The Care Quality Commission has rated wards for people with learning disabilities or autism provided by Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trusts as Outstanding following its latest inspection.
Determination of phosphate solubilization and plant growth promotion of bacterial isolates from paddy rhizosphere Vinithra Muthaiyan, Saravanan...
IJAAR Published such kinds of Articles in every issue. Here is March 3 issue
This quality standard covers short-term prevention and management of violent and physically threatening behaviour among adults, children and young people with a mental health problem. It applies to settings where mental health, health and social care services are provided. This includes community settings and care received at home. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) has been working to improve care for patients who suffer Sepsis and has been using techniques learnt from the Virginia Mason Institute (VMI) in Seattle, as part of a five-year partnership.
This guideline covers assessing and reducing the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE or blood clots) and deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in people aged 16 and over in hospital. It aims to help healthcare professionals identify people most at risk and describes interventions that can be used to reduce the risk of VTE.
April 2016: Statement 4 describing the use of compression stockings was removed. This is because the guidance from NICE has been updated and the advice on using compression stockings has changed. All other information remains the same.
In the last 10 years or more there has been a proliferation of ‘innovations’ under the guise of improving patient safety and quality improvement. Service and quality improvements have a dominant focus on small-scale projects, incorporating locally collected ‘evidence’ and engaging in small ‘tests of change’ usually using PDSA (Plan, Do, Study, Act) cycles that get scaled up across organisations if considered to be successful....Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Quality improvement initiatives can become bogged down by excessive data collection. Sometimes the question arises—are we doing an adequate job with respect to a recommended practice? Are we complying with some guideline in at least X% of our patients? The perception that one must audit large numbers of charts may present a barrier to initiating local improvement activities. The model for improvement and its Plan–Do–Study–Act (PDSA) cycles typically require frequent data collection to test ideas and refine the planned change strategy. The perception that data collection must involve many patients can lead to insufficiently frequent PDSA cycles.1 In this review, we demonstrate the important contributions that small samples can make to improvement projects, including local audits, PDSA cycles and during broader implementation and evaluation. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens
Open access. The Primary Care Patient Measure of Safety (PC PMOS) is designed to capture patient feedback about the contributing factors to patient safety incidents in primary care. It required further reliability and validity testing to produce a robust tool intended to improve safety in practice.
This guide aims to improve patient care and clinical audit delivery by providing practical advice on how established RCA techniques can 'add value' to clinical audit. The guide is primarily aimed at clinical audit professionals and healthcare staff that participate in clinical audit initiatives at both local and national level.
In addition there are useful templates which can also be downloaded as separate documents below and adapted for your personal use.
Editorial. More than 50 years of health services research has driven home a core lesson: unintended and inappropriate variations in care are common.1 2 Identification of such variation in obstetrics was the impetus for Archie Cochrane to start his work.3 In this issue of BMJ Quality & Safety, Weiss and colleagues report an intervention developed to address inappropriate variation in aspects of maternal newborn care across Ontario, Canada’s most populous province.4 The intervention involved systematic collection and analysis of administrative data to assess key quality indicators for all hospital births in the province and provision of this data in a ‘dashboard’ back to hospitals.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Open access. Measuring quality of care and comparing this against agreed-upon standards of practice or peer performance (ie, audit) and delivery of the results to healthcare professionals and/or administrators (ie, feedback) is a common quality improvement strategy.5 Whether referred to as ‘audit and feedback’, ‘report cards’, ‘benchmarking’, ‘practice profiles’ or other synonyms, the underlying rationale for audit and feedback is sound. The large literature evaluating this approach indicates that (1) clinicians are relatively poor at self-assessment,6 meaning that they tend to pursue continuing professional development or quality improvement in areas of interest (where performance is often already high) rather than areas of greatest need; (2) comparing current performance to a target can drive increased performance in motivated individuals,7–9 meaning that when desired behaviours can be measured and presented in a formative fashion,10 health professionals may respond positively to them; and (3) high-performing health systems tend to feature audit and feedback as an evidence-based, scalable and relatively inexpensive strategy to encourage uptake of best practices.11
Integration of evidence into practice is suboptimal. Clinical pathways, defined as multidisciplinary care plans, are a method for translating evidence into local settings and have been shown to improve the value of patient care.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, responded to an Urgent Question asked by Shadow Secretary of State for Health, Heidi Alexander, in the House of Commons on the report of the investigation into the deaths at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Minister of State for Community and Social Care, Alistair Burt, responded to an Urgent Question asked by Shadow Minister for Mental Health, Luciana Berger, in the House of Commons on the safety of care and services provided by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust on Tuesday 3 May 2016.
Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors have updated ratings for the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust following an inspection in November 2016, rating us as Good across all categories.