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Footcare services for older people: a resource pack for commissioners and service providers
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 26p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This publication is for commissioners and service providers. It explains why footcare is important and describes service providers, types of service, what good services should look like and what they should achieve, and developing services.
Audiology: hearing services for older people
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 3p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing outlines recent improvements in audiology services and provides information on a range of tools to help commissioners and providers.
Top tips from local authorities who have developed strategies to help older people to access direct payments
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Two case studies are provided from local authorities to illustrate the approaches they have used to increase the uptake of direct payments. Each case study provides a top tip, a detailed explanation of the approach taken and contact details for further information. The two case studies cover: Mainstreaming direct payments from Cornwall County Council and offering direct payments for older people as a first option from Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council.
Case for change: mental health liaison service for dementia care in hospitals: evidence
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- London
One of the resources that make up the Dementia Commissioning pack, this document includes: an overview of patients eligible for mental health liaison services, what this service should involve and a list of the evidence sources used to inform the hospital mental health liaison service design. The document begins by highlighting the challenge general hospitals face in meeting the needs of older people with mental health conditions. It then looks at how a mental health liaison service can improve outcomes and ensure hospital resources are used efficiently. It then looks at specific aspects of the service: assessment and diagnosis; providing support and advice on management and care planning to other parts of the hospital; and contributing to staff training and organisational development. The resources that make up the Commissioning Packs have been designed to help commissioners improve the quality of services and minimise unwarranted variation in service delivery.
Administration of medicines in care homes (with nursing) for older people by care assistants
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 5
- Place of publication:
- London
Guidance setting out good practice for the safe management and handling of medicines in care homes with nursing for older people by care assistants. The guidance provides information for care home providers and staff on the legal framework for the administration of prescribed medicines for a named individual by care assistants and also covers safety and quality assurance requirements. It makes it clear that care workers, such as care assistants, are not prohibited from administering medicines to residents and looks at the responsibilities of the care home provider and the training they should provide. It is based on findings from an evidence-based review carried out by the University of Leeds. (Edited publisher abstract)
A pathway to care for older offenders: a toolkit for good practice
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 43p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The purpose of this toolkit is to inform and assist the delivery of individually planned care for older prisoners whilst in prison, followed by successful resettlement back into the community, receiving the necessary support to sustain an optimum quality of life and reduce re-offending.
Transforming community services: demonstrating and measuring achievement: community indicators for quality improvement
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 71p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document introduces 43 indicators for quality improvement for voluntary, local use in a community setting. These carefully chosen quality indicators are designed to assist local service improvement and help to raise the standard of care delivered to patients and communities. The indicators are grouped into the following categories: health and wellbeing; children and families; acute care; rehabilitation; long term conditions; end of life; general. To get the best from the community indicators, it is important to select those that measure what is valued and what matters to the people who use local services, and which instigate and inform dialogue about where improvement is needed. These indicators should help clinicians and frontline services to measure and monitor quality improvement, by indicating where change is needed and demonstrating what high quality personalised care looks like.
Falls and fractures: effective interventions in health and social care
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guidance note is part of the Department of Health's prevention package which aims to raise the focus on prevention as a means of ensuring good health, well-being and independence for older people. It sets out four key objectives that commissioners, working across health and social care, should consider in the context of local services for falls, falls prevention and fractures. The objectives are: improving the experience of hip fracture surgery; respond to the first fracture and prevent the second; early intervention to restore independence and reduce future injuries; prevent frailty, promote bone health and reduce accidents. It also sets out the main measureable outcomes for falls and fracture services.
Falls and fractures: developing a local strategic needs assessment
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This guidance note is part of the Department of Health's prevention package which aims to raise the focus on prevention as a means of ensuring good health, well-being and independence for older people. It should be read in conjunction with the Department of health guide 'Falls and fractures: effective interventions in social care and associated pathways'. It sets out: the case for assessing the level of needs to address risk of falls and incidence of falls in a local population; the clinical and social impact of a fall on an individual; the policy context for assessing local needs, the commissioning implications of needs assessed needs. It also includes a template for falls assessment for use by local commissioning communities.
Supporting people with long term conditions: liberating the talents of nurses who care for people with long term conditions
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 32p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Summarises what government policy for long term conditions means specifically for nursing, and how individual professionals can improve care for people with long term conditions. All nurses are playing their part across the spectrum of long term illness wherever they work. People with long term conditions need care from a team with a range of skills and knowledge. Nurses are one part of that team and some of the roles described here can be delivered by others, in particular allied health professionals. This publication focuses on patients with the most complex needs and the role of community matrons. Better disease management and supporting self-care are equally important aspects of improving care for people with long term conditions and nurses play a key role here as well. However, practitioners and the NHS have asked for more information on case management and community matrons. This is also where nurses have the opportunity to take on a new role that builds on and develops their existing skills.