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Tag Archives: Rapid Assessment Interface and Discharge (RAID)
Transformational Change in Health and Care: Learning From Case Studies (King’s Fund)
Summary A recent King’s Fund report explores diverse examples of successful transformational change, i.e. those which tend to focus on improving the lives of patients, to see if there are lessons for leadership style and organisational culture. Four case studies … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, International, King's Fund, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Acute Care Services, Acute Hospital A&E and Liaison Mental Health Teams, Acute Hospital A&E and Liaison Mental Health Teams: Transforming Mental Health Crisis Care (NHS England), Acute Hospital Care, Acute Medical Care for Frail Older People, Acute Medical Care of Elderly People, Ageing Population, Birmingham (UK), Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham and Solihull NHS Mental Health Trust, Bromley by Bow Centre, Bromley by Bow Health Partnership, Bromley-by-Bow Healthy Living Centre in East London, Buurtzorg Model: Netherlands, Buurtzorg Nederland, Buurtzorg: Netherlands, Capability and Culture, Challenges of Urgent and Emergency Care, Change Bystanders, Change Leaders, Change Participants, Change Recipients, Change Sparks, Change Sponsors, Collaborative Leadership, Collaborative Working, Collective Leadership, Continuous Learning and Improvement, Continuous Learning Culture, Culture and Leadership, Culture Change, Culture Change in Health and Care, Culture Change in the NHS, Defining Ethos and Brand, Don Berwick: International Visiting Fellow at the King’s Fund, Dual Focus: Change and Stability, East London, Emergency and Urgent Care Services, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Care, Emergency Care Networks, Emergency Centres, High-Quality Home Care (Buurtzorg: Netherlands), Hospital Liaison Psychiatry Services, Information Technology, Innovative Technology, Involvement and Participation, Leadership and Culture, Leadership Style, Learning Culture, Learning-Based Approaches, Liaison Psychiatry, Liaison Psychiatry in the Hospital Setting, Liaison Psychiatry Services, Long Term Care in the Netherlands, Netherlands, New Care Models, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, Over-Optimism (NHS Reform Versus Institutional Inertia), Overcoming Inertia, Potential of Technology, Power Dynamics: Old Power Versus New Power, Professor Don Berwick, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement and Transformational Change, Rapid Access Ambulatory Care Clinics, Rapid Assessment Interface and Discharge (RAID), Reconfiguration of Emergency Care System, Reducing Complexity, Reducing Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Storytelling Approaches (to Research), Systems Complexity, Team-Based Approaches, Theory X Versus Theory Y (Basic Motivational Models), Transformational Change in Health and Care, Transformational Leadership, Transforming Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Urgent and Emergency Care Pathways, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Widening Participation, Work Complexity
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World Mental Health Day (Department of Health / MHF / NHS England / Health Foundation)
Summary Today is World Mental Health Day. Full Text Link Reference Osterloh, M. (2015). World Mental Health Day and the power of small gestures. London: Department of Health, October 10th 2015. This is hosted by the Mental Health Foundation (MHF): … Continue reading
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Delirium, Department of Health, Depression, Health Foundation, In the News, International, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Mental Health Foundation, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Nuffield Trust, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Academic Services, Age Appropriate Mental Health Services, Age Appropriate Old Age Psychiatry Services For Older People With Mental Health Problems, Age Discrimination, Age Discrimination in Mental Health, Alistair Burns: NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Older People’s Mental Health, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Awareness, Awareness and Understanding, Awareness Campaigns, Awareness Raising, Black and Minority Ethnic (BME), Black and Minority Ethnic Elders, BME Communities, BME: Black and Minority Ethnic, Caregiver’s Mental Health, Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS), Commissioning Older People’s Mental Health Services, Common Mental Health Disorders, Common Mental Health Problems (CMHP), Cost of Mental Health Problems, Crisis Prevention, Crisis Support, Dementia: Community Based Support, Dementia: Dementia in General Hospitals, Dementia: Early Identification and Intervention in People With Dementia, Dementia: Intensive Case Management, Dementia: Late Stage Dementia, Dementia: People With Dementia in Care Homes, Dementia: Post Diagnostic Support, Dementia: Reducing Stigma and Raising Awareness, Dementia: Young Onset Services, Deprivation, Developing an Ideal Old Age Service: Royal College of Psychiatrists (2013), Discrimination / Stigma, Dr James Warner: Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry at Royal College of Psychiatrists, Elderly Forensic Psychiatric Services, Elderly People With Mental Illness, Emergency Admissions, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry, Fundamental Facts About Mental Health 2015, IAPT: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Improving Access to Mental Health Services, Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT), Improving Perinatal Mental Health, Interaction between Physical and Mental Health, Investment in Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, Loneliness and Social Isolation, Managing Ongoing Physical and Mental Health Conditions, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Mental Health and Work, Mental Health Crisis, Mental Health Crisis Care, Mental Health Foundation, Mental Health Foundation (MHF), Mental Health Problems, Mental Health Services, Mind, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, No Health Without Mental Health, North Southwark Community Mental Health Team (NSCMHT) for Older People, OASIS: Older Adults Support in Southwark, Old Age Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Old Age Forensic Services, Old Age Psychiatry, Older Adult Mental Health (OPMH), Older People’s Mental Health Services, Older Persons’ Mental Health, OPMH: Older Adult Mental Health, Parity Between Mental and Physical Health, Parity of Esteem, People With Learning Disabilities, People With Learning Disabilities Who Develop Dementia, Power of Small Gestures: World Mental Health Day (2015), Prevalence of Mental Illness, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Professor Alistair Burns, Psychiatric Liaison Accreditation Network (PLAN) (Royal College of Psychiatrists), Rapid Assessment Interface and Discharge (RAID), Reducing Stigma, Rethink Mental Illness, Serious Mental Illness (SMI), Social Deprivation, Social Isolation, Socio-Economic Deprivation, Stigma, Stigma and Discrimination, Substance Misuse in Older People, Tackling Stigma and Improving Attitudes to Mental Illness, Talking Therapies, Think Ahead, Time to Change, Unmet Mental Health Needs, Unmet Needs, World Federation of Mental Health, World Mental Health Day, World Mental Health Day (2015), Young Onset Dementia Services
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Moving Care Closer to Home: Resource Collection (Monitor)
Summary Monitor has released a collection of resources to support healthcare providers and commissioners when making evidence-based decisions about the costs and benefits of different approaches to moving care closer to patients’ homes (i.e. away from hospitals and into the … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, 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, National, NHS, Nuffield Trust, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Care Closer to Home, Care Closer to Home Project, Carter Review of Operational Productivity in NHS Providers, Community Hospital Day-Case Settings, Community Hospitals, Delayed Discharges, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Coordinators, Discharge Support, Early Discharge Support, Early Supported Discharge (ESD), Enhanced Step-Up: Community Hospital Day-Case Settings, Factors Behind Increasing Emergency Admissions, Five Year Forward View, Good Practice in Reducing Emergency Admissions, Healthcare Closer to Home (Monitor), Hospital Discharge, Improving Patient Flow, Independence at Home, Integrated Primary and Acute Care Systems (PACS), Maintaining Independence, Monitor, Moving Care Closer to Home: Resource Collection, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home, Moving Healthcare Closer to Home Project (Monitor), New Care Models, New Care Models Programme, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), Operational Productivity in NHS Providers, Patient Discharge, Patient Flows, Post-Discharge Activities, Post-Discharge Support, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Primary and Acute Care Systems (PACS), Rapid Assessment Interface and Discharge (RAID), Rapid Response, Rapid Response and Early Supported Discharge, Reablement, Reablement Services, Regaining Independence, Services Maximising Independence, Smoother Patient Flows, Supporting Health Wellbeing and Independence, Telehealth, Whole System Patient Flows
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Any Town Toolkit: NHS England’s Modelling Toolkit for CCGs (NHS England)
Summary The “Any Town” Toolkit is a high-level health system modelling toolkit provided by NHS England to assist CCGs in determining which interventions might best improve their local health services (ideally whilst saving money). It is intended to help commissioners … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Depression, Diagnosis, End of Life Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, Telecare, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 24-Hour Asthma Services, 24-Hour Home Nursing Services, Acute GP Units, Acute Stroke Services, Acute Visiting Services, Any Town Toolkit, Cancer, Cancer Screening Programmes, Case Management, CCGs, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Co-Design and Co-Delivery, Commissioning Liaison Psychiatry, Coordinated Care, Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), Dementia Liaison Services, Dementia Pathway, Early Adopter Interventions, Early Diagnosis, Eclipse Live, Electronic Palliative Care Co-ordination Systems (EPaCCS), Electronic Palliative Care Coordinating Systems (EPaCCS), Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems (EPaCCS), EPaCCS, GP Tele-Consultation, Heart Failure, High Impact Interventions, Hyper-Acute Stroke Units, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Liaison Psychiatry Services, Liaison Services, Local Strategic Planning, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Lung Disease, Management of Medicines, Medicines Management, Medicines Optimisation, Multi-Disciplinary Case Management, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), Occupational Therapists in A&E, Older Demographics, Palliative Care, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Psychiatric Liaison Services, Rapid Access to Doctors at Home, Rapid Assessment Interface and Discharge (RAID), Reducing Variability in Primary Care, Rural Areas, Self-Management, Self-Management in Chronic Illness, Self-Management Support, Service User Networks, Strategic Planning, Strategic Planning and Commissioning, Stroke, Tele-Consultation in Primary Care, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, User Networks
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