All Older people’s services articles – Page 15
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Supplements
Questions to ask to improve frail older people's services
As part of the third and final report from the Commission on Hospital Care for Frail Older People we set out the key questions that citizens, MPs, and care providers must be asked to improve care.
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HSJ Partners
Consider the needs of carers when commissioning end of life services
Coordinated care is cost effective
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HSJ Local
Trust aspires to create dementia friendly hospital
STRUCTURE: Gateshead Health Foundation Trust is moving towards a more dementia friendly environment through new signage, lighting, handrails and contrasting colours in six work areas.
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News
Call for more surgeons as hip and knee operations rise
A shortage of training places for orthopaedic surgeons must be addressed as demand for hip and knee replacement surgery continues to rise, the Royal College of Surgeons has said.
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HSJ Knowledge
Emergency care summit: Sustainability remains A&E's biggest issue
The crisis facing A&E departments
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HSJ Knowledge
Reach out to GPs and social care to create provider led solutions
Making the move to capitated outcomes based commissioning
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News
Counties should get health devolution, says report
Delayed discharges from hospitals into social care are 43 per cent higher than average in county areas, leaving them financially stretched but without devolved control over health, MPs have warned.
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Supplements
Delivering value supplement: Clinical innovation case studies
Three top examples of innovation in diabetes
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HSJ Knowledge
Unleash workforce creativity with staff engagement building blocks
The King’s Fund proposes ways to build confidence among the workforce to lead on safety
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HSJ Partners
The right community care for the terminally ill can ease pressure in A&E
Improved care for terminally ill people can play a major part in reducing the burden on A&E departments
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News
Exclusive: Dementia care still 'inadequate', report finds
Care for people diagnosed with dementia is ‘inadequate and still not fit for purpose’, three years after the government launched its dementia challenge, a new report for the Alzheimer’s Society has said.
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HSJ Partners
Three steps to better care for the terminally ill
The electorate wants to ease the burden on A&E – and it is achievable
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News
Exclusive: PHE to further investigate drop in elderly life expectancy
National public health officials have said they will further investigate falls in life expectancy among older people, after finding it was ‘too early’ to conclude they had stopped living for longer.
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HSJ Knowledge
The system-wide approach to turn around a struggling health economy
Lessons learned by Guildford and Waverley CCG
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Comment
Next government must recognise that acute need is part of whole person care
Include frail older people
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Comment
Everybody needs good neighbours as our older population grows
Patient expectations and budgets
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News
Labour plans 'accountable providers' for joined up health and social care
Labour plans to introduce an ‘accountable provider’ for frail older people under its 10 year plan for the NHS funded via a ‘year of care tariff’. This suggests a new role for trusts as lead providers of joined up health and care services.
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Comment
Get ahead and plan your end of life care before it's too late
Make your choices known on end of life care
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Comment
Urgent care: we need a shared sense of scale
Tackling pressures bringing together disparate perspectives