All Older people’s services articles – Page 17
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SupplementsGood practice case study: improved flow through faster discharge
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust brings discharge duties home when needed for timely service delivery.
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SupplementsGood practice case study: rehabilitation and older patients
NHS Lanarkshire trains nursing teams from acute hospital wards in older patient rehabilitation and enablement
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SupplementsGood practice case study: making frailty everyone's business
Derby Hospitals Foundation Trust screens all acute admissions for frailty
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SupplementsGood practice case study: integrating systems for better care
South Warwickshire Foundation Trust set up three discharge-to-access pathways that cut down the length of hospital stay for older patients
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SupplementsGood practice case study: setting the course for better elderly care
Leicester’s interface geriatrics program seeks to diminish hospital admissions among the oldest old through comprehensive geriatric assessment
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SupplementsCommission on Hospital Care for Frail Older People: main report
Download HSJ’s landmark report
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CommentVideo: What went wrong with Mrs Andrews' care
The story of a patient who never made it back home
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NewsStaffordshire CCG to hand £280m contract to private sector
Two private firms have been shortlisted for a £280m ‘prime provider’ contract in East Staffordshire in a competition that has seen all NHS bidders squeezed out of the race.
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HSJ KnowledgeOut of bed and back home: improving acute elderly care
How new care pathways cut hospital stays
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CommentFalls prevention: how to slash the NHS's £2bn bill
A quarter of ambulance callouts are for falls
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HSJ LocalDevon CCG warns 'services will suffer' due to unaffordable demand
FINANCE: The country’s biggest clinical commissioning group will have to take immediate action to prioritise patient access to services in the face of unaffordable increases in demand, it has warned.
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SupplementsRoundtable: Put nutrition at the centre of public health
Tackling malnutrition with an integrated approach
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HSJ PartnersInvesting in community based end of life care is a win-win
Phil McCarvill of Marie Curie Cancer Care reflects on a new report from the Nuffield Trust
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CommentLocal integration needs national backing: Five steps for government
The county is finding that health and social care integration requires central government action
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NewsSurge in care claims puts pressure on CCGs
Clinical commissioning groups in one area are on track to spend up to £10m more than expected
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NewsCQC raises dementia care concerns
Dementia sufferers are likely to experience poor care as they move between residential homes and hospitals because of an “unacceptable gap” in quality, a new report says.
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NewsCroydon CCG creates £1.7bn plan for health and social care services
Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group has joined forces with its local authority to create a £1.7bn plan to change the way health and social care services for over 65-year-olds are commissioned.
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News'Dilnot style' commission on ageing society proposed
The Liberal Democrats have proposed to set up a ‘Dilnot style’ cross-party commission on how the NHS can meet the needs of an ageing society.