Enhanced health in care homes is one of the new care models set out in the NHS five year forward view. Eighteen months on from the launch of the six vanguards, this conference assessed their progress in providing older people with better, more joined-up care and rehabilitation services.
Dr Radcliffe Lisk, Consultant Care of the Elderly (Specialty Lead), Clinical Lead for Orthogeriatrics, Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital Foundation Trust and Dr Keefai Yeong, Consultant Care of the Elderly, Clinical Lead Fracture Liaison Service Clinical Lead for Doctors Advancing Patient Safety (DAPS), Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital Foundation Trust Interventions to reduce unplanned admissions from care home settings
Janice James, Director and System Integrator, Provider Alliance (Wakefield), Joy Allen, Care Homes Manager, Hemsworth Park (Wakefield), Four Seasons Health Care and Lesley Wagstaff, Community Centre Manager, St George Community Centre (Wakefield) Connected care in Wakefield
Professor Graham Stokes, Global Director of Dementia Care, Bupa and Honorary Visiting Professor of Person-Centred Dementia Care, Bradford University Living in a care home with dementia
Martin Ford, Vanguard Programme Manager, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and Rachel Binks, Nurse Consultant, Digital and Acute Care, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Integrating telemedicine into mental health care
Session three: Breakouts
Viccie Nelson, Programme Director, Sutton Vanguard, Corrine Campion, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Supportive Care Home Team, Sutton Community Health Services, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and Dr Anna-Marie Stevens, Palliative Care Team, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust An innovative and integrated model of care provision to improve end-of-life in care homes
Annabel Foulger, GSF Social Care Programme Lead, Gold Standards Framework and Louise Bruce, Owner, Melrose Care Home Advance care planning
Dr Martin J Vernon, Consultant Geriatrician and Associate Head of Division, Division of Medicine and Community Services, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and National Clinical Director for Older People and Integrated Person Centred Care, NHS England and Dr Dawn Moody, GP, Associate National Clinical Director for Older People and Integrated Person-Centred Care, NHS England
