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Dementia-Friendly Personal Budgets (Alzheimer’s Society)

Posted on November 10, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Alzheimer’s Society wants local authorities in England to remove barriers which may prevent people with dementia having access to personal budgets. Less than one-third of people receiving social care support for problems relating to memory and cognition have … Continue reading →

Junior Doctors’ Dispute: One More Intractable Quandry for an Over-Burdened NHS (BBC News)

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary When you can’t think anything pleasant or helpful to say, better to say nothing… Full Text Link Reference Junior doctors row: Hospitals prepare for week of strikes. London: BBC Health News, September 1st 2016. Further BBC News coverage: Full … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, NHS Alliance, NHS Employers, NHS England, Northern Ireland, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wales | Tagged 7 Day Services, 72 Hour Limit on Maximum Working Week, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC), Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, All-Out Strike, BBC Health News, BMA: British Medical Association, British Medical Association (BMA), Cancelled Hospital Appointments, Care in General Hospitals, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Collective Self-Interest (Ahead of Patients), Concerns About Weekend Pay, Conflation of Political Protest Generalised Dissatisfaction and Industrial Action, Culture Change in the NHS, Cycle of Discontent, Cycle of Discontent: BMA Perhaps Unable to Compromise (Under Pressure From Members), Damage to Patient Trust, Damage to Popular Trust in the NHS, Diane Abbott: Labour Shadow Health Secretary, Disproportionality in Industrial Action, Dissatisfaction Over Pay, Doctors Feeling Undervalued and Overworked, Dr Ellen McCourt: Chair of JDC (BMA Junior Doctors Committee), Dr Mark Porter: Chair of Council at British Medical Association, Dr Peter Campbell: Acting Chairman of Junior Doctors' Committee, Erosion of Terms and Conditions of NHS Workforce (Union Perspective), Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Gaming Public Opinion, General Medical Council (GMC), Government Cannot Be Held To Ransom, High Court (England), Improving Patient Safety, Inability to Back-Down Pragmatically (Pathological Inflexibility), Jeremy Corbyn (Labour Party Leader), Junior Doctors A&E Walkout: Reckless "Win At All Costs" Mentality, Junior Doctors Committee (JDC) of British Medical Association (BMA), Junior Doctors' Dispute: First Draft of History, Junior Doctors' Dispute: Timeline of the Dispute, Junior Doctors' Strike Risks Patient Safety (Jeremy Hunt), Junior Doctors’ Morale Wellbeing and Quality of Life, Justice for Health, Katherine Murphy: Chief Executive of the Patients Association, Kathy McLean: Executive Medical Director at NHS Improvement, Lose - Lose Stand-Off: Impasse Over Junior Doctors' Dispute, Low Morale, Mortality Associated With After Hours and Weekend Admissions, Mortality at the Weekend, Mythology of the Times, NHS Reform in England, NHS Services Seven Days a Week, Niall Dickson: Chief Executive of the General Medical Council, No Harm Culture, Opportunistic Conflation of Political Protest Generalised Dissatisfaction and BMA's Industrial Action, Orchestrated Intransigence, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Improvement, Patient Safety in the NHS, Payment Reform, Peer Pressure: Barrier to Objective Judgement, Perceived Erosion of Terms and Conditions for NHS Employees (Union Viewpoint), Perverse Incentives, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Prime Minster: Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Professional Responsibilities, Professional Standards, Professor Terence Stephenson: Chair of the General Medical Council, Quality of Care at Weekends, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Rt Hon Theresa May MP (Prime Minster), Safeguards on Excessive Working Hours, Saturday Premium Pay, Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day Working, Strike Over a Saturday Premium Pay (Self-Interest), Sustainable Health and Care Services, System Re-Design, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Unspoken Political Context: Weaponising the NHS (Speculative Construct), Variations in Quality of Care, Vested Interests, Weekend Effect, Weekend Hospitalisation and Additional Risk of Death, Weekend Mortality for Emergency Admissions, Weekend Working, When Brinkmanship Goes Over the Brink, Workforce Issues (Feeling Undervalued) | Leave a comment

Strikes Over Junior Doctors’ Dispute: Failing Patients’ Interests? (BBC News / Telegraph / NHS England)

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Dame Sally Davies has suggested that industrial action by the British Medical Association (BMA) would not be in patients’ interest, and requested that coming strikes by junior doctors should be suspended to permit talks resume without duress. Last week, … Continue reading →

NHS Payment Reform (Nuffield Trust)

Posted on February 23, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The NHS payment system has evolved over years into a complex mix of methods, prices, incentives and penalties. It is the product of over a decade of reforms to different components. Aspects of NHS payment systems may act as … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Nuffield Trust, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Standards, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged 2012/13 Reference Costs, 2014/15 Tariff, 2015/16 National Tariff Payment System, Access to Services, Additional Payments, Alternative Payment Systems, Assessing and Meeting Needs and Payments, Attention Shift, Barriers to Integration, Best Practice Tariffs (BPTs), Beyond Institutional Boundaries, Block Budgets, Budget Management, Budgets, Calculating National Prices, Capitation, Care in Appropriate Settings, Care Settings, Case-Based Payments, Challenges of Reconfiguration, Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (CNST), COBIC Consortium, Commissioning Acute Care Services, Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN), Commissioning Landscape in England, Commissioning Local Services, Community Health Services, Community-Based Services, Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Configuration of Services, Cost Benchmarking, Cost Uplifts, CQUIN Incentive Payments, Diagnosis-Related Payments, Differential Efficiency Factors, Direct Enhanced Service (DES) Payments, Disincentives, DRG Payments in European Countries, Efficiency, Efficiency Factor (Costings), Efficiency Savings, Emergency Services, Evolution of Payment by Results in the NHS, Extrinsic Motivation, Fee-For-Service, Fragmentation of Services and Commissioning, Funding GP Practices in England, Funding Reform, Gaming the System, HCHS: Hospital and Community Health Services Needs Index, Health and Social Care Act (2012), Health and Social Care Configuration, Health and Social Care Reform, Health Care Purchased by PCTs (2012/13), Health Reform, Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs), Hospital Activity, Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS), Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) Needs Index, Hospital Reconfiguration, Inappropriate Care Settings, Incentive Payments, Increasing Efficiency, Institutional Boundaries, Integrated Services, Integrated Whole System Services for People With Dementia, Intrinsic Motivation, Leakage (Efficiency), Length of Stay (LoS), Linking Payment to Quality, Loss of Motivation, Market Forces Factor (MFF), Mental Health and Community Services, Mental Health Services, Modelled Prices, Monitor, Monitoring, National Prices Methodology Discussion Paper, National Tariff Payment System Consultation, NHS Budget, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS Health and Social Care Act (2012), NHS Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) Workforce, NHS National Prices Methodology Discussion Paper: 2015/16, NHS National Tariff Payment System (The Tariff), NHS Payment Reform, NHS Payment System, NHS Payments System, NHS Productivity, NHS Reform, NHS Service Reconfiguration, Openness and Transparency, Organisational Boundaries, Oxfordshire CCG, Patient-Level Information and Costing System (PLICS), Pay-For-Performance Schemes, Pay-For-Performance Schemes in NHS Hospitals, Paying Lower (or Zero) Prices for Activity Above a Specified Level, Payment by Results, Payment by Results (PbR), Payment for Outcomes Not Outputs, Payment Mechanisms, Payment Reform, Payment System for Hospital Activity, Payments to Incentivise Service Transformation, Policy Objectives for DRG Payments, Potential NHS Provider Productivity improvements, Practice by Rote, Price-Setting Principles, Primary and Secondary Care, Primary Care Trusts and Weighted Capitation Formula, Priority Setting (Commissioning), Productivity, Productivity Improvements, Public Service Reform, Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) Payment, Quality Payments in the NHS, Reconfiguration of Emergency Care System, Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement (RRR), Redesigning Services, Reduced Gaming of the System, Reference Costs, Reform, Seamless Care Between Settings, Secondary Care, Service Development Costs, Service Transformation, Setting Objectives, Short Stay Emergency (SSEM) Bandings, SSEM Bandings, Supplier-Induced Demand, Transparency, Transparency and Accountability, Treatment Function Codes (TFCs), Unintended Consequences, Working Across Boundaries, Working the System and Unintended Consequences | Leave a comment

Improving the Allocation of Health Resources in England (King’s Fund)

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary This paper explores models of health resource allocation in the NHS and how resource allocation is expected to work post-April 2013. Full Text Link Reference Buck, D. [and] Dixon, A. (2013). Improving the allocation of health resources in England: How … Continue reading →

Posted in Charitable Bodies, 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, NHS England, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation (ACRA), Care Integration, Civitas, Crossman Formula, Dementia Coefficient, Financial Fragmentation in the NHS, Fragmentation of Services and Commissioning, Fragmented Care, Fragmented Resource Allocation, Health Care Reform, Health Reform, Integrated Commissioning, Integration, Integration of Health and Social Care, Localism, Misaligned Resource Allocation, NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), NHS Reform, NHS Reform in England, NHS Resource Allocation, Payment Reform, PBRA3 Team, Person-Based Resource Allocation (PBRA), Public Health Allocations, Public Health Reform, Public Service Reform, RAWP, Reform, Resource Allocation, Resource Allocation Working Party (RAWP), Service Integration, Social Care Reform, Supporting Localism | Leave a comment

Personal Budgets and Health: a Review and a Summary (PRUComm / Department of Health)

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The UK Government is committed to the use of personal health budgets for health service users. This follows an evaluation of the pilot programme 2009-2012 and relates to a wider personalisation agenda in health and social care reform in … Continue reading →

Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, International, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Australia, Canada, Care Planning, CCGs, Centre for Health Services Studies, Centre for Health Services Studies: University of Kent, CHC: NHS Continuing Healthcare, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Continuing Healthcare Framework (NHS CHC), Direct Payment, Direct Payment Support Services, Direct Payments, Empowerment, Europe, Funding Reform, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Reform, Health and Social Care Services, Health Care Reform, International Programmes, Managing Personal Health Budgets, NHS Continuing Healthcare (NHS CHC), NHS Reform, Payment Reform, Peoplehub, Personal Budgets, Personal Budgets (PBs), Personal Health Budget Team (Department of Health), Personal Health Budgets, Personal Health Budgets (PHBs), Personal Health Budgets Peer Networks, Personal Health Budgets Pilot Sites, Personal Health Budgets Resources, Policy Research Unit in Commissioning and the Healthcare System, PRUComm, Social Care Reform, Think Local Act Personal (TLAP), TLAP: Think Local Act Personal, United States, University of Kent | Leave a comment

Global Perspectives on Ageing, Population Growth and Healthcare (KPMG)

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The “Something to teach, something to learn” report examines the challenges for international health systems in finding strategies to cope with rapidly growing and ageing populations. The perspectives of 22 countries are considered. Despite the differences internationally, underlying common … Continue reading →

Posted in Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Hip Fractures, Integrated Care, International, Parkinson's Disease, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Activist Payer; Transact or Transform, Apollo, Asia, Big Data, Culture, De Friesland Zorgverzekeraar (DFZ), Discovery Health South Africa’s Vitality Program, Empowerment, Global Outlook, Global Perspectives on Healthcare, Government Driven Integration, Health Care Reform, India, Integration, KPMG, KPMG Center of Excellence, KPMG Global Center of Excellence for Healthcare, KPMG’s Global Healthcare Practice, Leadership, Leadership and Culture, Leveraging Big Data, Netherlands, Networks, New Approaches to Coordinating Care, Outsourcing, Partnership, Partnership and Collaboration, Patient Choice, Patient Control, Patient-Centered Care, Patients as Partners, Payer Driven Integration, Payment Reform, Perverse Incentives, Preventative Care, Prevention, Preventive Care, Principles of Integration, Provider-Led Integration, Public Health, Recommendations for Payers, Recommendations for Providers, Reform, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Service Redesign, Shift From Volume to Value, Streamlined Treatment Pathways, User Involvement, User Participation, Web-Based Patient Education | Leave a comment

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