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Acute concerns: responding to delayed discharges and 'blocked beds'
- Editor:
- GLASBY Jon
- Publisher:
- University of Birmingham. Health Services Management Centre
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Often, accounts of hospital discharge refer to the problem of ‘bed blocking’ as a short-hand term for people (often older people) who it is believed are occupying a hospital bed when they no longer need the services provided in an acute setting. While such phrases are in widespread usage, this terminology is felt by many to carry a highly pejorative meaning, implying that the older people concerned are themselves to blame for the situation. As is increasingly clear, however, this is often totally inaccurate, as it is the system itself which causes many such ‘blockages’, not the individual patient (who often wishes to return home as soon as possible).
Show me the way to go home: a narrative review of the literature on delayed hospital discharges and older people
- Authors:
- GLASBY Jon, LITTLECHILD Rosemary, PRYCE Kathryn
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 34(8), December 2004, pp.1189-1197.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This Research Note reports findings from a narrative review of the literature on the rate and cause of delayed hospital discharge in the UK. In addition to summarizing our knowledge to date in this important area, the Research Note raises a series of questions about aspects of current hospital discharge policy and practice (and in particular, the recent reimbursement policy to charge social services departments for delayed discharges).
Delayed reaction
- Author:
- GLASBY Jon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.7.03, 2003, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the new system of delayed discharge fines for social services departments, and changing professionals opinions of the system. Based on a small scale questionnaire completed by health and social services managers at a seminar on delayed discharges in October 2002 and May 2003, there was evidence to suggest fewer people were opposed to the policy, with an increased number undecided.
Social Work and direct payments
- Authors:
- GLASBY Jon, LITTLECHILD Rosemary
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 172p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This book summarises and builds on current knowledge and research on direct payments in the UK and considers developments in other European countries. It identifies good practice in the area and explores the implications of direct payments for users and social workers. Through direct payments, recipients are able to control and integrate into their daily routines a wide range of health-related activities, in ways which offer increased independence and better quality of life, compared with conventional services. I