Reducing emergency admissions from care homes: a measure of success for the NHS Long Term Plan?
Jennifer Dixon asks how the NHS Long Term plan can support efforts to reduce emergency admissions from care homes.
While many are living healthy lives, as we age the likelihood of needing acute care or ongoing care (for example, while living with long-term conditions) grows. The ageing population creates new challenges for society – as demonstrated by the increase in demand for NHS services and social care.
Our recent work and content on this topic is listed below.
Jennifer Dixon asks how the NHS Long Term plan can support efforts to reduce emergency admissions from care homes.
Using insight from novel data analysis has the potential to maximise the impact of improvement programmes. Here, Filipe Santos explores new findings on care home residents’ use of emergency services.
Examining whether enhanced support had an effect on hospital utilisation for new residents who moved into care homes in Nottingham City.
Evaluating the early effects on hospital use from the first phase of an enhanced support initiative for older people living in care homes in Wakefield.
New analysis from the Improvement Analytics Unit has found that more than four in ten emergency admissions to hospital involving care home residents could be potentially avoided .
Combined learnings from national linked datasets and focused care home evaluations in Rushcliffe, Sutton, Wakefield and Nottingham City.
A study comparing computer assisted mortality scores and that of clinical judgement.
A subgroup analysis of a retrospective matched cohort study
Project that will use behavioural science expertise to enhance the efficacy and scale of a catheter care bundle, and investigate whether behavioural change interventions can encourage early checking o...
Enhancing support for care home residents can result in different outcomes in different types of homes. Therese Lloyd explains how context matters.
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