In Wolverhampton, a team took what they learned about setting up a COVID virtual ward and used it to launch their acute respiratory infection (ARI) virtual ward in July 2022. Through their ARI virtual ward, they can support 120 people with respiratory conditions in the place they call home. Summary Our ARI virtual ward supports […]
Transforming care through harnessing information and technology The overall strategy for technology in health and care is to digitise services, connect them to support greater integration and, with these foundations, enable service transformation. The government’s Digital Health And Care Plan, soon to be published, will set out a vision and action plan for digital transformation. […]
The NHS collects, analyses and monitors data about the people we serve. This includes information on the conditions they have, their journey through care and their health outcomes. We also record information about the person including where they live, their age, ethnicity and gender. This helps us to understand more about people’s experiences, both as […]
Core20PLUS5 is a national NHS England approach to inform action to reduce healthcare inequalities at both national and system level. The approach defines a target population – the ‘Core20PLUS’ – and identifies ‘5’ focus clinical areas requiring accelerated improvement. The approach, which initially focussed on healthcare inequalities experienced by adults, has now been adapted to […]
Research has shown that pharmacists can successfully intervene when a medicine is newly prescribed, with repeated follow up in the short term, to increase effective medicine taking for the treatment of a long-term condition. The New Medicine Service demonstrates increased patient medicine adherence compared with normal practice, which translates into increased health gain at reduced […]
This week is International Men’s Health Week, and as a General Practice Nurse (GPN) I have found that the young male population can sometimes be a hard to reach group. I certainly found this to be the case in my practice, Castleton Health Centre in Rochdale, where a recent small audit I undertook showed that […]
What do you know about pulse oximeters? If you work in a hospital, this simple device will no doubt be extremely familiar. You might have seen one at your GP, but not known what it’s called. And if you’re in a high-risk category, you may have been offered one to monitor the oxygen levels in […]
Patients will have better, more joined up care as Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), which require all parts of the NHS to work with each other and their partners, are rolled out across the country from next month. NHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens today confirmed that the final 13 areas, serving 14.9 million people, will […]
NHS staff will begin vaccinating people aged 65 to 69 and those who are clinically vulnerable against COVID from tomorrow (Monday) with over one million people already invited to book a jab. Almost 1.2 million letters were due to land on doorsteps by yesterday (Saturday) asking people to log on to the national booking service […]
The National Patient Safety Improvement Programmes collectively form the largest safety initiative in the history of the NHS. They support a culture of safety, continuous learning and sustainable improvement across the healthcare system. How the Patient Safety Improvement Programmes work National Patient Safety Improvement Programme Patient Safety Collaboratives Get involved Background to our work How […]