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Summary of NICE’s Impact on Dementia Health and Care (NICE)
Summary A National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) marketing report gives an overview of progress in implementing NICE guidance across health and care. The main section headings comprise: Prevent or delay onset of dementia. Referral, diagnosis and care … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Antipsychotics, Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NICE Guidelines, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Activities to Promote Wellbeing, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Services, Advance Care Planning (ACP), Alternatives to Antipsychotic Drugs, Alternatives to Antipsychotic Medication, Alternatives to Antipsychotics, Antipsychotic Drugs, Antipsychotics in People With Dementia, Antipsychotics Limitation in Dementia, Antipsychotics Side Effects, Assessment of Care Needs, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Behavioural Risk Factors, Behavioural Risk Factors and Dementia, Care and Support, Care and Support Planning, Care of People with Dementia: Quality Standard, Care Planning, Care Planning (Community), Care Planning in Dementia, Caregiver Support, Carer Support, Carer Support Services, Carer's Needs, Carer’s Needs Assessment, Choice and Control, Choice and Control Over Decisions, Choice in Health and Social Care, Choirs (Community Singing), Cognitive Decline and Dementia: Risk Reduction, Collaboration for Coordinated Care, Commissioning Carer Support Services, Community Singing, Comprehensive Assessments for Older People in Hospital, Comprehensive Model of Personal Care, Control and Independence, Coordinated Care, Coordinating Care, Dementia - Assessment Management and Support for People Living With Dementia and Their Carers: NICE Guideline NG97, Dementia - NICE Care Pathway, Dementia Assessment Referral to GP (DeAR-GP), Dementia Care in Acute General Hospitals, Dementia Care in Acute Settings, Dementia Care in Hospitals, Dementia Case Finding, Dementia Disability and Frailty in Later Life: Mid-Life Approaches to Delay or Prevent Onset, Dementia Disability and Frailty in Later Life: Mid-Life Approaches to Delay or Prevent Onset - NICE Care Pathway, Dementia Disability and Frailty in Later Life; Midlife Approaches to Delay or Prevent Onset: NICE Guideline (NG16), Dementia Friendly Hospitals Charter, Dementia Post-Diagnostic Care and Support, Dementia Quality Standard (QS184), Dementia Quality Standards, Dementia Risk Factors, Dementia Risk Reduction, Dementia Risk Reduction and Prevention, Discharge From Hospital, Dr Hilda Hayo: Chief Admiral Nurse, Dr Hilda Hayo: Chief Executive of Dementia UK, Emergency Admissions, Healthwatch, Healthy Lifestyles, Home Care, Informed Choices, Later Life, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Managing Distress, Managing Psychological and Behavioural Distress in People with Dementia, Meaningful Activity, Mental Health Promotion, Mid-Life Approaches to Delay or Prevent Onset of Dementia Disability and Frailty in Later Life, Modifiable Risk Factors, Named Care Coordinators, National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals 2016-2017 - Third Round of Audit Report: Royal College of Psychiatrists (2017), National Guidance and Quality Standards, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)’s Quality Standard on Dementia (2019), Needs of Carers, Neurological Disorders, NHS Comprehensive Model of Personal Care, NICE Guideline NG97: Dementia - Assessment Management and Support for People Living With Dementia and Their Carers, NICE Quality Standard 184 (QS184), NICEimpact Dementia, Patient Preferences, Person-Centred Coordinated Care, Personal Preferences, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Prevention Agenda, Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD), Quality of Life of Carers, Quality Standard on Care of People with Dementia, Quality Statements, Reducing Agitation and Distress, Reducing Waste in Dementia Care, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Risk Reduction, Royal College of Psychiatrists: National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals, Social Care, Social Care and Support, Statement of Wishes and Preferences, Structured Assessment (Pre- Non-Pharmacological or Pharmacological Treatment for Distress), Supporting Carers, Supporting Carers of People With Dementia, Supporting People to Live Well With Dementia, Thinking Ahead - Advance Care Planning, Transforming Dementia Care in Hospital, Transition Between Inpatient Hospital Settings and Community or Care Home Settings
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Babylon Health Applies Artificial Intelligence to Improving Integration of Care and Population Health in Wolverhampton (HTN / RWT / BMJ / Lancet / NHS England / BBC News)
Summary Babylon Health and the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust have announced a ten year partnership to explore the application of an artificial intelligence app to delivering joined-up digital care for Wolverhampton’s population. Full Text Link Reference Babylon agrees 10 year … Continue reading
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Tagged Access to Personal Health Records Online, Access to Primary Care, Adoption of Innovations, Ageing and Long-Term Care, Ageing Population, AI Health Assistant: Medical Information and Triage Advice, AI Symptom Checkers, Ali Parsa: CEO and Founder of Babylon, Anticipatory Care Planning and Integration, Applications of Big Data, Apps, apps for Smartphones or Tablets, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence Enhanced Anticipatory Care, Ask A&E: Free COVID-19 Care Assistant (Powered by Babylon), Babylon, Babylon GP at Hand (BGPaH) Evaluation Studies, Babylon’s AI Symptom Checker, Babylon’s Artificial Intelligence, BBC Health News, BBC Technology News, Beyond Integrated Care: Population Health Systems, Birmingham and Solihull, Blurring Boundary Between Primary and Secondary Care, BMJ, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, Booking Appointments, Bristol Medical School: University of Bristol, British Medical Journal (BMJ), Cannock Chase Hospital, Centre for Academic Primary Care: University of Bristol, Co-Design, Co-Design: People-Driven Change, COVID-19 and NHS Use of Digital Technology, COVID-19 Care Assistant, Department of Population Health Sciences: University of Bristol, Digital Care Plans, Digital Care Records, Digital Change in Health and Social Care, Digital Health, Digital Health Innovations, Digital Innovation, Digital Interventions for Health System Improvements, Digital Maturity, Digital Outpatients, Digital Patient Portal, Digital Service Transformation, Digital Services, Digital Services for Patients, Digital Suppliers, Digital Technology, Digital Technology and Innovation, Digital-First Integrated Care, Digital-First Primary Care, Efficiencies and Productivity Gains, Efficiency and Effectiveness, Efficiency Opportunities, Electronic Booking, Electronic Consultations (eConsults), GP at Hand (Babylon), GP at Hand app (Babylon Health), Greener NHS Campaign, Health and Care Infrastructure, Health and Care of Older People, Health Assessments, Health Information Technology, Health Innovation, Health Management, HTN: Health Tech Newspaper, Innovation and Co-Design, Integrated Digital Care: An Information Revolution, Integrated Digital Health System (Wolverhampton), Integrated Digital Health Systems, Integration of Primary Community and Secondary Healthcare, Integration of Primary Secondary and Community Care, Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute, IT Infrastructure, Joined-Up Care, Joined-Up Healthcare: Digital Technology, Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), Merging the Interfaces of Primary and Secondary Care, Monitoring Patients Remotely, Net Zero, Net Zero NHS: Greener NHS Campaign, NHS Hammersmith and Fulham CCG, NHS Hammersmith and Fulham Clinical Commissioning Group, Optimising Benefits of Digital Technology, Optimising Patient Outcomes Using Digital Technology, Patient Access to Records, Patient Activation, Patient Choice, Patient Control Over Appointment Booking and Prescriptions, Patient Empowerment, Patient Facility to Watch Consultations Again (Improving Adherence to Clinician Instructions), Patient Facility to Watch Consultations Again (Improving Health Literacy), Patient Facility to Watch Consultations Again (Improving Memory of Instructions), Patient Records, Personal Clinical Records, Personalised Care Plans, Population Health, Primary and Secondary Care, Private Video-Consultation Services in Primary Care, Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB), Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unnecessary Travel, Reducing Unnecessary Trips to Hospital, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Remote Appointments, Remote Care Monitoring, Remote Consultations, Remote Health Monitoring, Remote Support, Remote Technologies for Healthcare Quality Improvement, Self Care (Technology-Supported), Self-Management (Technology-Supported), Service Transformation, Smartphone apps, Smartphones, Sultan Mahmud: Director of Integration Innovation and Research at RWT, Technological Trends, Technology and Innovation, Technology-Supported Self-Management, Telecare (Remote Collection of Patient Data), Telehealth (Remote Monitoring), Telehealth to Monitor Patients Remotely, Telemedicine, Telemonitoring, TeleTracking, Text Messaging, Transformative Health Technology, Transformative Technology, Treating Patients Closer to Home, University Hospital Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, University of Bristol, Vertical Integration (of Primary and Secondary Care), Video Consultations, Video Consultations to Avoid Outpatient Attendances, Video or Face-to-Face Consultations, Wearable Technology, Wearables (Technology), West Park Hospital, York Health Economics Consortium, York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC), Zesty: Digital Outpatients
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Statistical Process Control Applied to Delayed Transfers of Care (NHS Improvement)
Summary Delayed transfers of care (DToC) are widely recognised to be a significant cause of unnecessary harm to patients, and potentially avoidable financial costs to the taxpayer. NHS Improvement’s “Delayed transfer of care (DToC) improvement tool” incorporates the latest data from … Continue reading
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Tagged Acute Hospital Care, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Services, Ageing Population, Areas With the Highest Delayed Transfers of Care, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Cross-Sector Partnerships, Dashboards, Delayed Transfer of Care (DToC) Improvement Tool (NHS Improvement), Delayed Transfers of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC), Discharge From Acute and Mental Health Trusts, DToCs Dashboard, Efficiency Opportunities, English Local Authorities, Geographical Variations, Health and Adult Social Care Providers, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Integration, Hospital Discharge, Hospital Discharge and Transfers, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integration of Health and Social Care, Local Authorities (LAs), Local Health Services: Variations, NHS Improvement's Delayed Transfers of Care Improvement Tool, Patient Discharge, Patient Flows, Pivot Table Slicers (Excel Tool), Post-Discharge Support, QI: Quality Improvement, Quality and Efficiency Opportunities, Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement Approaches, Reducing Bed Days, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Regional Variations, Social Care Delays (Impact on Hospital Bed-Days and LoS), Social Care Providers, Statistical Process Control, Statistical Process Control (SPC) Principles, Statistical Process Control Methodology, Sustainability, Sustainable Health and Social Care, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Transition Between Inpatient Hospital Settings and Community or Care Home Settings, Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Variation in Performance, Vulnerable Older People, Wasted Resources, Whole System Dashboards, Whole System Patient Flows
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Unexpected Results From the Dementia and Physical Activity (DAPA) Trial? (Pharmacoeconomics Open / JAD)
Summary Previous research has suggested that physical exercise has the potential to slow the progression of dementia in people with pre-existing mild cognitive impairment through to moderate dementia. Evidence for the cost-effectiveness of structured physical activity programmes has been lacking, … Continue reading
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