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Tag Archives: Reducing Hospital Length of Stay
Where Best Next Campaign: Reducing Length of Hospital Stay (NHS England)
Summary Approximately 350,000 patients spend more than three weeks in a hospital each year, often with poor outcomes: “Many older people, particularly those who are frail and may have dementia, actually deteriorate while in hospital – a stay of more … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Education England (HEE), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged ActNow: an e-Learning Tool (e-LfH), Acute Frailty Network (AFN), Acute Frailty Services, Better Care Support Programme, Care Closer to Home, Clinical Criteria for Discharge (CCD), Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), Criteria Led Discharge, Deconditioning, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Discharge, Discharge at a Reasonable Time, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Coordinators, Discharge From General Inpatient Hospital Settings, Discharge Into the Care Sector, Discharge Patient Tracking List, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Dr Taj Hassan: President of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, e-Learning for Health (e-LfH) Hub (HEE), Emergency Care Intensive Support Team, Emergency Care Intensive Support Team (ECIST), Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care, End PJ Paralysis, Expected Date of Discharge, Expected Date of Discharge (EDD), Foci for Maximum Impact in Reducing Length of Stay, Guide to Reducing Long Hospital Stays: NHS Improvement, Health and Social Care Integration, Healthcare Associated Infections, Healthcare Associated Infections: Patient Safety, HEE: Health Education England, Hilary Garratt: Deputy Chief Nursing Officer for England, Holistic Needs Assessment (HNA), Home First: Supporting Patient Choice, Hospital-Associated Functional Decline: Role of Hospitalisation Processes, Identifying and Managing Frailty at the Front Door, Improving Hospital Discharge Into Care Sector, Improving Patient Care, Integrated Multi-Agency Care, Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Length of Stay (LoS), Local Government Association, Long-Stay Patient Reviews, Long-Stay Patients, Multi-Agency Collaboration, Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Agency Working, Multi-Disciplinary and Multi-Agency Working, Multiagency Teams, Patient Deconditioning Effect Related to Hospital Bed Rest (aka Pyjama Paralysis / PJ Paralysis), Patient Harms, Patient Harms and Harm Free Care, Patient Safety, PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) Cycles, People First: Manage What Matters, Plan Do Study and Act (PDSA), Professor Stephen Powis: NHS England's National Medical Director, Pyjama Paralysis, Quality Improvement, Reducing Healthcare Associated Infections in Hospitals, Reducing Hospital Length of Stay, Reducing Length of Hospital Stay, Reducing Length of Stay (RLoS) Programme, Reducing Long Stays (Where Best Next Campaign - NHS England) Principle 1: Plan for Discharge From the Start, Reducing Long Stays (Where Best Next Campaign - NHS England) Principle 2: Involve Patients and Families in Discharge Decisions, Reducing Long Stays (Where Best Next Campaign - NHS England) Principle 3: Establish Systems and Processes for Frail People, Reducing Long Stays (Where Best Next Campaign - NHS England) Principle 4: Embed Multi-Disciplinary Team Reviews, Reducing Long Stays (Where Best Next Campaign - NHS England) Principle 5: Encourage a Supported Home First Approach, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Reducing Waste in Dementia Care, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Rockwood Clinical Frailty Score, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), SAFER Patient Flow Bundle, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT), Supported Home First Approaches, What Matters Most (Healthwatch), Where Best Next Campaign (NHS England August 2019), Where Best Next? Campaign (NHS England), Why Not Home: Why Not Today, Why Not Home? Why Not Today? Campaign
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Improving Patient Care by Reducing Length of Hospital Stay (NHS Improvement / NHS England)
Summary The NHS, with the cooperation of local authorities, plans to reduce unnecessarily long stays in hospital for patients by a quarter. The aim is to free-up over 4,000 beds in readiness for anticipated Winter pressures on hospitals. Currently, around … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, 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, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 6As for Managing Emergency Admissions, Ambulatory Emergency Care, Ambulatory Emergency Care (AEC), Ambulatory Emergency Care (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Better Use of Care at Home, Breaking the Cycle SAFER Patient Flow Bundle, Care Closer to Home, Clinical Criteria for Discharge, Clinical Criteria for Discharge (CCD), Criteria Led Discharge, Criteria-Led Discharge (CLD), Daily Transfers of Care (DTOC), Deconditioning, Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DETOCs), Discharge, Discharge at a Reasonable Time, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Coordinators, Discharge From General Inpatient Hospital Settings, Discharge Into the Care Sector, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Discharge to Assess (D2A) Model, Emergency Day Care, Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care, Expected Date of Discharge, Expected Date of Discharge (EDD), Foci for Maximum Impact in Reducing Length of Stay, Guide to Reducing Long Hospital Stays: NHS Improvement, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Multiagency Peer Reviews, Hospital-Associated Functional Decline: Role of Hospitalisation Processes, Ian Dalton: Chief Executive of NHS Improvement, Improving Hospital Discharge Into Care Sector, Improving Patient Care, Integrated Care Pathway for Frailty, Integrated Multi-Agency Care, Length of Stay (LoS), Local Multiagency Dementia Partnerships, Long-Stay Patient Reviews, Long-Stay Patients, Multi-Agency Collaboration, Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Agency Working, Multi-Disciplinary and Multi-Agency Working, Multiagency Discharge Event (MADE), Multiagency Teams, New Front Door to Urgent and Emergency Care Services, NHS Confederation Conference (2018), Patient Administration System (PAS), Patient Deconditioning Effect Related to Hospital Bed Rest (aka Pyjama Paralysis / PJ Paralysis), Patient Harms, Patient Harms and Harm Free Care, Patient Safety, PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) Cycles, Plan Do Study and Act (PDSA), Pyjama Paralysis, Quality Improvement, Rachel Power: Chief Executive of Patients Association, Red2Green Days, Reducing Hospital Length of Stay, Reducing Inappropriate Accident and Emergency Department Attendances, Reducing Length of Hospital Stay, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Reducing Waste in Dementia Care, Reducing Waste in the NHS, SAFER Patient Flow Bundle, SAFER Patient Flow Bundle and Red2Green Days (Improving Patient Flow in Urgent and Emergency Care), Sally Copley: Director of Policy and Campaigns at Alzheimer’s Society, Supporting Patients’ Choices To Avoid Long Hospital Stays, Tameside General Hospital, Weekend Discharge Rates, Why Not Home: Why Not Today (reducingdtoc.com)
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NHS Operational Productivity: GIRFT Meets Mental Health and Community Health Services (Lord Carter / DHSC)
Summary Lord Carter’s latest report in the NHS Operational Productivity series shifts the attention to unwarranted variations in mental health and community health services. Potential savings of around £1 billion in efficiencies could be made by 2020/21, allegedly, if the … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 2gether NHS Foundation Trust, 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Acute and Urgent Mental Healthcare Pathway, Average Length of Stay (Hospitals), Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Hospital Admissions, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust, Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Care Hours Per Patient Day (CHPPD), Carter Review of Operational Productivity in NHS Community Health Services, Carter Review of Operational Productivity in NHS Mental Health Services, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Acute Care Pathway, CHPPD and Cost Per Care Hour, Clinical Engagement, Clinical Leadership, Clinical Quality Improvement, Clinically-Led Quality and Efficiency Project (GIRFT), Co-Morbidities and Dementia, Co-Morbidities In Older Patients, Co-Morbidities of Old Age, Community Hospitals, Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs), Community Nursing, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Learning, Continuous Learning Culture, Cooperation, Corporate Services, Cost of Inpatient Care and Care Hours Per Patient Day, Cost Savings, Cost-Improvement Programmes (CIPs), Dashboards, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust, Digital Technology, Digital Technology and Innovation, Duplication of Effort / Expense, e-Rostering, East London NHS Foundation Trust, Economies of Scale, Efficiency Opportunities, Efficiency Savings, Engagement Champions, Estates and Facilities Management, Example Patient Journeys, Facilities Management, Finance and Procurement, FP10 Prescriptions, Future Operating Model for Procurement and Supply Chain in NHS, Getting it Right First Time, GIRFT Approach, GIRFT Approach Applied to Community Health Services, GIRFT Approach Applied to Mental Health Services, Healthcare Continuum, Healthcare Quality Improvement, Healthy Workforce Framework, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, Homecare and Community Pharmacy Dispensed FP10 Prescriptions, Improving People Policies and Practices, Integrated Performance Framework, Kent Community Health NHS Trust, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, Learning Culture, Learning for Improvement, Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, Length of Stay (LoS), Lifetime Healthcare Costs, Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Local Health and Care Economies, Local Health Economies, Lord Carter of Coles, Lord Carter Review, Lord Carter: Chair of NHS Procurement and Efficiency Board, Lower Leg Wounds (Ineffective Treatments / Delays), Management of Co-Morbidities, Meaningful Use of Standards and Incentives, Medicines Optimisation, Metrics, Metrics and Information, Model Hospital: Template for Standardisation, NHS Acute Hospitals, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Estates, NHS Finance, NHS Finances, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Operational Productivity, NHS Procurement, NHS Procurement and Efficiency Board, NHS Procurement Transformation Programme (PTP), NHS Productivity, NHS Sustainability, Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Nursing Cost Per Bed, Openness and Transparency, Operational Productivity and Performance (Carter Report), Operational Productivity in NHS Providers, Opportunities for Standardisation, Optimising Clinical Resources, Optimising Non-Clinical Resources, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Patient Safety, Procurement Performance Metrics, Procurement Review, Procurement Transformation Programme, Productivity, Quality and Efficiency Opportunities, Quality Efficiency and Performance (Often Go Together), Quality Improvement, Reducing Delayed Transfers of Care, Reducing Hospital Length of Stay, Reducing Variations in Clinical Costs, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Rehabilitation and Complex Needs Pathway, Restricted Patients, Restricted Patients: Offenders Diagnosed with Mental Health Disorders, South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, South West London and St. George’s NHS Mental Health Trust, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Sustainability, Tackling Variation, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, Unwarranted Variations, Variations in Procurement, Variations in Spending, Wasted Resources, Well-Led (CQC Inspection Question), Well-Led Framework for Governance Reviews, Well-Led Indicators (CQC), Wirral Community NHS Trust, Wound Care
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Physical Exercise (For Example Cycling) May Boost the Immune System (BBC News / Aging Cell / NHS England)
Summary Research indicates that physical activity improves the effectiveness of the body’s immune system, even in the elderly. “Being sedentary goes against evolution because humans are designed to be physically active”. Steve Harridge, King’s College London. Full Text Link Reference … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Management of Condition, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 70-Day Challenge (NHS 70th Birthday), Active Lifestyle, Adults’ Health and Lifestyle, Aging Cell (Journal), Audax: Long-Distance Cycling Organisation, BBC Health News, Behavioural Risk Factors, Birmingham, Centre of Human and Aerospace Physiological Sciences: King's College London, Cycling, Environmental and Lifestyle Factors, Healthy Lifestyles, immune Senescence, Immune System, Immunesenescence, Institute of Inflammation and Ageing: University of Birmingham, Jane Cummings: Chief Nursing Officer for England, Kings College London, Length of Stay (LoS), Lifestyle Factors, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Medical Research Council (MRC), Modifiable Risk Factors, MRC-Arthritis Research UK Centre for Musculoskeletal Ageing Research: University of Birmingham, Neuroprotective Lifestyles, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre in Inflammation: University Hospital Birmingham, Patient Deconditioning Effect Related to Hospital Bed Rest (aka Pyjama Paralysis / PJ Paralysis), Physical Activity, Physical Activity and Health Benefits, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Pyjama Paralysis, Reducing Hospital Length of Stay, Regular Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, Sedentary Lifestyles, Thymic Output, Thymus, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, University of Birmingham, Walking and Cycling
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New Models of Care in Community Neurology (Neurological Alliance / Thames Valley Strategic Clinical Network)
Summary Thames Valley Strategic Clinical Network has published an extensive “Transforming Community Neurology: What Commissioners Need to Know” briefing, on improving community services for people with long-term neurological conditions. This report comprises three parts: Part A: Transformation Guide. Part B: … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Depression, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Parkinson's Disease, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Physiotherapy, Quick Insights, Standards, Telecare, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 3-Tier Framework of Care Stratification, 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, Access to Care, Access to Community Rehabilitation and Support Services, Admission Avoidance, Aggregated Data, Arlene Wilkie: Chief Executive of Neurological Alliance, Barnet Community Neuro Conditions Management Team, Benchmarking, Benchmarking Tools, Benefits of Community Models of Care, Block Contracts and Payments-by-Results (PbR), Capacity Payments, Capitated Payments, Capitation Models, Care Closer to Home, Care Co-ordination, Care Planning, Care Planning (Community), care.data, Carer Support Services, Carer’s Surveys, Carers Alert Thermometer, Carers and Families, Case Study Report on Sandwell, Changing Lives Reintegration Service (Tyneside), Changing Lives: Community Integration Service, Charity and Patient Organisation User Groups, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Payment Project, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), CNCMT: Community Neuro Conditions Management Team, Colchester Community Neuro-Rehabilitation Team, Colchester Neuro Rehab Team, Colchester Neuro-Rehabilitation Team, Commissioning for Parity of Esteem, Community Care Models, Community Comorbidity Management, Community Information Data Set (CIDS), Community Neuro Conditions Management Team, Community Neurology Conference (June 2016), Community Neurology Project, Community Neurology Services, Community Neurology Services: What Commissioners Need to Know, Community Outreach, Community Outreach Rehabilitation, Community Patient Currencies, Community Rehabilitation and Support, Community Service Funding Arrangements, Community-Based Care, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Core Team Competencies, Cost(s) of Neurological Conditions, Cumbria Headache Forum, Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Currencies for Healthcare Services, Data Aggregation, Data Linked by NHS Number, Data Linking, Dawn Langdon: Royal Holloway University of London, Dementia Long-Term Services, Dr Rishi Mannan: NHS Windsor Ascot and Maidenhead CCG, Dudley Joint Commissioning Strategy for Long Term Neurological Conditions, E-Health, Epilepsy Action’s Commissioning Toolkit, Equipment and Accommodation, Factors Affecting Costs of Neurological Care, Failure to Meet Patients’ Needs, Features of New Care Models, Feedback Mechanisms, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Funding Flows, Gold Standards Framework, Gold Standards Framework (GSF), GP Clinical Systems, GP Patient Survey, Health Inequalities, Hospice-Based Educational Support (To Patients), Identifying Patients’ Needs and Priorities, Ignoring Mental Health, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), Inappropriate Hospital Admissions, Independence, Integrated Community Neurology Care Pathways, Integrated Multi-Agency Care, Integrating Care Pathways, Integration of Physical and Mental Health, Interaction between Physical and Mental Health, Interface Between Primary and Secondary Care, International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM), Jill Kings: Clinical Director of Neural Pathways, Joanne Ross: Assistant Director of Neurological Services at Sue Ryder, Levels of Intervention, Living With Neurological Conditions, Local Variations, LOHO Project, Long Term Neurological Conditions, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Care and Support, Long-Term Conditions, Long-Term Conditions and Dementia, Longitudinal Care-Cycle Evaluation (UK-ROC), Lorn and Oban Healthy Options (LOHO) Project, Maintaining Independence, Managing Cognitive Difficulties in Community Neurology, Managing Emotional Distress in Community Neurology, Mark Stone: NHS Patient Partner, Mental Health and Well-Being in Community Neurology Services, Mental Health Currencies, Mental Well-Being, Mental Wellbeing, Merging the Interfaces of Primary and Secondary Care, Multi-Agency Collaboration, Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Agency Working, Multispeciality Community Providers (MCPs), Multispecialty Community Providers (MCPs), National Service Framework for Long Term ConditionsNational Service Framework for Long Term Conditions, Needs of Carers, Needs-Based Services, Neural Pathways (UK), Neuro Case Management Service (CMS), Neurological Alliance, Neurological Alliance Regional Groups, Neurological Conditions, Neurological Datasets, Neurological Disease, Neurological Disorders, Neurological Problems, Neurology Care Pathways, Neurology Datasets and Benchmarking, Neurology Intelligence Network (NIN) Data, Neurology-Specific Measures, New Models of Care, New Models of Care in Community Neurology, NHS East Midlands Strategic Clinical Network, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Homerton City and Hackney CCG, NHS Homerton City and Hackney CCG: Parkinson’s Pathway, NHS Nottingham City CCG, NHS Outcomes Framework, NHS RightCare, NHS RightCare Commissioning for Value Packs for CCGs, NHS Windsor Ascot and Maidenhead CCG, NIHR CLAHRC Wessex, NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) Wessex, Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, Nottingham CityCare, Nottingham CityCare Community Neurology Team, Optimising Mental Well Being, Overarching Measures, Oxfordshire Neurological Alliance, Palliative Care, Parity of Esteem, Parkinson’s Pathway, Patient Experience Surveys, Patient Groups and Forums, Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), Patients Technology and Data at the Heart of Transformation, Payment Mechanisms, Permanent Feedback Channels, Personal Health Budgets (PHBs), Place-Based Planning, Poor Coordination, Practical and Emotional Support, Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Redesigning Services, Reducing Hospital Length of Stay, Reducing Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Reference Reports, Risk Stratification, Royal Free Hospital: Neuro Rehabilitation Centre, Sarah Marsh: LTC Clinical Policy and Strategy Unit at NHS England, Secondary Uses Service (SUS) Data, Self-Care, Self-Management, Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP), Service Redesign, Services Reducing Use of Hospitals, Sheffield Health and Social Care Foundation Trust, Sheffield Neuro Case Management Service, Short and Long-Term Neuro-Rehabilitation Services, Socio-Economic Burden of Long-Term Neurological Conditions, Southampton and Royal Holloway London Universities, St Clare Hospice in West Essex, Staying Independent, Stephen Williams: Community Neurology Project, Stratification of Care (Levels 1-3), Sue Ryder, Sunderland and Gateshead CABIS, Sunderland and Gateshead Community Acquired Brain Injury Service (CABIS), Supporting Family and Carers, Supporting Self-Care, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP), Tees Valley Durham and North Yorkshire (TVDNY) Neurological Alliance, Thames Valley SCN, Thames Valley Strategic Clinical Network, Thames Valley Strategic Clinical Network (SCN), Third Sector Organisations, Three-Tier Framework of Care Stratification, Tier 1: Care Coordination, Tier 2: Needs Led Intervention, Tier 3: Self Care, Transforming Community Neurology, TVDNY Neurological Alliance, UK Rehabilitation Outcomes Collaborative, Unacceptable Variations, Unpaid Carers, Vanguard Sites, Variations in Quality of Care, Variations in Service, Variety of Neurological Conditions, Vertical Integration (of Primary and Secondary Care), Vocational Rehabilitation, West Essex Neuro Community Team, West Essex Neurological Community Team, Windsor Ascot and Maidenhead Clinical Commissioning Group, Year of Care Model, Zameel Cader: Clinical Director for Mental Health Neurology and Dementia at Thames Valley Strategic Clinical Network
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More On the Costs and Harms of Delays in Discharging Older Patients From Hospital (BBC News / NAO / NIHR Signal / NHS England)
Summary The National Audit Office (NAO)’s report on delayed discharges from hospital clarifies the extent to which such delays cause unnecessary harm to older patients and waste NHS money. Delays in discharging older patients cost an estimated £820 million per … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, 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, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, National Audit Office, NHS, NHS England, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Services, Adult Social Care Transformation Programme at Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, Ageing and Society, Ageing Population, Avoidable Harm, BBC Health News, Bed Days, Bed-Blockers, Capacity Tracker, Capacity Tracker: Local Availability of Care Homes Vacancies, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Colombia Department of Science Technology and Innovation (COLCIENCIAS), Community-Based Care, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Costs and Harms of Delays in Discharging Older Patients From Hospital, Deconditioning in Hospital, Delayed Discharges, Delayed Transfers of Care, Dementia Care in Acute District General Hospitals, Dementia Care in Acute Settings, Dementia Care in General Hospitals, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Early Mobilisation, Early Mobilisation in Hospitals, Early Mobilisation to Reduce Length of Stay, Early Patient Mobilisation, Glen Garrod: President of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, Hospital Beds, Hospital Discharge, Hospital-Associated Deconditioning, Hospital-Related Deconditioning, Inpatient Beds, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integration, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Primary Secondary and Community Care, Jo Chilton: Programme Director of Adult Social Care Transformation Programme at Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Length of Stay (LoS), Long Hospital Stays, Loss of Mobility During Long Hospital Stays, Loss of Older Patients' Muscle Strength Per Day of Hospital Treatment, Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Agency Working, Multi-Disciplinary Working, National Audit Office (NAO), National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Signal, NIHR Signal, Patient Care, Patient Deconditioning Effect Related to Hospital Bed Rest (aka Pyjama Paralysis / PJ Paralysis), Patient Discharge, Patient Flows, Patient Safety, Post-Discharge Support, Reducing Bed Days, Reducing Hospital Length of Stay, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Ruth May: Chief Nursing Officer for England, Social Care Delays (Impact on Hospital Bed-Days and LoS), Sustainability, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Vulnerable Older People, Wasted Resources, Whole System Patient Flows
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