People living in care homes are up to three times more likely to end up in hospital than other over 75s. But system leaders implementing a newly developed Enhanced Health Framework are seeing profound improvements in quality of care and reductions in avoidable activity: It’s just over a year since NHS England’s New Care Models […]
Stroke affects about 100,000 people in England each year, of whom about 10 per cent will die within the first month and half of the remainder, will be left with significant long term disability. Management is well supported by evidence showing how services should be delivered for maximum benefit, as Anthony Rudd, National Clinical Director […]
Mark Trewin, Bradford Council’s mental health service manager, and social care advisor for NHS England’s adult mental health team, discusses how effective partnerships with social care are essential to the delivery of the Five Year Forward View. One of the objectives within the implementation plan of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health is […]
An estimated 8,000 stroke patients a year are set to benefit from an advanced emergency treatment which can significantly decrease the risk of long-term disability and also save millions of pounds in long term health and social care costs. NHS England has announced that it will commission mechanical thrombectomy so it can become more widely […]
Community mental health services play a crucial role in delivering mental health care for adults and older adults with severe mental health needs as close to home as possible. The NHS long term plan and NHS mental health implementation plan 2019/20 – 2023/24 set out that the NHS will develop new and integrated models of […]
Developing Live Well Working with local GPs and the Buckinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Groups, Buckinghamshire Healthy Minds developed the Live Well model in 2014. Healthy Minds is the Buckinghamshire Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service, provided by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. Healthy Minds – Live Well offers psychological therapies for people who have depression […]
As recently published in the Health Service Journal (29 August 2016), this blog from Sir John Oldham, Adj Professor Institute of Global Health Imperial College, and Jacquie White, Deputy Director Long Term Conditions NHS England, sets out the art of the impossible – developing capitated budgets for long term conditions. The story starts with a visit […]
Peter McCabe, Chief Executive of Headway, a UK-wide charity that supports individuals and families affected by acquired brain injury. Some months ago, I received a call from a very distressed mother. Her adult son, who is living with the long-term effects of an acquired brain injury (ABI), had been arrested and accused of committing a […]
Back pain is the largest single cause of disability in the UK, with lower back pain alone accounting for 11% of the total disability of the UK population. Referrals for spinal surgery are increasing year on year and a growing number of patients are waiting longer than 18 weeks from referral to treatment. Wide variations […]
The Workstream Lead at Hartlepool & Stockton on Tees CCG, one of nine sites putting the Integrated Personal Commissioning Emerging Framework into action, shares how the programme is beginning to transform services for older people with complex health needs: As an area that had been part of the original pilot, commissioners in Teesside were already […]