Implementing the NICE guideline on Transition between inpatient hospital settings and community or care home settings for adults with social care needs

"Overall, it is expected that implementing the guideline will be cost saving. Implementing the guideline is likely to have resource implications (both costs and savings) for health and social care commissioners and for providers"

Implementing the NICE guideline on Transition between inpatient hospital settings and community or care home settings for adults with social care needs (NG27) 
NICE (Costing statement)
December 2015

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Quick guides: transforming urgent and emergency care services in England

"NHS England and partners have published a series of quick guides to support local health and care systems. The guides provide practical tips, case studies and links to useful documents, which can be used to implement solutions to commonly experienced issues. Use the information to manage upcoming winter pressures and plan for 2016 and beyond."

• Better use of care at home 
• Clinical input to care homes 
• Identifying local care home placements
• Improving hospital discharge into the care sector 
• Technology in care homes
• Sharing patient information 

Quick guide: Transforming urgent and emergency care services in England
NHS England
2015

All six guides can be accessed here.

People’s experiences of dementia care as they move between care homes and hospitals

"As the report makes clear, there are some examples of excellent care across hospitals and care homes in England. These are services that recognise that a personalised approach is the key to high-quality care for people living with dementia."

Cracks in the pathway: People’s experiences of dementia care as they move between care homes and hospitals
Care Quality Commission
October 2014

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Care leaver strategy

"Care leavers should expect the same level of care and support that other young people get from their parent."

Care leaver strategy: a cross-departmental strategy for young people leaving care
HM Government
October 2013

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Examining the barriers to and tensions in delivering effective healthcare in UK care homes

"Care home staff played an important, yet little recognised, role in delivering healthcare to residents."

Examining the barriers to and tensions in delivering effective healthcare in UK care homes: a qualitative study
I Robbins, A Gordon, J Dyas, P Logan, J Gladman
BMJ Open, 2013;3:e003178

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Delivering major improvements in dementia care and research by 2015

"The NHS routinely collects data on patients as they receive care, which is a rich source of information about how disease and treatments work. The information collected includes data on biomarkers, diagnosis, treatment and clinical outcomes. This information is vital to understanding how the NHS and Social Care system can improve outcomes for patients, yet it remains a relatively untapped resource."

The Prime Minister's Challenge on dementia: Delivering major improvements in dementia care and research by 2015: annual report of progress
Department of Health
May 2013

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Prevention and control of infection in care homes

"The steps taken in care homes to protect residents and staff from infection represent an important element in the quality of care, particularly as some infections have the capacity to spread within environments where susceptible people share eating and living accommodation."

Prevention and control of infection in care homes -  an information resource
Department of Health, Health Protection Agency
February 2013

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Delivering Dilnot: paying for elderly care

"The Government needs to be clear in its message that a reformed capped funding system is the most appropriate way of dealing with a broken social care system, a crisis that has Delivering Dilnot lasted over ten years."

Delivering Dilnot: paying for elderly care
P. Burstow (editor)
CentreForum
January 2013

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Delivering dignity

"We have to work with older people to shape services around their needs, and listen to patients and residents and their families, carers and advocates, so we learn from their feedback and continually improve dignity in care."

Delivering dignity: securing dignity in care for older people in hospitals and care homes
NHS Confederation
June 2012

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Safeguarding and quality in commissioning care homes

"The government have identified six guiding principles on safeguarding which seek to increase the protection for those most at risk in society."

Safeguarding and quality in commissioning care homes
Social Care Institute for Excellence
February 2012

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A systematic review of integrated working between care homes and health care services

"This study aims to evaluate the different integrated approaches to health care services supporting older people in care homes, and identify barriers and facilitators to integrated working."

A systematic review of integrated working between care homes and health care services
SL Davies, C Goodman, F Bunn, C Victor, A Dickinson, S Iliffe, H Gage, W Martin, K Froggatt
BMC Health Services Research, 2011, 11:320

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