All Older people’s services articles – Page 26
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HSJ Local
Dorset County to tackle community pressure ulcers
PERFORMANCE: Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust is setting up a team to support community hospitals in managing patients at risk of pressure ulcers.
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CommentFrancis and funding: an explanation for ‘failing’ hospitals
Excess mortality is rooted in funding
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HSJ KnowledgeThinking innovatively about long-term care
Why we need to kickstart a radical rethink of the model
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HSJ Local
Portsmouth trust launches investigation into five hour trolley wait
PERFORMANCE: Portsmouth Hospitals Trust has launched an investigation after a 90-year-old dementia patient was left for nearly five hours on a trolley in a corridor awaiting treatment.
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CommentWe should all join Burnham's debate on integrated care
Key decisions on fusing health and social care cannot wait
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to spot future patients
A risk stratification tool is helping GPs to identify where early intervention would benefit patients
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HSJ KnowledgeMeeting the needs of vulnerable adults
Peer review can help ensure good care for people with dementia
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NewsAnalysed: Sheffield’s Right First Time reforms of urgent care
This weeks HSJ Local Briefing examines the work by NHS organisations and the city council in Sheffield on a programme to reform services, particularly use of urgent care for older people and those with long-term conditions
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Comment
Readers' letters - 31 January 2013
This week’s letters include NHS Property Services chief Simon Holden responding to HSJ’s story about the company charging CCGs and a counter to Sir David Nicholson’s view that hospitals “very bad places” for older people’s care
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Comment
Readers' letters − 24 January 2013
This week’s letters include a call for a change in attitudes to mental health and responses to HSJ’s exclusive interview with Sir David Nicholson, as well as making the case for the use of nutritional supplements in care homes
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NewsNicholson: 'more' community focused care required
Care for older people needs a fundamental shift towards caring for them in the community rather than hospitals that are “very bad places”, the chief executive of the NHS Commissioning Board has said.
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HSJ KnowledgeHow to assess your human capital initiative
Finding the best evaluation approach to show value for money
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HSJ KnowledgeGood nutrition can replace costly supplements in care homes
How Food First is fighting malnutrition
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NewsProviders to roll out integrated care across Kent
Integrated health and social care teams are expected to in place across Kent by April, as part of an ambitious county-wide plan to better coordinate services for patients with long-term conditions.
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HSJ LocalAnalysed: the integration of health and social care in Kent
This week’s HSJ Local Briefing looks at the Kent and Medway health economy, which is in the process of integrating its community health and social care services.
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NewsOlder people 'betrayed over social care'
Older people have suffered “an abominable betrayal” over social care, a leading public health doctor has said.
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HSJ KnowledgeBest of 2012: long-term conditions
Long-term conditions is the subject of this selection of best practice content
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NewsSHAs told to share winter cash boost with councils
The NHS is to get £330m to spend on alleviating winter pressures and is being strongly encouraged to share it with local authorities, medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has announced.
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NewsAlarm at cancer treatment 'ageism'
Ageism in the NHS is stopping some older cancer patients getting the best treatments, a charity has warned.
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CommentWe must root out ageism in NHS cancer care
Bold steps now can improve cancer care in the long term