This quality standard covers interventions to maintain and improve the mental wellbeing and independence of people aged 65 or older, and how to identify those at risk of a decline. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement. It does not cover the mental wellbeing and independence of people who live in a care home or attend one on a day-only basis.
This quality standard covers all young people (aged up to 25) using children’s health and social care services who are due to make the transition to adults’ services. It includes young people:
with mental health problems
with disabilities
with long-term, life-limiting or complex needs
in secure settings
under the care of local authorities.
Vulnerable older people should be offered befriending programmes or exercise classes to prevent loneliness.
In a new quality standard NICE urges councils, housing organisations and the voluntary sector to work together to identify vulnerable older people.
Those most at risk should be directed to dancing or swimming clubs; arts groups or singing programmes or helping with reading in schools; as well as volunteering and befriending programmes
Families with dying children must be put at the heart of care, new guidance from NICE (The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) says.
We advise people working in health and social care to make sure mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, get the practical and emotional support they need to care for a family member at the end of life.
The Chief Inspector of Hospitals has rated South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust as Good overall after the latest focused inspection by the Care Quality Commission.
A team of inspectors, including specialist advisors and experts by experience had visited the trust during March 2016 as part of its programme of inspections of all NHS mental health trusts, rating the trust as Requires Improvement overall. However, after a subsequent inspection during September 2016 inspectors found significant improvements.
The trust is now rated Good for being effective, caring, responsive and well-led. It is rated Requires Improvement for being safe.
The Care Quality Commission has told West London Mental Health NHS Trust that it must make significant improvements in the care of patients at Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire.
CQC has issued a Warning Notice requiring the trust to improve care at the high security psychiatric hospital.
Inspectors visited Broadmoor in November 2016 to check the trust’s progress in meeting requirements that had been identified on a previous inspection. On the latest inspection, CQC found that the trust still did not have enough suitably qualified staff deployed to meet the needs of patients.
The proposals, published today (Tuesday 20 December), describe how CQC intends to develop its ‘next phase’ of regulation for all health and adult social care services, with a particular focus at this stage to the way it will monitor, inspect, rate and report on NHS trusts and adapt its approach in response to emerging new care models. CQC plans to work with changing care models as they develop, and ensure close alignment with other regulators to minimise unnecessary burden for providers.
In response to the data, Dr Paul Lelliott, deputy chief inspector of hospitals (lead for mental health), said:
“It is concerning to see that more people are being detained under the Mental Health Act than in previous years, when there is a national commitment to reduce this number.
Our review of the way NHS trusts review and investigate deaths has found that opportunities to learn from patient deaths are being missed – and too many families are not being included or listened to when an investigation takes place.
As part of the consultation for our next phase of regulation, we are seeking views on draft updated guidance for providers registering to care for people with learning disabilities.
Following on from our Registering the Right Support document published in February 2016, the revised draft guidance clarifies the expectation on providers to ensure their care homes or supported living services are focussed on person-centred care and developed in-line with national policy.
A year after a review commissioned by NHS England uncovered failings at Southern Health Foundation Trust, we look at how acute, community and mental health trusts across the country investigate and learn from deaths of people who have been in their care.
IHealth Education England (HEE) has worked with Public Concern at Work and the National Guardian Office to develop a package of online learning resources that aim to encourage and support NHS staff to raise and respond to concerns.
Available on HEE’s e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH) website, two e-learning sessions promote relevant policies, procedures, best practice and available support in relation to raising and responding to concerns.
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CQC calls for action to end missed opportunities to learn from patient deaths
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13 December 2016
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A national review by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found that the NHS is missing opportunities to learn from patient deaths and that too many families are not being included or listened to when an investigation happens.
A national review by the Care Quality Commission published today has found that the NHS is missing opportunities to learn from patient deaths and that too many families are not being included or listened to when an investigation happens.
In his latest blog, AQuA Chief Executive David Fillingham shares his thoughts on adapting Lean thinking within health and social care, and how this can be supported through improving Whole System Flow.
NHS investigations and reporting of deaths (leading on from Southern Health issues). You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please be clear which article you are requesting.
It is now 15 years since Bell and Redelmeier published their landmark study demonstrating higher mortality for people admitted to hospital during weekends compared with during the week.1 Examining the records of 3.8 million patients admitted over a 10-year period to emergency departments in Ontario, Canada, this ‘weekend effect’ existed over a range of acute conditions, including 23 out of the 100 leading causes of death.
Since that paper in 2001, over 100 studies have explored the weekend effect, across a range of patient populations and health systems.2 Surprisingly, despite this large number of studies, there remains ongoing debate about whether the weekend effect exists, and if so, what causes it. For example, one recent and highly influential study found higher rates of in-hospital death following admission on Saturday or Sunday compared with Wednesday admissions (HR 1.10 for Saturday and 1.15 for Sunday).3 To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.