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Senectus
support SERCO on Chronic Disease Management
project
InterRAI UK/Senectus is currently working with
Serco Health, supporting their development of a
whole systems Long Term Condition Management (LTCM
or chronic disease management) service, with an
initial focus on a Community Matron Case
Management Service. This service will be piloted
in Newham, East London and will then be offered
nationally.
This
service includes full informatics support,
including the use of workflow tools and
incorporating the Minimum Data Set Comprehensive
Assessment for Home Care (MDS-HC) as a
specialist "Long Term Condition Holistic
Assessment". This includes the automatic
generation of Client Assessment Protocols (CAPs)
and various Scales as an aid to the Community
Matrons in the development of an electronic,
shared, comprehensive care plan for their
patients. The system is expected to piloted from
early September 2006 and go live with a
controlled roll-out from early December 2006
across the whole of the Newham Health and Social
Services economy.
As
the LTCM process is clarified, it is expected
that other specialist assessments will be
required. These will also be automated as
required. For this reason, Serco have elected to
use the new "Integrated Suite" version
of the MDS-HC; the first such implementation in
the UK. The Integrated Suite is the latest and
most powerful incarnation of the MDS, enabling
complete data compatibility between Home Care,
Residential, Mental Health and other assessment
variants.
Serco's
Dr John Heavens ( Director - Health Informatics)
said: "We are very excited to be working
with interRAI UK/Senectus as we believe their
Integrated Suit of assessment tools provides a
strong foundation to the critical informatics
support required for successful LTCM ".
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24/05/06
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Iain Carpenter appointed Clinical Lead on
Records Standards for HIU
Iain Carpenter has been appointed Clinical Lead
on Records Standards for the Health Informatics
Unit (HIU) at the Royal College of Physicians,
London. With
his appointment to the HIU, Professor Carpenter
will use his clinical knowledge, especially of
older people and his understanding of managing
large data sets, alongside his experience of
what data needs to be collected to advise on
records standards. ‘This appointment signals a
commitment to restructure the way that clinical
data is recorded to improve performance
standards for patients. Performance standards
are currently crude measures of admissions and
discharges, diseases and deaths. With the new
technologies we will be able to examine measures
that mean something to patients; for example,
the person with severe arthritis who has a heart
attack and is treated by the NHS as a whole, for
all their problems, not just the heart attack.
Instead of having to mount time-consuming and
expensive data collection exercises, we will be
able to use routine data that policymakers can
use for planning improved services. The new
technologies offer exciting opportunities to
expand the use of primary data and improve
services.’
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25/01/06
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Databeacon
for Senectus reports
Senectus
now offers interactive online reporting using
the award-winning Databeacon software.
Organisations providing healthcare to older
people, may view their MDS assessment data
online via secure server in a variety of forms
including charts and data lists. The power of
this system lies in an intuitive interface,
permitting users to quickly and easily obtain
the critical information they need. Reports are
managed centrally by Senectus, who can also
generate pre-defined views of your data
according to your personal needs.
For more information, please contact Dr
Mathew Mackenzie at Senectus, or visit:
www.databeacon.com
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05/01/06
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Intermediate Care article
The following paper by the Senectus team was
recently published:
M. Mackenzie, G. I. Carpenter,
K. Kotiadis. 2005. Profiling Intermediate
Care Patients using the Single Assessment
Process: A Road to Better Service Provision?. Journal of
Integrated Care. 13 (4) August 2005, pp 43-48.
This paper demonstrates that three
intermediate care services in Shepway, East Kent
each cater for distinct patient groups, and that
data from a Single Assessment Process (SAP) tool
can be used to differentiate between them...
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here to order
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22/08.05
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Business
enterprise award for Senectus, TSO and IBM
A 2005 University of Kent Enterprise
Commendation Award for collaboration between
University and industry partners was presented
to the University's Centre for Health Services
Studies (CHSS) Senectus team, The Stationery
Office (TSO) and IBM. Together, these three
organisations have produced paper and electronic
Department of Health Single Assessment Process
manuals and assessment forms for the NHS and
social care sectors.
Click
here for full story and photos
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06/07/05
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Using the MDS to measure depression - New
article
Koehler M, Rabinowitz T,
Hirdes J P, Stones M, Carpenter G I, Fries B E,
Morris J N, Jones R N. Measuring depression in
nursing home residents with the MDS and GDS: an
observational psychometric study. BMC Geriatrics
2005, 5:1. Click
here for more information
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11/05/05
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Intermediate Care article
The following paper by the Senectus team was
recently published:
K. Kotiadis, G. I. Carpenter, M. Mackenzie.
2004. Examining the Effectiveness and
Suitability of Referral and Assessment in
Intermediate Care Services. Journal of
Integrated Care. 12 (4) August 2004, pp 42-48.
This paper demonstrates how a single
assessment tool can be linked to intermediate
care services eligibility criteria to examine
referrals and admissions to these services...
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here to order
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21/09/04
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MREC approval
Metropolitan MREC has given approval for the
Senectus database to be held at the University
of Kent. Researchers will be able to access the
consented, anonymised data stored in the
database, provided ethical approval for each
study has been obtained.
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27/05/04
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Lack of national guidance blamed for delays to
single assessments
In an article by Community Care Magazine,
Iain Carpenter highlights some of the potential
problems in the way the SAP may be implemented. Full
article at www.communitycare.co.uk
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23/03/04
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New MDS Training Courses
MDS-RAI training for care homes Risby Bury
St Edmunds. Planned October 2003.
MDS-RAI training for Cheshire Contract Office,
Chester. Planned January 2004.
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27/01/04
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New Journal Article: Nursing Care Eligibility
using the MDS
Anderson, W. & Bungay, H. (2004)
Assessing patients' eligibility for fully funded
nursing care.
Nursing Times, 100, 2, 38-41.
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22/01/04
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ICON Final Reports ready for download
Download full report here (1.3M): MS
Word format
Acrobat
PDF format
Download summary report here (0.4M): MS
Word format
Acrobat
PDF format
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02/12/03
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MDS-HC Accreditted for SAP
The Department of Health accredited the MDS-HC for
use as a national Single Assessment Process
assessment instrument in November 2003. www.doh.gov.uk/scg/sap/sap_accreditation040903.doc
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12/12/03 |
MDS-HC Form from TSO
The
Stationery Office recently published the MDS-HC as the SAP
Ability Assessment for Older People together
with the manuals that include guidance on use of
the MDS-HC across all levels of the SAP.
The instrument is also being published as an
electronic form which will enable organisations
to migrate to full electronic systems in a
stepwise manner over time and across the
organisation. www.care-assessment.org.uk
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17/11/03
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MDS- RAI in Use
BUPA Care and Westminster Health Care both start
projects using the MDS-RAI prior to rolling out
it out across the nursing homes in their group.
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17/11/03 |
Iain in Australia
Iain Carpenter was recently invited to Brisbane and
Canberra for meetings on Assessment, Casemix and
Intermediate Care. He presented on the
MDS, the Single Assessment Process and community
care in Europe. The visit included
presentations to researchers and staff at the
Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane,
Queensland Department of Health, Australian
Ministry of Health in Canberra and a keynote
speech at the National Demonstration Hospitals
Program Conference in Brisbane.
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17/11/03 |
Intermediate Care Workshop - update
A workshop was held the 2nd of October for
intermediate care staff in East Kent, to discuss
the conceptual framework of their systems as
part of the preparations for the introduction of
the Single Assessment Process. Kathy Kotiadis
our operational research analyst began the
workshop by taking about how staff can examine
their systems in a virtual environment using
simulation modeling. She also demonstrated the
simulation model developed as part of the ICON
project.
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06/10/03 |
Printed ICON report now available
A printed version of the ICON Evaluation of
Intermediate Care is now available for those
interested. ICON used computer simulation
modeling to assess the impact of resource changes to intermediate care services in terms
of waiting times and bed availability.
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06/10/03 |
Example residential home subscriber report
An example report is now available for download
from our Products
page in either MS Word (DOC) or Adobe
Acrobat (PDF) format.
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12/08/03 |
Intermediate Care Workshop
A workshop is to be held during September (date
to be finalised) for senior health authority
staff, to discuss the use of simulation modeling
as a basis for improving intermediate care in
the region. During the workshop, the simulation
developed as part of the ICON project will be
demonstrated and discussed.
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12/08/03 |
MDS Assessment training. Marion Scholes.
Previously conducted:
Cornwall Care House & Castle Hill House,
Truro (MDS RAI)
St Winifreds Nursing Home, Cardiff (MDS RAI)
West Sussex Forum Ltd, Worthing (MDS RAI)
Oxford Teaching Nursing Home, Oxford (MDS RAI)
CART, Day Hosp, Rehab. ward and Residential Home
Rehab. facility Christchuch, Bournemouth (MDS
HC)
Southampton (MDS HC)
Planned:
Widnes, Cheshire (MDS RAI) 6th August 2003, CLS
Cheshire (MDS RAI), Older People's Services,
Chester, September
Ipswich (MDS RAI), 1st October.
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25/07/03 |
Seminar presented by Iain Carpenter, 01/05/03
Iain Carpenter presents the seminar: Older people in
Europe: comparing the UK experience: evidence
from an EU funded 5th Framework Project, on Thursday, 1 May 2003
at 9.30 am.
The seminar will be held at The University
of Kent, Cornwallis NW, Seminar Room 6.
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17/04/03 |
Rehabilitation strategy workshop, 19/02/03
The Senectus team facilitated a workshop on the
19th of February at the University of Kent, to
explore issues surrounding "access to
rehabilitation". The aim of the workshop
was to create a brainstorming forum for people
working in the NHS, in order to understand local
goals, issues and problems relating to
rehabilitation.
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17/04/03 |
