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Tag Archives: World Health Organisation (WHO)
Financial Sustainability in the NHS: Holding Up a Mirror? Reflection (BBC News / NHS Improvement / NHS England / BMJ / OECD / BJS)
Summary The authors of the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) report believe that the NHS may not actually need further money from the taxpayer, asserting that efficiency savings identified (in the field of general surgery alone, and without looking … 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, International, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, World Health Organization (WHO)
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Tagged American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP), Anatomy of the Model Hospital, £22 Billion Efficiency Savings by 2020-21, BBC Health News, Bedford Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSK) Referral Management Centre, Bedford Referral Management Centre (RMC), Better Together Vanguard, Birmingham and Solihull United Maternity and Newborn Pathway (BUMP) Early Adopter, BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, British Journal of Surgery, British Medical Journal (BMJ), BUMP: Birmingham and Solihull United Maternity and Newborn Pathway, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Closing the Finance and Efficiency Gap, Closing the Funding and Efficiency Gap, Consumer Experiences of Health and Social Care, Continuous Learning Culture, Cumbria CCG’s Pain Management Service, Delayed Transfers of Care (DTOC), Diabetes and Obesity, Durham and Darlington Children’s and Young Person’s Mental Health Services Crisis and Liaison team (CYPMHS), Duty of Best Value, East and North Hertfordshire CCG Vanguard, Economic Sustainability, Efficiency and Effectiveness, Efficiency Frontiers, Efficiency Opportunities, Efficiency Savings, End-User Experience, Enhanced Health in Care Homes, Estates and Technology Transformation Fund, Exemplar Clinical Pathways, Failing Services (NHS and Social Care), Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Issues, Financial Management, Financial Performance, Financial Planning, Financial Pressure in the NHS, Financial Pressures, Financial Resilience, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, Financial Sustainability of NHS Bodies, Financing of Health Care, Future Financial Sustainability, Future of NHS and Social Care, Fylde Coast Local Health Economy, General Surgery: GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report (August 2017), Geographical Variations, Getting it Right First Time, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT), GIRFT and Other Improvement Initiatives, GIRFT Programme, GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report (August 2017), Global Health and Development Group: Imperial College London, Governance-Related Waste: Abuse, Governance-Related Waste: Administration Costs, Governance-Related Waste: Corruption, Governance-Related Waste: Fraud, Governance-Related Waste: Integrity Violations, Governance-Related Waste: Managerial Self-Interest, Governance-Related Waste: Managerial Spin and Self-Deception, Governance-Related Waste: Self-Regulation vs. Integrity Violations, Health and Social Care, Health and Social Care Costs, Health and Social Care Integration, Health and Social Care Services, Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), Healthy New Towns, Imperial College London, Improvement Initiatives, Inappropriate Use of Antimicrobials, Institute of Global Health Innovation: Imperial College London, Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC), Integrated Personal Commissioning (IPC) Programme, John Abercrombie: GIRFT Clinical Lead for General Surgery, Learning Culture, Learning from Data, Learning From Peers, Length of Stay (LoS), Local Health Services: Variations, Local Variations, Low-Value General Surgical Procedures, Mental Health and Dementia, Model Hospital: Template for Standardisation, National Innovation Accelerator, NHS and Social Care Spending, NHS Efficiency Challenge, NHS Efficiency Savings, NHS England (Formerly the NHS Commissioning Board), NHS England Annual Report and Accounts (2016/17), NHS Funding, NHS Funding Gap, NHS North Kirklees CCG, NHS Providers, NHS Stockport CCG, NHS Sustainability, NHS Waltham Forest CCG, NHSI: NHS Improvement, North East London Choice and Personalisation Pioneer, Operational Productivity and Performance (Carter Report), Operational Waste: Hospital Care, Operational Waste: Pharmaceuticals, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment, Overtreatment (Speculative Concept), Patient Experiences, Patients Waiting More Than Four Hours For Hospital Beds (Trolley Waits), Paul Baumann: Chief Financial Officer at NHS England, Personalised Medicine, Potential NHS Provider Productivity improvements, PPIB: Purchasing Price Index Benchmark and Benchmark Tool, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Productivity, Professor Sir Malcolm Grant, Professor Tim Briggs: GIRFT Programme Chair, Professor Tim Briggs: National Director for Clinical Quality and Efficiency at NHS Improvement, Public Opinion, pwc, Quality and Sustainability, Reducing Delayed Transfers of Care, Reducing Waste in the NHS, Renal e-clinics in Tower Hamlets, Right First Time, Road to Recovery: Delivering Financial Sustainability in NHS (PwC), Royal College of Surgeons (RCS), Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSENG), Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust, Science and Innovation, Simon Stevens: Chief Executive of NHS England, Sir Malcolm Grant: Chair of NHS England, Sustainability, Sustainable Care, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, 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Significant Changes at the World Dementia Council? (WDC)
Summary There has been reform within the World Dementia Council (WDC). The changes are intended to make this body “more representative” in global terms (if such were possible) and fully independent. The Council now includes a wider range of international … Continue reading →
Posted in Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI), Alzheimer’s Research UK, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Department of Health, Diagnosis, For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest, World Health Organization (WHO)
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Tagged Abuse of Vulnerable Adults, Academia-Industry Partnerships, Academic Research, Alternatives to Antipsychotic Drugs, Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer’s Disease: Risk Factors, Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK), Argentina, ARUK: Alzheimer’s Research UK, Assistive Technology, Associate Members (WDC), Awareness, Awareness Raising, Behavioural Risk Factors, Big Data, Big Data Partnership, Big Pharma, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Biopharmaceutical Companies, Biotechnology, Challenge on Dementia (David Cameron), Charitable Funding, Clinical Trial Efficiencies, Collaboration, Collaborative Projects, Cross-Sector Partnerships, Data Sharing, Dementia Challenge, Dementia Consortium, Dementia Discovery Fund, Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF), Dementia Friends, Dementia Research, Dementia Research Funding, Dementia Research Priorities, Dementia Research: UK Impact, Dementia Risk Factors, Dementia Risk Prevention, Dementia Risk Reduction, Dementia Risk Reduction and Prevention, Dennis Gillings: Former World Dementia Envoy, Department of Health Dementia Challenge, Department of Health’s Integrated Development Initiative, Digital Technology, Disease Modifying Treatment by 2025 (Aim), Disease-Modifying Therapies, Disease-Modifying Therapies for Dementia, Dr Yves Joanette: Scientific Director of Canadian Institute of Health Research (Institute of Aging), Emerging Technology, Enabling Technology, Future Long-Term Care Costs, GAAD: Global Action Against Dementia, Global Action Against Dementia, Global Action Against Dementia (GAAD), Global Outlook, Global Social Investment for Dementia, Government Research Funding, Hilary Doxford: World Dementia Council Member, Indonesia, Information Technology, Innovative Technology, International Collaborations, International Dementia Research Inventories, International Programmes, Interventions for Social Isolation and Loneliness in Men, Investment in Technology, Join Dementia Research, Leveraging Big Data, Lifestyle Risk Factors, Loneliness and Social Isolation, Modifiable Risk Factors, National Institute of Ageing (NIA), Neurodegeneration, Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Neurodegenerative Disorders, Neurological Research, Nigeria, Open Data and Big Data, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Partnership and Collaboration, Partnership Working, Philanthropic Funding, Pipeline Databases, Prevention, Prevention of Dementia, Prime Minister’s Challenge On Dementia 2020, Raj Long: Senior Regulatory Officer for Integrated Development in Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Raj Long: Vice Chair of World Dementia Council, Reducing Antipsychotic Prescriptions in Dementia, Reducing Inappropriate Use of Antipsychotics in Dementia, Reducing Stigma, Regulatory Agencies, Regulatory Experts, Research and Development, Research and Innovation, Research Commitment, Research Funding, Resource and Incentives, Restraint and Restrictions, Restraint in Health and Adult Social Care, Risk Factors, Risk Reduction, Risk Reduction (Formerly Termed Prevention by WDC), Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Social Isolation, Stigma, Taiwan, Treatment and Prevention of Dementia, US National Institute on Aging, WDC: World Dementia Council, World Dementia Council, World Health Organisation (WHO), Yves Joanette: Chair of World Dementia Council
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Government Commitment to the Global Action Against Dementia (WDC / Department of Health)
Summary The Department of Health has responded to Raj Long’s Finding a path for a cure for dementia: an independent report into an integrated approach to dementia drug development report, with a Strategy Report and an open letter. There is … Continue reading →
Posted in Alzheimer's Society, Alzheimer’s Research UK, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, International, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest, World Health Organization (WHO)
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Challenges in Developing Disease-Modifying Treatments for Dementia (Department of Health)
Summary Raj Long, the Senior Regulatory Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, explores the problems in developing treatments for dementia. The independent “Finding a Path for the Cure for Dementia” report is a contribution to the G8 Dementia … Continue reading →
Posted in Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, International, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, Patient Care Pathway, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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New World Dementia Council Website (WDC)
Summary An announcement has been released from the pre-existing World Dementia Council (WDC) site that a fresh World Dementia Council website (on the WordPress platform) has been launched. The older site will no longer be updated. The benefits of this … Continue reading →
Posted in Commissioning, Department of Health, Diagnosis, In the News, Integrated Care, International, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Chief Medical Officer: Professor Dame Sally Davies, Daisy Acosta: World Dementia Council Member, Dementia Awareness, Dennis Gillings: Former World Dementia Envoy, Dr Kiyoshi Kurokawa: Professor of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies and Science Advisor to the Cabinet of Japan, Dr Yves Joanette: Scientific Director of Canadian Institute of Health Research (Institute of Aging), Franz Humer: Chairman of Diageo plc, G7 Global Dementia Summit, G8 Dementia Summit, George Vradenburg: President and Chairman of the Vradenburg Foundation and US Against Alzheimer’s, Global Alzheimer’s and Dementia Action Alliance (GADAA), Global Envoy for Dementia Innovation, Global Leadership, Global Outlook, Global Social Investment for Dementia, Harry Johns: World Dementia Council Member, Hilary Doxford: Vice Chairperson of Alzheimer’s Europe, Hilary Doxford: World Dementia Council Member, International Collaborations, International Dementia Research Inventories, International Programmes, Joël Ménard: Professor of Public Health Faculty of Medicine Paris-Descartes, Joel Menard: World Dementia Council Member, Living Well with Dementia, Living Well with Dementia Research, Martin Knapp: London School of Economics, Meera Pattabiraman: Chairperson of Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders Society of India, Meera Pattabiraman: World Dementia Council Member, Open Science and Data, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Partnership and Collaboration, Partnership Working, Paul Stoffels: Worldwide Chairman of Johnson & Johnson, Philippe Amouyel: World Dementia Council Member, Professor Dame Sally Davies, Professor Philippe Amouyel: General Director of Fondation Plan Alzheimer, Professor Pierluigi Nicotera: Scientific Director and Chairman of the Executive Board at the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Professor Ronald Petersen: Mayo Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Raj Long: Senior Regulatory Officer for Integrated Development in Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Research and Innovation, Resource and Incentives, Risk Factors, Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Diseease, Risk Reduction (Formerly Termed Prevention by WDC), Sir William Castell: Chairman of the Wellcome Trust, Tim Evans: Director for Health Nutrition and Population at the World Bank, WDC: World Dementia Council, World Dementia Council, World Dementia Council Members, World Health Organisation (WHO), World Health Organization (WHO)
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Announcements From WHO’s First Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia Conference (Dementia Challenge / Department of Health / World Dementia Council / WHO / GAAD)
Summary Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a $100 million Dementia Discovery Fund at the World Health Organisation’s First Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia Conference. The Dementia Discovery Fund will be used to finance dementia research with the … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Diagnosis, 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, International, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NIHR, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, World Health Organization (WHO)
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Global Action Against Dementia and World Dementia Council: Progress Reports (Dementia Challenge / Department of Health / World Dementia Council / GAAD)
Summary Coinciding, roughly, with the First Global Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia, which is currently hosted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva between March 16th – 17th 2015, the World Dementia Council (WDC) has released a … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Diagnosis, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, International, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest, World Health Organization (WHO)
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Tagged First Global Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia, First WHO Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia, G8 Dementia Summit, G8 Dementia Summit: Global Action Against Dementia, Global Action Against Dementia, Global Action Against Dementia (GAAD), WDC: World Dementia Council, World Dementia Council, World Dementia Council’s Annual Report 2014/15, World Dementia Council’s Year-On Report 2014/15, World Health Organisation (WHO), World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Europe
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Emerging Leaders In Dementia: Communiqué for the First WHO Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia (World Dementia Council)
Summary A group of “young leaders in dementia” will take part in the First Global Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia, which is to be hosted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva on March 16th – 17th … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Assistive Technology, Charitable Bodies, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, Diagnosis, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, International, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Pharmacological Treatments, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, World Health Organization (WHO)
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Global Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia (WHO / Department of Health / Dementia Challenge)
Summary The World Health Organisation (WHO) will stage the First Global Ministerial Conference on Global Action Against Dementia on March 16th – 17th 2015, in Geneva. This event will engage a larger number of countries in the international focus on … Continue reading →
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Dementia Care, Patient Experience and Risk Reduction Are Priorities for World Dementia Council (Department of Health / Dementia Challenge / WDC)
Summary It has been agreed at the World Dementia Council‘s third meeting in London (held at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on Friday October 17th 2014) that dementia care (i.e. health and social care) and risk reduction should be added … Continue reading →
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