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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: The chronic covid hangover
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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NewsHospital violence ‘going through the roof’, says CEO
A London acute trust is planning to provide staff working in frailty units with body cameras and those in antenatal clinics with additional security, as violence and aggression against them goes ‘through the roof’.
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HSJ PartnersLeeds launches innovative remote monitoring trial for elderly care
A remote monitoring trial in Leeds will help gain insights on how best to support older people living at home with long-term conditions
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NewsSocial care staff doing NHS work ‘unfunded’
Social care staff are undertaking activities that would have previously been done by the NHS on an unfunded basis, report 70 per cent of adult social services directors.
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NewsSurge in hip fractures could be sign of ‘post-covid deconditioning’
A rise in hip fractures last year could be a symptom of a wider increase in general physical deconditioning in older and vulnerable people following the pandemic, senior clinicians have warned.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2023: Patient Safety Pilot Project of the Year
Sponsored by WINNER: Mid and South Essex Foundation Trust: Pilot of a Novel Combined Anaesthetic and Geriatrician Pre-assessment Clinic for Older People with Colorectal Cancer
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2023: Improving Care for Older People Initiative of the Year
WINNER: NHS Elect: The Acute Frailty Network - Supporting Older People Living with Frailty to get Home Sooner and Healthier
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CommentThe point of economic growth is to meet increasing healthcare demand
As the demand for healthcare continues to grow amidst an ageing population, new research from the Health Foundation and the University of Liverpool sheds light on the scale of the challenges ahead. While living longer is a cause for celebration, it will require significant adjustments to meet the rising demand ...
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NewsVaccination programme proposed for illness with ‘considerable NHS impact’
The government has been advised to introduce a vaccination programme for respiratory syncytial virus for infants and older adults.
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Digital Awards 2023: Improving Out of Hospital Care through Digital
WINNER: Northamptonshire Health Foundation Trust and North and West Northamptonshire Council: Remote Monitoring Northamptonshire
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NewsMore hospital beds ‘squeezing out rehab and keeping people out of work’
Extra beds squeezed into hospitals as part of winter planning are crowding out space for rehab, pushing up length of stay and knock-on costs, and increasing the chance of readmission, NHS leaders have been warned.
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NewsTrust told to pay more than £200k over dementia patient’s death
A hospital trust has been told to pay almost a quarter of a million pounds after pleading guilty to failing to provide safe care to a patient with advanced dementia who fatally injured himself.
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HSJ PartnersIntelligent disease management ‘vital’ to NHS survival
The insidious burden of chronic disease has been growing for decades draining resources, expanding health inequalities and multiplying costs. Paul McGinness, chief executive, Lenus Health, explains how proactive pathway automation builds system resilience.
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News‘NHS factors’ lead to more than a third of delayed discharges
More than a third of delayed discharges for long-stay patients are being caused by factors generally associated with the NHS, according to new data obtained by HSJ.
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HSJ LocalWe need to tell the public that hospitals are ‘horrible places’, urges trust CEO
Hospitals are ‘horrible’ and unsafe places, which should be avoided ‘unless you really need to be there’, a longstanding trust chief executive has argued.
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HSJ Local‘Tearful’ staff raise patient safety concerns to CQC
An inspection of a hospital has found all wards were understaffed, while ‘tearful [and] exhausted’ clinicians raised patient safety concerns to the regulator.
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NewsPatients ‘warehoused’ and ‘lost in the system’ amid rush to discharge
More and more older people are being “warehoused” in inappropriate care beds, condemned unnecessarily to long-term care, and “lost” to health and care services, due to the rush to discharge from full hospitals and a lack of community rehab services, leaders have warned.
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CommentICSs hold the key to improving dementia diagnosis
The search for life-changing dementia treatments is beginning to yield tangible results. So, it’s imperative that integrated care systems support GPs to diagnose people at the earlier stages of dementia, writes Isolde Radford
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Awards 2022: Clinical Leader of the Year
WINNER: Professor Simon Conroy, Clinical Lead NHS Elect, Acute Frailty Network
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NewsNHSE investigates concerns over-65s have received ineffective flu jab
NHS England is investigating a “potential serious incident” in its flu programme following concerns people aged 65 and over are being given a vaccination jab known to be ineffective for this age group.