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Tag Archives: Patient Involvement
More on Sustaining Quality Improvement (CQC / PHSO)
Summary The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published further findings about sustaining improvement, based on the positive examples from four case studies, including: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust. North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust. … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Accountability and Assurance, ACOMHS: Royal College of Psychiatrists Accreditation for Community Mental Health Services, Advancing Quality Improvement Alliance (AQuA)., Assurance, Behrens R. CBE: Ombudsman and Chair of Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUHFT), Care Quality Commission (CQC), Clinical Leaders, Clinical Leadership, Collaboration, Collaborative Care, Complaint Standards Framework, Complaint Standards Framework: Summary of Core Expectations (PHSO 2020), Complaint Standards Framework: Summary of Core Expectations for NHS Organisations and Staff, Complaint Themes, Complaints, Complaints About Acute Trusts in England, Complaints Advocacy, Complaints Handling, Complaints Support Services, Consumer Experiences of Health and Social Care, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Learning Culture, Cultural Leadership, Culture, Culture Change, Culture of Candour, Culture of Raising Concerns, Cumberlege Review (July 2020), Customer Contact & Complaints, Driving Improvement: Case Studies From 10 GP Practices, Driving Improvement: Case Studies From Eight Independent Hospitals, Driving Improvement: Case Studies From NHS Trusts (CQC), Driving Improvement: Case Studies From Nine Adult Social Care Services, Driving Improvement: Case Studies From Seven Mental Health NHS Trusts, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust, Effective Complaints Handling, End-User Experience, Experiences, First Do No Harm: Report of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review, Formal Complaints, Formal Complaints Process, Future for Health and Social Care Complaints Handling, Governance, Health and Social Care Complaints System, Healthier Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS), Hospital Complaints, House of Commons Select Committee on Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs (PACAC), Improving Patient Safety, Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review (July 2020), Inspection, Integrated Care Partnerships (ICPs), Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), Involvement and Participation, Joined-Up Care, Joint Working, Joint Working Between Health and Social Care, Leadership, Leadership Development, Leadership Vision, Learning Culture, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT), Making Complaints Count: Supporting Complaints Handling (PHSO 2020), Making Complaints Count: Supporting Complaints Handling in the NHS and UK Government Departments, Mental Health Crisis Centre: Harplands Hospital, Moving Away From RAG Ratings, NHS Governance and Accountability, NHS Governance in Complaints Handling (PHSO), NHS Governance of Complaints Handling, NHS Hospital Complaints, NHS Hospital Complaints System, North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust, North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust: Quality Improvement in Mental Health Trusts Case Study, Openness, Openness and Transparency, Organisational Culture, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), Patient Complaints, Patient Complaints Handling, Patient Experience, Patient Experiences of Complaints Handling, Patient Involvement, Patient Involvement in Quality Improvement, Patient Safety, Pennine Lancashire ICP, Principles of Good Complaint Handling, Professor Ted Baker: Chief Inspector of Hospitals at Care Quality Commission (CQC), Public and Patient Involvement, Public Services Complaints, Quality and Experience, Quality Assurance, Quality Assurance and Accreditation Schemes, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement in Hospital Trusts: Sharing Learning From Trusts on QI Journey, Raising Concerns, Raising Concerns Policy, Raising Standards, Recruitment and Retention, Responding to CQC Inspection Reports / Ratings, Review of CQC’s Impact on Quality and Improvement in Health and Social Care, Self-Evaluation, Staff Empowerment, Staff Engagement, Staff Engagement in the NHS, Staff Motivation, Statistical Process Control (SPC) Principles, Sustaining Improvement (CQC), System Working, Systems Leadership, Transparency, Transparency and Accountability, Transparent Learning Culture, User Complaints, User Experience, User Participation, User-Led Vision of the Complaints System, Valuing Complaints, Vertical Integration, Vertical Integration (of Primary and Secondary Care), Ward Accreditation
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Strengths-Based Approaches: Practice Framework and Handbook (DHSC / SCIE)
Summary The Department for Health and Social Care, with support from SCIE, has released resources designed to help social workers / social care professionals to apply “strengths-based” approaches in their work with adults. “Strengths-based practice is a collaborative process between … Continue reading →
Posted in 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), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Asset-Based Approaches, Asset-Based Approaches to Health and Wellbeing, Care Act 2014, Care Act 2014: Care and Support, Choice and Control, Choice and Control Over Decisions, Co-Production, Co-Production for Wellbeing, Co-Production in Commissioning, Co-production in Quality Improvement, Co-Production Issues, Co-Production: Authentic Relationships, Coproduction Over Consumption (Values), Culture of Reflective Practice, Embedding Co-Production, Enablers of Strengths-Based Practice, Engagement and Co-Production, KcVETS Model, KcVETS Practice Framework, Kirklees Council, Leeds Neighbourhood Networks, Local Area Coordination (LAC), Lyn Romeo: England’s Chief Social Worker for Adults (England), Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP), Nine Areas of Wellbeing, Patient Empowerment, Patient Empowerment Movement, Patient Engagement, Patient Engagement Strategies, Patient Experience, Patient Involvement, Peer Support, Person Centred and Strengths-Based Approach, Practice Framework for Strengths Based Social Work With Adults, Practice Frameworks, Principles for Engaging People and Communities: Co-Production, Reablement, Reflective Practice, Restorative Practice (RP), SCIE’s Dignity Factors: Choice and Control, Self Management of Chronic Disease, Self-Administration, Self-Care, Self-Determination, Self-Directed Services, Self-Directed Support, Self-Efficacy, Self-Help, Self-Management Education, Self-Management in Chronic Illness, Service User Involvement, Signs of Safety and Wellbeing, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Strengths-Based Approaches to Care, Three Conversations Model
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NICE Guidance on Best Interests Decision-Making and Mental Capacity: Theory and Practice? (NICE / British Journal of Psychiatry)
Summary The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released a guideline covering decision-making in adults, over 16 years of age, who may lack capacity. The aim to support people to exercise their own decision-making where they have the capacity, and … Continue reading →
Posted in NICE Guidelines, Universal Interest
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Tagged Advance Care Planning (ACP), Best Interests Decision-Making, Bristol Medical School: University of Bristol, British Journal of Psychiatry, Decision-Making and Mental Capacity, Decision-Making and Mental Capacity: NICE Guideline NG108, Division of Psychiatry: University College London, Empowering Patients, Empowerment and Dementia, Engagement and Patient Preferences., Ethical Considerations, Ethical Dilemmas, Ethical Issues of Dementia Care, Health Services Research: University of Exeter Medical School, Involvement of Patients With Dementia in Decisions on Medication Prescription, Involvement of Patients With Dementia in Decisions to Initiate Pharmacological Treatments, Lack of Empowerment, Later Life, Learning Disabilities, Medication Decisions in Dementia, Medication Decisions in Dementia: Assertions, Medication Decisions in Dementia: Offers, Medication Decisions in Dementia: Pronouncements, Medication Decisions in Dementia: Proposals, Medication Decisions in Dementia: Suggestions, Memory Clinics, Mental Health and Illness, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Neurological Disorders, Patient Acceptance, Patient Empowerment, Patient Involvement, Patient Preferences, Patient Satisfaction, Population Health Sciences: University of Bristol, SDM: Shared Decision Making, Shared Decision-Making, Supporting Decision-Making, Thinking Ahead - Advance Care Planning, Treatment Recommendation Coding Scheme, University College London, University of Bristol, University of Exeter, University of Exeter Medical School, Video-Recorded Dementia Diagnostic Meetings
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Emerging Strategy for the Application of Behavioural and Social Sciences to Improving Public Health (PHE / BBC News)
Summary Public Health England (PHE) has investigated the extent to which the behavioural and social sciences might be applied to reduce health inequalities and improve population health and wellbeing. “The strategy was developed in partnership with the Association of Directors … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nutrition, Person-Centred Care, Public Health England, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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More on Self-Care, Patient Activation and NHS Sustainability (Health Foundation / BMJ Quality and Safety / Self Care Forum / NHS England / AMROC)
Summary A Health Foundation briefing explores the potential of increasing patient activation for better self-care in the management of long-term conditions (including asthma, diabetes and depression) and reducing avoidable hospital admissions. “ …patients who were most able to manage their … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Depression, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Foundation, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Novel Approaches to Understanding Creativity and Artistic Appreciation in Dementia (BBC News / Wellcome Open Research)
Summary The Created Out of Mind initiative comprises scientists, artists, musicians and writers, based at the Wellcome Collection’s “The Hub”, who are engaged in exploring the varied influences of dementia on the whole range of human creativity (and vice versa). … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Charitable Bodies, 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, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Tagged All Party Parliamentary Group on Arts Health and Wellbeing, Arts and Music in Dementia, Arts Therapies, Awareness Raising, Bangor University, BBC Health News, Benefits of Music for People With Dementia, Bob Fulcher (Playwrite), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Canterbury Christ Church University, Co-Creativity, Collaborate: Clarence Centre for Enterprise and Innovation (London), Community-Based Arts and Health interventions, Complementary Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluation, Coping Strategies, Created Out of Mind, Created Out of Mind: Preparatory Planning Framework. Perceptions of Dementia Through Art and Science, Creative Activities, Creative Ageing, Creative Arts, Creative Arts for Dementia, Creative Health: the Arts for Health and Wellbeing, Creative Self-Expression, Creativity, Creativity and Artistic Appreciation in Dementia, Critical Gerontology, Cultural Arts Interventions, Cultural Commissioning, Dementia and Music, Dementia Arts Photo Challenge, Dementia as a Cultural Metaphor, Dementia Research, Dementia Research Centre: University College London, Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC), Dementia-Focussed Arts Activities, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementias, Department of Computer Science: University College London, Department of Molecular Neuroscience: University College London, DSDC Wales: Bangor University, Emotional and Psychological Wellbeing, Engagement, Exploring Dementia Through Art and Science, Faculty of Engineering Science: University College London, Festival of Theatre and Dementia: West Yorkshire Playhouse, Gerontologist, In the Moment, Institute of Neurology: University College London, Interdisciplinarity, Jewish Care, Jewish Care Homes, Lisa Genova (Author), Living Well with Dementia, Living Well with Dementia Research, Living Words: The Workshop (Folkestone), London, London College of Fashion: University of the Arts London, Meaningful Activity, Meaningful Relationships, Mental Wellbeing, Mental Wellbeing and Older People, Mood and Engagement, Museology, Museum Objects, Museums, Music for Life, Music for Life (Wigmore Hall), Music Therapy, Music Therapy for BPSD, Music-Based Therapeutic Interventions, Musical Activities, Musical Interventions, Musical Therapies, National Youth Choirs Great Britain (Rivergreen Centre; Durham), NHS Research Ethics Committee, Participation in the Creative Arts by Older People, Participative Arts for People Living With Dementia, Patient Engagement, Patient Involvement, Patient Participation, People and Perceptions, Personal Resilience, Pete Grogan (Curator: Every Third Minute), Poetry, Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA), Professor Sebastian Crutch: Director of Created Out of Mind, Psychological and Emotional Wellbeing, Psychological Wellbeing, Psychosocial Interventions, Public Perception of Dementia, Quality of Life, Quality of Life for People With Dementia, Rare Dementia Support (London), Reducing Agitation and Distress, Reducing Stigma, Reminiscence Arts in Dementia, Royal Academy of Music, Salomons Centre for Applied Psychology: Canterbury Christ Church University, Significant Arts (Reminiscence), Sociocultural Construction of Dementia (Critical Gerontology Perspective), Stigma of Dementia, Subtypes of Dementia, Support for Creativity and Self-Actualisation in People Living With Dementia, The Hub: Wellcome Collection, Tryce Ltd., Types of Dementia, University College London, University of the Arts London, Visual Arts, Wellcome, Wellcome Open Research, West Yorkshire Playhouse, West Yorkshire Playhouse: Every Third Minute (2018 Festival)
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Persistent Failings Versus Quality Improvement in Mental Health Care (PHSO / CQC)
Summary The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) has published a report addressing failings in specialist mental health services in England, and their devastating impact on patients and their families. The complaints in this report predate the Five Year Forward … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, Diagnosis, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Approved Mental Health Professionals Services, Calderstones Partnership NHS Foundation Trust: Quality Improvement in Mental Health Trusts Case Study, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Collaboration, Collaborative Care, Communication: Persistent Failings in Mental Health Services in England, Community and Mental Health Trusts, Complaints and Raising Concerns, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Learning Culture, Crisis Care Concordat, Culture of Raising Concerns, Diagnosis and Failure to Treat: Persistent Failings in Mental Health Services in England, Dignity and Human Rights: Persistent Failings in Mental Health Services in England, Driving Improvement in Mental Health Trusts: Seven Case Studies, Failings in Mental Health Care, Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, Five Year Forward View for Mental Health (2016), Five Year Forward View for Mental Health (5YFVMH), Governance, Improving Patient Safety, Inappropriate Discharge and Aftercare: Persistent Failings in Mental Health Services in England, Inspection, Involvement and Participation, Joined-Up Care, Joint Working, Joint Working Between Health and Social Care, Leadership, Learning Culture, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust: Quality Improvement in Mental Health Trusts Case Study, Local Variations, Mental Health Care, Mental Health Care and Treatment, Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat, Mental Health Trusts, NHS Mental Health Services, NHS Mental Health Trusts in England, North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust: Quality Improvement in Mental Health Trusts Case Study, Organisational Culture, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust: Quality Improvement in Mental Health Trusts Case Study, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), Patient Involvement, Patient Involvement in Quality Improvement, Patient Safety, Persistent Failings in Mental Health Services in England: Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, Public and Patient Involvement, Quality and Experience, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement in Mental Health, Quality Improvement in Mental Health Trusts: Case Studies, Raising Concerns, Responding to CQC Inspection Reports / Ratings, Risk Assessment and Safety: Persistent Failings in Mental Health Services in England, SCIE Social Care Online, Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust: Quality Improvement in Mental Health Trusts Case Study, Social Care Online, Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust: Quality Improvement in Mental Health Trusts Case Study, South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust: Quality Improvement in Mental Health Trusts Case Study, Staff Empowerment, Staff Engagement, Staff Engagement in the NHS, Staff Motivation, State of Health and Adult Social Care Report (2016), State of Health Care and Adult Social Care in England, State of Health Care and Adult Social Care in England 2015/16, Themes of Complaints (For PHSO Reflection), Transparent Learning Culture, Unexpected Deaths in Mental Health Trusts, User Participation
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Exploring the Value and Benefits of Music for People With Dementia (ILC-UK / Commission on Dementia and Music)
Summary A report from the International Longevity Centre UK covers the potential roles of therapeutic music services, and digital music streaming technologies, for people living with dementia. “If music publishers and streaming platforms could make music available for free or … Continue reading →
Posted in Statistics, Universal Interest
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Tagged Abnormal Vocalisations, Active Engagement, Activities and Engagement, Ageing Population, Ageing With Dementia, Aggressive Behaviour, Aging and Mental Health, Agitation and Aggression, Alexia Quin: Music as Therapy International, All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Art Health and Wellbeing, Allied Health Professions (AHPs), Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Connect Tool, Ambassador for Dementia and Music (Proposal}, Anxiety and Depression, Arts Council England, Arts Therapies, Awareness Raising, Baroness Sally Greengross: Chief Executive of the International Longevity Centre UK, Beatie Wolfe, Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Behavioural Alternatives to Antipsychotic Drugs, Benefits of Music for People With Dementia, Brain Plasticity, British Association for Music Therapy, British Association for Music Therapy (BAMT), Building Dementia Friendly Communities, Care Homes, Care of Older People Living in Care Homes, Commission on Dementia and Music, Community Singing, Community Singing Projects, Community-Based Arts and Health interventions, Cortical Plasticity, Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing (National Alliance for Arts Health and Wellbeing), Cultural Commissioning, Dementia and Music, Dementia Friendly Communities Programme, Dementia-Care Resource Trolleys, Dementia-Focused Singing Groups, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Digital Interventions, Digital Music Streaming, Digital Technology, Distraction Therapy, Distraction Therapy in the Recovery Room, Emerging Technology, Emotional and Psychological Wellbeing, Engagement, Forget-Me-Not Chorus, Found in Music, Happiness and Wellbeing, Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), ILC-UK: International Longevity Centre UK, Improving the Quality of Life for People with Long Term Conditions, Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC), International Longevity Centre, International Longevity Centre UK (ILC-UK), JoCo Learning and Development, Kent And Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust, Live Music Now, Live Music Now (LMN), Living Well with Dementia, Local Dementia Friendly Communities, Local Dementia Strategies, Lost Chord, Manchester Camerata’s Music in Mind Project, Martin Green: Care England, Meaningful Activity, Meaningful Relationships, Mental Wellbeing, Mental Wellbeing and Older People, Mindsong, Mood and Engagement, Music as Therapy International, Music Distraction Therapy, Music for Life (Wigmore Hall), Music for the Moment, Music in Care Homes, Music in Hospitals and Care (MiHC), Music Streaming Platforms, Music Therapists, Music Therapy, Music Therapy for BPSD, Music-Based Therapeutic Interventions, Musical Memories Choir, Musical Moments, National Alliance for Arts Health and Wellbeing, National Arts and Health Alliance, Neuroplasticity, Neuroprotection, Neuroprotective Lifestyles, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Participation, Patient Engagement, Patient Involvement, Patient Participation, Performing Arts, Peri-Operative Care of the Elderly, Perioperative Care, Personal Health Budgets (PHBs), Playlist for Life, Playlist for Life by 2020, Post-Anaesthetic Care, Post-Operative Care, Postoperative Care, Potential Savings, Professor Alistair Burns, Psychological and Emotional Wellbeing, Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Psychological Wellbeing, Psychosocial Interventions, Quality of Life, Quality of Life for People Living in Care Homes, Quality of Life for People With Dementia, Reducing Agitation and Distress, Reducing Violence and Aggression, Sarah Metcalfe: Chief Executive at Playlist for Life, Service Cost Reductions, Sing For Your Life, Singing, Singing and Dementia, Singing For The Brain, Singing Groups, Singing Together Groups, Social Wellbeing, Soundtrack to My Life (STML), Speech and Language Skills (Retention), Spotify (or Amazon Prime) Music Services, Standards of Education and Training (SETs), Standards of Proficiency (SOPs), Targeting Hard-to-Reach Groups, Together in Sound, Utley Foundation, Violence and Aggression, Wellbeing in Older People, With Music in Mind, World Congress of Music Therapy
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Dementia Assessment and Improvement Framework (NHS Improvement)
The Dementia Assessment and Improvement Framework supports ongoing quality improvement towards the provision of “outstanding care” for people living with dementia during their stay in acute, community or mental health settings. There are eight constituent framework standards: Diagnosis. Person-centred care. … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Community Care, Diagnosis, Enhancing the Healing Environment, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS Improvement, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nutrition, Pain, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Alistair Burns: NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Dementia, Alistair Burns: NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Older People’s Mental Health, Best Practice Guidance Relating to Dementia Care, Best Practice in Dementia Care (Triangle of Care), Butterfly Scheme, Care Quality Commission Inspection Ratings, Care Quality Commission New Inspection Ratings System, Carer Involvement in Healthcare, Caroline Lecko: Clinical Improvement Manager at NHS Improvement, Clinical Leadership, Co-Design and Co-Delivery, Community Involvement, Compassionate Leadership, Continuous Quality Improvement, CQC Inspection Regime, Creating Dementia-Friendly Hospitals (Dementia Action Alliance), Cultural Leadership, Dehydration, Dementia 2020 Citizens' Engagement Programme, Dementia Assessment and Improvement Framework, Dementia Assessment and Improvement Framework: Diagnosis, Dementia Assessment and Improvement Framework: Environment, Dementia Assessment and Improvement Framework: Information and Support for Patients and Carers, Dementia Assessment and Improvement Framework: Involvement and Co-design, Dementia Assessment and Improvement Framework: Leadership, Dementia Assessment and Improvement Framework: NHS Improvement, Dementia Assessment and Improvement Framework: Nutrition and Hydration, Dementia Assessment and Improvement Framework: Person-Centred Care, Dementia Assessment and Improvement Framework: Workforce Education and Training, Dementia Diagnosis, Dementia-Friendly Hospitals, Early Diagnosis, End of Life Dementia Care, Forget Me Not, Healthwatch, Healthwatch England, Hydration and Nutrition, Information and Support, Information and Support for Carers, Information and Support for Patients and Carers, Innovation and Co-Design, Involvement and Participation, Jacqueline McKenna: Director of Nursing and Professional Leadership at NHS Improvement, John’s Campaign: Allowing Carers Accompany People With Dementia When Admitted to Hospital, Judith Morris: Strategic Nurse Advisor at NHS Improvement, Making a Difference in Dementia: Nursing Vision and Strategy, National Audit of Dementia Care, National Policy Relating to Dementia Care, NHS Improvement's Dementia Assessment and Improvement Framework, Nutrition and Hydration, Outstanding Care, Participatory and Citizen Involvement, Patient and Public Involvement, Patient Involvement, Patient Voice, PLACE Audit, QI: Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement Culture, Review of CQC Reports Pre-December 2016 Relating to Dementia Care, This is Me, This is Me: Person-Centred Care, Timely Diagnosis, Triangle of Care, Triangle of Care for Dementia, Workforce Development, Workforce Education, Workforce Training
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National Self Care Week 2017: Embracing Self Care for Life (NHS England / Self Care Forum)
Summary The Self Care Week (2017), organised by the Self Care Forum, occurs between November 13th – 19th 2017. This year’s theme is “Embracing Self Care for Life”. This is all about: “ …engaging and empowering people to look after … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Information, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Ageing Society, Annual Self Care Conference (2017), Antibiotic Stewardship, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Awareness and Campaigns, Awareness and Understanding, Awareness Campaigns, Awareness Raising, Community Pharmacists, Community Pharmacy, Demand Management, Dr Pete Smith: Self Care Forum Co-chair, Dr Selwyn Hodge: Self Care Forum Co-chair, Embracing Self Care for Life: Self Care Week (2017), Five Year Forward View - Next Steps: New Care Models, Forward View Into Action: New Care Models, Good Practice in Managing Emergency Admissions, Health Policy, Health Wellbeing and Independence, Healthy Ageing, Healthy Behaviours, Healthy Communities, Healthy Lifestyles, Hilary Garratt: Deputy Chief Nursing Officer for England, Hilary Garratt: Director of Nursing at NHS England, National Self Care Week (2017), New Care Models, New Care Models Programme, NHS Digital (Previously NHS Choices), NHS England’s New Care Models Team, Patient Activation, Patient Autonomy, Patient Engagement, Patient Involvement, Pharmacist Involvement, Preventative Care, Preventative Services, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Prevention, Prevention and Self Care, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Prevention Programmes, Preventive Care, Preventive Services, Pritti Mehta: NHS England New Care Models Lead for Self Care, Pritti Mehta: Strategy Lead for Person Centred Care Team at NHS England, Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Public and Patient Involvement, Public Health, Quality of Life for People With Long Term Conditions, Reducing Downstream Spending (Prevention Public Health and Self-Care), Self Care For Life, Self Care Forum, Self Care Week, Self Care Week (2017), Self Care Week 2017 Resources, Self Care Week 2017: Embracing Self Care for Life, Self-Care, Self-Care Continuum, Support for Self-Care, Supported Self-Care, Supporting Self-Care, Understanding Self Care for Life, Vanguards: New Care Models Programme, Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations
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