Mental health liaison in Bristol
The mental health liaison team works in wards where there is a high proportion of people with mild cognitive impariment or dementia. The team offers rapid specialist mental health assessment and...
View ArticleNorthallerton general hospital mental health team
Northallerton has developed a specialist liaison team. The team is a nurse-led multi-disciplinary group who work in general hospitals in the same way as the community mental health teams work within...
View ArticleBath Hospital dementia ward charter mark
The Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust dementia strategy working group has developed a dementia ward charter mark to improve the quality of care for people with dementia. Ward staff are encouraged to...
View ArticleDementia ward champion
The dementia ward champion role has been developed at Musgrove Park Hospital, part of Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. The role definition and training requirements are described below and...
View ArticleHealthcare at Home: Understanding out of hospital dementia care report 2011
Healthcare at Home Ltd published a report: Understanding out of hospital dementia care report 2011 suggesting that a home-based care pathway would improve outcomes for many patients with dementia...
View ArticleData on the accident and emergency clinical quality indicators
This is the fifth publication of data on the accident and emergency (A&E) clinical quality indicators, drawn from A&E data within provisional hospital episode statistics. The data relate to...
View ArticleEmergency bed use: what the numbers tell us
This King’s Fund briefing examines whether reducing the use of hospital beds for emergency admissions could help the NHS as it needs to find £20 billion in productivity improvements by 2015 to avoid...
View ArticleExtra money to help people leaving hospital
A one-off additional £150m will be allocated to Primary Care Trusts in England, for immediate transfer to local authorities for investment in social care services which also benefit the health system....
View ArticleIntroducing the national dementia CQUIN
In this blog Alistair introduces the National Commissioning for quality and innovation (CQUIN) plan. The CQUIN will be introduced in April with the aim of improving some areas of dementia care in...
View ArticleEnhancing the Healing Environment for people with dementia
In recent years the Department of Health has funded a number of Kings Fund projects on improving the physical environment for people with dementia in hospitals and other acute settings. Building on...
View ArticleMental health liaison in Bristol
The mental health liaison team works in wards where there is a high proportion of people with mild cognitive impariment or dementia. The team offers rapid specialist mental health assessment and...
View ArticleNorthallerton general hospital mental health team
Northallerton has developed a specialist liaison team. The team is a nurse-led multi-disciplinary group who work in general hospitals in the same way as the community mental health teams work within...
View ArticleBath Hospital dementia ward charter mark
The Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust dementia strategy working group has developed a dementia ward charter mark to improve the quality of care for people with dementia. Ward staff are encouraged to...
View ArticleDementia ward champion
The dementia ward champion role has been developed at Musgrove Park Hospital, part of Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. The role definition and training requirements are described below and...
View ArticleHealthcare at Home: Understanding out of hospital dementia care report 2011
Healthcare at Home Ltd published a report: Understanding out of hospital dementia care report 2011 suggesting that a home-based care pathway would improve outcomes for many patients with dementia...
View ArticleData on the accident and emergency clinical quality indicators
This is the fifth publication of data on the accident and emergency (A&E) clinical quality indicators, drawn from A&E data within provisional hospital episode statistics. The data relate to...
View ArticleEmergency bed use: what the numbers tell us
This King’s Fund briefing examines whether reducing the use of hospital beds for emergency admissions could help the NHS as it needs to find £20 billion in productivity improvements by 2015 to avoid...
View ArticleExtra money to help people leaving hospital
A one-off additional £150m will be allocated to Primary Care Trusts in England, for immediate transfer to local authorities for investment in social care services which also benefit the health system....
View ArticleIntroducing the national dementia CQUIN
In this blog Alistair introduces the National Commissioning for quality and innovation (CQUIN) plan. The CQUIN will be introduced in April with the aim of improving some areas of dementia care in...
View ArticleEnhancing the Healing Environment for people with dementia
In recent years the Department of Health has funded a number of Kings Fund projects on improving the physical environment for people with dementia in hospitals and other acute settings. Building on...
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