Frailty nurse and GP-led models of care in care homes: the role of contextual factors impacting Enhanced health in care homes framework implementation.

Background: The Enhanced Health for Care homes (EHCH) framework is an innovative response to provide more proactive, preventative approaches to care for residents living in care homes. It involves co-producing a shared vision with primary care. As part of EHCH a UK clinical commissioning group supported GP's in two localities to implement their preferred delivery approach involving a new Frailty Nurse-led (FN-led) model in care homes alongside an existing General Practitioner-led (GP-led) model.

North Tyneside initiative to introduce a new nursing role in care homes.

describes plans to appoint advanced care practitioners to improve care for residents and support nurses by offering professional development opportunities and enabling career progression.

Developing and sustaining nurses' service improvement capability: a phenomenological study.

Background: Service improvement to enhance care quality is a key nursing responsibility and developing sustainable skills and knowledge to become confident, capable service improvement practitioners is important for nurses in order to continually improve practice. How this happens is an under-researched area.

Aim: A hermeneutic, longitudinal study in Northern England aimed to better understand the service improvement lived experiences of participants as they progressed from undergraduate adult nursing students to registrants.

The role of the registered nurse in supporting frailty in care homes.

People in nursing and residential homes are more likely to suffer frailty. Registered nurses are a crucial component of the care delivery service and can offer support to patients who have complex care needs and comorbidities and are at risk of unplanned admissions to secondary care. This article explores frailty and the role of the nurse in assessing for frailty.

Public health: PART 4 Behaviour change tools.

Lynn Craig, Subject Lead, Adult Nursing, and Senior Lecturer ( L.craig@northumbria.ac.

Public health: PART 3 Behaviour change.

Emma Senior, Senior Lecturer/Programme Lead, Adult Nursing ( emma.senior@northumbria.ac.

Public health: PART 2 Brief interventions.

Emma Senior, Senior Lecturer/Programme Lead, Adult Nursing ( emma.senior@northumbria.ac.

Public health: PART 1 Making Every Contact Count.

Lynn Craig, Subject Lead, Adult Nursing, and Senior Lecturer ( L.craig@northumbria.ac.

Service improvement in health care: a literature review.

Service improvements in health care can improve provision, make cost savings, streamline services and reduce clinical errors. However, on its own it may not be adequate for improving patient outcomes and quality of care. The complexity of healthcare provision makes service improvement a challenge, and there is little evidence on whether improvement initiatives change healthcare practices and improve care.

A practical review of energy saving technology for ageing populations.

Fuel poverty is a critical issue for a globally ageing population. Longer heating/cooling requirements combine with declining incomes to create a problem in need of urgent attention. One solution is to deploy technology to help elderly users feel informed about their energy use, and empowered to take steps to make it more cost effective and efficient.