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Self Care Week 2016: Health Literacy (Self Care Forum / NHS England)
Summary The Self Care Week (2016) awareness campaign, organised by the Self Care Forum, is planned to take place between November 14th – 20th 2016. This year’s theme is health literacy. Self Care Week resources are available online: Full Text … Continue reading
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Patient Information, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Academy of Medical Sciences: King's College London, Andrew Mawhinney: LloydsPharmacy Pharmacist, Awareness and Campaigns, Awareness and Understanding, Awareness Campaigns, Awareness Raising, Cambridge University, Children's and Young People's Mental Health Coalition, Demand Management, Department of Medicine: University of Oxford, Department of Sociology: University of Oxford, Dr Pete Smith: Self Care Forum Co-chair, Dr Selwyn Hodge: Self Care Forum Co-chair, Health Literacy, Health Policy, Health Wellbeing and Independence, Healthy Ageing, Healthy Behaviours, Healthy Communities, Healthy Lifestyles, House of Lords, Information and Support for Patients and Carers, Jane Cummings: Chief Nursing Officer for England, Jonathan Berry: NHS England Person Centred Care Team - Personalisation and Control Specialist, Jonathan Berry: Personalisation and Control Specialist (NHS England), Kings College London, Lancet, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Manifesto for a Healthy and Health-Creating Society (Lancet), National Self Care Week, New NHS Alliance, Newnham College: Cambridge University, NHS England’s Stay Well This Winter Campaign, NHS Stay Well This Winter Campaign, Patient Activation, Patient Engagement, Patient Involvement, Pharmacies, Preventative Care, Preventative Services, Prevention, Prevention and Self Care, Prevention Programmes, Preventive Care, Preventive Services, Proactive Management of Long-Term Conditions, Professor Ian Banks: Self Care Forum Trustee, Professor Rob Darracott: Pharmacy Voice Chief Executive, Public and Patient Involvement, Public Health, Quality of Life for People With Long Term Conditions, Reducing Downstream Spending (Prevention Public Health and Self-Care), Royal College of General Practitioners, Royal College of Midwives, Royal College of Nursing, School of Clinical Medicine: Cambridge University, Self Care and the NHS Mandate, Self Care For Life, Self Care Forum, Self Care Week, Self Care Week (2016), Self Care Week 2016 Resources, Self Care Week 2016: Health Literacy, Self-Care, Self-Care Continuum, Sore Throat Test and Treat Service, Stay Well This Winter Campaign, Support for Self-Care, Supported Self-Care, Supporting Self-Care, Understanding Self Care for Life, Understanding Self Care For Life: Self Care Week (2016), University of Oxford, Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations
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Education and Training Framework: Learning Disabilities Core Skills (HEE / Skills for Health / Skills for Care / NHS England)
Summary Health Education England, Skills for Health and Skills for Care have produced a comprehensive resource, designed to support the education, training and workforce development needs of persons working with people who have learning disabilities. “This Framework was commissioned and … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Guidelines, Health Education England (HEE), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Workers in England, Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS), Avenues Group, British Institute of Learning Disabilities (BILD), British Psychological Society (BPS), Building the Right Support, Care Act 2014, Care and Communication, Care and Treatment Reviews (CTRs), Care England, Care of Vulnerable Adults, Care Planning, Care Quality, Care Staff Education, Caregiver-Patient Communication, Challenging Behaviour Foundation, CHANGE, Changing Our Lives, College of Occupational Therapists - Special Section / People with Learning Disabilities, College of Policing, Core and Common Competences for Support Workers, Core Skills Education and Training Framework, Council for Disabled Children, Dr Dominic Slowie: NHS England’s National Clinical Director for Learning Disability, Education and Training Framework: Learning Disabilities Core Skills, Hazel Watson: Head of Mental Health and Learning Disabilities at NHS England, Hazel Watson: NHS England’s Head Nurse for Learning Disability, HEE: Health Education England, Inclusion North, Law Ethics and Safeguarding in Learning Disability Care and Support, Learning Disabilities, Learning Disabilities Core Skills, Learning Disabilities Mortality Review, Learning Disabilities: Core Skills Education and Training Framework, Learning Disabilities: Education and Training, Learning Disabilities: Empowering Individuals, Learning Disabilities: Improving Health Outcomes, Learning Disabilities: Workforce, Learning Disability (LD) Transforming Care Programme, Learning Disability and Autism, Mencap, National Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Programme, NHS England, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, People With Learning Disabilities, Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD), Protecting Vulnerable People, Royal College of Nursing, Safeguarding, Safeguarding in Learning Disabilities Care and Support, Skills for Care, Skills for Care (SfC), Skills for Care and Skills for Health, Skills for Care Qualifications, Skills for Care Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF), Skills for Care’s Workforce Capacity Planning Guidance, Skills for Health, Skills for Health (SfH), Social Care, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Social Care Technical Competences for Support Workers, Social Care Workers: Skills for Supporting People with Learning Disabilities, Social Care Workforce, Support for Children and Adults With Autism: Unit / Reference Costs, Supporting People (Children Young People and Adults) with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD), Training the Social Care and Health Workforce, Transforming Care for People with Learning Disabilities, Transforming Care Partnerships’ (TCPs), UK Core Skills Training Framework, University of Warwick / PBS Academy, Workforce Competencies, Workforce Planning and Development, Workforce Training
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Weekend Hospital Care: Seven-Day Working (BBC News / NHS England / HEE / GMC)
Summary NHS England medical director Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has announced that hospitals in England will be required to ensure consultants and key diagnostic tests are available seven days a week. Research into the “weekend effect” has suggested for some years that hospital mortality … Continue reading
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Hospitals in England to Report Staffing Levels for Public Scrutiny (BBC News / RCN)
Summary From April 2014 onwards, hospitals in England will be required to publish monthly details about their standards of care on a new national safety website. An important element of the information supplied will indicate whether each hospital has enough nurses on the wards to meet recommended safe-staffing levels. This development … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, CQC: Care Quality Commission, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NICE Guidelines, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, RCN, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Openness and Transparency Over Nurse Staffing-Levels in Hospitals (BBC News)
Summary The Health Select Committee has recommended that hospitals in England record, and display publicly, the number of nurses on-duty on each ward; indicating whether these figures are high enough to meet recommended staffing levels. Read more: BBC News. Be open over nurse numbers, … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged BBC Health News, Health Select Committee, Implications of the Francis Inquiry Report, Kings College London, National Nursing Research Unit, National Nursing Research Unit: King's College London, NHS Culture, Nurse Staffing Levels, Open Culture, Openness, Openness and Transparency, Repercussions From the Francis Inquiry Report, Royal College of Nursing, Safe Staffing, Safe Staffing Alliance, Safe Staffing for Older People in Hospitals, Safe Staffing for Older People’s Wards, Safe Staffing Levels, Staffing, Staffing (Hospitals), Staffing Levels, Transparency, Transparency and Accountability, Ward Staffing Levels
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