A new alerting system launched today by NHS England will ensure warnings of potential risks to the safety of patients can be developed much more quickly and be rapidly disseminated right across the NHS. The new National Patient Safety Alerting System (NPSAS) will ensure warnings of emerging risks can be rapidly issued following their identification […]
Pressure ulcers are one of the most prevalent of all preventable harms that can occur both inside and outside the hospital setting. NHS England, NHS Improving Quality and Haelo have joined forces, along with other partners, on the national ‘Stop the Pressure’ campaign, first launched by NHS Midlands and East. Michelle Hope, a Quality Improvement […]
NHS England has produced a toolkit called ‘Any town’, which using high level health system modelling, allows clinical commissioning groups to map how interventions could improve local health services and close the financial gap. It is an additional guide to help commissioners with their five-year strategic plans, showing how a typical CCG could achieve financial […]
This section contains information on revalidation for doctors, including: What is medical revalidation 10 steps to revalidation What is medical appraisal? Medical appraisal policy Medical appraisal guide (MAG) Medical appraisal guide (MAG) model appraisal form Further guidance and information Useful online resources for doctors Medical appraisal checklist Colleague and patient feedback Improving the inputs to […]
A medical appraiser will normally be a licensed doctor with knowledge of the context in which the doctor works. An appraiser should: be the most appropriate appraiser for the doctor, taking into account their full scope of work understand the professional obligations placed on doctors by the GMC understand the importance of appraisal for the […]
“Appraisal allows me to stand back from my work and think about how I can improve what I am doing…” Consultant physician Medical appraisal is a process of facilitated self-review supported by information gathered from the full scope of a doctor’s work. It is a protected time, once a year, for each doctor to focus, […]
Medical appraisal is a process of facilitated self-review supported by information gathered from the full scope of a doctor’s work. The role of medical appraisers is crucial in ensuring the quality and consistency of appraisal for doctors. This section gives an overview of the medical appraisal process and includes information and resources to help medical […]
Part of the future success of health care, integrated across hospitals, general practice and into the community, is dependent on how NHS England approaches its direct commissioning responsibility for specialised services. If a patient needs a heart bypass operation; a kidney transplant; a brain tumour removed, or if a child needs the support of intensive […]
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Sharon Howard, an administrative support officer with NHS England, outlines a SMART way for sticking to our resolutions: 2014 is almost upon us. And it’s time of year when we all over-indulge in everything – even those of us that pride ourselves on healthy living let go a little. Eating too much, drinking too much […]