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Tag Archives: Teams
International Consensus on Quality Indicators for Palliative Cancer and Dementia Care (BMC Health Services Research)
Summary Quality indicators have been developed concerning palliative care for patients with cancer and / or dementia in different settings in various European countries. This article presents the efforts of a multidisciplinary international panel of experts to compile a set … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), International, Management of Condition, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Universal Interest
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Tagged 24/7 Care, Accredited Training in Palliative Care, Anti Decubitus Mattresses, Assessment of Pain and Other Symptoms, Assessment of Pain for People Dying With / From Dementia, Assessment Tools, Assigned Contact Person, Atypical Parkinsonism, Atypical Parkinsonism: Neuropalliative Rehabilitation, BMC Health Services Research, Chaplains, Clinical Records, Co-Analgesics for Symptom Control, Continuity of Care, Coordinated Health and Social Care, Corticobasal Degeneration, Corticobasal Syndrome, Decision-Making at End of Life, Dementia with Lewy Bodies, Dementia With Lewy Bodies (DLB), Dementia with Lewy Bodies Symptoms, Dementia: End of Life, Department of Palliative Care: Malteser Hospital Bonn, Department of Palliative Medicine: Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Dieticians, Differential Diagnosis, DLB: Dementia with Lewy Bodies, Documentation, Documentation of Clinical Data, Drug Administration Pumps, End of Life Care, End of Life Care Plans, End of Life Care Research, End-of-Life Care Pathways, European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC), European IMPACT Project (IMplementation of quality indicators for PAlliative Care sTudy), Evaluating End of Life Care, Facilities for Relatives to Stay Overnight, Family and Caregiver Experiences, Family Visits Without Restrictions on Visiting Hours, Germany, Good Practice, Good Practice Standards, Handover, IMPACT Consortium, IMPACT Research Team, Infrastructure, International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, INTERvention in DEMentia (Interdem), Kalorama Foundation (Nijmegen), Malteser Hospital Bonn, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Modified RAND Delphi Procedure, MSA: Multiple System Atrophy, Multidisciplinary Care, Multidisciplinary Management of Atypical Parkinsonism, Multidisciplinary Meetings, Multidisciplinary Team Care, Multidisciplinary Teams, Multiple System Atrophy (MSA), Netherlands, Neuropalliative Rehabilitation, Occupational Therapists, Opioids in Palliative Care, Out of Hours Care, Oxygen Delivery, Palliative and End of Life Care, Palliative Care, Palliative Medicine, Personal Preferences, Physiotherapists, Private Areas for Saying Goodbye, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Psychologists, Psychosocial and Spiritual Needs, Quality and Safety, Quality Indicators for Palliative Cancer and Dementia Care, Radboud University Medical Center, RAND Delphi Procedure, Records Management, Regular Contact with Families, Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare (IQ Healthcare): Radboud University Medical Center, Sharing Information, Single Bedrooms, Social Workers, Specialised Equipment, Specialist Palliative Care, Specialist Palliative Care Advice, Specialist Palliative Care Teams, Stoma Care, Suction Equipment, Support During Bereavement Process, Teams, Timely Documentation, Treatment at End of Life, Universitätsklinikum Bonn, VU University Medical Centre
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RCP’s Future Hospital Model: An Update (RCP)
Summary The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) earlier this month released a further document explaining their model for the future hospital. Roughly a year since publication of the original plan, and in readiness for the 2015 general election, the RCP … 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, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 10-Year Vision, 2015 Challenge: NHS Confederation, ACH: Acute Care Hub, Acute Care Coordinator, Acute Care Hub, Acute Care Hub (ACH), Acute Hospital Care, Admissions, Ageing Population, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Balance Between Care by Specialists and Generalists, Barriers to Engagement, Barriers to Integration, Barriers to Joined-Up Care, Bed/Ward Moves, Beyond Institutional Boundaries, Care and Compassion, Care by Specialists and Generalists, Care focused on Prevention and Recovery, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Care Seven Days a Week, Clinical Co-Ordination Centre, Clinical Coordination Centre, Clinical Coordination Centre (CCC), Clinical Leadership, Clinical Leadership for Cross Boundary Service Redesign, Clinical Quality Improvement, Clinician Citizenship, Collaboration, Collaborative Working, Communication, Community Care, Community-Based Rehabilitation Services, Compassionate Care, Complex Chronic Conditions, Complex Discharge Ward, Complex Needs, Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), Consultant Input, Consultant Physicians, Continuity of Care, Coordinated Specialist Care, Culture of Compassionate Care, Delivering the Future Hospital, Discharge, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Early Senior Review Across Medical Specialties, Early Supported Discharge (ESD), Early Supported Discharge Teams, Elderly Care Assessment Unit (ECAU), Electronic Patient Record (EPR), Electronic Patient Records: NHS, End to Silo Working, Enhanced Care, Enhanced Recovery Programmes, Evidence-Based Legislation, Expert Care and Assessment, Extended Roles for Physicians in the Community, Extension of Hospital Services Into the Community, Five Point Plan for Hospitals (RCP), Frailty Units, Future Hospital Commission, Future Hospital Explained, Future Hospital Principles, General Hospital Care, General Hospitals, Generalist Inpatient Pathways, Generalist Ward-Based Teams, Generalists, Geriatric Evaluation and Management Unit (GEMU), Good Communication, Handover, Health and Social Care Integration, High Dependency Unit (HDU), Holistic Care, Hospital Discharge, Hospital Discharge and Transfers, Hospital Reconfiguration, Hospital: More Than a Building (RCP), Hospital–Community Interface, Hospital’s Public Health Role, Improving Public Health, Information Sharing, Information to Revolutionise Care, Integrated Acute and Specialist Care Beyond the Hospital, Integrated Discharge Process, Integrating Health and Social Care, Intermediate Care, Joined-Up Care, Large Scale Tendering of Health Services (in England), Liaison Psychiatry Services, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Medical Division, Medical Division Remit, Medical Leadership Competency Framework (MLCF), Medical Professionalism, Models of Integration, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), Multidisciplinary CGA Approach, Multiple Health Issues, Multiple Needs, Multiple-Morbidities, Named Consultants, New Model of Care: Future Hospital Commission, New Model of Clinical Care (RCP), New Structures in the Future Hospital, NHS Confederation’s 2015 Challenge, NHS Service Reconfiguration, No Harm Culture, Ongoing Care, Optimal Assessment in Hospital, Out of Hours Services, Outliers, Outreach Services, Overcoming Barriers, Patient Discharge, Patient Experience, Patient-Centred Care, Patient-Centred Culture, Patient-Centred Vision, Payments to Drive Collaboration, Post-Discharge Activities, Post-Discharge Support, Preventative Care, Preventive Care, Primary / Secondary Care Interface, Principles of Patient Care (RCP), Principles of Service Redesign, Professor Sir Michael Rawlins: Chairman of Future Hospital Commission, Public Health, Public Health Agenda, Public Health Interventions, Rapid Access (‘Hot’) Clinics, RCP Acute Medicine Task Force, RCP’s Patient and Carer Network, Recovery, Rehabilitation Services, Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Royal College of Physicians of London, Safe and Compassionate Care, Seamless Care Between Settings, Self-Management, Self-Management in Chronic Illness, Self-Management Support, Service Redesign, Service Reviews, Seven-Day Services in Hospital, Seven-Day Services in the Community, Shared Decision-Making, Shared Responsibility, Single Medical Division, Specialist Inpatient Pathways, Stable Medical Teams, Support to Care Home Residents, Supporting Patients to Leave Hospital, Tackling Barriers to Innovation, Team Working, Teams, Urgent Care Centre (UCC), Vision of Patient Care: Future Hospital Commission, Vulnerable Older People
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Testing the RCP Future Hospitals Model: the Future Hospital Programme (BBC News / BMJ)
Summary Four NHS trusts in England and Wales are to implement and evaluate the Royal College of Physicians (RCP)’s vision of the future hospital. Under the Future Hospitals Programme, hospital doctors work together with colleagues in primary care, to provide … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged A&E Workforce, ACH: Acute Care Hub, Acute Care Coordinator, Acute Care Hub, Acute Care Hub (ACH), Acute Care Toolkits (RCP), Acute Hospital Care, Acute Medical Unit (Norwich), Ageing Population, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Ambulatory Emergency Care, Assistive Technology, Balance Between Care by Specialists and Generalists, BBC Health News, BBC Wales, Bed/Ward Moves, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, Beyond Institutional Boundaries, BMJ, British Medical Journal (BMJ), Care and Compassion, Care by Specialists and Generalists, Care Closer to Home, Care focused on Prevention and Recovery, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Care Seven Days a Week, Chief of Medicine, Clinical Co-Ordination Centre, Clinical Coordination Centre, Clinical Coordination Centre (CCC), Collaboration, Collaborative Working, Communication, Community Care, Community Teams, Community-Based Rehabilitation Services, Compassionate Care, Complex Chronic Conditions, Complex Discharge Ward, Complex Needs, Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), Consultant Input, Consultant Physicians, Continuity of Care, Coordinated Specialist Care, Culture of Compassionate Care, Digital Technology, Discharge, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Early Senior Review Across Medical Specialties, Early Supported Discharge (ESD), Early Supported Discharge Teams, Elderly Care Assessment Unit (ECAU), Electronic Patient Record (EPR), Eleven Principles of Patient Care (RCP), Enabling Technology, Extended Roles for Physicians in the Community, Extension of Hospital Services Into the Community, Future Hospital, Future Hospital Commission, Future Hospital Commission (FHC), Future Hospital Commission Principles, Future Hospital Commission Recommendations, Future Hospital Explained, Future Hospital Journal (RCP), Future Hospital Principles, Future Hospital Programme, Future Hospital Programme Partners, Future Hospital Vision: 50 Recommendations, Future Workforce, General Hospital Care, General Hospitals, Generalist Inpatient Pathways, Generalist Ward-Based Teams, Generalists, Geriatric Evaluation and Management Unit (GEMU), Good Communication, Handover, Health and Social Care Integration, Health Promotion, Holistic Care, Hospital Discharge, Hospital Discharge and Transfers, Hospital Reconfiguration, Hospital–Community Interface, Hospital’s Public Health Role, Information Sharing, Information Technology, Integrated Acute and Specialist Care Beyond the Hospital, Integrated Community Teams, Integrated Discharge Process, Integrating Health and Social Care, Intermediate Care, Internet Video Links to Consultants, Liaison Psychiatry Services, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Medical Division, Medical Education, Medical Education and Training, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), Multidisciplinary CGA Approach, Multiple Health Issues, Multiple Needs, Multiple-Morbidities, Named Consultants, National Advisory Group on the Safety of Patients in England, National Early Warning Score, New Model of Care: Future Hospital Commission, New Model of Clinical Care (RCP), New Structures in the Future Hospital, NEWS: National Early Warning Score (RCP), NHS Healthcare Academy, NHS Service Reconfiguration, NHS Workforce, No Harm Culture, North Wales, Ongoing Care, Online Consultations, Online Consultations With Hospital Doctors, Opportunities to Treat Patients Without Hospital Admission, Optimal Assessment in Hospital, Out of Hours Services, Outreach Services, Patient Discharge, Patient Experience, Post-Discharge Activities, Post-Discharge Support, Postgraduate Medical Education, Preventative Care, Preventive Care, Primary / Secondary Care Interface, Principles of Patient Care (RCP), Professor Sir Michael Rawlins: Chairman of Future Hospital Commission, Rapid Access (‘Hot’) Clinics, RCP Acute Medicine Task Force, RCP's Future Hospitals Model, RCP: Royal College of Physicians, RCP’s Patient and Carer Network, Readiness Assessment and Developing Project Aims, Reducing Transfers of Patients Between Teams, Royal Blackburn Hospital, Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Rural North Wales, Safe and Compassionate Care, Safer Patients Initiative, Seamless Care Between Settings, Self-Care, Seven-Day Services in Hospital, Seven-Day Services in the Community, Shared Decision-Making, Shared Responsibility, Single Medical Division, Support to Care Home Residents, Supporting Patients to Leave Hospital, Team Working, Teams, Telemedicine, Treating Patients Without Hospital Admission, Urgent Care Centre (UCC), US Health Care System, US Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA), Video Links, Vision of Patient Care: Future Hospital Commission, Vulnerable Older People, Workforce and Skill Mix, Workforce Issues, Workforce Planning, Workforce Retention Recruitment and Resilience, Workforce Training, Worthing Hospital
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Integrated Care for People with Complex Chronic Conditions: Research Summary (King’s Fund)
Summary This King’s Fund report summarises the findings from a 2-year research project (funded by Aetna and the Aetna Foundation) which involved looking at five UK-based programmes delivering coordinated care for people with long-term and complex needs. The aim has … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, International, King's Fund, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
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Tagged Advanced Practice Nurse (APN), Advice and Support, Aetna (US), Aetna Foundation, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Assigned Accountability, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Better Understanding of Dementia for Sandwell (BUDS), Bexley, Bexley Advanced Dementia Care At Home Project, BUDS: Better Understanding of Dementia for Sandwell, Burden on Caregivers, Care Closer to Home Project, Care Co-ordination, Care Coordinators, Care Integration, Care Pathway, Care Plan, Care Planning, Caregiver Distress, Caregiver Support, Carer Assessment, Carer Burden in Dementia, Carer Education, Carer Resilience, Carer Support, Case Finding, Chronic Conditions Nurse Practitioners (CCNPs), Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS), Co-Production, Community Care, Community Mental Health Services, Community Mental Health Teams, Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN), Community Resource Teams (CRTs), Community Resource Teams in Pembrokeshire, Community Support, Community Support Services, Community-Based End of Life Nurse, Community-Based Interventions, Community-Based Palliative Care Service, Community-Based Rehabilitation Services, Community-Based Services, Community-Based Support, Complex Care, Complex Chronic Conditions, Complex Needs, Continuing Care, Continuing Care Services in the Community, Coordinated Care, Core 10 (Assessment Tool), Core 10 and WEMWBS, Core-OM, Corenet Software, Cost Analysis, Cost Savings, Cost-Effectiveness, Costs, Counselling Services, Deaths in Usual Place of Residence (DiUPR), Dementia Liaison Services, Dementia Nurse Specialist, Dementia Specialist End of Life Nurse, Dementia Support Services, DiUPR: Deaths in Usual Place of Residence, Dying at Home, End of Life Care, End of Life Care Plans, End-of-Life Care at Home, EOL, Esteem Team: Sandwell, Experiences, Family Support, Functional Integration, Gold Standards Framework (GSF), GPs, Greenwich, Greenwich Advanced Dementia Service (GADS), Greenwich and Bexley, Hampshire, Health and Social Care Integration, Healthcare at Home, Holistic Approaches, Holistic Care Assessments, Holistic Co-ordinated Care, Home Support, Hospice at Home, Hospital at Home, Hywel Dda Health Board, IAPT Programme, IAPT: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Programme, Information and Advice Services, Integrated and Community-Based Care, Integrated Care Coordinators, Integrated Services, Integrated Services Across Local Authorities, Integration, Integration of Health and Social Care, Liaison Services, Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP), Living at Home, Local Partnerships, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Macmillan Cancer Support, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Mental Health Liaison Services, Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, Midhurst Macmillan Service, Midhurst Macmillan Service Referral and Discharge, Multi-Disciplinary Working, Multidisciplinary Specialist Teams, Multidisciplinary Team Care, Multidisciplinary Teams, Multiple Referrals to a Single Entry Point, NHS Continuing Care, NHS Electronic Patient Records, NHS West Midlands, Oxleas Advanced Dementia Service, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, Oxleas Service Model, Palliative and End-of-Life Care at Home, Palliative Care, Partnership, Partnership and Collaboration, Partnership Working, Patient Experience, Patient Focus, Patient Involvement, Pembrokeshire County Council, Personalised Care Planning, Personalised Care Plans, Preferred Place of Death, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Primary Care, Projecting Older People Population Information, Psychiatric Liaison Services, QUALID: Quality of Life in Late Stage Dementia, Readmissions for Patients with Long Term Conditions, Reducing Admissions to Nursing Care, Reducing Admissions to Residential Care, Reducing Re-Admissions NHS Hospitals, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Referrals, Relationship Building, Relative Stress Scale (RSS), Resilience, Responsive Provider Networks, Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group, Sandwell Esteem Team, Sandwell Integrated Primary Care Mental Health and Wellbeing Service, Sandwell Wellbeing Hub, Sandwell: West Midlands, Service Integration, Social Services, Specialist Palliative Care, Split Care Assessment and Co-ordination Functions, Standardised Referral Form, Staying at Home, Staying Put, Stepped Care Approach, Stress Reduction, Stress Reduction for Unpaid Family Carers, Support for Carers, Support for People with Complex Needs, Support Networks, Support Workers, Supportive Care, Surrey, Sussex Community Trust, Team Culture, Team Working, Teams, Unplanned Hospital Admissions, User Experience, Volunteers, Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS), West Midlands, West Sussex
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NHS Culture, Patient Safety and Care Quality (Lancaster University)
Summary This report from Lancaster University investigates culture and behaviour in the NHS. It asserts that there are times when the quality of care in the English NHS may be compromised by a lack of clearly defined goals, over-regulation, and … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Absenteeism, Active Engagement, Annual Health Check (AHC), Aston Team Performance Inventory (ATPI), Aston University, Barriers and Facilitators to Participation, Barriers to Integration, Board Innovativeness, Bright Spots, Bullying, Bureaucracy, Care Quality, Civility, Compassion, Competitiveness, Cooperation, Cultural Leadership, Culture, Culture Change, Dark Spots, Definitional Morass, Department of Health Policy Research Programme, Discontinuities in Care, Engagement, Ethnographic Analysis, Francis Inquiry Report, Handover, Harassment, Hospital Mortality, Incentives, Incident Reporting, Initiatives, Innovative Leadership, Inter-Team Working, Lancaster University, Lancaster University Management School, Leadership, Leadership and Culture, Lean and Six Sigma, Listening into Action (LiA), NAPP (National Association for Patient Participation), National Association for Patient Participation, National Staff Survey and Acute Inpatient Survey, NHS Culture, NHS National Staff Survey Data, Organisational Culture and Climate, Over-Regulation, Overcoming Barriers, Patient and Public Involvement, Patient Experience, Patient Mortality, Patient Participation, Patient Safety, PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) Cycles, Presenteeism, Priority Thickets, Quality, Quality and Safety in the NHS, Quality Improvement, Responsibility Cordons, Safety, Safety Express, Staff Engagement, Standards, Targets, Team Culture, Team Working, Teams, The Productive Ward, Tick Box Culture, Trust Boards, Trust Leadership, University of Aberdeen, University of Birmingham, University of Leicester, University of Sheffield, Variability in Courtesy Compassion and Caring, Variability in Management and Systems, Variability in Quality and Safety of Care, Work Pressure
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Overhaul of Hospital Care (BBC News / RCP / Future Hospital Commission)
Summary The Future Hospital Commission has recommended a radical re-structuring of care for frail elderly people with complex needs. There is a need to avoid multiple moves for patients with multiple morbidities after their admission to hospital. Instead of moving … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged 11 Principles of Patient Care (RCP), ACH: Acute Care Hub, Acute Care Coordinator, Acute Care Hub, Acute Care Hub (ACH), Acute Care Toolkits (RCP), Acute Hospital Care, Admissions, AEC, Ageing Population, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Ambulatory (Day Case) Emergency Care (AEC), Ambulatory Care, Ambulatory Emergency Care, Balance Between Care by Specialists and Generalists, Bed/Ward Moves, Beyond Institutional Boundaries, Care and Compassion, Care by Specialists and Generalists, Care focused on Prevention and Recovery, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care of Frail Older People With Complex Needs, Care Seven Days a Week, Chief of Medicine, Clinical Co-Ordination Centre, Clinical Coordination Centre, Clinical Coordination Centre (CCC), Clinician Citizenship, Collaboration, Collaborative Working, Communication, Community Care, Community-Based Rehabilitation Services, Compassionate Care, Complex Chronic Conditions, Complex Discharge Ward, Complex Needs, Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA), Consultant Input, Consultant Physicians, Continuity of Care, Coordinated Specialist Care, Culture of Compassionate Care, Discharge, Discharge Coordination, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Early Senior Review Across Medical Specialties, Early Supported Discharge (ESD), Early Supported Discharge Teams, Elderly Care Assessment Unit (ECAU), Electronic Patient Record (EPR), Eleven Principles of Patient Care (RCP), Embedding Patient Experience in Service Delivery, Embedding Patient Experience in Service Design, End to Silo Working, Enhanced Care, Enhanced Recovery Programmes, Expert Care and Assessment, Extended Roles for Physicians in the Community, Extension of Hospital Services Into the Community, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management, Frailty Units, Future Hospital Commission, Future Hospital Explained, Future Hospital Principles, Future Hospital Vision: 50 Recommendations, General Hospital Care, General Hospitals, Generalist Inpatient Pathways, Generalist Ward-Based Teams, Generalists, Geriatric Evaluation and Management Unit (GEMU), Good Communication, Handover, Health and Social Care Integration, High Dependency Unit (HDU), Holistic Care, Hospital Discharge, Hospital Discharge and Transfers, Hospital Reconfiguration, Hospital–Community Interface, Hospital’s Public Health Role, Information Sharing, Integrated Acute and Specialist Care Beyond the Hospital, Integrated Discharge Process, Integrating Health and Social Care, Intermediate Care, Liaison Psychiatry Services, Long-Term Care (LTC), Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Medical Division, Medical Division Remit, Medical Leadership Competency Framework (MLCF), Medical Professionalism, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), Multidisciplinary CGA Approach, Multiple Health Issues, Multiple Needs, Multiple-Morbidities, Named Consultants, National Advisory Group on the Safety of Patients in England, National Early Warning Score, New Model of Care: Future Hospital Commission, New Model of Clinical Care (RCP), New Structures in the Future Hospital, NEWS: National Early Warning Score (RCP), NHS Service Reconfiguration, No Harm Culture, Ongoing Care, Optimal Assessment in Hospital, Out of Hours Services, Outliers, Outreach Services, Patient Discharge, Patient Experience, Patient Involvement in Research, Patient Participation, Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), Patient Safety, Patient-Centred Care, Patient-Centred Care: Eleven Principles, Patient-Centred Care: Four Principles, Patient-Centred Culture, Patient-Level Information and Costing System (PLICS), Patient-reported Experience Measures (PREMs) Tool, Post-Discharge Activities, Post-Discharge Support, Preventative Care, Preventive Care, Primary / Secondary Care Interface, Principles of Patient Care (RCP), Professor Sir Michael Rawlins: Chairman of Future Hospital Commission, Rapid Access (‘Hot’) Clinics, RCP Acute Medicine Task Force, RCP’s Patient and Carer Network, Rehabilitation Services, Rehabilitation Services for People with Complex Mental Health Needs, Safe and Compassionate Care, Seamless Care Between Settings, Service-Line Management (SLM), Service-Line Reporting (SLR), Seven-Day Services in Hospital, Seven-Day Services in the Community, Shared Decision-Making, Shared Responsibility, Single Medical Division, SNOMED Clinical Terms, Specialist Inpatient Pathways, Stable Medical Teams, Support to Care Home Residents, Supporting Patients to Leave Hospital, Team Working, Teams, Urgent Care Centre (UCC), Vision of Patient Care: Future Hospital Commission, Vulnerable Older People, Walk-in Centres
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Oxleas Advanced Dementia Service (King’s Fund)
Summary The King’s Fund (funded by Aetna and the Aetna Foundation) is releasing a series of five case studies examining co-ordinated care for people with complex chronic conditions. New approaches to care co-ordination in primary care settings are investigated, across … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), 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, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Advanced Practice Nurse (APN), Advice and Support, Aetna (US), Aetna Foundation, Alternatives to Hospital Admission, Avoidable Admissions, Avoidable Rehospitalisations, Bexley, Bexley Advanced Dementia Care At Home Project, Burden on Caregivers, Care Co-ordination, Care Coordinators, Care Integration, Care Plan, Care Planning, Caregiver Distress, Caregiver Support, Carer Assessment, Carer Burden in Dementia, Carer Education, Carer Resilience, Carer Support, Case Finding, Community Mental Health Services, Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN), Community Support Services, Community-Based Palliative Care Service, Complex Chronic Conditions, Coordinated Care, Cost Analysis, Cost Savings, Cost-Effectiveness, Costs, Deaths in Usual Place of Residence (DiUPR), Dementia Liaison Services, Dementia Nurse Specialist, Dementia Specialist End of Life Nurse, Dementia Support Services, DiUPR: Deaths in Usual Place of Residence, Dying at Home, End of Life Care Plans, Family Support, Functional Integration, GPs, Greenwich, Greenwich Advanced Dementia Service (GADS), Greenwich and Bexley, Healthcare at Home, Holistic Care Assessments, Home Support, Hospice at Home, Hospital at Home, Information and Advice Services, Integrated Care Coordinators, Integrated Services, Integrated Services Across Local Authorities, Integration, Liaison Services, Living at Home, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Multidisciplinary Specialist Teams, Multidisciplinary Team Care, Multidisciplinary Teams, Multiple Referrals to a Single Entry Point, NHS Electronic Patient Records, Oxleas Advanced Dementia Service, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, Oxleas Service Model, Palliative Care, Personalised Care Planning, Personalised Care Plans, Preferred Place of Death, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Projecting Older People Population Information, QUALID: Quality of Life in Late Stage Dementia, Readmissions for Patients with Long Term Conditions, Reducing Admissions to Nursing Care, Reducing Admissions to Residential Care, Reducing Re-Admissions NHS Hospitals, Reducing Unscheduled Admissions, Referrals, Relationship Building, Relative Stress Scale (RSS), Resilience, Service Integration, Social Services, Specialist Palliative Care, Split Care Assessment and Co-ordination Functions, Standardised Referral Form, Staying at Home, Stress Reduction, Stress Reduction for Unpaid Family Carers, Support for Carers, Support for People with Complex Needs, Support Networks, Support Workers, Supportive Care, Team Culture, Team Working, Teams, Unplanned Hospital Admissions
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Patient-Centred Leadership: Rediscovering NHS Purpose (King’s Fund)
Summary This report explores findings from the Francis Inquiry about failings of care at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust regarding NHS leadership and culture. It discusses what steps might help to avoid comparable failures in future, and looks into three … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), King's Fund, National, NHS, NHS Confederation, NHS England, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, RCN, Royal College of Physicians, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospitals, Boards, Bullying, Candour, Care in General Hospitals, Care Quality, Care Quality Commission, Clinical Leadership, CNO Summit (2014), Command-and-Control Leadership, Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health (CPPIH), Consequences of the Francis Inquiry Report, Contractual Duty of Candour, Culture, Culture Change, Culture of Compassionate Care, Culture of Zero-Harm, Defensive Leadership, DIMPLE (Diabetes Improvement through Mentoring and Peer-led Education) Project, Doctors as Clinical Leaders, Experience-Based Co-Design (EBCD), Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management, Foundation Trust Status, Francis Inquiry, Francis Inquiry Report: Executive Summary, Francis Inquiry Report: Full Report, Francis Report, Friends and Family Test (NHS), Fundamental Standards, Gagging Clause Culture, General Hospitals, Jane Cummings: Chief Nursing Officer for England, King’s Fund Leadership Survey 2013, Kingston General Hospital: Ontario, Leadership, Leadership and Culture, Leadership by Patients, Leadership Concept, Leadership Development, Leadership for Culture Change, Leadership in the NHS, Leadership: Professionals From BME Backgrounds, Listening into Action (LiA), Low Morale, Managers in Partnership, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry, Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust, Monitor, National NHS Leadership, NHS Constitution, NHS Culture, NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), NHS Leadership, NHS Leadership Academy, NHS Leadership Academy (NHS LA), NHS Professionals, NHS Quest, NHS Trust Development Authority (NHS TDA), NHS Trust Development Authority (NTDA), Nurses as Clinical Leaders, Nursing Standards, Openness, Patient and Public Involvement Forums (PPIFs), Patient Experience, Patient-Centred Culture, Patient-Centred Leadership, Patients First and Foremost, Patients Not Heard, Poor Governance, Positive Culture, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Professional Disengagement, Putting Patients First: NHS England Business Plan 2013/14 – 2015/16, Quality Improvement, RCGP, Reactions to the Francis Inquiry Report, Rediscovering NHS Purpose, Repercussions From the Francis Inquiry Report, Report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry, Responses to the Francis Inquiry Report, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), Royal College of Midwives, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospital NHS Trust, Shaping Culture, Sir Robert Francis QC, Six C’s (Jane Cummings: Chief Nursing Officer for England), Staff Motivation, Stafford, Statutory Duty of Candour, Target-Driven Priorities, Task-Centred Care, Teams, Tick Box Culture, Time-Task Culture, Warning Signs, West Midlands
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