Tag Archives: Primary Care Trusts (PCTs)

NHS Reform Under the Coalition Government (King’s Fund / BBC News)

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Chris Ham, Chief Executive of the King’s Fund, has released an authoritative and thorough review of major reform and re-organisation within the NHS during the first three years of the coalition government. “He was agin’ it”. Mark Twain. Full … Continue reading →

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NHS Atlas of Variations in Diagnostic Services (Public Health England / NHS Right Care / BBC News)

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The “NHS Atlas of Variation in Diagnostic Services”, published by NHS Right Care and Public Health England (with the assistance of numerous other organisations and clinicians), charts significant variations in how health conditions are identified, diagnosed and monitored. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Parkinson's Disease, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Assessment and Diagnosis, BBC Health News, British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Nutrition (BSPGHAN), Cambridge University Health Partners, Capacity Planning, Child and Maternal Health Intelligence Network, Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, Dementia Diagnosis, Diagnosis and Referral, Diagnosis at Primary Care Level, Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease, Diagnosis Rates, Diagnostic Imaging, Diagnostic Services Atlas, Diagnostic Testing Rates, Diagnostic Waiting Times, Genetic Testing, Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), HSCIC: Health and Social Care Information Centre, Imaging, Imaging Services, Improving Value in Diagnostic Services, Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy (JAG), Kings College London, Knowledge and Intelligence Team (South East), Late Diagnosis: Under-Use, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), MRI Brain Imaging, National Pathology Programme (NPP), Neuroimaging, NHS Atlas of Variations in Diagnostic Services, NHS Atlases, NHS Improving Quality (NHSIQ), NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP), NHS Right Care, NHS Scan and Test Delays, NHS Variations in Diagnostic Services, NHS Waiting Times, Office for National Statistics, Office for National Statistics (ONS), Online InstantAtlas: NHS Atlas of Variations in Diagnostic Services, Over-Diagnosis, PHE: Public Health England, Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), Right Care, Russell Group, Stroke Improvement National Audit Programme (SINAP), Timely Diagnosis, Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN), True Clinical Variation Versus Unwarranted Variation, UK EUS Users Group, UK Genetic Testing Network (UKGTN), University College London (UCL), University of Leeds, University of Manchester, Unlocking Diagnosis, Unwarranted Variations, Unwarranted Variations in Diagnostic Testing Rates, Waiting Times | Leave a comment

Commissioning Excellence: Commissioning Support Services (NHS England)

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The NHS England strategy for ensuring CCGs receive suitable commissioning support services is outlined in this document. CCGs should be enabled to exercise informed choice about how they obtain commissioning support and from whom. An effective market of viable … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Universal Interest | Tagged Accredited Safe Haven (ASH), Accredited Safe Havens, ACEVO (the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations), Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO), Business Intelligence, Business Support / Back Office, Caldicott Review, CCG Development Framework, CCG Engagement, CCGs, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Choice and Competition, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Combined Predictive Model, Commissioning Excellence, Commissioning Support Providers, Commissioning Support Services, Commissioning Support Units (CSUs), Common Law Duty of Confidence, Communication, Continuity and Consistency, Continuity of Care, Continuity of Service, Continuity of Supply, Contract Management, Contracts, Creating a Market, CSU Assurance, CSU Business Review and Assurance Process, CSU Development, Decision Support Tools, Developing Informed Customers, Economies of Scale, Francis Inquiry Report, GP Extraction Service (GPES), Health Needs Assessment, Health Needs Assessment (including JSNA), ICO Anonymisation Code of Practice, Implications of the Francis Inquiry Report, Independent Sector Data Services Providers (IDSPs), Information Governance, Informed Customers, Integration, Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), JSNAs: Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, Level Playing Fields (Markets), Local Authority Commissioners and Providers, Market Information, Market Management, Market Mechanisms, Monitor, NHS Business Services Authority, NHS Commissioning Support Units (CSUs), NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), NHS England and Monitor: Partnership Agreement, NHS Improving Quality (NHSIQ), PARR-30, Partnership Values and Behaviours, Patient and Public Engagement (PPE), Patient and Public Involvement (PPI), Patients at Risk of Re-hospitalisation (PARR), PPE: Patient and Public Engagement, Predictive Models, Predictive Risk Models, Preventive Support: Risk Stratification for Case Finding, Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), Procurement, Provider Management, Pseudonymised Data, QIPP, Quality Innovation Productivity and Prevention (QIPP), Reactions to the Francis Inquiry Report, Redesigning Care Pathways, Redesigning Services, Risk Management, Risk Models, Risk Prediction Tools, Risk Profiling Tools, Risk Stratification, Risk Stratification for Case Finding, Safeguarding, Secondary Uses Service (SUS), Service Continuity, Service Quality and Standards, Service Redesign, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), SMEs, Triple Fail Event, Value for Money, Voluntary and SME Sectors, Voluntary Organisations, Weakly Pseudonymised Data, Wilson and Jungner Criteria, Winterbourne View Review Concordat | Leave a comment

Transfer of Responsibilities Under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (SCIE Report 62)

Posted on February 2, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Primary care trusts (PCTs) cease to exist in April 2013 and their supervisory body responsibilities under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards relating to hospitals then passes to local authorities. This transfer involves local social services authorities and health institutions … Continue reading →

Posted in Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, Proposed for Next Newsletter, Quick Insights, SCIE, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Adults’ Services SCIE Report 62, Best Interests Assessors (BIAs), CCGs, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), Elderly Mental Health, Eligibility Assessments in Psychiatric Hospitals, Health and Social Care Act (2012), Human Rights Act (UK Parliament 1998), Local Authorities (LAs), Local Health Board (LHB), MCA: Mental Capacity Act 2005, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Mental Health Assessors, National Assembly for Wales, Ordinary Residence, Ordinary Residence in Relation to Hospitals, PCTs to CCGs, Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), Relevant Person‘s Representative (RPR), Safeguarding, SCIE Report 62, Serious Medical Treatment Decisions, Social Services, Transfer of Responsibilities Under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Transition from PCTs to CCGs | Leave a comment

The Health and Social Care Act 2012: Get in on the Act (Local Government Association)

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary This narrative review from the Local Government Association offers a quick guide to recent legislation, summarising the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and the provisions which are of relevance to local government. This review goes further, in pointing out … Continue reading →

Posted in Community Care, For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, National, Public Health England, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Care Pathway, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Commissioning Support Services, Health and Social Care Act (2012), Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Wellbeing Boards, Health Scrutiny, Healthwatch, Healthwatch England, HWBs, Integration, JHWSs: Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategies, Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy (JHWS), Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA), JSNA, JSNAs: Joint Strategic Needs Assessments, LINks (or Local Involvement Networks), Local Government Association, Local Government Association: LGA, Local Government Policy, Local HealthWatch, Local Involvement Network (LINk), NHS Commissioning Board (NHSCB), NHS Commissioning Board Authority (NHSCBA), NHS Health and Social Care Act (2012), NHSCB, NHSCBA, Office of the Health Professions Regulator (OHPA), Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), Public Health, Public Health and Health Improvement, Public Health England (PHE), Public Health Funding, Public Health Outcomes Framework, Secretary of State (SoS), Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs), The Health and Social Care Act 2012: Get in on the Act | Leave a comment

End of Life Care Primary Care Trust Profiles (National End of Life Care Programme)

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The National End of Life Care Intelligence Network (NEoLCIN) has launched the End of Life Care Profiles for each Primary Care Trust (PCT) in England. There is one profile for each PCT in England to help with service planning. These are available … Continue reading →

Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, End of Life Care, For Social Workers (mostly), Local Interest, National, NEoLCIN, NIHR, Proposed for Next Newsletter, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged End of Life Care, End of Life Care Profiles, End of Life Care Research, Environments for Care at End of Life, InstantAtlas Metadata Guide, InstantAtlas™ Mapping Software, Key Performance Indicators (KPI): End of Life Care, National End of Life Care Intelligence Network, PCT Clusters, Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), Treatment at End of Life | Leave a comment

Reablement Guides (SCIE)

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Reablement teams across the UK support people with a range of diagnoses, including some with dementia and sometimes people with end of life care needs. Reablement should result in better health and wellbeing, improve outcomes and reduce spending on … Continue reading →

Posted in ADASS, Carers UK, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), National, Personalisation, Proposed for Next Newsletter, Quick Insights, SCIE, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged ADASS Older Persons Network, Adult Social Care, Clinical Innovation and Research Centre of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Fair Access to Care (FACS), General Practice, GPs, Home Care, Personalisation of Social Care, Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), Reablement, Reablement Guides (SCIE), Royal College of General Practitioners, Royal College of General Practitioners: Clinical Innovation and Research Centre, Social Care, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), United Kingdom Homecare Association (UKHCA) | Leave a comment

NHS Memory Services Receive £10 Million to Improve Dementia Care (NHS Information Centre / Department of Health)

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

[A version of this item appears in: Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 2 Issue 3, October 2011]. Summary Early diagnosis and intervention for dementia is one of the Government’s four key priorities for improving dementia care. The NHS … Continue reading →

Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Social Workers (mostly), National, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged David Behan (Director General for Social Care), David Flory (Deputy NHS Chief Executive), Fund Allocations to PCTs, Joint Strategic Needs Assessment for Local Populations, Local Authorities (LAs), Memory Services, Older People’s Social Care Relative Need Formula, Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) | Leave a comment

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