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More on the Persistence of Variations in Care and Health Inequalities (BBC News / MTG / King’s Fund)
Summary The Medical Technology Group’s analysis of data from the 209 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), concerning regional inequalities in patient access to treatments and assessments involving medical technology, discovered unacceptable variations (including inequalities between the North and South of England). … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, King's Fund, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 18 Week Wait and Patient Access, Acute Stroke Management, Acute Stroke Services, Assessment and Diagnosis, BBC Health News, BBC Panorama, BBC Panorama: Get Rich or Die Young, BBC Panorama: Stockton - England’s Most Unequal Town, Cataract Operations, CCG Performance Statistics, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, CLAHRC: Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care, CLAHRCs: NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Collaboration for Leadership in Health Research and Care (CLAHRC), Colonoscopy and CT Colonoscopy, Commissioning Task, CT Colonoscopies, DEMETRIQ Project, Diagnosis and Referral, Diagnostic Imaging, Diagnostic Services Atlas, Diagnostic Testing Rates, Diagnostic Waiting Times, English Health Inequalities Strategy, Geographical Health Inequalities, Geographical Variations, Getting it Right First Time, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), Health and Care of Older People, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities in England, Hip Replacement, Hip Replacements, Imaging Services, Impact of English Health Inequalities Strategy, Improvement Opportunities in Local Commissioning, Life Expectancy by Neighbourhood, Limb Amputations, Local Commissioning, Local Health Economies, Local Health Profiles, Local Health Services: Variations, Local Variations, Medical Technology Access, Medical Technology Group (MTG), Mortality Rates Among Older People, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR): Collaboration for Leadership in Health Research and Care (CLAHRC), NHS Atlas of Variation, NHS Atlas of Variations in Diagnostic Services, NHS Atlases of Variation, NHS Clinical Commissioners (NHSCC), NHS Postcode Lottery, NHS Variations in Diagnostic Services, NHS Waiting Times, North-South NHS Divide, Postcode Lottery, Postcode Lottery in Access to Care, Postcode Lottery in Access to Treatment, Postcode Lottery in Standards of Healthcare, Quality Improvement, Reducing Variation, Regional Variations, Right First Time, RightCare’s NHS Atlas of Variation, Slope Index of Inequality, Slope Index of Inequality (SII) for Life Expectancy and Healthy Life Expectancy in England, Slope Index of Inequality in Life Expectancy, Specialist Stroke Units, Stockton, Stockton-on-Tees, Stockton: England’s Most Unequal Town, Stroke, Stroke Care Bundles, Stroke Units, Top Performing CCGs, Trends in NHS Outcomes Framework: Health Inequality Indicators, Trends in Public Health Outcomes Framework: Health Inequality Indicators, Unacceptable Variations, Unwarranted Variations, Unwarranted Variations in Diagnostic Testing Rates, Value Opportunities in Local Commissioning, Variation Analysis, Variation in Commissioning, Variations in Care, Variations in Quality of Care, Worst Performing CCGs
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Incidence of Dementia May Be Decreasing Slightly – Relative to Previously Expected Rates (BBC News / Lancet Neurology)
Summary The prevalence of dementia in western Europe may be increasing less rapidly than previously predicted. The reason(s) why rates of dementia may be levelling-off, or even falling, is not certain; but improvements in general wellbeing and ongoing work towards … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Community Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, International, Models of Dementia Care, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Age-Specific Prevalence of Dementia, Ageing Policy in Europe, Ageing Policy in the UK, Ageing Population, Aging Research Center: Karolinska Institutet - Stockholm University, BBC Health News, Behavioural Risk Factors, Cambridge Institute of Public Health: University of Cambridge, Cardiovascular Disease, Cardiovascular Fitness, Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Care Sciences and Society: Karolinska Institutet - Stockholm University, Centre for Ageing and Health: University of Gothenburg, Centro de Investigación Biomédica En Red de Salud Mental (Madrid), Dementia Policy, Dementia Risk Factors, Department of Neurobiology: Karolinska Institutet-Stockholm University, Department of Psychiatry: Universidad de Zaragoza, Department of Public Health and Primary Care: University of Cambridge, Depression, Diabetes, Epidemiology, Epidemiology and Statistics, Europe, Evidence-Based Policy, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Germany, Government Policy, Health Policy, Hypertension, Incidence Studies, Institute of Health and Society: Newcastle University, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology: University of Gothenburg, Institute of Public Health: Cambridge, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón, Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm), Karolinska Institutet-Stockholm University, Lancet Neurology, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Low Educational Attainment, Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Modifiable Risk Factors, National Dementia Policy, Netherlands, Neurology, Newcastle University, Obesity, Overlapping Risk Factors, Physical Activity, Physical Inactivity, Prevalence of Dementia, Prevention Agenda, Prevention of Dementia, Reducing the Incidence of Dementia, Risk Factors, Sahlgrenska Academy: University of Gothenburg, School of Clinical Medicine: University of Cambridge, Smoking, Social Epidemiology, Spain, Stroke, Sweden, Universidad de Zaragoza, University of Cambridge, University of Gothenburg, Vascular Risk Factors, Western Europe, Zaragoza
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Any Town Toolkit: NHS England’s Modelling Toolkit for CCGs (NHS England)
Summary The “Any Town” Toolkit is a high-level health system modelling toolkit provided by NHS England to assist CCGs in determining which interventions might best improve their local health services (ideally whilst saving money). It is intended to help commissioners … Continue reading
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Depression, Diagnosis, End of Life Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, Telecare, Telehealth, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 24-Hour Asthma Services, 24-Hour Home Nursing Services, Acute GP Units, Acute Stroke Services, Acute Visiting Services, Any Town Toolkit, Cancer, Cancer Screening Programmes, Case Management, CCGs, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Co-Design and Co-Delivery, Commissioning Liaison Psychiatry, Coordinated Care, Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), Dementia Liaison Services, Dementia Pathway, Early Adopter Interventions, Early Diagnosis, Eclipse Live, Electronic Palliative Care Co-ordination Systems (EPaCCS), Electronic Palliative Care Coordinating Systems (EPaCCS), Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems (EPaCCS), EPaCCS, GP Tele-Consultation, Heart Failure, High Impact Interventions, Hyper-Acute Stroke Units, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integration of Health and Social Care, Integration of Health and Social Care for Older People, Liaison Psychiatry Services, Liaison Services, Local Strategic Planning, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Lung Disease, Management of Medicines, Medicines Management, Medicines Optimisation, Multi-Disciplinary Case Management, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), Occupational Therapists in A&E, Older Demographics, Palliative Care, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Psychiatric Liaison Services, Rapid Access to Doctors at Home, Rapid Assessment Interface and Discharge (RAID), Reducing Variability in Primary Care, Rural Areas, Self-Management, Self-Management in Chronic Illness, Self-Management Support, Service User Networks, Strategic Planning, Strategic Planning and Commissioning, Stroke, Tele-Consultation in Primary Care, Unnecessary Hospital Admissions, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, User Networks
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Research Funding to Tackle Major Health Challenges (Department of Health)
Summary Researchers from 13 UK pioneering research teams have received £124m funding from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to support the next five years working on projects aimed at benefiting patients. The aim is to develop innovative treatments and techniques in … Continue reading
Posted in Department of Health, End of Life Care, For Doctors (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NIHR, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Stroke, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Ageing and Dementia, Alcohol, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, Chronic Care, Chronic Diseases, CLAHRCs: NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care, Complex Chronic Conditions, Dementia Research, Diabetes, Early Intervention in Mental Health and Dementia, Enduring Disabilities and Disadvantage, Health Minister Lord Howe, Infection, King's College Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Minimally Disruptive Healthcare, Multiple Chronic Disease, National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), NIHR CLAHRC East, NIHR CLAHRC East Midlands, NIHR CLAHRC Oxford, NIHR CLAHRC South London, NIHR CLAHRC South West, NIHR CLAHRC Wessex, NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRCs), Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Palliative and End of Life Care, Patient and Public Involvement (PPI), Patient Safety, Peninsula Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Psychosis, Public Health, Self-Directed Support for Long Term Conditions, Service Redesign in Mental Health and Dementia, Stroke, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Women’s Health
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