The Guardian

MAY 16, 2024

The number of people stuck in hospital for more than three weeks has risen 15% on pre-Covid levels Strike action and the social care crisis have left thousands more people trapped in hospital beds with nowhere to go while other patients struggle to access the care, nullifying an increase in funding and NHS staff, it has been reported.

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Hospitals 80

Social Work With Adults

JULY 27, 2021

Restraint, segregation and seclusion ’, that in-patient hospital environments, when not therapeutic, are actively damaging to people. This viewpoint is further supported by Andrea Attree, a parent and family carer to her daughter Danielle, who is still in the system: "We need to stop thinking we need more hospitals.

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Hospitals Disability Social Worker Mental Health 98

The Guardian

JANUARY 8, 2023

Care England says current funding is ‘inadequate’ if homes are to pay staff more and manage rehabilitation Care providers are demanding double the usual fees to look after thousands of people who need to be discharged from hospitals to ease the crisis in the NHS.

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Hospitals Rehabilitation Government 129

The Guardian

JANUARY 5, 2023

NHS trusts in south-west using hotels to free up beds to help them cope with winter crisis UK politics live – latest news updates Hospitals in several parts of England are discharging patients into “care hotels” in an effort to free up desperately needed beds to help them cope with the NHS winter crisis.

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Hospitals 98

The Guardian

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Exclusive: almost one in four people unable to be discharged were waiting for home care, data reveals A “perilous” shortage of homecare workers is the biggest reason thousands of people are languishing longer in hospital than needed, driving up waiting lists and making people sicker, figures reveal.

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Hospitals Home Care 96

The Guardian

JANUARY 28, 2023

Lyn Brind, 61, was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, with chest pains and low blood oxygen levels but could not be admitted because the hospital had “no space”.

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Hospitals 111

The Guardian

JUNE 6, 2023

Exclusive: Volunteers sought in England to take equipment and drugs to people’s homes among other tasks Health ministers are to recruit a new volunteer army for social care to ferry medical equipment and drugs to people’s homes in a bid to free up congested hospital wards. Continue reading.

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Hospital Discharges Hospitals 111

Social Care

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Here, Hayley shares her thoughts on how care staff can provide solutions to hospital discharge pressures and support admission avoidance strategies, including the redesign of traditional residential and nursing care provision, using the lessons from the past to inform the future.

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Hospitals Hospital Discharges Rehabilitation Interventional 79

The Guardian

AUGUST 31, 2022

Charities say social care crisis is ‘crippling patient flow’ in hospitals and has created a ‘miserable situation’ Patients are waiting up to nine months to be discharged from NHS hospitals in England despite being medically fit to leave, according to “shocking” figures that will pile pressure on ministers to tackle the social care crisis.

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Hospitals 91

The Guardian

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Guardian analysis of official data shows that on average 13,600 beds across NHS England are occupied every day with patients who doctors say are medically fit to go home or to a care home, equivalent to one in seven beds in acute hospitals in October. Continue reading.

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Hospitals Mental Health 98

The Guardian

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Many fit people are not being discharged because of a lack of adult home care or community health provision The number of patients stuck in hospital in England despite being medically fit to leave nearly doubled between February and November this year. Continue reading.

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Hospitals Home Care 98

CAPC

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Study examines the correlation between palliative care utilization and hospital transfers for veterans in telecritical care-supported intensive care units (ICUs) vs. non-telecritical care intensive care units.

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Hospitals 64

Relias

MARCH 1, 2023

As an SNF operator, one strategy to rebuild occupancy and increase revenues is to partner with a local hospital and become part of its SNF-preferred network. Many hospitals are establishing preferred SNF networks to refer their patients for continued care. She encouraged hospital providers to increase the amount to 80%-90%.

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Hospitals Medicare Nursing Home Medicaid 52

CAPC

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

JAMA Network study found a correlation between viewing plain-language videos and increased communication of care goals for hospitalized older adults.

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Communication Hospitals 59

The Guardian

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

New health secretary examining proposals for care homes to look after patients whose discharge is prevented by lack of social care Thérèse Coffey is considering handing hundreds of millions of pounds to care homes to help free up hospital beds as part of her emergency plan to tackle the growing crisis in the NHS. Continue reading.

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Hospitals 98

The Guardian

MAY 13, 2023

As healthcare standards rise, hospitals are more dilapidated and affecting patient care, says an impassioned doctor Patient safety at risk in crumbling hospital Boris Johnson promised to replace Most readers will almost certainly be aware of the government’s plans to build 40 new hospitals in England. Continue reading.

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Hospitals Patient Safety Healthcare University 73

The Guardian

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

John Griffiths says he was cured in three weeks, but stuck in hospital for 16, while another reader says the hard-working carers for their disabled son deserve to be paid more.

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Hospitals Disability Depression 70

The Guardian

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Doctors and nurses fear they will be unable to cope with flu, Covid and cost of living crisis, bosses say Doctors and nurses are “absolutely frightened and petrified” about how bad this winter will be for the NHS in England, hospital bosses have revealed.

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Hospitals 83

CAPC

AUGUST 14, 2023

A study published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, finds low prevalence of goals of care documentation in rural hospitals.

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Hospitals 52

The Guardian

JANUARY 22, 2023

City council aims to undercut private operators and house children with complex needs rejected by other homes Manchester city council is setting up two special children’s homes to house the increasing number of vulnerable young people who end up stuck in hospital because no residential providers will take them.

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Hospitals Government Mental Health 80

The Guardian

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

One reader on their elderly mother being made to stay in hospital when she wants to be at home with family support Re patients stuck in hospital, ( ‘A doctor told me I could be here for months’: patients stuck in England’s hospitals, 13 November ), my 98-year-old mother was admitted to treat an infection. Continue reading.

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Hospitals 58

The Guardian

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

We spoke to some of those stuck in hospital. Continue reading.

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Hospitals 89

The Social Care Elf

JANUARY 18, 2022

The post Hidden from the world: Out of area hospital placements for people diagnosed with personality disorder #NoOOA appeared first on National Elf Service.

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Hospitals Disorder Rehabilitation Psychiatric 98

CAPC

MARCH 17, 2023

Study investigating the trend of in-patient palliative care, and its association with healthcare utilization among hospitalized metastatic breast cancer patients in the U.S.

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Healthcare Hospitals 52

MQ Mental Health

JUNE 8, 2023

They then found health records from a different cohort of patients who had been admitted into hospital for different reasons and compared the data. They followed these patients for two years in order to properly understand the long-term impacts of COVID-19 infection and how it compares to other conditions that resulted in hospitalization.

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Hospitals Psychiatric Mental Health Anxiety 52

CAPC

MAY 22, 2023

Goals of care discussions are important for high-quality palliative care, yet are often lacking for hospitalized older patients with serious illness.

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Hospitals Communication Interventional 52

KVC

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

When a child is discharged from a children’s psychiatric hospital, they will likely experience a range of emotions and expectations for life after their hospital stay. After discharge from the hospital, there are important factors to keep in mind as your child re-adjusts to family and community life.

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Psychiatric Hospitals Mental Health Recovery 52

The Guardian

JUNE 18, 2024

Party says plan would free up thousands of England hospital beds occupied by patients whose discharge has been delayed NHS money will be used to buy thousands of beds in care homes under Labour plans to reduce overcrowding in England’s hospitals, long waits in A&E and patients becoming trapped in ambulances. Continue reading.

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Hospitals 103

CAPC

JANUARY 17, 2023

Social workers in primary care teams may facilitate access to palliative care for recently hospitalized patients.

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Hospitals Social Worker 52

CAPC

MARCH 30, 2022

hospitals since 2000. Snapshot of the exponential growth of palliative care in U.S.

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Hospitals 85

The Masked AMHP

JULY 14, 2021

On 11th June 2019 Brooke Martin, who was 19, was found suspended from a ligature point in her bedroom at Chadwick Lodge Hospital run by Elysium Healthcare. She had diagnoses of Autism and Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder and had been detained under s.3 3 of the Mental Health Act. The inquest ended on 1st July 2021.

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Hospitals Healthcare Disorder Mental Health 40

The Guardian

JULY 25, 2024

The health and social care secretary promised to “grip the crisis” at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) by taking immediate action to increase oversight of the body and giving patients more confidence in their care.

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Hospitals Healthcare 106

Community Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Under section 13 of the MHA, councils must engage an AMHP to consider a person’s case if it has reason to believe that an application may need to be made to detain them in hospital. “In these circumstances people are often left at risk, admitted to acute hospital or held for long periods in A&E, police custody or at home.”

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Mental Health Hospitals Government Engagement 288

Community Care

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Safeguarding teams took no action in response “serious” concerns about the care of disabled people segregated in mental health hospitals, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has said. In hospital for between 10 and 30 years. Almost half did not have an exit strategy from long-term segregation or a robust discharge plan.

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Hospitals Disability Mental Health Advocacy 58

Community Care

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There are also concerns that councils are taking on responsibilities that should fall to the NHS, because of the drive to discharge people from hospital as quickly as possible, which means people are leaving wards with greater needs than previously.

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Hospital Discharges Hospitals Healthcare Recovery 324

CAPC

JANUARY 22, 2024

Study in JAMA shows an increase in palliative care consultation and timing when it is ordered by default (with the ability for clinicians to opt-out).

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Consultation Hospitals 59

The Masked AMHP

JUNE 14, 2021

There’s a whole chapter in the Code of Practice on the transport of patients to hospital. Two of the particularly cogent paragraphs are as follows: 17.3 AMHPs should agree to a.

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Hospitals 52