerning the planned … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 7 Day Services, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Patient Liaison Group, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Accident and Emergency (A&E) Departments, Accident and Emergency Admissions, Accident and Emergency Attendances, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Administrative Coding Data, Ageing Population, Bandwagon Effect, BBC Health News, Birmingham (UK), BMJ, BMJ Open, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, Care in General Hospitals, Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit, Coding Error, Costs and Benefits of Seven-Day Services for Emergency Hospital Admissions, Culture Change in the NHS, Day-of-the-Week Effect, Debunking UK Government Suggestion That Seven Day Working in Hospitals Could Save 6000 Lives Per Year, Department of Health Sciences: University of York, Department of Health Services Research and Policy: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Disentangling Synchronicity and Political Axe-Grinding, Division of Health and Population Sciences: University of Warwick, Division of Health and Social Care Research: King's College London, Elevated Weekend Hospital Mortality, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Hospital Admission (EHA), Emergency Hospital Treatment, Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine Journal, English Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), Erroneous or Simplistic Misinterpretations of the Weekend Effect, Evidence Versus Mythology, Exeter, Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research: University College London, Gaming Public Opinion, Health Services and Delivery Research Programme, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, High Intensity Specialist Led Acute Care (HiSLAC), High-Intensity Specialist-Led Acute Care (HiSLAC) Project, HiSLAC Collaborative, HiSLAC Project, Hospital Accident and Emergency Departments, Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Hospital Mortality, Hospital Mortality Rates, Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (HSMRs), Improving Coding, Improving Patient Safety, Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010, Institute of Applied Health Research: University of Birmingham, Institute of Clinical Sciences: University of Birmingham, Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, Juggernaut Bandwagon of Research Publications Tending to Maximise Ministerial Discomfiture, Junior Doctors: Contract Dispute of 2015/16, Junior Doctors: Contract Dispute of 2016, Kings College London, Lancet, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre: University of Manchester, Manchester Centre for Health Economics: University of Manchester, Manchester Study on Weekend Effect, Methodological Bias in Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (Allegation), Monday to Friday Culture, Mortality, Mortality Associated With After Hours and Weekend Admissions, Mortality at the Weekend, Mortality by Day of the Week, Mortality Rates, Mortality Statistics, Mythology of the Times, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care: West Midlands, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences: University of Oxford, Outcomes of Weekend Versus Weekday Admissions for Strokes, Overnight Effect, Oxford Vascular Study, Oxford Vascular Study (OXVASC), Patient Safety, Patient Safety Improvement, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Primary Care Alternatives to Emergency Hospital Admissions, Quality Improvement, Quality of Care, Quality of Care at Weekend, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, RCP: Royal College of Physicians, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Royal College of Physicians, Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, School of Health and Related Research: University of Sheffield, Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP), Seven Day NHS Pledge: Potential Problem of Missing the Point (Some Statisticians Now Claim Weekend Effect Does Not / Did Not Exist), Seven Day Working: Health Secretary’s Proposals, Seven-Day 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