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The End of Life Care in Advanced Dementia project
This 3 year project based in a 120-bedded Jewish Care nursing home offered extra training and support for care home staff looking after residents with advanced dementia. Read more »
Patients benefitting from GP led health services
Examples from around the country highlight that during the first year of emerging clinical commissioning groups redesigning services, patients are starting to experience improvements in quality of care. Read more »
Dignity counts when caring for older people
Older people feel that their health problems pose a challenge to their sense of independence, dignity and identity and sometimes the health care they are given makes things worse. According to research funded by UK Research Council’s New Dynamics of Ageing programme (NDA), healthcare providers must avoid taking a ‘blanket view’ of how to help older people cope with the ageing process. Read more »
Survey finds that over a quarter of physicians say continuity of care is poor in their hospital
A survey from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) found that over a quarter (28%) of consultant physicians surveyed rate their hospital’s ability to deliver continuity of care as poor or very poor. Read more »
Guide to commissioning for maximum value
The Social Return on Investment Network (SROI), in co-operation with the Local Government Association (LGA) have recently published a new ‘Guide to commissioning for maximum value’. Read more »
Most patients rate NHS care good or excellent
Patients continue to report improvements in aspects of care that matter most to them, and 84 per cent of patients rated their experience as excellent or very good, according to the results of the 2011 Patient Experience Outpatient Survey. Read more »
Research links online patient feedback and hospital performance
Independent research linking patient feedback left on the NHS Choices website and objective measures of hospital performance has been published by Imperial College London. Better-rated hospitals tend to have lower death rates and lower readmission rates. Hospitals rated as cleaner by patients have also been found to have lower MRSA rates. Read more »
Commissioning care homes: common safeguarding challenges
This guide, published by the Social Care Institute for Excellence, aims to identify the issues that commonly lead to safeguarding referrals from care homes. Read more »
Report raises questions over equality of access to end of life care community services
This is the latest publication of provisional post-operatives scores from the Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) programme for the period April 2011 to September 2011. Read more »
Personal health budgets and NHS Continuing Healthcare
The Department of Health has published a discussion paper which explores personal health budgets for people receiving NHS continuing healthcare. Read more »
Guidance on clinical commissioning group constitutions
This guidance published by the British Medical Association (BMA) highlights essential elements that should be included in a clinical commissioning group (CCG) constitution. Read more »
Public health outcomes framework sets out desired outcomes
The new public health outcomes framework, recently published by the Department of Health, sets out the desired outcomes for public health and how these will be measured. Read more »
Delivering sustainable cost improvement programmes
The Audit Commission and Monitor have jointly published a guide called ‘Delivering sustainable cost improvement programmes’ aimed at acute, ambulance, mental health and specialist NHS trusts and foundation trusts. It summarises how successful organisations approach the delivery of cost improvement programmes. Read more »
Roll-out of telehealth and telecare to benefit three million lives
Paul Burstow the minister for care services has reaffirmed his commitment to 3 million lives at a parliamentary reception event on 19 January 2012 which celebrated the work of the whole system demonstrator programme Read more »