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.

Patient safety risks associated with telecare

"There is a need to better identify and describe patient safety risks related to telecare services to improve understandings of how to avoid and minimize potential harm to patients. This process can be aided by reframing known telecare implementation challenges and user experiences of telecare with the help of a human factors systems approach to patient safety."

Patient safety risks associated with telecare: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of the literature
V Guise, J Anderson, S Wiig
BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:588  doi:10.1186/s12913-014-0588-z

Read more here.

Professional standards for homecare services in England

"The Royal Pharmaceutical Society Professional Standards for Homecare Services in England aims to ensure that patients experience a consistent quality of homecare services that will protect them from incidences of avoidable harm and help them to get the best outcomes from their medicines"

Handbook for homecare services in England: professional standards
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
May 2014

Read more here.