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National Conversation on Local Health Inequalities, Plus Supporting Indicators and Local Authority Profiles (PHE / Health and Sport Committee: Scotland / UCL IHE)

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Public Health England (PHE) has released a collection of documents to promote the national conversation on health inequalities. The “National Conversation on Health Inequalities” event was part of a wider programme on the reduction of local differences in health … Continue reading →

House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts Report: Emergency Admissions to Hospital (BBC News / Public Accounts Committee / Healthwatch England / NHS Confederation’s Urgent and Emergency Care Forum)

Posted on March 9, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A recent House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts report examines the increasing demand for A&E services, in the context of budgets under pressure and a shortage of specialist A&E consultants. It also investigates slow progress on introducing out … Continue reading →

Foundation Guidelines for Dementia Friendly Communities (North East Dementia Alliance)

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary This report, commissioned by the North East Dementia Alliance, might be considered a handbook for people involved in the development of dementia friendly communities. It attempts to identify how dementia friendly communities might be created, covering the core aims … Continue reading →

Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Diagnosis, Enhancing the Healing Environment, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Access to Care, Access to Services, Accreditation Schemes, Age-Friendly Cities, Age-Friendly Communities, All Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Care for Older People Inquiry, Alzheimer's Society Abertawe Bro Morgannwg, Alzheimer’s Society in Wales, Awareness, Awareness and Understanding, Awareness Raising, Bradford, Bradford Dementia Environment Project, Building Community Assets, Building Community Capacity, Building Dementia and Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Care for People with Dementia in the Community, Care in the Community, Commissioning Pack for Dementia, Community, Community Care Services, Community Development (CD), Community Engagement, Community Facilities, Community Factors, Community Groups, Community Involvement, Community Networks, Community Partners, Community Perspective, Community Research, Community-Based Support, Creating Dementia Friendly Environments, Debenham Project, Dementia and Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia Awareness, Dementia Friendly Communities Programme, Dementia Friendly Indoor Environments, Dementia Friendly Outdoor and Public Environments, Dementia Networks, Dementia-Friendly Cities, Dementia-Friendly City, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Community Model, Dementia-Friendly Design, Dementia-Friendly Environmental Design, Dementia-Friendly Hospitals, Dementia-Friendly Housing, Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia-Friendly Rural Parishes, Dementia-Friendly Towns, Dementia-Friendly Villages, Dementia-Friendly Wards, Dementia-Friendly York, Designing Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Early Diagnosis, East Midlands, East Midlands Dementia Action Alliance, East Sutherland, Engagement, English National Dementia Strategy, Environment Accreditation Scheme Within the Dementia Friendly Environments NHS Capital Fund, Essential Features of Age-Friendly Cities, Innovations in Dementia: a CIC, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Leeds, Living Well with Dementia, Living Well with Dementia Research, Local and Community Level Well-Being, Local Community Groups, Local Context, Local Government, Local Government Association: LGA, Local Networks, Monitoring Dementia Friendliness, National Dementia Strategy, Neighbourhoods for Life, Networks, Networks that Work, North East Dementia Alliance, North East Strategic Health Authority, North West England, Northern Rock Foundation, Northumberland, Northumberland Dementia Initiative, Northumberland the Ballinger Trust Northumberland Dementia Initiative, Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2012/13, Physical Environment, Plymouth, Plymouth Dementia Action Alliance (PDDA), Plymouth Naval Base, Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia, Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge, Principles for Engagement, Quality Outcomes for People With Dementia, Redcar, Resident Engagement, Safer Communities, Social Networks, South West England, Stockton-on-Tees, Sunderland, Support Networks, Sustainability, Sustainable Funding, Torbay, Torbay Dementia Action Alliance, Unlocking Diagnosis, Yorkshire and Humber Dementia Action Alliance | Leave a comment

South Devon and Torbay: Community Virtual Wards and Proactive Case Management (King’s Fund)

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary This King’s Fund case study (funded by Aetna and the Aetna Foundation) investigates community virtual wards based in GP practices within South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). The community virtual wards were introduced by Devon Primary Care … Continue reading →

Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, 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, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Aetna (US), Aetna Foundation, Avoidable Admissions, Care Coordinators, Case Management, CCGs, Chronic and Severe Illness, Chronic Care, Chronic Diseases, Chronic Illnesses, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Combined Predictive Model, Community Care, Community Care Services, Community Nursing, Community Support Services, Community Virtual Wards, Coordinated Care, Coordination of Care, Dedicated Care Coordination, Devon County Council, Devon Predictive Model (DPM), Devon Primary Care Trust, Direct Enhanced Service (DES) Payments, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Readmissions, Emergency Readmissions to Hospital, Exeter City Council, GP Facilitators, GP Practice, GP-Led Commissioning, GPs, Holistic Approaches, Holistic Care, Holistic Care Assessments, Holistic Co-ordinated Care, Holistic Needs Assessment, Integrated Care Coordinators, Integration, Locality Working, Long-Term Conditions (LTCs), Multi-Agency Integration, Multi-Agency Working, Multi-Disciplinary Working, Multiagency Teams, Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation Team Care, Multidisciplinary Team Care, Multiple Chronic Disease, Multiple Needs, Patient Assessment, Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (PACIC), Patient Care, Personalised Case Management, Plymouth, Predictive Modelling, Predictive Risk Models, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Prevention, Preventive Care, Preventive Services, Preventive Support: Risk Stratification for Case Finding, Proactive Care, Proactive Case Management, Quality of Care, Responsible GPs, Risk Prediction and Stratification Activities, Risk Stratification, Risk Stratification for Case Finding, Secondary Uses Service (SUS), Shortlisting, South Devon, South Devon and Torbay, South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Torbay, Torbay Council, Torbay Primary Care Trust (PCT), Virtual Wards, Virtual Wards to Reduce Readmissions | Leave a comment

System-Wide Costs of Falls in Older People in Torbay (King’s Fund)

Posted on August 24, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary This paper covers the use of Torbay’s patient-level linked data set to investigate the costs to the NHS and social care arising from the care pathway for older people admitted to hospital due to a fall. One in three … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Falls, Falls Prevention, 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, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Co-Morbidities, Commissioning Toolkit for Falls and Fractures, Community Rehabilitation, Cost of Falls, Dementia and Falls, Dementia Co-Morbidities, Falls and Fractures, Falls Assessment, Falls in Older People, Falls in Older People in Torbay, Health and Social Care Costs, Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Services, System-Wide Care Costs, System-Wide Costs of Falls in Older People, Torbay, Torbay Care Trust, Torbay Linked Health and Care Data Set | Leave a comment

Engaging with BME Communities (NHS Confederation / BME Leadership Forum)

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The principles of the NHS entail promoting equality and diversity as central to the delivery of high quality services. This report from the NHS Confederation’s BME Leadership Forum presents examples of service providers and commissioners which have developed innovative … Continue reading →

Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Mental Health Network (NHS Confederation), National, NHS, NHS Confederation, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK | Tagged Access for All, Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework (ASCOF), Afiya Trust, African Women Days, BAME Experiences, Better Health Briefings, Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Leadership Forum, Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME), BME Communities, BME Leadership Forum, BME Older Person’s Carers Network, BME: Black and Minority Ethnic, C-TIE Tool, Co-operative Community Action, Commissioning Cycle, Commissioning Outcomes Framework, Community Engagement, Cultural Leadership, Culture, Delivering Race Equality, Dementia Champions, Diversity, EEiC Project, Empowerment, Engagement, Engaging BME Communities, Equality, Equality and Diversity, Ethnic Inequalities, Evidence and Ethnicity in Commissioning (EEiC) Project, Grassroots Working, Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs), Health Equality Library Portal (NHS North West), Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities in England, Inequalities in Health Outcomes, Interpreters (Translation), Language Barriers, Language Support, Leadership, Liverpool, Liverpool Primary Care Trust, Marmot Review, Mary Seacole Awards, Mental Health Network (MHN), Minority Ethnic Groups (UK), Missed Opportunities in the Commissioning Cycle, Mothertongue, Multi-Ethnic Groups, National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (NAVCA), NHS Confederation's BME Leadership Forum, NHS Culture, NHS Devon and South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, NHS Employers' Equality and Diversity Strategic Forum, NHS Merseyside, NHS Outcomes Framework, NIHR CLAHRC for South Yorkshire, Partnership Working, Patient and Public Engagement (PPE), PPE: Patient and Public Engagement, Princes Park Model in Liverpool, Project SEARCH (Diversity), Public Health Outcomes Framework, Race Equality, Race Equality Foundation, Race Equality in Mental Health, Restraint for Psychiatric Patients (RESPECT), Seldom Heard Groups, Services and Support for BAME Communities, Sheffield, Sheffield African Caribbean Mental Health Association (SACMHA), Sheffield Care Trust, Sheffield City Council, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust (SHSCT), South Asian Community, South Devon, Strategic Planning, Strategy for Crisis Intervention and Prevention (SCIP), Sub-Cultures, Torbay, Tower Hamlets Health Equity Project, University of Leeds, University of Sheffield, VCF Organisations, Voice4Change England, Voluntary and Community Organisations (VCOs, Voluntary Community and Faith (VCF), Yemeni Health Days | Leave a comment

Shared Commitment Between NHS and Local Government Leaders to Integrate Care (BBC News)

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Figures from Age UK, based on analysis of government statistics, show that elderly hospital patients face increasing delays for social care help before they can be discharged. Hospital patients awaiting discharge typically wait for more than 30 days on average … Continue reading →

Posted in Age UK, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Avoidable Admissions, BBC Health News, Care Integration, Care Planning, Community Care Assessments, Continuity of Care, Delayed Transfers of Care, Department of Health, Discharge Planning, Discharge Support, Health and Social Care Integration, Hospital Discharge, Integrated Care Pathway, Integrated Commissioning, Integrated Discharge Process, Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integrated Teams, Integration, Integration of Health and Social Care, LGA: Local Government Association, Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb: Former Health Minister in Coalition Government, Local Government Association, Mind the Gap, Patient Discharge, Personalised Care Planning, Post-Discharge Support, Preventable Hospital Admissions, Service Continuity, Service Integration, Social Care Assessments, Torbay, Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust, Torbay Care Trust, Torbay Dementia Leadership Group | Leave a comment

Integrated Care: Making Happen at Scale and Pace (King’s Fund)

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The authors of this King’s Fund paper on integrated care summarise sixteen steps required to enable integrated care become a reality. This document cautions that there is no universal solution or approach to integrated care, and that there is … Continue reading →

Posted in Commissioning, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, King's Fund, National, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Barriers to Integration, Clinically Integrated Systems, Coordinated Care, Direct Payments, Empowerment, Health and Social Care Act (2012), Health Care Reform, Health Reform, ICP: Integrated Care Pilots, Innovation, Innovative Commissioning, Innovative Leadership, Integrated Care Pathway, Integrated Care Pilots (ICP), Integrated Home and Community Care Services, Integration, Integration of Health and Social Care, Leadership, Local Partnerships, National Outcomes Frameworks Principles and Domains, NHS Future Forum, NHS Health and Social Care Act (2012), NHS Leadership, NHS Reform, Partnership, Partnership and Collaboration, Partnership Working, Principles of Integration, Public Health Reform, Public Service Reform, Reform, Service Integration, Shared Narratives and Vision, Social Care Reform, System Performance, Team Working, Torbay, Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust, Whole Place Community Budget Pilots | Leave a comment

Angela Rippon’s Video on Progress from the Dementia Friendly Communities Champion Group (Department of Health, Dementia Challenge)

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Angela Rippon (Co Chair of the Dementia Friendly Communities Champion Group) presents her video update on: Recent developments from the Dementia Friendly Communities Champion Group, made since the launch of the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia. How businesses are improving their services, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Community Care, Department of Health, Diagnosis, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Local Interest, Management of Condition, National, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest, Wolverhampton | Tagged Alan Woodhouse MBE (Samaritans Volunteer), Angela Rippon, Angela Rippon CBE, Anne Jolly: Founder of Sudden Adult Death Trust UK, Association of Chief Police Officers, Awareness, Awareness Raising, Bracknell Forest, Bradford, Centre for Ageing and Mental Health: Stafordshire University, Challenge on Dementia (David Cameron), Crawley, David Behan: Chief Executive of Care Quality Commission, Dementia Action Alliance (DAA), Dementia Awareness App (FRS), Dementia Friendly Communities Champion Group, Dementia Friendly Protocol (Banks), Dementia Friends, Dementia-Friendly Care Homes, Dementia-Friendly Cities, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Environmental Design, Dementia-Friendly Homes, Dementia-Friendly Hospitals, Dementia-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia-Friendly Rural Parishes, Dementia-Friendly Towns, Dementia-Friendly Villages, Dementia-Friendly Wards, Dementia-Friendly York, Dignity, Dignity in Dementia, Direct Marketing Association, Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (Public Transport), Emergency Services, Energy Health Check, Energy Providers, Falmouth, Financial Institutions: Dementia Friendly Protocol, Fire and Rescue Services, Fire and Rescue Services: Dementia Pledge, Hampshire, Independence, Independent Living, Jane Gray: Consultant Nurse, Leeds, Leicestershire, Leisure, Lincoln, Liverpool, Northamptonshire, Nottingham, Oxfordshire, Plymouth, Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia, Prof Elizabeth Anionwu: Professor of Nursing at University of West London, Recognise Understand Respond, Retail, Salford, Sarah Brennan: Chief Executive of Young Minds, Schoolchildren, Schools: Pioneer Group, September 21st: World Alzheimer's Day, Sheffield, Shop Staff, Shopping, Staffordshire FRS, Stafordshire University, Staying Independent, Stigma, Sue Baker: Director of Time to Change, Supermarkets, Tavistock, Telecommunications, Tesco DVD, Thurrock, Torbay, Transport, Wakefield, Wokingham, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton: Dementia Friendly City, World Alzheimer's Day, York | Leave a comment

Health and Social Care Act 2012 Explained (Department of Health)

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary This series of Department of Health factsheets on the Health and Social Care Act 2012 explains the topics and themes covered in the Act. The factsheets include case studies and try to answer frequently asked questions (FAQs). They fall into three … Continue reading →

Posted in Department of Health, Integrated Care, National, NHS, UK, Universal Interest | Tagged Accountability, Atrial Fibrillation (AF) Screening, CCGs: Clinical Commissioning Groups, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Clinical Integration, Clinically-Led Commissioning, Engagement, Engaging Patients, Executive Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB), Health and Social Care Act (2012), Health Research Authority, Health Research Authority (HRA), Healthwatch England, Medicines Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), NHS Commissioning Board Authority, NHS Commissioning Board Authority (NHSCBA), NHS Health and Social Care Act (2012), Pacesetters Programme Community Engagement Guide, Patient Feedback, Public Health England (PHE), Special Health Authority, Special Health Authority (SpHA), Support Workers, Test Valley Community Services (TVCS), Torbay, TVCS Ltd, Voluntary Registration, Walsall Integrated Learning Disabilities Service | Leave a comment

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