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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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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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

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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Hospitals 102

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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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

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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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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Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

For the past seventy-two hours I had been a guest of Mercy Hospital’s emergency room and both the hospital and I had settled in for the wait. I had my own room, a real hospital bed instead of an ER examination cot, and a menu card for the next day’s meals. I think I need to go to a hospital.” I think…” I started. “I

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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 86

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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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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Hospitals 97

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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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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Hospitals 77

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 21, 2022

Marie Davis was grateful she had registered with the Office of the Public Guardian for her mother’s care, while Dale Thomson had to resort to taking her aunt out without doctors’ permission I was so saddened to read of elderly people being kept in hospital when they could be at home ( Letters, 17 November ). Case dismissed.

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Hospitals 55

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 54

The Guardian

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

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

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Hospitals 84

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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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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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

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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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

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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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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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

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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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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Rehabilitation Hospitals Government Home Care 267

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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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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