NHS England’s National Clinical Directors for Dementia and End of Life Care, together with Clinical Fellow Elena Baker Glenn, examine the stark findings of a recent national end of life care intelligence network briefing on dementia: Death and dying are emotive subjects at the best of times and there has recently been interest and publicity […]
September 2015 saw the publication of the national policy document “Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: a national framework for local action”. This came from the National Palliative and End of Life Care Partnership, made up of statutory bodies including NHS England, the Association of Adult Social Services, charities and groups representing patients […]
As Programme Lead at West Midlands Strategic Clinical Networks and Clinical Senate, Laura Tooley highlights national guidance and invites us to consider our role in this emotive yet important area of care. It seems a long time ago now that the 2008 End of Life Care Strategy (DH) was published. Seven years on we have […]
Allied Health Professions Sustainability Network events The Allied Health Professions Sustainability Network is a place for clinicians, students, educators, and researchers to connect, exchange ideas, and share events and resources related to sustainability in the allied health professions. View all upcoming events on the Sustainable Healthcare Networks Hub Greener Allied Health Professions (AHP) Week 2024 […]
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Membership Board members are: David Webb – Chair, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, NHS England Yousaf Ahmad, ICS Chief Pharmacist and Director of Medicines Optimisation, Frimley Health and Care ICS Laura Angus, Chief Pharmacist, Humber, Coast and Vale Health and Care Partnership ICS Diane Ashiru-Oredope, Lead Pharmacist HCAI, Fungal, AMR, AMU & Sepsis Division, UK Health Security […]
Summary In Hull and East Riding, the team working as part of City Health Care Partnership CIC are at the beginning of their frailty ward journey. Their aim is to implement a safe and effective virtual ward, enabling them to care for people in the place they call home. This requires integrating acute frailty emergency […]
Through its core work to review patients safety events recorded on national systems, such as the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS), the new Learn from Patient Safety Events service (LFPSE), and other sources, the National Patient Safety Team identified a risk around different strength preparations of alfentanil. Alfentanil is a potent injectable opioid used during anaesthesia […]
A neonatal intensive care nurse, a GP who champions work with community groups and prominent disability and learning disability advocates are among people from across the country appointed to a new forum which will support delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan. Building on the collaborative approach to developing the Long Term Plan, the NHS […]
Our ambition for respiratory disease The NHS Long Term Plan set outs the ambitions for the NHS over the next 10 years, identifying respiratory disease as a clinical priority. It outlines out how we will be targeting investment to improve treatment and support for people with respiratory disease, with an ambition to transform our outcomes […]