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Achieving timely simple discharge from hospital: a toolkit for the multi-disciplinary team
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 48p.
- Place of publication:
- London
What happens during the discharge process is a key part of patients’ experiences of hospital care. Whether patients are admitted for elective care or as an emergency, they want to know how long they are likely to stay in hospital. Information about their treatment and when they can expect to be discharged helps them to feel involved in decisions and motivated in achieving goals towards recovery. It also helps them to make plans for their own discharge. In the latest Healthcare Commission National Patient Survey (2004) patients identify delays in the day of discharge home from hospital as a key area where standards can be improved. This toolkit, focuses on the practical steps that health and social care professionals can take to improve discharge. It supports members of the multi-disciplinary team by providing practical advice, factsheets and case studies. The toolkit has been designed and tested with practitioners in the field and is grounded in the reality of day to day practice. At least 80% of patients discharged from hospital can be classified as simple discharges: they are discharged to their own home and have simple ongoing health care needs which can be met without complex planning. Changing the way in which discharge occurs for this large group of patients will have a major impact on patient flow and effective use of the bed capacity. It can mean the difference between a system where patients experience long delays or one where delays are minimal, with patients fully informed about when they will be able to leave hospital.The Department of Health has also launched checklists that will contribute to more effective discharge as part of a total approach to improving bed management and flow of patients into and out of hospital.
The Government response to the House of Commons Health Committee third report of session 2013-14: After Francis: making a difference; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- TSO
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 42
- Place of publication:
- London
The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry, led by Robert Francis QC, reported in February 2013. This is one of four documents which build on the Government’s initial response to the Inquiry, ‘Patients first and foremost’ (published March 2013). It answers questions raised by the Health Committee in its report ‘After Francis: making a difference’, and seeks to describe how the Government intends to build on the rapid early progress. It is published alongside, and reflects the Government’s full response to the Inquiry (‘Hard truths: the journey to putting patients first’), which responds to all 290 of the Inquiry’s recommendations, the overwhelming majority of which are accepted. (Edited publisher abstract)
National minimum standards for care homes for older people: a statement of national minimum standards published by the Secretary of State for Health under Section 23(1) of the Care Standards Act 2000
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 63p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document contains a statement of national minimum standards published by the Secretary of State for Health under section 23(1) of the Care Standards Act 2000. The statement is applicable to care homes (as defined by section 3 of the Act) which provide accommodation, together with nursing or personal care, for older people. Contains standards on: choice of home; health and personal care; daily life and social activities; complaints and protection; environment; staffing; and management and administration.
The NHS plan: a plan for investment; a plan for reform; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health by Command of Her Majesty July 2000
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 146p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Details the Governments far reaching programme of reform of the NHS. The plan aims to create an NHS in which the patient is the most important person, with care and treatment designed around their needs, at their convenience. Includes sections on options for funding; investing in NHS facilities; investing in staff; changed systems; changes between health and social services; changes for NHS doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists and other staff; changes for patients; changes in the relationship between the NHS and the private sector; cutting waiting for treatment; improving health and reducing inequality; clinical priorities; dignity, security and independence in old age; and the reform programme.
Disclosure of criminal background: proprietors and managers of residential care homes and nursing homes
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, GREAT BRITAIN. Home Office, GREAT BRITAIN. Welsh Office
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 9p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Circular introducing procedures for checking with police the possible criminal background of applicants for registration as owners or managers of residential care homes, and nursing homes, and as managers in local authority homes. This circular to be cancelled on 31 March 1996.