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Content ArticleThis webinar hosted by GovConnect features three presentations about digital wound management:Digital data and information (National Wound Care Strategy Programme)York Community Services approach to engagement of staff in digital changeDigitising wound care in the community: The challenges and successes (Livewell Southwest)
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The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and Think Local Act Personal have been facilitating a Community of Practice (CoP) for commissioners looking to work with co-operatives and community businesses. The CoP brings together nine local councils with a shared ambition to move away from large scale ‘time and task’ home care. This report details learnings from phase one of the CoP which has concentrated on sharing the ambition, opportunities, risks and barriers to developing community businesses and co-operatives. -
Content ArticleIn this BMJ feature, journalist Emma Wilkinson looks at how a shortage of health visitors in England is leaving babies and children exposed to safeguarding risks, late diagnosis and other problems. An estimated third of the health visitor workforce has been lost since 2015, and research by the Parent-Infant Foundation suggests that 5000 new health visitors are needed. Families are not getting the minimum recommended number of contacts with health visitors during the first three years of life, and research into the impact of this on children's outcomes is ongoing. Emma speaks to different mothers, including Phillippa Guillou, who had a baby in 2020 and struggled to breastfeed. Philippa felt unsupported and ignored by her local health visiting service, who only saw her once by videocall when her baby was one year old.
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Content ArticleCharlotte Augst, chief executive of National Voices, challenges system leaders to think differently about what is needed to repair the NHS. As next year is likely to be the most difficult people ever had to live through, since NHS’s inception, she urges leaders to stand together
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Content ArticleSocial prescribing is a way of linking people with complex needs to non-medical supports in the community. There are different models of social prescribing, ranging from online signposting services to individual support from a link worker to access community resource. The aim of this study from Kiely et al. was to establish the evidence base for the effects on health outcomes and costs of social prescribing link workers (non-health or social care professionals who connect people to community resources) for people in community settings focusing on people experiencing multimorbidity and social deprivation. The study found that there is an absence of evidence for social prescribing link workers. Policymakers should note this and support evaluation of current programmes before mainstreaming.
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Content ArticleThe aim of community diagnostic centres (CDCs) is to deliver additional diagnostic capacity in England by providing quicker and more convenient access for patients and reducing pressure on hospitals. The vision is for CDCs to be ‘one-stop shops for checks, scans and tests’, designed to achieve early diagnoses for patients and timely treatment and intervention, and are part of the offer of more place-based, person-centred approaches to care, removing some of the known barriers to access. But are CDCs living up to their promise?
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Content ArticleThis report from Skills for Care provides a comprehensive analysis of the adult social care workforce in England and the characteristics of the 1.50 million people working in it. Topics covered include recent trends in workforce supply and demand, employment information, recruitment and retention, demographics, pay, qualification rates and future workforce forecasts.
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Content ArticlePatients with head and neck cancer may be required to travel significant distances for treatment, follow up and rehabilitation. This article in thr journal Cancer Nursing Practice presents findings from an evaluation of a pilot head and neck cancer service redesign in Thames Valley Cancer Alliance to enable patients from Swindon and Wiltshire to receive follow up and rehabilitation closer to home. The evaluation identified a decrease in overall outpatient visit time for these patients, resulting in reduced travel costs and improved quality of life.
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Content ArticleThis Nuffield Trust Quality Watch blog from Sophie Flinders and Sarah Scobie takes a closer look at the rising number of patients facing delays in leaving hospital – and explores the reasons for why it’s happening.
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Content ArticlePatient safety in ambulatory care settings is receiving increased attention. Based on interviews and focus groups with patients, providers, and staff at ten patient-centered medical homes, this qualitative study explored perceived facilitators and barriers to improving safety in ambulatory care. Participants identified several safety issues, including communication failures and challenges with medication reconciliation, and noted the importance of health information systems and dedicated resources to advance patient safety. Patients also emphasised the importance of engagement in developing safety solutions.
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Content ArticleCrisis resolution teams (CRTs) provide treatment at home to people experiencing mental health crises, as an alternative to hospital admission. This study in the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing aimed to measure whether CRTs adhere to a model of good practice, using one-day fidelity reviews of UK crisis teams. The authors found that despite a national mandate to implement the CRT model, there are wide variations in implementation in the UK and no teams in the sample achieved overall high fidelity.
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Content ArticleNina Hemmings responds to the 'State of the adult social care workforce report' from Skills for Care.
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Content ArticleThe State of Care is the Care Quality Commission (CQC) annual assessment of health care and social care in England. The report looks at the trends, shares examples of good and outstanding care, and highlights where care needs to improve. The care that people received in 2019/20 was mostly of good quality. But while the quality of care was largely maintained compared with the previous year, there was generally no improvement overall. And in the space of a few short months since then, the pandemic has placed the severest of challenges on the whole health and care system in England.
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Content ArticleIn this Episode of the 'This Is Nursing' podcast series, Gavin Portier speaks to with Alison Schofield, Tissue Viability Clinical Nurse Specialist from North Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Trust. Alison has worked in Tissue Viability since 2012 and during this time she has studied extensively in leading change in tissue viability, tissue viability management and leg ulcers. Alison discusses her role of a Tissue Viability Clinical Nurse Specialist and the challenges facing the role in this current world of nursing, the impact of COVID-19 has had on the delivery of community tissue viability services and on people in receipt of the services in care homes and in their own homes.
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Content ArticleThis policy paper sets out the key elements of national support available for the social care sector for winter 2020 to 2021, as well as the main actions to take for local authorities, NHS organisations, and social care providers, including in the voluntary and community sector.Working together will ensure that high-quality, safe and timely care is provided to everyone who needs it, whilst protecting people who need care, their carers and the social care workforce from COVID-19.
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Content ArticleThis report sets out the progress and learning from the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in informing advice and recommendations to government and the social care sector. The Social Care Sector COVID-19 Support Taskforce was commissioned in June 2020, with this report seeing the completion of its work in August 2020. The taskforce was set up to oversee the delivery of two packages of support that the government had put in place for the care sector: the Social Care Action Plan and the Care Home Support Plan. In addition, the taskforce was asked to support the government's work on community outbreaks – areas of the country that needed particular help and intervention to deal with higher rates of infection – and advising and supporting local places to consider and respond to reducing the risk of infection in care homes and the wider social care sector. Its further remit was to provide advice on the requirements for the response to COVID-19 in the next few months, ahead of and into winter.
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17 September 2020 marks the second annual World Patient Safety Day. The theme this year is 'Health Worker Safety: A Priority for Patient Safety'. In the run up to this special event, Patient Safety Learning are publishing a series of interviews with staff from across the health and care system to highlight key issues in staff safety and gain a clearer idea of the kind of change that needs to take place to keep staff, and ultimately patients, safe. In this interview, Patient Safety Learning's Content and Engagement Manager, Steph O'Donohue, speaks to Nick Kelly, Co-founder and CEO of the Axela Group, who specialise in health and social care services. -
Content ArticleGood foot health and care play an important role in improving overall health and wellbeing of the general population. However, the observations of nurses and podiatrists suggest that people experiencing homelessness, particularly rough sleepers, experience worse foot health than the wider population. This guidance, from the Queens Nursing Institute, was developed in partnership with podiatrists with experience of working with people who are homeless, and is intended as a resource for community nurses and allied health professionals. It can be used as a reference by others with an interest in the health of people who are homeless, such as hostel staff, day-centre staff and support workers.
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Content ArticleThe results of the 2019 ‘Patient safety culture survey’ of 917 pharmacy professionals, carried out by the Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group (PSG) in April and May 2019 came after the introduction of a legal defence for dispensing errors in 2018. The survey results found only 14% of pharmacy professionals are worried about criminal prosecution when reporting a patient safety incident, compared with 40% in 2016. The survey also showed that 22% of pharmacy professionals would not report a patient safety incident inside their organisation owing to fears of criminal prosecution. This is compared with 40% of 623 respondents saying in 2016 that they would not report a patient safety incident because of the possibility of criminal prosecution.
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Content ArticleThe Buurtzorg model of care, developed by a social enterprise in the Netherlands in 2006, involves small teams of nursing staff providing a range of personal, social and clinical care to people in their own homes in a particular neighbourhood. There’s an emphasis on one or two staff working with each individual and their informal carers to access all the resources available in their social networks and neighbourhood to support them to be more independent. The nursing teams have a flat management structure, working in ‘non-hierarchical self-managed' teams. This means they make all the clinical and operational decisions themselves. They can access support from a coach, whose focus is on enabling the team to learn to work constructively together, and a central back office.
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Content ArticleAn independent review into the widespread failings by Liverpool Community Health Trust. The review conducted by Dr Bill Kirkup CBE, commissioned by NHS Improvement, looks into the issues at the Trust from November 2010 to December 2014. It also looks at the oversight of the Trust by the NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS England and commissioners.
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Content ArticleState of Care is the Care Quality Commission (CQC) annual assessment of health care and social care in England. The report looks at the trends, shares examples of good and outstanding care, and highlights where care needs to improve.
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Content ArticleAdverse events and poor health outcomes are continuing challenges for nursing home residents and staff. Research has shown that many resident harms are avoidable and may be caused by situations in which residents do not receive needed care, often called omissions of care. Omissions of care research in nursing home settings is limited and definitions of omissions of care vary. Therefore, the US Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has developed a definition of omissions of care for nursing homes intended to be meaningful to stakeholders, including residents and caregivers, and actionable for research or improving quality of care. They developed the definition through a literature review and feedback from subject matter experts and stakeholders in the US. To develop and describe the definition, project staff produced an environmental scan and final report, including resources to help nursing homes operationalise and apply the definition of omissions of care.
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What do community pharmacists do? (June 2013)
Claire Cox posted an article in Community pharmacies
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Content ArticleThe Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) is the only nonprofit organisation in the US devoted entirely to preventing medication errors. In this video, produced by ISMP in partnership with the Temple University School of Pharmacy, experts discuss medication safety concerns and offer practical error prevention recommendations.
