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Tag Archives: Patient Care
“Poverty of Ambition” on Reducing Delayed Transfers of Care? Improvements Recommended (BBC News / House of Commons PAC / NICE)
Summary The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee’s latest report challenges the government, NHS Improvement and NHS England to tackle the extent of (i) the harm to patients and (ii) the financial costs, arising from delays in discharging older patients … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, 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, NHS England, NHS Improvement, NICE Guidelines, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Accountability and Integration, Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, Areas With the Highest Delayed Transfers of Care, BBC Health News, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Four: Six O'Clock News, Bed Days, Bed-Blockers, Bed-Blocking Patients (Non-Recommended Term), Care for Vulnerable Older People, Cross-Sector Partnerships, Cumbria County Council, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Discharges Higher in Mental Health Trusts, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC), Delayed Transfers of Care by Responsible Organisation, Discharge From Acute and Mental Health Trusts, Discharge Programme Board, Efficiency Opportunities, Financial Incentives Across Local Health and Social Care Systems (Proposals), Fragility of Adult Social Care Provider Market, Geographical Variations, Good Practice, Good Practice Standards, Health and Adult Social Care Providers, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, Hospital Beds, Hospital Beds Use: Variations, Hospital Discharge, Hospital Discharge and Transfers, Hospital Long-Waiters, House of Commons, House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, Inpatient Beds, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration Transformation Fund (aka Better Care Fund), James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Length of Stay (LoS), Local Health Services: Variations, Local System Resilience Groups, Local Variations, Long Hospital Stays, Lord Carter Review, Loss of Mobility During Long Hospital Stays, Loss of Older Patients' Muscle Strength Per Day of Hospital Treatment, Measures to Capture the Number of Older People Who No Longer Benefit From Acute Hospital Care (Proposal), Meg Hiller MP: Chair of Public Accounts Committee, Mental Health Trusts, National Audit Office (NAO), National Discharge Programme Board, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), National Market Position Statement, NHS Mental Health Trusts in England, NHS Sustainability, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Parliamentarians, Patient Care, Patient Discharge, Patient Flows, Patient Safety, Personal Budgets in Adult Social Care, Post-Discharge Support, Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Public Accounts Commons Select Committee, Reducing Bed Days, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Regional Variations, Sharing Good Practice, Sharing Patient Information, Sir James Munby: President of Family Division of the High Court, Social Care Delays (Impact on Hospital Bed-Days and LoS), Social Care Providers, Sustainability, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Transition Between Inpatient Hospital Settings and Community or Care Home Settings, Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Variation in Performance, Variations in Quality of Care, Variations in Service, Variations in Spending, Vulnerable Older People, Wasted Resources, Whole System Patient Flows
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Reducing Poor Language Skills Among Care Workers (BBC News)
Summary A government advisor has recommended that recruitment agencies should ensure care workers can speak English to a minimum acceptable standard before placing them in the homes of vulnerable people. Similar restrictions would presumably apply to the recruitment and selection … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Patient Information, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adult Social Care Workers, BBC Health News, Care Agencies, Care and Communication, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care Workers, Care Workers With Poor Language Skills, Communication, Communication Problems, Communication Skills, Communication Support, Dr Shereen Hussein: Social Care Workforce Research Unit, Good Communication, HCAs, Healthcare Assistants, Healthcare Support Workers, Home Care Workers, Kings College London, Language Skills, Management of HCAs, Minimum Standards for Healthcare Assistants, NHS Workforce, Nursing Assistants, Nursing Auxiliaries, Overall Quality of NHS Hospitals, Patient Care, Patient Safety, Patients First and Foremost, Poor Communication, Poor Language Skills Among Care Workers, Protecting Vulnerable People, Quality of Care, Quality of Care and Support, Quality of Care for People With Dementia, Recruitment Agencies, Recruitment of HCAs, Recruitment Training and Management of HCAs, Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults (SOVA), Social and Professional Status (of Elderly Care Workers), Social Care Support Workers, Social Care Workforce, Social Care Workforce Research Unit, Social Care Workforce Research Unit: King’s College London, UK Home Care Association, Vulnerable Adults, Vulnerable Older People
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Certificate of Fundamental Care for Health Care Assistants (BBC News)
Summary The BBC has revealed that new care workers will be required to attain a training certificate within 12 weeks of starting their first job. This follows recommendations made in the independent Cavendish report, which reviewed inconsistencies in training throughout … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Abuse of Vulnerable Adults (AVA), Acute Hospital Care, BBC Health News, Camilla Cavendish, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care Homes, Care Quality, Care Support, Career Ladder, Career Pathways for HCAs, Caring: a Career, Cavendish Review, Certificate of Fundamental Care, Common Induction Standards (CIS), Compassionate Care, Consequences of the Francis Inquiry Report, Culture of Compassionate Care, Dementia Awareness, Dignity, Dignity and Respect, Dismissal of Unsatisfactory Staff, Education, Education and Training, Enabling Compassionate Care in Acute Hospital Settings, Engagement and Support (HCAs), General Hospital Care, HCAs, HCAs as Part of Nursing Team: Not a Separate Tribe, Healthcare Assistants, Healthcare Support Workers, Home Care Workers, Management of HCAs, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry, Minimum Standards for Healthcare Assistants, Minimum Training Standards for Healthcare Support Workers, Modernisation of the Nursing Workforce, Modernization of the Nursing Workforce: Valuing the Healthcare Assistant, Multidisciplinary Teams, National Minimum Training Standards for Healthcare Support Workers, NHS Career Framework, NHS Workforce, Nursing Assistants, Nursing Auxiliaries, Overall Quality of NHS Hospitals, Patient Care, Patient Safety, Patients First and Foremost, Protecting Vulnerable People, Quality of Care, Quality of Care and Support, Quality of Care for People With Dementia, Reactions to the Francis Inquiry Report, Recruitment of HCAs, Recruitment Training and Management of HCAs, Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults (SOVA), Social Care Support Workers, Social Care Workforce, Status of Caring in Health and Social Care, Supervising and Leading HCAs, Support Workers in Social Care, Transforming General Hospital Care, Underappreciated, Underpaid, Valuing the Healthcare Assistants, Vulnerable Adults, Workforce and Skill Mix, Workforce Development, Workforce Training
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South Devon and Torbay: Community Virtual Wards and Proactive Case Management (King’s Fund)
Summary This King’s Fund case study (funded by Aetna and the Aetna Foundation) investigates community virtual wards based in GP practices within South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). The community virtual wards were introduced by Devon Primary Care … Continue reading
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, King's Fund, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Aetna (US), Aetna Foundation, Avoidable Admissions, Care Coordinators, Case Management, CCGs, Chronic and Severe Illness, Chronic Care, Chronic Diseases, Chronic Illnesses, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Combined Predictive Model, Community Care, Community Care Services, Community Nursing, Community Support Services, Community Virtual Wards, Coordinated Care, Coordination of Care, Dedicated Care Coordination, Devon County Council, Devon Predictive Model (DPM), Devon Primary Care Trust, Direct Enhanced Service (DES) Payments, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, Exeter City Council, GP Facilitators, GP Practice, GP-Led Commissioning, GPs, Holistic Approaches, Holistic Care, Holistic Care Assessments, Holistic Co-ordinated Care, Holistic Needs Assessment, Integrated Care Coordinators, Integration, Locality Working, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Agency Working, Multi-Disciplinary Working, Multiagency Teams, Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation Team Care, Multidisciplinary Team Care, Multiple Chronic Disease, Multiple Needs, Patient Assessment, Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC), Patient Care, Personalised Case Management, Plymouth, Predictive Modelling, Predictive Risk Models, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Prevention, Preventive Care, Preventive Services, Preventive Support: Risk Stratification for Case Finding, Proactive Care, Proactive Case Management, Quality of Care, Responsible GPs, Risk Prediction and Stratification Activities, Risk Stratification, Risk Stratification for Case Finding, Secondary Uses Service (SUS), Shortlisting, South Devon, South Devon and Torbay, South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Torbay, Torbay Council, Torbay Primary Care Trust (PCT), Virtual Wards, Virtual Wards to Reduce Readmissions
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NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ)
Summary NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ) was established on April 1st 2013. NHS IQ is the driving force for improvement across the NHS in England, and is hosted by NHS England. NHS IQ is an improvement organisation geared to the needs and challenges of … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, National, NEoLCP, NHS, NHS Improvement, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Advance Care Planning (ACP), AMBER Care Bundle, Benefits of Integrated Care, CCG Capability, Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Capability Building, Continuous Improvement, Electronic Palliative Care Coordination System (EPaCCS), Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems, GRASP Suite, GRASP-AF Tool, GRASP-COPD, GRASP-HF Tool, Health Improvement, Institute for Innovation and Improvement, Integrated Care and Support, Integrated Care Pathway, Integrated Commissioning, Integrated Provision, Integrated Services, Integrated Teams, Long-Term Care and Support, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), National Cancer Action Team (NHS IQ: Legacy Organisation), National End of Life Care Programme (NHS IQ: Legacy Organisation), NHS Change Model, NHS Diabetes and Kidney Care (NHS IQ: Legacy Organisation), NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), NHS Health Check Programme, NHS Improvement (NHS IQ: Legacy Organisation), NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ), NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement (NHS IQ: Legacy Organisation), NHS IQ Legacy Organisations, NHS Outcomes Framework, NHS Outcomes Framework Domains, Patient Care, Patient Experience, Patient Safety, Quality Improvement, Rapid Discharge Home to Die Pathway, Seven Day Services, Seven Day Services Improvement Programme, Supporting Integrated Care, Transform Programme, Transforming End of Life Care in Acute Hospitals
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