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Tag Archives: Stroke Care
Sustainability and Transformation Plans: Reviewing Details (BBC News / King’s Fund / Red Cross)
Summary A recent King’s Fund report explores the content of the Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) for reform of health and care services in England. According to BBC News 28 of these 44 proposals involve closures or downgrading of hospital … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Local Interest, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, UK
Tagged 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, Abolition of the Purchaser/Provider Split, Accountability and Transparency, Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs), Achieving Better Value, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Stroke Care, Ageing Population, Ageing Society, Bath Swindon and Wiltshire STP Footprint, BBC Health News, Better Value in the NHS, Birmingham and Solihull STP Footprint, Bristol North Somerset and South Gloucestershire STP Footprint, British Red Cross, Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire and Berkshire West STP Footprint, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough STP Footprint, Casualty Ward Closures Overnight, Challenges of Reconfiguration, Cheshire and Merseyside STP Footprint, Coast Humber and Vale STP Footprint, Collaboration, Collaborative Commissioning, Collaborative Working, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly STP Footprint, Coventry and Warwickshire STP Footprint, Derbyshire STP Footprint, Devon STP Footprint, Dorset STP Footprint, Durham Darlington Tees Hambleton Richmondshire and Whitby STP Footprint, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency Opportunities, Efficiency Savings, Emergency Care Improvement Programme (ECIP), Estimates of Social Care Funding Gap (Health Foundation), Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Position of NHS Trusts, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressure on Hospitals, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Frail Older People, Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Frimley Health STP Footprint, Funding Challenges, Funding Deficits, Funding Gap in Secondary Care, General Hospitals, Gloucestershire STP Footprint, Greater Manchester STP Footprint, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight STP Footprint, Health and Social Care Configuration, Herefordshire and Worcestershire STP Footprint, Hertfordshire and West Essex STP Footprint, House of Commons Library, House of Commons Library Briefing Paper CBP-8093, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integration of Health and Social Care, Kent and Medway STP Footprint, Lancashire and South Cumbria STP Footprint, Leicester Leicestershire and Rutland STP Footprint, Lincolnshire STP Footprint, Local Health and Care Services, Local Health Economies, Mid and South Essex STP Footprint, Milton Keynes Bedfordshire and Luton STP Footprint, NHS Challenges and New Solutions, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Funding, NHS Health Check, NHS Health Check Series: BBC News (2017), NHS Spending, NHS Sustainability, Norfolk and Waveney STP Footprint, North Central London STP Footprint, North East London STP Footprint, North West London STP Footprint, Northamptonshire STP Footprint, Northumberland Tyne and Wear STP Footprint, Nottinghamshire STP Footprint, Overnight A&E / Casualty Ward Closures, Policy Context, Population Health, Population Health Systems, Population Healthcare, Prevention, Prevention Agenda, Prevention in Action (Red Cross), Provider Collaboration, Purchaser/Provider Split, Red Cross, Redesigning Local Healthcare Systems, Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin STP Footprint, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England (2014-), Social Care Funding Gap, Somerset STP Footprint, South East London STP Footprint, South West London STP Footprint, South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw STP Footprint, Staffordshire STP Footprint, STP Footprints, Stroke Care, Suffolk and North East Essex STP Footprint, Surrey Heartlands STP Footprint, Sussex and East Surrey STP Footprint, Sustainability, Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Sustainability and Transformation Plans: Content and Implementation, Sustainability and Transformation Plans: Questions Over Opaque Development Practices, System Leadership, The Black Country STP Footprint, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Transformation Footprints, Triple Definition of Prevention, Unmet Needs, Voluntary and Community Sector, Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations, West North and East Cumbria STP Footprint, West Yorkshire STP Footprint, Weston Area Health NHS Trust, Weston General Hospital
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Researchers Advise Use of Aspirin Immediately After Minor Strokes (BBC News / Lancet)
Summary The benefits of taking aspirin immediately after a mini or minor stroke, to prevent or limit harm, have been hugely under-estimated. Full Text Link Reference Mundasad, S. (2016). ‘Immediate aspirin’ advice for minor stroke. London: BBC Health News, May … Continue reading
Posted in BBC News, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, National, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Statistics, Stroke, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Aspirin, Aspirin Reduces Risk and Severity of Early Recurrent Stroke After Ischaemic Stroke, Aspirin Reduces Risk and Severity of Early Recurrent Stroke After Transient Ischaemic Attack, Australia, BBC Health News, Benefits of Aspirin in Early Secondary Stroke Prevention, Department of Clinical Sciences: Lund University, Department of Neurology: Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Department of Neurology: University Duisburg-Essen, Department of Neurology: University Medical Center Utrecht, Early Secondary Stroke Prevention, Germany, Ischaemic Stroke, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care: University Medical Center Utrecht, Lancet, Lund University, Mini-Strokes, Minor Strokes, Netherlands, Non-Haemorrhagic Stroke, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences: University of Oxford, Nuffield Department of Population Health: University of Oxford, Oxford University, Poststroke Rehabilitation, Rudolph Magnus Institute for Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Pharmacology: University of Western Australia, Secondary Stroke Prevention, Section of Neurology: Lund University, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital: Perth, Stroke Association, Stroke Care, Stroke Prevention, Stroke Prevention Research Unit: University of Oxford, Stroke Rehabilitation, Stroke Statistics, Sweden, Symptoms of Stroke and Mini-Stroke, Tony Rudd: National Clinical Director for Stroke at NHS England, Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA), University Duisburg-Essen, University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Oxford, University of Western Australia, Western Australian Neuroscience Research Institute (WANRI)
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Stroke Mortality and Weekend Working (BBC News / PLoS Medicine)
Summary A recent study indicates that stroke survival is associated with the number of nurses available at weekends, but not the frequency of doctors’ ward rounds. The importance of the so-called “weekend effect” is widely recognised across many areas of … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Quick Insights, Standards, Stroke, UK, Universal Interest
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Centralisation of Stroke Care (BBC News / BMJ)
Summary Stroke care should be centralised in large specialist units. People suffering a stroke in London have been taken to one of eight 24-hour specialist stroke units since 2010 (rather than their nearest unit) with improved outcomes. Centralising stroke care … Continue reading
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Tagged Acute Hospital Care, Acute Stroke Care, Ageing Population, BBC Health News, BMJ, British Medical Journal (BMJ), Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care Planning, Care Seven Days a Week, Central Specialist Units, Centralisation of Acute Stroke Services, Challenges of Urgent and Emergency Care, Department of Applied Health Research: University College London, Department of Health’s National Stroke Strategy for England, Emergency Centres, Emergency Departments, Future of Urgent & Emergency Care Services in England, Greater Manchester, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust: St Thomas’ Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Hyperacute Stroke Care, Hyperacute Stroke Units, Intensive Rehabilitation After Stroke, Interdisciplinary Services (Stroke Units), Ischaemic Stroke, King’s College London Stroke Research Patients and Family Group, Kings College London, Length of Stay, London Stroke Strategy, Major Emergency Centres, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester Business School: University of Manchester, Massachusetts General Hospital, Metropolitan Areas of England, Mortality, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), National Institute of Health Research Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, Regional Health Planning, Salford Royal Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Specialist Centres of Care, Specialist Major Emergency Centres, Specialist Stroke Units, Stroke Association, Stroke Care, Stroke Care Pathway, Stroke Care Teams, Stroke Units, Super Units (Stroke Centres), Transforming Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Two-Tier Accident and Emergency System, University College London, University of Manchester, University of Manchester Stroke and Vascular Centre, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, Urgent and Emergency Care, Urgent and Emergency Care Networks, Urgent and Emergency Care Review, Urgent and Emergency Care Services, Urgent and Emergency Care Services in England, Urgent and Emergency Services, Urgent Care Centres, Vulnerable Older People
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NICE Pathways: New or Recently Updated Care Pathways (NICE)
Summary NICE Pathways are a collection of online resources which summarise selected NICE guidelines, and related information, in topic-based interactive flowcharts. Topics of likely interest, recently added or updated (as sampled August / September 2012), include: Acute Kidney Injury Care Pathway. … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), Management of Condition, National, NICE Guidelines, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Activity, Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), Acute Kidney Injury Care Pathway, Care Pathways (NICE), Exercise, Exercise Regimens, Falls in Older People, Fragility Hip Fractures, Hip Fractures, Moderate Exercise, Modifiable Risk Factors, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), NICE, NICE Acute kidney Injury Care Pathway, NICE Guidance, NICE Pathways, Physical Activity, Physical Activity Programmes, Poststroke Care, Preventative Care, Prevention, Prevention Programmes, Public Health, Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation After Critical Illness, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Risk Factors, Stable Angina, Stroke Care, Stroke Care Pathway, Stroke Rehabilitation, Varicose Veins, Varicose Veins in the Legs
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