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New End of Life Care Guideline (BBC News / NICE)

Posted on December 16, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a new guideline on individualised end of life care, to replace the widely discredited Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) which was phased-out in 2014. This fresh guideline advocates a … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, 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), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NICE Guidelines, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Advance Care Planning (ACP), Agreed Care Plans, BBC Health News, Care of Dying Adults in Last Days of Life, Care Plan, Communication, Compassionate Care, Culture Change, Culture Change in the NHS, Culture of Compassionate Care, Dehydration, Dignity and Respect, End of Life Care, End of Life Care Pathway, End of Life Care Plans, End of Life Care Strategy, Hydration and Nutrition, Individualised Approaches, Individualised Support, Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP), Medically Assisted Hydration, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), NHS Culture, Palliative and End of Life Care, Personalised Care Planning, Pharmacological Interventions, Reduction in Box-Ticking, SDM: Shared Decision Making, Shared Decision-Making, Tick Box Culture | Leave a comment

GP Incentive Schemes to Reduce Referrals to Hospital? (BBC News / Pulse / NHS England / Department of Health)

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary GP practices may sometimes receive incentive payments for reducing the number of patients referred to hospital, according to an investigation by Pulse. The aim of NHS leaders is to reduce inappropriate patient referrals, i.e. where patients can be better … Continue reading →

Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged A&E Attendances, A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions, Achieving World-Class Cancer Outcomes: Strategy for England 2015-2020, Assessment and Referral, Attitudes to Health and Cancer, Attitudes Towards Cancer Treatment, Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Barriers to Early Diagnosis, Barriers to Integration, Barriers to Joined-Up Care, Barriers to Support, Barriers: Discrimination, Barriers: Potential Age Discrimination, Cancer, Cancer Referrals, Cancer Targets, Cancer Test Waiting Times, Cancer Treatment, Cancer Treatment Standards, Cancer Waiting Times, Cancer: Waiting Times for Testing and Treatment: NHS Performance Indicators, Care Closer to Home, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Conflict of Interests, Diagnosis and Referral, Early Cancer Diagnosis, Early Screening, Ethical Considerations, Ethical Dilemmas, FOI: Freedom of information, General Practice, GPs, Identification and Referral, Improving Referral Pathways, Incentive Payments, Incentives, Incentivising Practices to Reduce Urgent Cancer Referrals, Ipsos Mori, Jagtar Dhanda: Head of Inclusion at Macmillan Cancer Support, John Young: NHS England, Macmillan Cancer Support, NHS Birmingham South Central CCG, NHS Bolton CCG, NHS Cancer Taskforce, NHS England’s Cancer Taskforce, NHS Lambeth CCG, NHS North East Lincolnshire CCG, Older People’s Day, Older People’s Day (2015), Outpatient Attendances, Outpatient Follow-Ups, Preventing Avoidable Emergency Admissions, Prevention of Avoidable Emergency Admissions: Case Management, Professor John Young: Former National Clinical Director for Integration and Frail Elderly at NHS England, Referral Management, Referrals, Speed of Cancer Diagnosis, Target-Driven Behaviour, Target-Driven Priorities, Tick Box Culture, Timely Diagnosis, Timely Referral, Unintended Consequences, Working the System and Unintended Consequences | Leave a comment

NICE Consultation on Draft Guidelines for Care of the Dying Adult (BBC News / NICE)

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released draft guidelines concerning the care of adults potentially entering the last days of their lives while in the care of the NHS. The guideline covers people dying from … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Community Care, End of Life Care, 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, NICE Guidelines, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Nutrition, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged BBC Health News, Care of the Dying Adult, Draft Guidelines for Care of the Dying Adult, End of Life Care, End of Life Care for People with Dementia, End of Life Care Pathway, End of Life Care Strategy, Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP), Liverpool Care Pathway: Poor Implementation, MDTs: Multidisciplinary Teams, Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), Nutrition and Hydration, Pain Relief, Palliative and End of Life Care, Palliative Care, Personalised Care Planning, Personalised Carer Support, Shared Decision-Making, Tick Box Culture, Treatment at End of Life, User Complaints, Withdrawal of Medication Food and Fluids | Leave a comment

Update on End of Life Care: Liverpool Care Pathway Phased Out (NHS Improving Quality)

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People (LACDP) has published an update on its position following the “More Care, Less Pathway” report on the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP). “The independent review concluded that many of the issues … Continue reading →

Posted in End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), In the News, National, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK | Tagged Care Quality Commission (CQC), College of Healthcare Chaplains (CHCC), End of Life Care, End of Life Care Pathway, End of Life Care Plans, End of Life Care Strategy, General Medical Council (GMC), General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), Health Education England (HEE), Help the Hospices, Independent Review of the Liverpool Care Pathway, LACDP: Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People, Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People (LACDP), Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP), Macmillan Cancer Support, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Monitor, National Care Forum and the Voluntary Organisations Disability Group, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ), NHS Trust Development Authority (NTDA), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Palliative Care, Public Health England (PHE), Richmond Group of Charities, Royal College of GPs, Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Sue Ryder, The National Council for Palliative Care, Tick Box Culture | Leave a comment

NHS Culture, Patient Safety and Care Quality (Lancaster University)

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

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 | 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 | Leave a comment

Minimum Standards for Healthcare Assistants: Certificate of Fundamental Care (BBC News)

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Cavendish Review to ensure vulnerable patients are treated with dignity says healthcare assistants (HCAs) should need to comply with a universal training system and gain accreditation before they are allowed work unsupervised. This review was carried out after the Francis Inquiry to offer recommendations … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged 12-Hour Shifts (HCAs), Acute Hospital Care, Allowing HCAs to Use Title “Nursing Assistant", Appraisals, Apprenticeships, Axiological Inventory (Philosophical Study of Values), “Higher Certificate of Fundamental Care, Barchester Healthcare: Higher-Level Apprenticeship, BBC Health News, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust’s Band 3 Healthcare (Nursing) Support Worker Programme, Board Level Responsibility for the Recruitment Training and Management of HCAs, Bridging Programmes for Progression of HCAs and Support Workers into Nursing Programmes, Bridging Programmes: Progression of HCAs and Support Workers into Nursing Programmes, Bureaucracy, Camilla Cavendish, Capitated and Outcome-Based Incentivised Contracts (COBICS), 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Patient-Centred Leadership: Rediscovering NHS Purpose (King’s Fund)

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

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 | 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 | Leave a comment

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