All Older people’s services articles – Page 9
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Expert BriefingLintern's Risk Register: Is your hospital doing all it can for elderly patients?
Everything you need to stay up to date on patient safety and workforce, plus my take on the most important under the radar stories.
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CommentWhy DToCs need to be removed from the NHS lexicon
We need to stop talking about DToCs, and focus instead on how we help every patient get to the right setting of care for their needs. By Jo Andrews
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CommentSharp fall in elective admission rate
September’s admission rate was sharply down on recent years. However, waiting list management recovered, enabling a slight improvement in waiting times to 20.3 weeks. That’s still well above 18 weeks though, and the trend remains up.
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HSJ LocalCity's care system puts older people 'at significant risk'
The health and wellbeing of older people in Stoke-on-Trent is being put at “significant risk” by poor joint working between the council and clinical commissioning group, the Care Quality Commission has found.
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NewsExclusive: Airbnb style company bids to place NHS patients in spare rooms
Members of the public with no care experience are being offered up to £1,000 a month to rent spare rooms to patients after they are discharged from hospital, under an Airbnb style model to be piloted by the NHS.
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HSJ LocalExclusive: CCG resists Virgin Care demands for more money
Virgin Care has demanded more money for a controversial prime provider contract it signed with commissioners in Staffordshire last year, HSJ has learned.
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CommentAn uneven future: an ageing population needs innovation, but not at the expense of equal care
A new survey of clinical experts predicts technological advances, but will they benefit everyone in a population getting older but not healthier? Camilla d’Angelo considers the report’s findings
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NewsSimon Stevens: Cut DTOCs to prepare for possible flu outbreak
Freeing up delayed transfer of care beds will be vital to ensuring the NHS has enough capacity to manage winter pressures and a possible flu outbreak, Simon Stevens has warned.
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CommentCan't stay in hospital? Can't go home? Housing associations are bridging the gap
The NHS spends huge amounts treating patients who no longer need to be in hospital. But finally, housing services are beginning to tackle this growing problem. By Helen Rowbottom
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HSJ KnowledgeRoundtable: How to reduce hospital stays for older people
This HSJ event, run in association with Four Seasons Health Care, assembled an expert panel to discuss the reasons older people end up in hospital longer than they need to be – and considered possible solutions to this growing problem.
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NewsExclusive: Warning dementia care could 'slip back'
Dementia diagnosis and care could go backwards after being deprioritised by the NHS nationally, campaigners have warned, as new ratings show some areas slipping.
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CommentConsider care homes as partners – not problems
A study has found that when NHS commissioners view care homes as an important pillar of social care, access to healthcare services improves. By Claire Goodman
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News'Undeliverable' DTOC reduction targets revealed
More than a third of councils have been told to reduce delayed transfers of care from hospital attributable to social care by 50 per cent or more by September, raising the possibility they could lose better care fund money if they fail.
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NewsCare to help patients with breathing difficulties 'often poor'
Four out of five patients who need help to breathe in NHS hospitals receive less than good care, a major study published today has found.
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CommentTake the public health approach for housing an ageing population
It is important to ensure that much greater numbers take informed decisions about how they will live in their own home in later years of their lives, writes Francis Philippa.
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HSJ KnowledgeWatch now: webinar on how to reduce demand from frail older people
HSJ’s latest online event brings together experts to discuss a cost effective way in which commissioners could reduce demand from frail older people
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CommentYou're welcome: how John's Campaign is changing attitudes towards family carers
Senior NHS managers can play a crucial role in helping to ensure that obstacles do not prevent the loved ones of people with dementia being with them in hospital, as Julia Jones explains
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NewsHSJ Value in Healthcare Awards 2017: Improving Value in the Care of Frail Older Patients
Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust: Bradford Virtual Ward
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HSJ LocalInadequate CCG 'disintegrates' joint commissioning with council
Deloitte review finds “lack of strategy” and “joined up commissioning” between Walsall CCG and local authority CCG, which is under legal directions, “disintegrates” joint commissioning unit with council as result of review CCG’s interests “not always met” by joint commissioning arrangement A West Midlands clinical commissioning group, currently ...
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NewsExclusive: Vanguard project cuts A&E admissions of over 65s
A Nottinghamshire MCP vanguard has had 23 per cent fewer emergency admissions for care home residents, new analysis has revealed Health Foundation report shows lower A&E attendances and admissions of residents in the Principia MCP but no link to lower elective admissions or outpatient attendances NHS England and the ...