Future hospital: more than a building
Royal College of Physicians (RCP) - This five-point plan is aimed at the next government and it sets out a series of clear messages to improve patient care and safeguard the NHS from an impending financial crisis. It calls for the government to invest in medical education and support research, promote public health through evidence-based legislation, and adopt the RCP’s Future Hospital model for redesigning health services that brings care closer to the patient.
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RCP news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - September 15, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Changing configuration of health services Developments in primary and community care General Election 2015 NHS finances and productivity NHS measurement and performance Patient safety Quality of care and clinical outcomes Regulation, governa Source Type: blogs
National care of the dying audit of hospitals
This report has found significant variations in care across hospitals in England. The audit shows that major improvements need to be made to ensure better care for dying people, and better support for their families, carers, friends and those important to them. While previous audits had been based on the goals of care within the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP), the new audit sampled the care of dying people in hospital, regardless of whether they were supported by the LCP or other care pathways or frameworks, and included more hospitals than the previous audits.
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Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 15, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS measurement and performance Patient involvement, experience and feedback Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Why asthma still kills: the national review of asthma deaths
This report looked into the circumstances surrounding deaths from asthma from 1st February 2012 to 30th January 2013. The primary aim was to understand the circumstances surrounding asthma deaths in the UK in order to identify avoidable factors and to make recommendations to improve care and reduce the number of deaths.
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Press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 6, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS measurement and performance Patient safety Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP) clinical audit, July - September 2013 public report
This report finds that huge improvements have been made in the quality of stroke care and services over the past years as measured by previous national stroke audits and it is anticipated that similar improvements will be demonstrated through future SSNAP quarterly reports
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RCP - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 24, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Implementing NICE public health guidance for the workplace: a national organisational audit of NHS trusts in England - round 2
This report finds that all trusts have a sickness absence policy and three-quarters have one for smoking cessation, but only 57% have one for mental wellbeing, 44% for physical activity and only 28% have an obesity plan. It also finds that where plans are in place, staff were usually involved in their production and the board in sign-off. In 2010 many trusts said they had plans in development; some trusts now have these in place but a significant number do not.
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RCP - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - January 29, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Improving care for lung cancer patients: a collaborative approach
Royal College of Physicians (RCP) -The purpose of this booklet is to give lung cancer teams across the country an overview of the aims, activities and achievements of the Improving Lung Cancer Outcomes Project (ILCOP). It outlines the ILCOP approach to quality improvement and also contains four case studies.
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RCP - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 4, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
UK Pharma Trade Group Code To Improve Payment Disclosures
Once again, the pharmaceutical industry trade group that represents drugmakers in the UK is inching closer to developing a plan for disclosing payments to physicians. In a statement issued late last week, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry saying its members agreed to make changes to the official code of practice in order to include “greater transparency.”
The decision comes after a recent survey showed that 89 percent of 1,055 individuals – including physicians, companies and healthcare organizations - agreed that payments to healthcare professionals should be transparent. Separately, 77 percent ...
Source: Pharmalot - November 11, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: esilverman Source Type: blogs
How a marriage with big pharma ended in divorce
By Sophie Arie, freelance journalist
sophiearie@fmail.co.uk
The abrupt termination last week of an umbrella group of leading drug companies, royal medical colleges, and leading health organisations comes as no surprise to critics of the body’s pro-pharma statements. Sophie Arie investigates
In March 2012 a group of 19 of Britain’s leading pharmaceutical and healthcare bodies1 published two documents that were meant to provide definitive guidance on the interaction between doctors and drug companies and transparency in clinical trials.
The short, pamphlet style documents—Guidance on Collaboration between Healthca...
Source: PharmaGossip - October 8, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Acute oncology on the acute medical unit
Royal College of Physicians (RCP) - This toolkit aims to improve the care of cancer patients admitted to
hospital as an emergency with medical problems due to their cancer or
their treatment. It stresses the importance of patients having access to
cancer specialists as soon as possible, and suggests that NHS trusts
set up acute oncology services, which can work with the team in the
acute medical unit to help in the management of patients with acute
oncology problems.
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RCP - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 1, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Commissioning Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Stanford Hospital Uses Telemedicine: Steps to the Future of Hospitals
Video consultation with doctors is becoming a routine part of the care offered by the Stanford Hospital & Clinics. The technology behind it is not a real innovation, it was already introduced on the island of Hawaii in 2008, but it’s good to see such a prestigious hospital joining the world of telemedicine.
Patients can schedule video visits through the hospital website, in much the same way as they would schedule a traditional visit and provide information about their symptoms in advance of the visit through the scheduling application. At the appointed time, they meet with the doctor in a Web-based videoconfere...
Source: ScienceRoll - September 22, 2013 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Dr. Bertalan Meskó Tags: Future Health 2.0 Healthcare Hospital Medicine Medicine 2.0 Telemedicine Video Web 2.0 Source Type: blogs
Future hospital: caring for medical patients
This report aims to improve care for acute medical patients and puts the patient experience and the concept of ‘clinician citizenship’ back into the very heart of healthcare. It suggests restructuring the wards where acutely ill patients are treated, and a new organisational and management structure whose responsibilities for acutely ill medical patients will stretch out from the hospital into the wider community, developing the idea of a local healthcare system.
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Royal College of Physicians - press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - September 12, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Changing configuration of health services Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Urgent and emergency care: a prescription for the future
This report sets out ten priorities for action to address the
challenges faced by urgent and emergency care services. The challenges
discussed in this report include: rising demand; ageing population;
complex discharge issues; handover and flow; and recruitment into urgent
and emergency care services.
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RCP - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 18, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS measurement and performance Patient safety Quality of care and clinical outcomes Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Meet the new Mr NICE Guy
BiographyProfessor David Haslam is chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).He is also National Clinical adviser to the Care Quality Commission, immediate past-president of the British Medical Association, past-president of the Royal College of General Practitioners, and visiting Professor in Primary Health Care at de Montfort University, Leicester.He was a GP in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, for many years and has been chair of the NHS Evidence Advisory Committee, co-chair of the NHS Future Forum Information subgroup, an expert member of the NHS National Quality Board, chair of the NQB Quality ...
Source: PharmaGossip - June 24, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Staying on track
Driving change can be a lonely and intimidating process
There are times when it feels as if the world rejects you, your ideas and your mindset. It takes courage to carry on, but if you truly believe in what you are doing and are totally committed to seeing it through – you can make a difference, and the world will be a better place.
Every so often we stop, take stock, re-evaluate and second guess our instincts.
Then we realise that is just plain stupid and carry on…
As Niccolò Machiavelli said
“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, nor uncertain in its success, tha...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 23, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Arcanum Veritas Blog News Featured innovation Niccolò Machiavelli william cadogan Source Type: blogs
