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National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals: Spotlight Audit on the Assessment of Delirium (HQIP / RCP)

Posted on August 11, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) has published a spotlight audit on delirium in the care received by people with dementia in general hospitals in England and Wales. This audit finds: A large proportion (32%) of patients with dementia admitted … Continue reading →

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Helping Hospital Patients Stay Active and a Winter Framework For Speedier Discharge (NHS England / BMJ / BJN / NIHR Signal / JAN)

Posted on December 29, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Jane Cummings, the Chief Nursing Officer for NHS England has written about a Winter Framework designed to reduce delayed discharges by maximising the use of care homes across each Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP). Therapy-led units, too, will be … Continue reading →

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An Innovative Approach Hospital Overcrowding / Inadequate Bed Availability, Worthy of More Serious Consideration? (BBC News / CareRooms)

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The narrative about various inter-related crises in health and social care typically concerns the problem of excess demand for, and limited supply of, places in the community providing support for persons needing to be discharged from hospitals. Commentators commonly … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Housing, In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, Airbnb Beds Plan (Proposed), Alternative Residential Care Settings, Alternatives to Hospital Care, Barriers and Challenges in Discharge Planning, Barriers in Access to Transformative Care in the Community: Dominance of Residential Care Homes Paradigm, Barriers to Innovation, Barriers to Innovation: Dominance of Mainstream Preconceptions, Barriers to Innovation: Dominance of Vested Interests, Barriers to Innovation: Vested Interests in Opposition to New Market Entries, Barriers to Joined-Up Care, Barriers to Support, Barriers: Lack of Continuity of Care, BBC Essex, BBC Health News, Bed Availability and Occupancy, Bed Days, Bed Shortages, Bed-Blockers, Bed-Blocking Patients (Non-Recommended Term), Care Closer to Home, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care Home Admission Delay, Care of Older People, CareRooms, Cross-Sector Partnerships, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Discharges Higher in Mental Health Trusts, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC), Demand and Capacity, Disruptive Innovation, Dr Harry Thirkettle: CareRooms, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency Opportunities, Fewer Older People Receiving Help with Social Care, Financial Incentives Across Local Health and Social Care Systems (Proposals), Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Fragility of Adult Social Care Provider Market, Funding Deficits, Funding for Front-Line Healthcare Versus Social Care, Future of Residential Care, Health and Adult Social Care Providers, Health and Care of Older People, Health and Care Suitable for an Ageing Population, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care in the Community, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Demand, Hospital Beds, Hospital Overcrowding, Inadequate Bed Availability, Innovation for an Ageing Population, Innovative Disruption (To a Failing Market), Loneliness and Isolation, Loss of Mobility During Long Hospital Stays, Market Failure, Market Failure in Social Care, NHS Airbnb-Style Scheme, NHS Sustainability, Operations Cancelled Due to Bed Shortages, Overcoming Barriers, Patient Discharge, Patient Flows, Patient Handover Delays, Patient Safety, Philip Dunne: Minister of State for Health, Physical Therapy, Physiotherapists, Physiotherapy, Poor Identification of People’s Capacity For Involvement in Their Care Planning and Management (Barriers to Involvement), Post-Discharge Support, Preventing Loneliness, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Team-Based Interventions in A&E, Proportionality in Safeguarding, Quality and Sustainability, Reablement, Reablement Services, Reducing Bed Days, Reducing Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Reducing Over-Reliance on Social Care, Reducing Pressure on Primary Care, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Safeguarding, Safeguarding Adults at Risk, Social Isolation and Loneliness, Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Sustainability, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Tom Abell: Deputy Chief Executive at Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Under-Utilisation of Housing Stock, Vested Interests, Vulnerable Older People, Wasted Resources, Whole System Patient Flows | Leave a comment

Mental Health in General Hospitals: Patient Safety Improvement (NHS England / NCEPOD / NCCMH / NICE)

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary This year’s National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) “Treat as one” report identifies a number of problems in the treatment of patients with mental health problems admitted to acute hospitals. Recommendations are supplied. Professor Tim Kendall, … Continue reading →

Five Year Forward View For Mental Health: Government’s Response (Department of Health / BBC News)

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The government has published a response to the independent Mental Health Taskforce’s “NHS Five Year Forward View for Mental Health” report, as produced for NHS England. The government accepts all of the taskforce report’s 58 recommendations, in full. Responses … Continue reading →

Reducing Pressures on Hospitals: Exploring the Potential Impact of Occupational Therapists (BBC News / COT / BAOT)

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A report from the College of Occupational Therapists demonstrates the role(s) which occupational therapists (and physiotherapists) can play in helping to reduce avoidable admissions / re-admissions to hospitals and subsequent delayed discharges of care in transitioning patients back into … Continue reading →

“Poverty of Ambition” on Reducing Delayed Transfers of Care? Improvements Recommended (BBC News / House of Commons PAC)

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

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, 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 Improvement, 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 | Leave a comment

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