We heard that the UK government is seeking to improve the working systems between primary care and Accident and Emergency teams in England to help reduce pressure on services and cut waiting times for patients.
So we thought you might like to hear about our experiment that has been coproduced between patients, primary care staff, ambulance staff and emergency room (ER) staff in Jönköping County Region. Our scheme is the first of its kind in Sweden.
The care home residents in Rushcliffe receive an ‘enhanced’ care package as part of the Principia Partners in Health multispecialty community provider vanguard, which includes regular visits from a named GP and independent support from Age UK Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. Greater support for care home managers and community nurses is also provided, for example through a peer-to-peer network.
Public Accounts Committee publish report on integration of health and social care
Committee describe Better Care Fund as a “ruse” and say that it has made no progress in reducing emergency admissions or delayed transfers of care
We say long term solution to social care funding must bring together NHS trusts and local authorities
Housing providers are helping the NHS save money by helping people out of hospital into homes faster with the right care and support, a new National Housing Federation report has found.
With over 30% of their residents living with a disability or aged 60 or over, and given the predicted surge in this demographic, housing associations have stepped in to ensure patients are not stuck in hospital longer than necessary.
The Primary Care Home (PCH) programme is delivering a range of benefits for patients, staff and the wider health system, according to a new report released today (Friday 31 March).
n our new report – Some assembly required: implementing new models of care – we set out ten lessons for local leaders seeking to systematically make changes across services in their area. These are based on first-hand accounts of clinicians and managers from NHS England’s new care models programme vanguard sites, who have developed and tested new ways of joining up health and social care services.
As of April 1 2017, Lancashire Care will work in partnership with Blackburn with Darwen Council and other voluntary sector providers to deliver the new, fully integrated, Healthy Child Programme.
Following a competitive tendering process, the new programme will build on previous achievements in the borough by bringing together health visiting, school nursing, specialist infant feeding and other third sector services to provide a consolidated public health service for children aged 0-19 years.
The CCG launched reviews of some of the services it commissions in February to ensure that everybody in Shropshire has access to healthcare that is safe, high-quality and affordable for the future. [Includes community services review]
This report looks at the most promising reform solutions that have been correctly identified by STPs, and also sets out the range of challenges that stand in the way of them realising their vision for improved health and efficiency.
Meet Healthwatch Harriet.
The tenacious 10-year-old has turned her sights on the NHS England new care models programme. In her new video, she meets new care models programme director Louise Watson, chair of Tower Hamlets CCG Sir Sam Everington, and Hertfordshire County Council’s director of health and community services Iain MacBeath and asks them: “What on earth is a vanguard?”
A recent Lancet paper gives an interesting perspective. Researchers looked at elements of dependency including continence, cognition and self-reported activities of daily living in two cohorts of people aged over 65 – one cohort recruited in 1991 and the other in 2011.
The bottom line finding from this research is that the men and women studied in 2011 were living, on average, an additional 2.4 and 3 years respectively with substantial care needs. Even with a radical shift towards healthy active ageing, it’s unlikely that a hypothetical 2031 cohort would show anything but an increase in the total number of older people living with dependency.
Health care leaders across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent’s clinical commissioning groups have announced the appointment of Marcus Warnes as their single joint Accountable Officer.
This Housing LIN Case Study no 135 discusses this ‘invest to save’ project which brings together County and District Councils and other local partners in Leicestershire to help people stay safe and keep well in their homes for as long as possible.