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Tag Archives: Redesigning Services
Progress Towards Achieving Better Value / Reducing Waste in the NHS (King’s Fund / NHS Providers)
Summary A King’s Fund report investigates recent work on the value agenda, i.e. efforts aimed at reducing unnecessary costs while maintaining or improving the quality of care. This is based mostly on experience at three diverse NHS acute hospital trusts: … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, King's Fund, NHS, NHS Improvement, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Achieving Better Value, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, Allocative Efficiencies, Allocative Value, Better Procurement, Better Value, Better Value Healthcare, Better Value in the NHS, Better-Value Services, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Centralised Procurement, Centralised Procurement (Economies of Scale), Choosing Wisely, Choosing Wisely Campaign, Choosing Wisely in the NHS, Choosing Wisely in the UK, Clinical and Corporate Leadership, Clinical Leadership, Clinical Practice Groups (CPGs), Clinical Quality Improvement, Collaboration, Collaboration for Coordinated Care, Collaboration: Working Across Boundaries, Community Virtual Wards, Consultant-Led Services in the Community, Cost Reductions, Culture and Leadership, Delegated Decision Making, Devolved Budgets, Devolved Decision-Making, Economic Sustainability, Efficiencies and Productivity Gains, Efficiency, Efficiency Agenda, Efficiency Opportunities, Efficiency Savings, Empowerment, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding Gap in Secondary Care, General Hospitals, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), Health and Social Care Configuration, Healthcare Quality Improvement, Healthcare Value Improvement, Hospital Productivity, Hospital Reconfiguration, IHI Triple Aim, Innovative Leadership, Leadership, Lean and Quality Improvement, Local Health and Care Services, Local Health Economies, Lord Carter Review, Low-Value Care, Maximising Health Outcomes, Minimising NHS Costs, Model Hospital, Model Hospital: Template for Standardisation, NHS Challenges and New Solutions, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England’s Ten-Point Efficiency Plan, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Inappropriate Care: Overuse Underuse and Misuse, NHS Performance, NHS Productivity, NHS Providers, NHS RightCare, NHS Sustainability, Personalised Value, Practical Approaches to Delivering Better Value in NHS Clinical Services (King’s Fund), Productivity, Productivity in the NHS, QI: Quality Improvement, Quality and Efficiency Opportunities, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement Culture, Redesigning Care Pathways, Redesigning Services, Reducing Drains on the NHS, Reducing Overuse Underuse and Misuse, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust, Service Cost Reductions, Service Redesign, Service Redesign for Productivity, Service Redesign for Value Agenda, Shared Clinical Pathways, Staff Empowerment, Staff Empowerment in the NHS, Staff Engagement, Staff Engagement in the NHS, Strategic Leadership, Sustainability, System Efficiencies, Targeting Low-Value Care, Technical Value, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Triple Aim Initiative, Triple Aim: (1) Improved Health and Wellbeing (2) Redesigned Care and (3) Wise Financial Stewardship, Troubled NHS Foundation Trusts, Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Use of Resources Assessments (NHS Improvement), Value Agenda, Value Improvement, Variations in Care, Virtual Ward Approaches, Virtual Wards, Virtual Wards to Reduce Readmissions, Workforce Engagement
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Intermediate Care Including Reablement: Quality Standard QS173 (NICE)
Summary National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has produced a quality standard on intermediate care, including reablement. This is intended to contribute to improvements across many fronts, including: Integration of health and social care. Patient and carer-related quality … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Integrated Care, Local Interest, National, NICE Guidelines, UK
Tagged Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Alternatives to Hospital Care, Bed-Based Intermediate Care Services, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Rehabilitation Services, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Crisis Response, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Demand for Intermediate Care, Discharge of Hospital Patients With Care and Support Needs, Discharge Planning, Home Based Intermediate Care, Home Based Services, Hospital Discharge, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Intermediate Care, Intermediate Care Including Reablement: NICE Quality Standard QS173, Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), Multimorbidity, National Audit of Intermediate Care, NHS Benchmarking, NICE Quality Standard QS173, NICE Quality Standards, Partnership Working, People's Experience of Using Adult Social Care Services, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Intermediate Care, Quality Measures, Quality Statements, Re-ablement Services, Re-admission Avoidance Scheme (RAS), Reablement, Reablement Services, Reablement Services for People Leaving Hospital, Readmissions for Patients with Long Term Conditions, Recovery, Recovery Based Approaches, Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement (RRR), Recovery Rehabilitation and Reablement Services, Recovery. Rehabilitation, Redesigning Services, Regaining Independence, Rehabilitation and Self Management, Rehabilitation Care Pathways, Rehabilitation Services, Services Maximising Independence, Services Reducing Use of Hospitals, Social Care for Older People With Multiple Long-Term Conditions, Social Care Reablement Services, Supporting Health Wellbeing and Independence, Transition Between Inpatient Hospital Settings and Community or Care Home Settings
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NHS England’s Pharmacy Integration Fund (NHS England / BBC News)
Summary Care home residents often have multiple long-term conditions and are often prescribed several different medicines (polypharmacy). NHS England plans to fund recruitment of 180 pharmacists and 60 pharmacy technicians who will work with care homes to try to reduce … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Falls Prevention, 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, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Achieving Better Value, Ageing Population, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, BBC Health News, Better Value, Better Value Healthcare, Better Value in the NHS, Care and Support for People With Dementia in Care Homes, Care Home Pharmacists, Care Home Pharmacists to Cut Overmedication, Care Homes, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Care of Older People Living in Care Homes, Clinical Pharmacists, Community Pharmacists, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Confusion in Care Homes, Dementia Care in Care Homes, Discontinuation of Multiple Medications in Older Adults, Drug Cost Savings, East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, Economic Sustainability, English Pharmacy Board, Financial Constraints, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Frail Older People, Good Practice in Care Homes, Harms of Too Much Medicine, Hospital Pharmacists, Hospital‑Based Multidisciplinary Teams: Pharmacists, Imelda Redmond: Healthwatch England, Improving Care for Frail Older People, Improving Patient Safety, Improving Pharmaceutical Care in Care Homes, Improving Prescribing Practice, Improving Standards in Care Homes, Inappropriate Drug Use, Inappropriate Medication, Inappropriate Prescribing, Integrated Care in Northumberland, Interdisciplinary Teams, Later Life, Less is More, Liaison and In-Reach Services for Frail Older People, Living Well in Care Homes, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Lowering Costs, Managing Medicines in Care Homes, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Medical Overuse, Medication Reviews, Medication Reviews in Care Homes, Models of Enhanced Health in Care Homes, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), Multi-Disciplinary Teams, Multi-Disciplinary Working, Multi-Morbidities, Multimorbidities and Long-Term Conditions, Multiple Long-Term Conditions, Multiple Medications (Polypharmacy), NHS East and North Hertfordshire CCG, NHS England Local Area Teams: Frail Older People With Complex Needs, NHS England Pharmacy Integration Fund, Northumberland, Older Care Home Residents, Older People, Older People With Complex Needs, Older People's Care, Oral Nutritional Support, Over-Medication, Over-Prescribing, Over-Treatment, Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment, Overmedicaton in Care Homes, Overprescription, Overuse of Medication, Patient Harms, Patient Safety, Patients With Polypharmacy Risks, Pharmacist-Led Care Home Medication Reviews, Pharmacist-Led Medication Reviews, Pharmacists, Pharmacists to Cut Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Pharmacy Integration Fund (NHS England), Pharmacy Technicians, Polypharmacy, Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Preventative Care, Preventing Acute Admissions from Care Homes, Prevention, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Preventive Care, Primary Care, Primary Care Alternatives to Emergency Hospital Admissions, Proactive Specialist In-Reach, Protecting Resources and Promoting Value, Redesigning Services, Reducing Expenditure, Reducing Inappropriate Polypharmacy, Reducing Prescribing Costs, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Reducing Wasted Medications, Research in Care Homes, Sandra Gidley: Chair of Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s English Pharmacy Board, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Transforming Care for Frail Older People, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Value for Money, Value Improvement, Wellbeing in Care Homes
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NHS Reconfiguration + STPs = Cut-Backs?: Two Sides of Same Equation? (NHS England / King’s Fund / Nuffield Trust / BBC News)
Summary The “Keep calm and carry on”-style narrative from officialdom. Full Text Link Reference NHS England statement on Sustainability and Transformation Plans. [Online]: NHS England, August 26th 2016. Theoretical clarification concerning STPs, from the King’s Fund Full Text Link Reference … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, 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, King's Fund, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Nuffield Trust, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 38 Degrees (Campaign Group), 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, Accountability and Transparency, Achieving Better Value, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, £1.8 Billion One-Off NHS Trust Deficits Bailout, Better Care Fund (BCF), Better Care Together (BCT), Better Value, Better Value Healthcare, Better Value in the NHS, Challenges of Reconfiguration, Chorley and South Ribble Hospital, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Collaboration, Collaboration for Coordinated Care, Collaboration: Working Across Boundaries, Councillor Izzi Seccombe: Local Government Association (LGA), County Hospital (Previously Stafford Hospital), David Pearson: Director of Adult Social Care of Nottinghamshire County Council - Nottinghamshire STP Footprint Lead, Deficits in the NHS 2016 (King’s Fund), Dr Clifford Mann: President of the College of Emergency Medicine, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency Opportunities, Efficiency Savings, Emergency Care Improvement Programme (ECIP), Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response (EPRR), Faustian Pact: Trading £8 Billion in Extra Funding For £22 Billion in Efficiency Savings, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Incentives Across Local Health and Social Care Systems (Proposals), Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressure on Hospitals, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Frail Older People, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding Gap in Secondary Care, General Hospitals, Grantham and District Hospital, Health and Social Care Configuration, Honesty and Transparency, Hospital Productivity, Hospital Reconfiguration, House of Commons Health Committee’s Inquiry Into Winter Pressures (2016), How Things Went £3.7 Billion Wrong, Implications of Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs): Inadequate Public Consultation (King’s Fund Allegation), Implications of Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs): Pre-Determined Solutions, Improving Patient Flow, Incipient Negativism, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integration of Health and Social Care, Jeremy Taylor (Chief Executive of National Voices), Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, Leicester, Leicester Leicestershire and Rutland STP Footprint, LLR STP, Local Solutions: Place-Based Approaches, Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Midlands and East Commissioning Region, Midlands and East of England Commissioning Region, Multi-Agency Collaboration, Multisectoral Collaboration, NHS Challenges and New Solutions, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England Funding, NHS Expenditure, NHS Finances to 2020, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Foundation Trust Performance, NHS Foundation Trusts, NHS Foundation Trusts (NHSFTs), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS Midlands and East, NHS Performance, NHS Performance Indicators, NHS Productivity, NHS Providers, NHS Safe Staffing, NHS Service Reconfiguration, NHS Spending, NHS Sustainability, NHS Timebomb [sic], Openness and Collaboration, Optimism Bias (In the Face of Difficulties), Partnership and Collaboration, Performance Indicators, Performance Targets, Policy, Policy Context, Population Health, Population Health Systems, Population Healthcare, Productivity, Productivity in the NHS, RDEL, Redesigning Care Pathways, Redesigning Services, Reducing Drains on the NHS, Reducing Overuse Underuse and Misuse, Richard Murray: Director of Policy at the King’s Fund, Richard Taylor Effect [sic], Rising Expectations, Safe Staffing, Sir Bruce Keogh (Former Chief Executive of the NHS Commissioning Board; now NHS England), Stevens Challenge, STP Footprints, STP Process Timeline Summary, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Fund (STF), Sustainability and Transformation Leaders, Sustainability and Transformation Plan, Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP), Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainability and Transformation Plans: Questions Over Opaque Development Practices, System Control Totals (Financial Targets), System Leadership, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Toby Sanders: Accountable Officer of West Leicestershire CCG - Leicester of Leicestershire and Rutland STP Footprint Lead, Toby Sanders: Chief Officer at NHS West Leicestershire CCG, Top-Down Policy (Masquerading as Collaboration), Towards Excellence in Adult Social Care Programme (LGA), Transformation Footprints, Transformation Funding, Transparency, Transparency Versus The Richard Taylor Effect, Troubled NHS Foundation Trusts, Turning the Ship Around (Avoidance of NHS Unsustainability), Unit Costs Up + Activity Up = Commissioners Go Bust, Upward Spending Pressures, Waiting Time Standards, Waiting Time Target Breaches, Weston Area Health NHS Trust, Weston General Hospital, Winter Pressures, Winter Pressures Beyond Winter (Winter Re-Defined?)
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