Inquiries and reports
RQIA conducted unannounced inspections at Northern Ireland's 11 acute hospitals, speaking to over 350 patients and their relatives, observing practice and reviewing patients' notes. This review makes 14 regional recommendations across the areas to improve the quality of care for older people in Northern Ireland's hospitals.
Inquiries and reports
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) was established to improve social care services for adults and children in the United Kingdom. This report discusses nutrition and hydration from the perspective of social care with the emphasis on simple practice points which could be implemented to improve the nutrition of the frail elderly population.
Inquiries and reports
This report focuses on work to identify frailty in 4 locations in Scotland. The purpose is to describe what is happening in each location, reflect on the factors that have helped make their approaches successful, identify any obstacles the teams encountered and draw out key principles.
Inquiries and reports
The National Dementia Strategy for England (NDSE), the first of its kind in England, came to end in April this year.
Inquiries and reports
Our fragmented health and care system is not meeting the needs of older people, who are most likely to suffer problems with co-ordination of care and delays in transitions between services. This report from the King’s Fund sets out a framework and tools to help local service leaders improve the care they provide for older people across nine key components.
Inquiries and reports
This important report from The Kings Fund authored by David Oliver, Catherine Foot, and Richard Humphries describes some of the problems with systems of care for frailer older people and sets out a framework and tools to help local service leaders improve the care they provide for older people.
Inquiries and reports
This NCEPOD report from 2010 presents a review of a sample of deaths following emergency and elective surgery in older people.
Inquiries and reports
This report from the Care Quality Commission describes findings from the inspections of care homes relating to nutrition and dignity in 2012.
Inquiries and reports
This report from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) outlines summary guidance and recommendations for safe nursing staffing in terms of skills mix and overall levels on inpatient wards for older people.
Inquiries and reports
Safety of medicines in the care home was a cross-sector partnership project, funded by the Department of Health, which aimed to improve the medicines pathway for residents in care homes.
