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Tag Archives: Time to Care
Dying Matters Awareness Week 2015: Plus Related Information and Developments (Dying Matters Coalition / BBC News / PHSO / Nursing Times)
Summary The “Dying Matters Awareness Week”, this year having the theme “Talk, Plan, Live”, occurs between May 18th – 24th 2015. The aim is to support more open discussion about dying, death and bereavement. Making end of life wishes known, … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, 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, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Patient Information, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Quick Insights, RCN, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged BBC Health News, Canterbury Christ Church University, Comfort and Pain Management, Dame Julie Mellor: Parliamentary and Health Ombudsman Service, Dying Matters, Dying Matters Awareness Week, Dying Matters Awareness Week (2015), Dying Matters Awareness Week: Talk Plan Live (2015 Theme), Dying Matters Coalition, Dying Without Dignity (PHSO), East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust, End-of-Life Care at Home, End-of-Life Care Delivered At Home, End-of-Life Care in Acute Hospitals, End-of-Life Care Pathways, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Access to Palliative Care, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Inappropriate Hospital Admissions, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Inappropriate Interventions, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Inconsistency in Care Standards in Hospitals, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Lack of Continuity of Care, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Lack of Support for Carers, End-of-Life Dementia Care Barriers: Poor Pain Management, Good Death in Acute Hospitals, Lynda Thomas: Macmillan Cancer Support, Macmillan Cancer Support, Nursing Times, Pain Management, Pain Management in Older People with Dementia, Palliative and End-of-Life Care at Home, Palliative and End-of-Life Care in Hospitals, Palliative Care, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO), Preferred Place of Death, Professor Sir Mike Richards: Former Chief Inspector of Hospitals (CQC), Responsibility for End-of-Life Care in Care Homes, Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Time to Care
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Key to Care Report: the Burstow Commission on the Future of the Home Care Workforce (BBC News / LGiU)
Summary The “Key to Care” report, published in early December by the Local Government Information Unit (LGiU) and the home care provider Mears, predicted that the home care system in England could be close to crisis because of the extent … Continue reading →
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Adult Social Care: Market Oversight, Alan Long (Mears): Burstow Commission on the Future of the Home Care Workforce, Alan Long: Executive Director of Mears Group, Allied Healthcare, Allied Healthcare Seeks Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA), Barchester, Barchester Homes, BBC Health News, Better and Fairer Commissioning, Bupa, Burstow Commission Report, Camilla Cavendish, Care UK, Care Workers Deserve Better, Career of Esteem, CareOpinion, Cavendish Review, Clare Pelham (Leonard Cheshire Disability): Burstow Commission on the Future of the Home Care Workforce, Clare Pelham: Chief Executive of Leonard Cheshire Disability, Cllr Gwen Hassall (Stoke): Burstow Commission on the Future of the Home Care Workforce, Cllr John Pantall (Stockport): Burstow Commission on the Future of the Home Care Workforce, Colin Angel: UK Home Care Association, Commission on Residential Care: Chaired by Paul Burstow MP, Commissioning Care, Commissioning Home Care, Commissioning Home Care for Older People, Commissioning of Domiciliary Care, ComRes Survey for BBC 5 Live, Cost Structure for Residential Care Homes, Creating Time to Care, Criminal Records Bureau, Design and Technology in Home Care, Design Council, Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Domiciliary Care, Equality and Human rights Commission (EHRC), Expenses and Other Shoddy Practices, False Economy: Not Paying Home Care Workers for Travel, Former Care Services Minister Paul Burstow, Former Health Minister), Four Seasons Health Care, Future Care Workforce, FutureGov, FutureGov’s Casserole Club, HC-One, HCP: Home Care Packages, Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), Help at Home, Home Care, Home Care Funding and Costs, Home Care Providers, Home Care Services, Home Care Shortfall, Home Care Standards, Home Care Support, Home Care Workers, Home Care Workers' Travel Time, Home Care Workforce, Home Care: Commissioning, Home Help Service and Home Care Support Schemes, Illegal Deductions From Pay (of Care Workers), Jonathan Carr-West: Local Government Information Unit (LGiU), Kevin Rowan (TUC): Burstow Commission on the Future of the Home Care Workforce, Laura Gardiner: Resolution Foundation, LGiU, Licence to Practise, Living Wage, Local Government Association: LGA, Local Government Information Unit (LGiU), London Living Wage, Low Esteem Versus Career of Esteem, Market Oversight, Market Oversight in Adult Social Care, Mears (Home Care Provider), Mears Group, Minimum Payments for Contact Hours, Minimum Wage, Minimum Wage Regulations, National Living Wage, National Minimum Wage in the Care Sector, Non-Compliance With Minimum Wage Regulations, Oversight and Monitoring, PatientOpinion, Paul Burstow (Former Care Services Minister), Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat, Paul Burstow MP: Chair of Burstow Commission on the Future of the Home Care Workforce, Paying Home Care Workers for Travel, Payment of Travel Time, Profile of Home Care, Rallyround app, Regulation of Care Workers, Report of the Burstow Commission on the Future of the Home Care Workforce, Residential Care Homes, Residential Care Homes: Cost Structure, Resolution Foundation, Responsible and Innovative Home Care Providers, Royal College of Art, Rt Hon. Paul Burstow MP, Sarah Newton MP: Burstow Commission on the Future of the Home Care Workforce, Shoddy Practices, Skills for Care, Social Care Workforce, Social Care Workforce Development, Staff Turnover, Staffing Level Indicators: Staff Turnover, Task and Time Commissioning, Time to Care, Time-Task Culture, UK Home Care Association, UK Homecare Association, UK Homecare Association (UKHCA), UKHCA: UK Homecare Association, Undervalued Hidden Workforce, United Kingdom Home Care Association (UKHCA), Valuing Care and Care Workers, Valuing Carers, Valuing the Healthcare Assistants, Workforce, Workforce Competencies, Workforce Development, Workforce Issues, Workforce Planning and Development, Workforce Retention Recruitment and Resilience, Workforce Training, Working Carer Tax Credits and Care Credits, Zero-Hours Contracts
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Guidance on Care Contact Time (NHS England)
Summary The Chief Nursing Officer for England has issued a guide for providers and commissioners to calculate the amount of “care contact time” required to deliver safe and effective care. This guidance complements pre-existing NQB guidance, NICE guidelines and NICE … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS England, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Guidance on Nurse Staffing Levels (BBC News / NICE)
Summary The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released guidelines for hospitals in England on safe staffing levels for nurses. The draft guidelines, and the extensive research behind them, were unveiled earlier in May 2014. The ratio of … Continue reading →
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Draft Guidance on Nurse Staffing Levels (BBC News / NICE)
Summary The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released draft guidance indicating to hospital managers that there is a higher risk of harm to patients when the ratio of nurses to patients falls below a certain level; … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, NICE Guidelines, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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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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Minimum Standards for Healthcare Assistants: Certificate of Fundamental Care (BBC 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), Health Education England (HEE), In the News, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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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), Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care Homes, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Care Support, Career Ladder, Career Pathways for HCAs, Caring: a Career, Cavendish Review, Certificate of Fundamental Care, City and Guilds Diploma Level 2 in Clinical Healthcare Support 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Safe Staffing Alliance Warning on Hospital Nurses Staffing Levels (BBC News / RCN)
Summary The Safe Staffing Alliance has issued a warning about hospital ward staffing levels in England. The recommended nursing staff to patients ratio is thought to be 1 to 4, but is reported that hospital wards regularly have registered nurses looking after eight patients; which could be unsafe … Continue reading →
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Evidence Supports Intentional Rounding (King’s College London)
[A version of this item appears in: Dementia: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWHT), Volume 2 Issue 10, May 2012]. Summary In January 2012 the Prime Minister made calls for higher standards of nursing care and compassion. One of his main … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), International, Management of Condition, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Care Rounds, Comfort Rounds, David Cameron, Four P’s: (Positioning; Personal Needs; Pain; Placement), Harm Free Care Campaign, Hospital Pathways Project, Hourly Ward Rounds, Intentional Rounding, Kings College London, National Nursing Research Unit, Patient Safety, Proactive Patient Rounds, Studer Group, Time to Care, Ward Rounds (Nurses Inspection Regime)
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New Hospitals Inspection Regime: PM Tackles Nursing Care Standards (BBC News)
Summary The “Time to Care” initiative is being rolled out across hospital trusts. This NHS-backed programme is intended to give hospitals advice and support on how to re-design their systems, thereby enabling staff to improve the care they provide to patients. All trusts are … Continue reading →
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Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Care in General Hospitals, Care Standards, General Hospitals, Hospital Inspections, Hourly Ward Rounds, Nursing Quality Forum, Patient-Led Hospital Inspection Regime, Patients Not Paperwork, Time to Care, Ward Rounds (Nurses Inspection Regime)
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