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Shaping Policy on the Dementia Care Crisis: Alzheimer’s Society Report in Advance of Government’s Green Paper (BBC News / Alzheimer’s Society)

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A report on inadequacies in the care system regarding dementia patients. The number of potentially unnecessary hospital admissions among dementia patients has risen by 73% across 65 hospital trusts, from 31,000 in 2012 to around 55,000 in 2017. Some … Continue reading →

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Towards the Second Wave: Update on Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund For Improving Access to GP Services (NHS England)

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary GPs are able to bid for a share of £100m access fund, in the second wave of the Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund available for improving patient access to GP services. The aim is to incentivise GP practices into opening … Continue reading →

Overview of General Practice in England (House of Commons Library / BBC News / BMA / NAO / BMJ / Nuffield Trust)

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary This House of Commons Library briefing note supplies information on NHS primary medical services provided by GPs in England. It has been updated to cover elements of the new GP contract; including the introduction of named GPs for people … Continue reading →

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GP Access Fund Could Help 7 Milllion Patients (BBC News)

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The GP Access Fund, intended to make it easier for people to access their GPs during evenings or weekends, and/or to contact them remotely by phone, email and Skype, could benefit over seven million patients (a higher number than … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC News, Department of Health, In the News, Integrated Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, Telecare, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged 8am-8pm Appointments, Access to Care, Access to Healthcare Services, Access to Primary Care, Access to Primary Care At Night and Weekend, Access to Services, Access to Urgent and Emergency Care, Associate Networks to Share Learning, Avoidable Admissions, BBC Health News, Better Access Better Care Better Standards (Barking & Dagenham and Havering & Redbridge), Better Together (Workington), BMA General Practitioners Committee (GPC), BMA’s General Practitioners’ Committee, Care Closer to Home, Caring for Darlington Beyond Tomorrow, Complex Needs, Digital Technology, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Support, Easy GP Project (Bury), Email Access to GPs, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, Enhanced Care for the Elderly, Extended GP Opening Hours, Extended Hours Access Scheme Directed Enhanced Service, Extended Primary Integrated Care (Brighton and Hove), Extended Weekday Opening, Extended Weekend Opening, Extending Access to GP Services, Extending Access to Primary Care (Southwark), Flexibility, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, GP Access Fund, GP Surgeries, GP Surgeries in England: Opening Hours, GPs, Health United (Birmingham), Healthy Living Apps, Holistic Care, Improving Access, Improving Access Supporting Primary Care Integration and Whole System Change (Herefordshire), Improving General Practice, Individual Care Plans (Complex Needs), Information Technology, Innovative Access to Primary Care Services, Integrated South Kent Coast (Folkestone and Dover), Long-Term Conditions, Longer Opening Hours, Mobile Technology, Moving Primary Care to a Wellbeing Approach (West Wakefield), Named GPs, New Technology, Older People With Complex Needs, One Care Consortium (Bristol South Gloucestershire and North Somerset), Online Patient Access, Opening Doors: Aligning and Integrating Health and Care Services (Morecambe), Opening Hours, Out of Hours Care, Out of Hours GP Services, Out of Hours Services, Out-of-Hours General Practice, Patient Online Services, Phone Consultations, PM Challenge Fund, PM Challenge Fund Pilots, Post-Discharge Support, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Primary Care Home (Warrington), Prime Minister Challenge Fund Pilots, Prime Minister’s GP Access Fund, Proactive Care Plans, Proactive Personalised Care in the Community, Readmissions, Reducing Re-Admissions NHS Hospitals, Reducing Unnecessary Admissions, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Responsible GPs, Same-Day GP Telephone Consultations, Seven-Day Opening, Seven-Day Services in the Community, Seven-Day Working, Shaping Services to Meet Community Needs (Devon Cornwall and Isles of Scilly), Skype, Spreading Innovation, Steps to the Future (Slough), Support for People with Complex Needs, Together as One Community (Hambleton Richmondshire Whitby), Transformational Innovations for Primary Care in West Hertfordshire (Watford), Transforming Access to General Practice (North West London), Transforming General Practice (Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire), Transforming Primary Care, Transforming Primary Care Programme, Transforming the Access Experience at Scale across England (The Care UK Super Practice), Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Virtual Primary Care Homes, Working Evenings and Weekends | Leave a comment

Jeremy Hunt: New Year Message to NHS on Holistic Care (Department of Health)

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has written a brief New Year message to NHS staff highlighting some fresh directions for 2014, including named GPs for older people and named consultants in hospitals. A key theme for the year ahead “is to find … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospitals, Care in the Community, Community Care, Community Support Services, Dementia Friends, Dementia Friends Programme, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Planning, First G8 Dementia Summit, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, G8 Dementia Summit, G8 Dementia Summit Agreements, Holistic Approaches, Holistic Care, Holistic Care Assessments, Holistic Co-ordinated Care, Holistic Needs Assessment, Hospital Discharge, Integrated Discharge Process, Named Clinician, Named Consultants, Named GPs, Named Nurses, NHS Winter Friends Campaign, Patient Experience, Proactive Care, Responsible Consultants, Responsible GPs, Responsible Nurses, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Winter Friends | Leave a comment

Named GPs to Coordinate the Care of Frailest Patients (BBC News / NHS Choices / Department of Health / BMA / NHS Employers)

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The British Medical Association and NHS England have agreed that next year’s GP contract will involve GPs taking more direct responsibility for the most vulnerable and elderly patients. It is anticipated that this move will relieve pressure on hospital admissions. This move is reported to be a resurrection of the “Old-fashioned … Continue reading →

Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS Digital (Previously NHS Choices), NHS Employers, NHS England, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged A&E Pressures, Admissions, Ageing Population, Alternatives to A&E, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Avoidable Admissions, BBC Health News, Behind the Headlines, BMA: British Medical Association, BMA’s General Practitioners’ Committee, British Medical Association (BMA), Care Closer to Home, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care Planning, Care Seven Days a Week, Community Care, Community Facilities, Community-Based Services, Complex Care, Complex Needs, Coordinated Care, Coordination, CQC Inspections of GP Surgeries, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Admissions from Care Homes, Emergency Attendances, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Services, Enhanced Services from GPs, Family Doctors, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Future of Urgent & Emergency Care Services in England, General Medical Services Contract, General Practitioners Committee (GPC), GP Contract, GP Dedicated Telephone Line Support, GP Out-of-Hours Services, GPs, GPs Pay, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integration, Integration of Primary Secondary and Community Care, Named GPs, New Approaches to Coordinating Care, NHS Choices Find a GP Service, Patient Choice, Patient Flows, Personalised Care Planning, Personalised Care Plans, Post-Discharge Support, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), Reduction in Box-Ticking, Reduction in Bureaucracy, Responsible GPs, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Same-Day GP Telephone Consultations, Support for People with Complex Needs, Transparency, Transparency and Accountability, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Unscheduled Admissions, Vulnerable Older People, Whole System Patient Flows | Leave a comment

South Devon and Torbay: Community Virtual Wards and Proactive Case Management (King’s Fund)

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary This King’s Fund case study (funded by Aetna and the Aetna Foundation) investigates community virtual wards based in GP practices within South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). The community virtual wards were introduced by Devon Primary Care … Continue reading →

Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, King's Fund, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Aetna (US), Aetna Foundation, Avoidable Admissions, Care Coordinators, Case Management, CCGs, Chronic and Severe Illness, Chronic Care, Chronic Diseases, Chronic Illnesses, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Combined Predictive Model, Community Care, Community Care Services, Community Nursing, Community Support Services, Community Virtual Wards, Coordinated Care, Coordination of Care, Dedicated Care Coordination, Devon County Council, Devon Predictive Model (DPM), Devon Primary Care Trust, Direct Enhanced Service (DES) Payments, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, Exeter City Council, GP Facilitators, GP Practice, GP-Led Commissioning, GPs, Holistic Approaches, Holistic Care, Holistic Care Assessments, Holistic Co-ordinated Care, Holistic Needs Assessment, Integrated Care Coordinators, Integration, Locality Working, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Agency Working, Multi-Disciplinary Working, Multiagency Teams, Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation Team Care, Multidisciplinary Team Care, Multiple Chronic Disease, Multiple Needs, Patient Assessment, Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC), Patient Care, Personalised Case Management, Plymouth, Predictive Modelling, Predictive Risk Models, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Prevention, Preventive Care, Preventive Services, Preventive Support: Risk Stratification for Case Finding, Proactive Care, Proactive Case Management, Quality of Care, Responsible GPs, Risk Prediction and Stratification Activities, Risk Stratification, Risk Stratification for Case Finding, Secondary Uses Service (SUS), Shortlisting, South Devon, South Devon and Torbay, South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Torbay, Torbay Council, Torbay Primary Care Trust (PCT), Virtual Wards, Virtual Wards to Reduce Readmissions | Leave a comment

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