Acute wards for adults of working age and psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs) at West London Mental Health NHS Trust have made good progress in some key areas. The trust had undertaken considerable work to better manage patient flow. This had resolved the issue of patients receiving care on one ward while sleeping on another ward.
Publication of report on closure of Bootham Park Hospital and eventual transfer to TEWV. Please contact the library to receive a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals has upgraded the overall rating of 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust from Requires Improvement to Good following an inspection in July this year.
NELFT's HQ at CEME houses over 70 agile workspaces, six training rooms, seven meeting rooms and the boardroom. Our executive directors and leadership teams have also embraced agile working. They no longer have their own offices and utilise the open plan workplaces, meeting pods and shared facilities. The building was first used by NELFT staff in November 2016 and officially opened by Roy Lilley and the Mayors of our four London boroughs in February 2017.
Open access. The positive deviance approach seeks to identify and learn from those who demonstrate exceptional performance. This study sought to explore how multidisciplinary teams deliver exceptionally safe care on medical wards for older people.
During the past decade, the concept of Lean has spread rapidly within the healthcare sector, but there is a lack of instruments that can measure staff’s perceptions of Lean adoption. Thus, the aim of the present study was to develop a questionnaire measuring Lean in healthcare, based on Liker’s description of Lean, by adapting an existing instrument developed for the service sector.
uality improvement (QI) is becoming an important focal point for health systems. There is increasing interest among health system stakeholders to learn from and share experiences on the use of QI methods and approaches in their work. Yet there are few easily accessible, online repositories dedicated to documenting QI activity. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Patient participation in healthcare is recognised internationally as essential for consumer-centric, high-quality healthcare delivery. Its measurement as part of continuous quality improvement requires development of agreed standards and measurable indicators. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
No standardised tools for assessing the quality of specialist mental health supported accommodation services exist. To address this, we adapted the Quality Indicator for Rehabilitative care-QuIRC-that was originally developed to assess the quality of longer term inpatient and community based mental health facilities. The QuIRC, which is completed by the service manager and gives ratings of seven domains of care, has good psychometric properties.
Adherence to medicines has been identified as a key issue by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain,1 the WHO2 and, most recently, by the UK Academy of Medical Sciences.3 Estimates of adherence vary widely but are often reported to be as low as 50%.4 When a patient does not take their prescribed medicines as intended, they may not derive the expected outcomes. As well as implications for the individual patient, this can result in increased costs associated with patient hospitalisations or avoidable escalation in other costs of care.3 It may also result in unused medicines, the cost of which is estimated at £300 million per year in England alone.3 To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
If you've been using the imageIO.write method to save JPEG images, you may notice that some image lose quality. This is because you can't instruct the imagIO.write method to apply a certain compression quality to the images.
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In April 2017 we reviewed the evidence for corticosteroid treatment for people with severe alcohol-related hepatitis and changed recommendation 1.3.3.1.
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust has today welcomed the publication of its latest CQC inspection, which - for the first time in the Trust's history - rates every Combined Service as "Good" or "Outstanding". The Trust's overall rating is "Good".
The results mean that Combined Healthcare is the best rated mental health trust across the whole of the Midlands and East of England and third highest in the whole country - only 1 of 3 with every service rated at least Good and at least two Outstanding.
AEs are defined as those aspects of the care experience that should always occur when people and family members interact with healthcare professionals and the health care delivery system. [One of Lancashire Care's Adult LD teams volunteered to take part and co-designed AEs with service users and carers, to understand their priorities in care]
Picker has published a report which outlines the key learnings from NHS trusts involved in the scale-up and spread of Always Events.
Always Events are aspects of the patient experience that are so important to patients and family members that health care providers must aim to perform them consistently for every individual, every time.
Research suggests customers are more satisfied when a member of staff takes constructive action to resolve an issue rather than simply providing an empathetic response. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.