Contents 2.1 Patient placement/assessment of infection risk 2.2 Safe management of patient care equipment in an isolation room/cohort area 2.3 Safe management of the care environment 2.4 Personal protective equipment (PPE): fluid-resistant surgical masks (FRSM) and respiratory protective equipment (RPE) 2.5 Aerosol generating procedures 2.6 Infection prevention and control when caring for the deceased Standard […]
Essential clinical system capabilities – foundation capabilities Essential clinical system capabilities – non-foundation capabilities Patient facing capabilities National digital services GP IT enabling requirements Enhanced requirements General practice business requirements Essential clinical system capabilities – foundation capabilities Six clinical digital capabilities enabled through software (and data) solutions which under the GP Contract are necessary to […]
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This updated Operating Model continues to address six contemporary challenges. Challenge 1: Keeping general practice and patients safe Challenge 2: Supporting general practice deliver their contracted services Challenge 3: Enabling service improvement, transformation and digital innovation Challenge 4: Supporting new models of care and contracts Challenge 5: Supporting general practice meet patients’ digital expectations Challenge […]
This page is part of the wider ‘enduring standards that remain valid from previous patient safety alerts‘ set of webpages. Falls Patient falls are a significant patient safety issue within the NHS. While the mainstay of improvement work is national resources – National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines, national clinical audits, improvement […]
The NHS has today set out new ambitions for patients to have timely access to community mental healthcare, following a consultation on proposed new standards, as it faces record demand following the pandemic. Patients, clinicians, and the public have welcomed the proposed mental health access standards which include ensuring people in the community receive help […]
Field testing To help NHS leaders to better understand the impact of the new standards in the context of efforts to deliver more care quicker and closer to home. The following trusts tested different aspects of the proposed new standards for urgent and emergency mental health care: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Central North West London East […]
The NHS is set to take another major step towards improving patient access to mental health services with the introduction of five new waiting time guarantees, under plans set out today. The proposals could ensure that patients requiring urgent care will be seen by community mental health crisis teams within 24 hours of referral, with […]
The NHS Parliamentary Awards were established to engage MPs in identifying and highlighting innovative and high-quality care across every constituency in England, and thanking staff for their dedication, hard work and commitment by recognising and honouring their achievements. Now in their third year, the Awards have seen nearly half of English Members of Parliament nominating […]
Consideration of the following in your day-to-day practice may be useful: Acknowledge the shared challenge and place CYP and their families/carers at the centre of care; avoiding compartmentalised (i.e. viewing the problem solely as physical or mental) or judgemental responses Discuss alternatives to acute hospital care, e.g. all-age 24/7 urgent mental health helplines; places of […]