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Quality in social work services
- Editors:
- BLACK Stewart, GEORGE Carol
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 52p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Stirling
5 seminar papers on quality in social work services in Scotland: what is quality; attempting to promote quality in social work; quality in health care services; quality in services for older people; and one persons experience of quality assurance.
Quality improvement and accreditation in long-term care: discussion paper arising from a joint workshop of the Research Unit of the Royal College of Physicians and RSAS AgeCare
- Authors:
- DICKINSON Edward, BROCKLEHURST John
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Physicians. Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 29p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Discussion document presenting the findings of a workshop looking at issues around quality and provision of long term care for older people.
Improving UK health care: Nuffield Trust strategy: 2015 - 2020
- Author:
- NUFFIELD TRUST
- Publisher:
- Nuffield Trust
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 12
- Place of publication:
- London
A five-year strategic plan setting out how the Nuffield Trust will work to improve health care in the UK. The plan centres around a renewed focus on what policies mean on the ground and on bringing together policy-makers with frontline clinicians and managers. The trust is committed to: improving the evidence base that leads to better care for people in the UK through our research and analysis; using its independence to provide expert commentary, analysis and scrutiny of policy and practice; and bringing policy-makers and NHS staff together to raise issues and identify solutions. Work will focus on five key areas, selected for the opportunities to contribute to solving problems in the coming years: quality of care - new models of health care delivery; workforce; older people and complex care; and providing independent scrutiny of government policies and the performance of the system. (Edited publisher abstract)
Ensuring high quality health and social care for our older population: residential care in Ireland as a case example
- Author:
- O'CONNOR Irene
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 10(3), September 2009, pp.34-43.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Ireland faces similar challenges to the rest of Europe in that it has a rapidly increasing older population, seemingly infinite demand for health and social care and growing financial pressures. Against such a background, there are concerns about the quality of care provided for frail older people, especially in long-term care settings. This paper considers some recent policy development in Ireland, with a particular focus on long-term care. It describes the response to a series of inquiries about the quality of care in such environments and the subsequent formation of the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA). HIQA has just introduced a series of new inspections standards, and these are presented in the article. However, whilst these standards are to be welcomed, it is argued that standards alone will not result in improved quality unless there is also a recognition of the role and value of long-term care as a positive care environment for older people.
Quality not inequality: Age Concern’s vision for the future of quality social care
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN
- Publisher:
- Age Concern England
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 27p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document launches Age Concern’s new campaign, The Big Q: quality in care. The campaign is calling for older people to be provided with high quality care that meets their individual needs.
Quality of care for elderly residents in nursing homes and elderly people living at home: controlled observational study
- Authors:
- FAHEY Tom, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 15.3.03, 2003, pp.580-583.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Reports on the results of a research study which examined three general practices with registered patients resident in four Bristol nursing homes. In each practice four patients who lived in their own homes were also selected to act as controls. The study compared and evaluated the quality of clinical care given to patients in both settings. The results of the study suggested that the quality of medical care that patients received in the study was inadequate, particularly in the nursing homes. Suggests that better coordinated care would avoid the problems of overuse of unnecessary drugs, underuse of beneficial drugs, and poor monitoring of chronic disease.
Measuring the quality of care for older people
- Authors:
- POTTER Jonathan, GEORGIOU Andrew, PEARSON Michael
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Physicians
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 136p.,tables,diags.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines how to measure standards in health care for older people. Begins with a discussion of techniques for measuring quality. Moves on to discuss the national agenda for quality, with reference to the National Service Framework and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence. Then examines care studies of specific areas of health care, including stroke and incontinence, with critiques of their methodology. Concludes with recommendations for future practice.
Improving the quality of care for older people
- Authors:
- McCORMACK Brendan, FORD Pauline
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 2.6.99, 1999, pp.42-43.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on SCOPE, a European initiative to improve primary health care for older people.
Concepts of quality in residential care and nursing homes: UK and German perspectives
- Authors:
- KLEIN Barbara, COOK Albert
- Journal article citation:
- Health Care in Later Life, 3(1), 1998, pp.47-59.
Care reforms in the UK and Germany continue to emphasise the need for providers to improve the quality of their services. There is, however, some debate about how quality is defined, and what are the benefits of quality assurance systems. Describes the scope of a research project into concepts of quality in the UK and Germany. Explores the interest of the different stake-holders in residential care and the difficulties in achieving an operational definition of quality, and describes the experiences of two quality assurance systems that have been implemented in residential care establishments in the UK and evidence of the benefits to be gained.
Trafford: local system review report
- Author:
- CARE QUALITY COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Care Quality Commission
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 45
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
One of 20 local area reports produced as part of the local system reviews programme to understand how older people move through the health and social care system, with a focus on the how services work together. It looks at how hospitals, community health services, GP practices, care homes and homecare agencies work together. It looks at the planning, commissioning and delivery of health and social care services across three key areas: maintaining the wellbeing of a person in their usual place of residence, care and support when people experience a crisis; and step down services, return to usual place of residence and/or admission to a new place of residence. Across these three areas, the review asks whether services are: safe, effective, caring, responsive, and well led. The reviewers found that a system-wide commitment to transform and integrated services, with Trafford Council and NHS Trafford Clinical Commissioning Group sharing responsibility for a new model of integrated services due to come into effect in April 2018. However, the experience of people receiving health and social care was varied. There were missed opportunities to support people to stay in their usual place of residence and prevent admissions to hospital. In addition, although services were in place to support people as they prepared to come out of hospital, there was insufficient capacity in homecare services to meet demand. (Edited publisher abstract)