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Post 67...Balancing Care Quality and Cost Efficiency as a Specialist Homecare Provider

Post 67...Balancing Care Quality and Cost Efficiency as a Specialist Homecare Provider

The UK’s care system has undergone a significant shift towards home care in recent years, aligning with the push for people to receive treatment and support closer to home. As British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak highlighted, "not everybody needs to be in the hospital – they would prefer to

Post 57…3 Ways older people can stay away from hospital this winter

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Post 57…3 Ways older people can stay away from hospital this winter

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas; well, certainly in the shops it is as the mince pies have been on the shelves since September! It is, however, not looking quite so festive in the hospital wards... Amidst the newly sprung decorations and Xmas songs on the radio,

Post No26…Government pledges £200 million for care home beds, but where are they?

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Post No26…Government pledges £200 million for care home beds, but where are they?

Introduction The government has recently announced a plan to try and ease the pressure on the NHS by block buying beds in care homes, with the aim of increasing patient discharge from the ever encumbered hospitals. This sounds, in principle, to be a good idea, but it is really sustainable

Post No20...Why Winter Pressures and Bed Blocking Matter - Infographic

Post No20...Why Winter Pressures and Bed Blocking Matter - Infographic

Following on from a previous post about winter pressures, the inspiration for this infographic came from an article by Daily Mail Health Editor Kate Pickles, who had some rather scary statistics in her front-page discussion on the subject on 14thNovember 2022. Every year, hospitals are pushed further to the limit,

Post No18...Winter Pressures in hospitals – why avoiding hospitals is important for the elderly.

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Post No18...Winter Pressures in hospitals – why avoiding hospitals is important for the elderly.

Introduction: Before getting going on this post, it is worth noting how much the NHS and its staff do for us as a nation. The staff heroically work long hours in challenging conditions, with more needing to be done to support them at government level. Anyway, rant over… At this

Post No4….Hospital Discharging on the D2A Pathway – What is it?

Post No4….Hospital Discharging on the D2A Pathway – What is it?

Introduction: In this post I will be explaining the purpose of the D2A (Discharge 2 Assess) pathway and how it is funded. The D2A process is often something of an unknown to families, although they may have heard the term being used by the hospital discharge team at some stage.