Understanding pressures in general practice

The Autumn Budget - The King's Fund

The Autumn Budget 2017: joint statement on health and social care 4 o ensure that any increase in the pay of NHS staff is fully funded, rather than being met from within the existing NHS funding

  Budget, The autumn budget, Autumn

Measuring quality on the therapeutic relationship

2 Measuring the therapeutic relationship 7 Patient satisfaction surveys 9 ... and why? What about your relationship with your practice nurse, counsellor, receptionist, health care assistant, alternative practitioner, and so ... the therapeutic relationship against the creeping menace of managed care

  Patients, Nurse, Relationship, Therapeutic, The therapeutic relationship

Managing quality in community health care services

monitoring quality, and serious failures in the quality of care in the acute hospital sector have further reinforced the focus on quality in recent years ( Department of Health 2008; National Advisory Group on the Safety of Patients in England 2013;

  Health, Services, Quality, Care, Community, Managing, Of health, Managing quality in community health care services

Exploring the system-wide costs of falls in older people ...

system-wide costs of falls in older people in Torbay Authors Yang Tian James Thompson David Buck Lara Sonola August 2013 Key messages n One in three people aged over 65, and half of those aged over 80, fall at ... Exploring the system-wide costs of falls in older people in Torbay

  Fall, System, Cost, People, Exploring, Wide, Older, Exploring the system wide costs of falls in older people, System wide costs of falls in older people

Case management: What it is and how it can best be ...

case management is the level of care targeted at those with the greatest risk of emergency admission. People at lower risk of admission can be targeted with disease management

  Management, Case, Case management

Long-term conditions Michael Parsonage and mental health

Introduction People with long-term physical health conditions – the most frequent users of health care services – commonly experience mental health problems such as depression and anxiety,

  Terms, Long

MAKING SHARED DECISION-MAKING A REALITY

MAKING SHARED DECISION-MAKING A REALITY No decision about me, without me Angela Coulter, Alf Collins

Transforming the delivery of health and social care: The ...

TRANSFORMING THE DELIVERY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE The case for fundamental change Chris Ham Anna Dixon Beatrice Brooke

  Health, Delivery, Transforming, Transforming the delivery of health

Managing acute illness - King's Fund

An Inquiry into the Quality of General Practice in England. Managing acute illness Roger Jones Wolfson Professor of General Practice ... identifying studies that examined approaches to evaluating quality measures for the management of acute illness. The literature in this area was relatively ... performance) or to have unintended consequences.

  Performance, Measure, Managing, England

Managing people with long-term conditions - King's Fund

managing long-term conditions across a population. Arthritis The current state of care quality to people with both osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis is difficult to determine given the lack of objective quality measures. However, the evidence suggests that care quality is currently highly variable and sub-optimal and could be significantly

  Measure, Managing

Promoting the health and well-being of looked-after children

Services have a responsibility to ensure there are systems in place so that this duty is properly discharged. 4. This must be done in accordance with the relevant Regulations. 6 These Regulations set out the requirements governing the development and review of a looked-after child’s care plan. That plan includes their health plan. 5.

  Health, System, Promoting, Promoting the health

Child Protection and the GP - hgs.uhb.nhs.uk

“The RCGP firmly believes that general practice occupies a central position in children and young people’s health, particularly in the diagnosis and management of illness and the promotion of health and wellbeing. We are concerned that unless the profession acts now to protect this important and trusted role, it will become eroded and

  General, Practices, General practice

The National Programme for IT in the NHS

systems, making the system time-consuming and eventually rendering casemix boxes obsolete (Brennan, 2005). The 1992 NHS Information Management and Technology (IM&T) strategy was the first truly nationwide NHS IT strategy, and identified five main principles for the use of information in the health service (Brennan, 2005): 1.

  System, Strategy

General Practice Forward View - NHS England

The General Practice Forward View represents a step change in the level of investment and support for general practice. It includes help for struggling practices, plans to reduce workload, expansion of a wider workforce, investment in technology and estates and a national development programme to accelerate transformation of services. NHS

  General, Practices, Forward, View, General practice forward view, General practice

Designing integrated care systems (ICSs) in England

systems (ICSs) in England An overview on the arrangements needed to build strong health and care systems across the country The NHS Long-Term Plan set the ambition that every part of the country should be an integrated care system by 2021. It encourages all organisations in each health and care system to join forces, so

  System, Care, Integrated, Integrated care, Integrated care systems

Facing the Facts, Shaping the Future

Draft workforce strategy 7 Vacancies So, we have more staff who are treating more people. Alongside this we have created many more additional clinical posts than we have been able to fill. Current total NHS vacancies for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals (AHPs) are almost 42,000 (9.4%), an

  Clinical, Strategy

Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment A Summary

in which multiple body systems gradually lose their inbuilt reserves. It is not an inevitable part of ageing; it is a long term condition in the same sense as diabetes or Alzheimer’s disease (BGS 2014). Clinically, older people who are frail have poor functional reserve, so

  Assessment, System, Summary, Comprehensive, Geriatric, Comprehensive geriatric assessment a summary

PATIENT-CENTRED CARE: IMPROVING QUALITY AND …

GP general practitioner ... clinical and operational data — when determining health service ... as an integral strategy for improving patient-centred care. Workforce surveys and review of staff recruitment and retention rates should be undertaken at regular intervals to monitor work

  General, Patients, Quality, Clinical, Care, Practitioner, Strategy, Improving, Centred, Patient centred care, Improving quality and, Gp general practitioner