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Tag Archives: Reducing Waste in the NHS
Quality Improvement: Strategies Needed to Reduce Preventable Patient Harm (NIHR Signal / BMJ / Future Healthcare Journal / WHO)
Summary A recent review found that around 6% patients in healthcare settings (internationally) experience potentially preventable harm; with approximately 1 in 8 such cases resulting in severe harm, permanent disability or death “Six types of patient harm were identified: drug … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Integrated Care, International, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, NIHR, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Systematic Reviews, UK, Universal Interest, World Health Organization (WHO)
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Tagged 10 Facts About Hospital Care (WHO), Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Hospital Mortality, Avoidable Mortality, Avoidable Patient Harm, BMJ, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, British Medical Journal (BMJ), Centre for Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety: University of Manchester, Clinical Quality Improvement, Clinical Safety Research: Imperial College London, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Learning and Improvement, Continuous Learning Culture, Division of Pharmacy and Optometry: University of Manchester, Division of Population Health: University of Manchester, Division of Primary Care: University of Nottingham, Drug Errors, Future Healthcare Journal, Health Services Research and Primary Care: University of Manchester, Honesty and Transparency, Hospital Patient Safety Strategies, Imperial College London, Improving Patient Safety, Improving Safety Measurement Across Whole System, Information Sharing, Innovation and Improvement, Insight: Using Intelligence From Multiple Sources of Patient Safety Information, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Learning Culture, Learning from Deaths, LeDeR: Learning Disabilities Mortality Review, Lucie Musset: National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS), Medication Errors, Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Reactions, Medication Without Harm (WHO), Medicines Optimisation, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), NHS Culture, NHS Culture Change, NHS Improvement Patient Safety Alerts, NHS Patient Safety Culture, NHS Patient Safety Strategy, NIHR DC: NIHR Dissemination Centre, NIHR Dissemination Centre, NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, NIHR School for Primary Care Research: University of Manchester, NIHR Signal, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford Healthcare Improvement, Patient Harm, Patient Harms, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Alerts, Patient Safety and Risk Management (WHO), Patient Safety Culture, Patient Safety Fact File (WHO), Prevalence of Patient Harm, Prevalence of Preventable Patient Harm, Preventable Patient Harm, QI Adoption and Spread Approach, Quality and Sustainability, Quality Improvement, Reducing Waste in the NHS, School of Medicine: University of Nottingham, Service Delivery and Safety (WHO), Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, Ten Facts About Hospital Care (WHO), Transparent Learning Culture, Types of Preventable Patient Harm and Overall Patient Harm, UK General Medical Council, University of Manchester, University of Nottingham, University of Oxford, WHO: World Health Organization, World Health Organization (Geneva), World Health Organization (WHO)
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Potential Harms From Polypharmacy in the Elderly (BBC News / Age UK / EJCP / Bazian / Lancet Psychiatry)
Summary An Age UK report investigates the potential harms of over-prescribing medicines for older people. Older persons often remain on too many prescribed medicines, putting them at risk of side-effects, potentially resulting in falls and other forms of serious harm. … Continue reading →
Posted in Age UK, Antipsychotics, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Depression, Falls, Falls Prevention, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Hypertension, In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Personalisation, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Achieving Better Value, Addictions Department - Division of Academic Psychiatry: King's College London, Addictive Prescription Medicines, Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs), Adverse Drug Reactions in the Elderly, Ageing Population, Alcohol Drugs Tobacco and Justice Division: Public Health England, AntiCholinergic Burden, Anticholinergic Drugs, Anticholinergics, Antidepressants, Anxiolytics and Hypnotics (Including Benzodiazepines), ARMOUR Tool, Australian Prescribing Indicators, Austrian Criteria, Barenholtz Levy, Bazian, BBC Health News, Beers Criteria, Behind the Headlines, Benzodiazepines, Better Value, Better Value Healthcare, Better Value in the NHS, Brown Model, Cantrill Indicators, Care Home Pharmacists, Care Home Pharmacists to Cut Overmedication, Care Homes, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Care of Older People Living at Home, Care of Older People Living in Care Homes, Care Planning: Relating New Prescribing Decisions to Existing Medicines, Care Quality Improvement Department: Royal College of Physicians, Case Management and Enhanced Rapid Response, Challenging Behaviour in Dementia, Choosing Wisely, Choosing Wisely in the NHS, Choosing Wisely in the UK, Clinical Pharmacists, CMS List, Communication Between Community Pharmacists and GPs, Community Pharmacies, Community Pharmacists, Community Pharmacy, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Comorbidity, Comorbidity and Dementia, Comorbidity and Polypharmacy in People With Dementia, Dementia Friendly Community Pharmacists, Department of Family Medicine: University of California Los Angeles, Department of Primary Care and Public Health: Imperial College London, Dependence and Withdrawal Associated With Prescribed Medicines (PHE Review), Deprescribing, Discontinuation of Multiple Medications in Older Adults, Doubling-Up, Drug Burden Index, Drug Cost Savings, Economic Sustainability, Elderly Malnutrition, European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, FORTA Criteria, Four or More Medicines (FOMM) Support Service, Frail Older People, Frailty, Gabapentinoids, Geriatric Medication Algorithm, German PRISCUS List of Potentially Inappropriate Medications, Good Practice in Care Homes, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Hamdy Criteria, Hanoi Medical University, Harms of Too Much Medicine, Health Improvement Directorate: Public Health England, High Quality Medicines Reviews, Holmes Criteria, Hospital Pharmacists, Hospital‑Based Multidisciplinary Teams: Pharmacists, Hull-York Medical School: University of Hull, Imperial College London, Improving Care for Frail Older People, Improving Patient Safety, Improving Pharmaceutical Care in Care Homes, Improving Prescribing in the Elderly Tool, Improving Prescribing Practice, Improving Standards in Care Homes, Inappropriate Drug Use, Inappropriate Medication, Inappropriate Prescribing, Institute of Psychiatry Psychology and Neuroscience: King’s College London, Integrated Care Clinical Pharmacist (ICP) for Frail Older 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Management, Multi-Morbidities, Multimorbidities and Long-Term Conditions, Multiple Comorbidities, Multiple Long-Term Conditions, Multiple Medications (Polypharmacy), National Guideline Centre: Royal College of Physicians, NCOA Criteria, New Mexico Criteria, NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA), NHS Community Pharmacies, Non-Adherence: Medication-Related Harm, Norwegian General Practice (NORGEP) Criteria, Oborne’s Prescribing Indicators, Older Adults Higher Levels of Dependency Dementia and Comorbidity, Older People, Older People Supported and Involved in Decisions About Medicines, Older People With Complex Needs, Older People's Care, Opioid Painkillers, Opioids, Optimising Prescribing and Deprescribing in Older Adults, Over-Medication, Over-Prescribing, Over-Treatment, Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment, Overmedicalization, Overmedicaton in Care Homes, Overprescribing, Overprescription, Overuse of Medication, Owen’s Steps, Patient Harms, Patient Preference and Adherence, Patient 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Fielding School of Public Health: University of California Los Angeles, Value for Money, Value Improvement, Vietnam, Wellbeing in Care Homes, Wolfson Centre for Palliative Care Research: University of Hull, Z-Drugs (Sleeping Tablets), Zhan Criteria
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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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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 →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS Improvement, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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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 →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Local Interest, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, NIHR, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, Wolverhampton
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More on Organisational Approaches to Quality Improvement (Health Foundation / BMJ)
Summary The Health Foundation’s report investigates lessons derived from sponsoring and evaluating quality improvement, whether at team, organisation and / or system levels. Case studies covering three NHS trusts in England with a CQC rating of “Outstanding” and which implemented … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Health Foundation, Integrated Care, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
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More on the NHS Long Term Plan (DHSC / NHS England / BBC News / NAO / King’s Fund)
Summary The NHS Long Term Plan was released earlier this week. The plan is backed by the commitment of an extra £20.5 billion funding for the NHS per year. “The 10-year plan includes measures to prevent 150,000 heart attacks, strokes … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Diagnosis, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, King's Fund, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, National Audit Office, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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