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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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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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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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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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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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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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 95

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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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Relias

MARCH 13, 2023

For example, a new Hospital Price Transparency Rule came into effect in 2022. Unfortunately, many hospitals are struggling to implement the new standards promptly. Formerly, hospitals did not disclose the price of individual services to patients before they received care. Why are hospitals failing their audits?

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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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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 62

The Guardian

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

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

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Relias

JULY 20, 2023

The new measures included the Birthing-Friendly hospital designation to help reduce maternal mortality and morbidity. The Birthing-Friendly hospital designation is one of five initiatives relating to care quality within CMS’ Maternity Care Action Plan. Sadly, U.S. rates are continuing to rise. Collaborative care models can save lives.

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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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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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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Councils will be able to bid from a pot of £40m – up from £30m – for cash to help prevent hospital admissions and speed up discharges from wards. This can be spent on meeting adult social care needs, supporting the provider market, speeding up hospital discharge and otherwise reducing NHS pressures.

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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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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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Community Care

JANUARY 9, 2023

Government plans for the NHS to discharge people from hospitals to care homes risk inappropriate placements and neglect the root causes of the acute pressures on the health service. “Most people want to be discharged from hospital back home. “We need to fix the problem at both ends,” she said. as of October 2022. .

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Community Care

JANUARY 8, 2023

Integrated care boards (ICBs) will be able to use the money to buy beds in care homes or other settings for up to four weeks in order to speed up hospital discharges, freeing up beds to admit people stuck in accident and emergency departments.

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CAPC

JANUARY 17, 2023

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

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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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CAPC

MARCH 30, 2022

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

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Hospitals 85

Community Care

AUGUST 24, 2023

As a result, DoLS will remain, for the foreseeable future, the system for authorising the deprivation of liberty, in care homes or hospitals, of adults who lack capacity to consent to such arrangements and for whom they are in their best interests and necessary to protect them from harm.

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Community Care

JANUARY 17, 2023

Government plans for the NHS to discharge people from hospitals into care homes may result in “poor or potentially illegal” practice, through people being moving into residential care without their informed consent. Our concern is that with the focus on discharge above everything else,” she added.

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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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Social Work Discoveries

AUGUST 30, 2023

In this episode, Lis invites expert special guest Jo McIlveen to come and listen to this moving story of a social worker’s intervention using memory making for a grieving family in a hospital setting.

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Community Care

APRIL 5, 2023

It is possible that the decision has, at least partially, been taken as a result of the current pressures on NHS services; one of the key reforms under the LPS would have been to give hospital trusts and integrated care boards (ICBs) new responsibility for authorising deprivations of liberty. Under the DoLS, these new rights will not apply.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This was evidenced in the fact that, according to the NHS Confederation, two in five people are not able to leave hospital when ready, in large part because of a lack of social care. Extra £500m for social care a ‘sticking plaster’, warn sector leaders. per hour per social care employee.

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