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Developing a list of core competencies for medical aspects of healthcare delivery in care homes: scoping review and Delphi process (2023)
Journal Article

Background Care Home residents live with frailty and multiple long-term conditions. Their medical management is complex and specialised. We set out to develop a list of core competencies for doctors providing medical care in long-term care homes. M... Read More about Developing a list of core competencies for medical aspects of healthcare delivery in care homes: scoping review and Delphi process.

A qualitative exploratory study of training requirements for general practitioners attending older people resident in care homes (2022)
Journal Article

Purpose: Older people who reside in care homes have varying access and quality of medical care; in the UK, this is provided by general practitioners (GPs). The authors aimed to explore the experiences of trainee GPs in delivering integrated care and... Read More about A qualitative exploratory study of training requirements for general practitioners attending older people resident in care homes.

Improving the Quality of Care in Care Homes Using the Quality Improvement Collaborative Approach: Lessons Learnt from Six Projects Conducted in the UK and The Netherlands (2020)
Journal Article

The Breakthrough Series Quality Improvement Collaborative (QIC) initiative is a well-developed and widely used approach, but most of what we know about it has come from healthcare settings. In this article, those leading QICs to improve care in care... Read More about Improving the Quality of Care in Care Homes Using the Quality Improvement Collaborative Approach: Lessons Learnt from Six Projects Conducted in the UK and The Netherlands.

Quality improvement in long-term care settings: a scoping review of effective strategies used in care homes (2020)
Journal Article

Purpose We conducted a scoping review of quality improvement in care homes. We aimed to identify participating occupational groups and methods for evaluation. Secondly, we aimed to describe resident-level interventions and which outcomes were measur... Read More about Quality improvement in long-term care settings: a scoping review of effective strategies used in care homes.

Protocol for a realist review of General Practitioners’ Role in Advancing Practice in Care Homes (GRAPE study) (2020)
Journal Article

Introduction Older people who live in care homes have a high level of need with complex health conditions. In addition to providing medical care to residents, general practitioners (GPs) play a role as gatekeeper for access to services, as well as l... Read More about Protocol for a realist review of General Practitioners’ Role in Advancing Practice in Care Homes (GRAPE study).

Ethnic disparity in access to the memory assessment service between South Asian and white British older adults in the United Kingdom: A cohort study (2020)
Journal Article

Background: Equality of access to memory assessment services by older adults from ethnic minorities is both an ethical imperative and a public health priority. Objective: To investigate whether timeliness of access to memory assessment service diffe... Read More about Ethnic disparity in access to the memory assessment service between South Asian and white British older adults in the United Kingdom: A cohort study.

Improving community support for older people’s needs through commissioning third sector services: a qualitative study (2019)
Journal Article

Aim: This exploratory study of commissioning third sector services for older people aimed to explore whether service data was fed back to commissioners and whether this could improve intelligence about the population and hence inform future commissio... Read More about Improving community support for older people’s needs through commissioning third sector services: a qualitative study.

Citizens’ juries: when older adults deliberate on the benefits and risks of smart health and smart homes (2019)
Journal Article

Background: Technology-enabled healthcare or smart health has provided a wealth of products and services to enable older people to monitor and manage their own health conditions at home, thereby maintaining independence, whilst also reducing healthca... Read More about Citizens’ juries: when older adults deliberate on the benefits and risks of smart health and smart homes.

Quality improvement collaborative aiming for Proactive HEAlthcare of Older People in Care Homes (PEACH): a realist evaluation protocol (2018)
Journal Article

Introduction: This protocol describes a study of a Quality Improvement Collaborative (QIC) to support implementation and delivery of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) in UK care homes. The QIC will be formed of health and social care professio... Read More about Quality improvement collaborative aiming for Proactive HEAlthcare of Older People in Care Homes (PEACH): a realist evaluation protocol.

Using comprehensive geriatric assessment for quality improvements in healthcare of older people in UK care homes: protocol for realist review within Proactive Healthcare of Older People in Care Homes (PEACH) study (2017)
Journal Article

Introduction Care home residents are relatively high users of healthcare resources and may have complex needs. Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) may benefit care home residents and improve efficiency of care delivery. This is an approach t... Read More about Using comprehensive geriatric assessment for quality improvements in healthcare of older people in UK care homes: protocol for realist review within Proactive Healthcare of Older People in Care Homes (PEACH) study.