HC 401 - Managing the Care of People with Long-Term Conditions

2014-07-03
HC 401 - Managing the Care of People with Long-Term Conditions

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  • Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Health Committee
  • Publisher: The Stationery Office
  • ISBN: 0215073274
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 228

15 million NHS patients in England with long-term conditions such as diabetes, arthritis and asthma account for 70% of the annual expenditure of the NHS in England. One projection estimating that the bill for treatment of long-term conditions will require the NHS to find £4 billion more each year by 2016. Increasingly, patients do not have a single long-term condition but live with two or more conditions, complicating treatment and adding to its cost. The Committee strongly supports the development of individual care planning for people with long-term conditions, based on the principles successfully demonstrated in the NHS House of Care programme. Care planning approaches will involve GPs, community health services and specialists sitting down with the patient to draw up a personalised plan for the care required, which includes the support needed to help the patient manage his or her own condition. The challenge, though, of introducing personalised care planning for 15 million people is substantial. The Committee looked at the prevailing view that services to treat long-term conditions should be moved out of hospitals and into primary and community care. To provide effective care for these conditions, services have to be maintained across all settings, from support in the home through to acute specialist care, and many conditions will continue to require specialist services delivered in hospital. Effective management of long-term conditions also requires collaboration with other government providers, such as housing and transport services.

HC 350 - Complaints and Raising Concerns

2015
HC 350 - Complaints and Raising Concerns

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  • Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee
  • Publisher: The Stationery Office
  • ISBN: 0215081080
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 52

Most of those who complain about NHS services do not seek financial redress. They do so because they wish to have their concerns and experiences understood and for any failings to be acknowledged and put right so that others do not suffer the same avoidable harm. Where such errors occur, patients and their families deserve to be met with a system which is open to complaints, supports them through the process and which delivers a timely apology, explanation and a determination to learn from mistakes. The current system for complaints handling however, remains variable. Too many complaints are mishandled with people encountering poor communication or at worst, a defensive and complicated system which results in a complete breakdown in trust and a failure to improve patient safety. The Committee welcomes the progress made since their last report, but in this, the Committee's final report on complaints and concerns in this Parliament, an overview is set out of the developments and recommendations to date as well as those expected in 2015. The Committee also makes a number of recommendations where further action is required.

HC 845 - Impact Of Physical Activity And Diet On Health

2015
HC 845 - Impact Of Physical Activity And Diet On Health

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  • Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Health Committee
  • Publisher: The Stationery Office
  • ISBN: 0215084713
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 69

Diet, obesity, and physical activity all have important impacts on health. For too long however, physical activity has been seen merely in the light of its benefits in tackling obesity. A core message from this inquiry is the compelling evidence that physical activity in its own right has huge health benefits totally independent of a person's weight. The importance of this - regardless of weight, age, gender or other factors - needs to be clearly communicated. Interventions focused on encouraging individuals to change their behaviour with regard to diet and physical activity need to be underpinned by broader, population-level measures. Whilst both are important, population-level interventions have the advantage of impacting on far greater numbers than could ever benefit from individual interventions. The Committee recommends that the next Government prioritises prevention, health promotion and early intervention to tackle the health inequalities and avoidable harm resulting from poor diet and physical inactivity. The Committee regards it as inexplicable and unacceptable that the NHS is now spending more on bariatric surgery for obesity than on a national roll-out of intensive lifestyle intervention programmes that were first shown to cut obesity and prevent diabetes over a decade ago. All tiers of weight management services should be universally available and individual clinicians should use every opportunity to help their patients to recognise and address the problems caused by obesity and poor diet, and to promote the benefits of physical activity.

The Integrated Case Management Manual

2018-06-14
The Integrated Case Management Manual

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  • Author: Roger G. Kathol
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319747428
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 343

Thoroughly revised and updated since its initial publication in 2010, the second edition of this gold standard guide for case managers again helps readers enhance their ability to work with complex, multimorbid patients, to apply and document evidence-based assessments, and to advocate for improved quality and safe care for all patients. Much has happened since Integrated Case Management (ICM), now Value-Based Integrated Case Management (VB-ICM), was first introduced in the U.S. in 2010. The Integrated Case Management Manual: Valued-Based Assistance to Complex Medical and Behavioral Health Patients, 2nd Edition emphasizes the field has now moved from “complexity assessments” to “outcome achievement” for individuals/patients with health complexity. It also stresses that the next steps in VB-ICM must be to implement a standardized process, which documents, analyzes, and reports the impact of VB-ICM services in removing patient barriers to health improvement, enhancing quality and care coordination, and lowering the financial impact to patients, providers, and employer groups. Written by two expert case managers who have used VB-ICM in their large fully disseminated VB-ICM program and understand its practical deployment and use, the second edition also includes two authors with backgrounds as physician support personnel to case managers working with complex individuals. This edition builds on the consolidation of biopsychosocial and health system case management activities that were emphasized in the first edition. A must-have resource for anyone in the field, The Integrated Case Management Manual: Value-Based Assistance to Complex Medical and Behavioral Health Patients, 2nd Edition is an essential reference for not only case managers but all clinicians and allied personnel concerned with providing state-of-the-art, value-based integrated case management.

Index Medicus

2004
Index Medicus

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  • Category : Medicine
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1940

Vols. for 1963- include as pt. 2 of the Jan. issue: Medical subject headings.

Textbook of Diabetes

2023
Textbook of Diabetes

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  • Author: Richard I. G. Holt
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 1119697425
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1236

Preceded by Textbook of diabetes / edited by Richard I.G. Holt ... [et al.]. 4th ed. 2010.

Cumulated Index Medicus

1994
Cumulated Index Medicus

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  • Category : Medicine
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1364

Therapeutic Advances in Hospital Medicine

2018-12-26
Therapeutic Advances in Hospital Medicine

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  • Author: Peter Manu
  • Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
  • ISBN: 1496399943
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 363

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the Publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Published in collaboration with American Journal of Therapeutics, Therapeutic Advances in Hospital Medicine: Focus on the Older Adult is a concise, practical reference that helps you provide optimal care to geriatric patients in the hospital setting. Ideal for hospitalists, geriatricians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, this easy-to-read monograph presents expert advice on effectively managing common conditions seen in this growing patient population.

Psychological Approaches to Pain Management

2018-05-07
Psychological Approaches to Pain Management

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  • Author: Dennis C. Turk
  • Publisher: Guilford Publications
  • ISBN: 1462535615
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 610

This authoritative handbook--now significantly revised with more than 50% new material--introduces practitioners and students to the state of the art in psychological interventions for managing pain. Leading experts review the most effective treatment approaches for enhancing patients' coping and self-efficacy and reducing pain-related disability, including cognitive-behavioral therapy, biofeedback, clinical hypnosis, group therapy, and more. Strategies for integrating psychosocial and medical treatments for specific populations are described, with chapters on back pain, headache, cancer, and other prevalent chronic pain disorders. Attention is given to customizing intervention for individual patients, maximizing treatment adherence, and preventing overuse of opioids and other medications. New to This Edition *Chapter on resilience, focusing on mindfulness- and acceptance-based approaches. *Chapters on managing pain with comorbid psychological disorders (posttraumatic stress disorder and substance use disorder). *Chapter on emerging uses of technology. *Even more practitioner friendly: every chapter concludes with bulleted "Clinical Highlights." *Many new authors; extensively revised with over 15 years of research and clinical advances.

An Introduction to Baccalaureate Education for Health Administration

1978
An Introduction to Baccalaureate Education for Health Administration

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  • Author: AUPHA Task Force on Undergraduate Education
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : Health services administration
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 58

37 references to journal articles, proceedings, surveys, reports, and books that appeared between 1969-1978. Intended for high school counselors, potential students, and employees. Also contains list of American undergraduate programs andinformation about Canadian programs. Alphabetical author arrangement. Each entry gives bibliographical information and annotation. No index.