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NCEPOD Report launch 24 June 2010

‘A Mixed Bag: An enquiry into the care of hospital patients receiving parenteral nutrition’ is the latest report from the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome & Death (NCEPOD). It is the first national audit of PN care and covers assessment, prescription, monitoring, line care and nutrition teams. It covers both adult and neonatal/paediatric PN patients and should be of great interest to all those involved in PN care. The launch will be at The Wellcome Collection in London, all are welcome - please see the flyer for details.’

For flyer - click here

Revision of professional roles and quality improvement

An increasingly common response to the challenges facing healthcare have been to extend the role of non-medical clinicians into areas that were previously the domain of doctors. There is an expectation that revision of roles will improve the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare.

Download report in full - click here

Download Summary - click here

The NHS Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention Challenge:

an introduction for clinicians

You may think that money is someone else’s business but we believe that addressing financial inefficiencies is a key personal, professional and moral responsibility because it allows us to free up resources which can then be used to treat more patients, more effectively.

To download - click here

Ann Keen MP - Chair of the Commission

Gail Adams - Head of Nursing, UNISON

Dame Christine Beasley - Chief Nursing Officer for England,DH

FRONT LINE CARE

Report by the Prime Minister’s

Commission on the Future of

Nursing and Midwifery in England

2010 - click here

 

 

 Arrow Stopcocks (Three way taps)

Alert regarding stopcocks (catalogue numbers W20058 and W21372) and specific products containing non-lipid resistant stopcocks, manufactured by Arrow® - Click here
Age Concern

Hospitals still not doing enough to tackle malnutrition (25.08.08)

 

Inadequate nutrition can have far-reaching and devastating effects on patients' health and recovery. This section examines key aspects of nutrition and related nursing practice for achieving optimal nutritional status in your patients.

To access this page please follow this link for the Nursing Times .net

 

 What do you get when you mix hospital mealtimes and heavyweight bouncers? You get seriously protected mealtimes, that’s what! You also get Age Concern’s new and very funny viral marketing campaign aimed at tackling the problem of malnutrition among older patients in hospitals.

With the help of some of the UK's top comic talent, including Steve Mangan from Channel 4's popular Green Wing series, we have launched a series of short video clips that show how simple solutions – like red trays and protected mealtimes – can help improve nutritional standards on the wards. In one of the clips, Steve Mangan plays a doctor, who tries unsuccessfully to disrupt an older person’s mealtime – think Mr Bean crossed with Mission Impossible!

Tackling malnutrition should be a top priority for all of us. Please support the campaign by watching the videos below and sharing them with your friends and colleagues - particularly if they are health professionals. We want to reach the very people who are in a position to champion better practice on the wards and improve the well-being of older people in hospital.

The videos displayed here are being hosted on YouTube so if you can't see them it means you don't have access. We've included an option for you to download them instead.

If you have any comments about the videos or any questions please email Age Concern at htbh@ace.org.uk.

Available to view on YouTube;

Hungry to be Heard viral video: Intro

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kacK4Uv3NOQ&feature=related

Hungry to be Heard viral video: Part 1

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gJt9VuC84gU&NR=1

Hungry to be Heard viral video: Part 2

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dmR1eK3UQ1c&NR=1

Hungry to be Heard viral video: Part 3

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bcQQymj11j4&NR=1

or download at;

http://www.ageconcern.org.uk/AgeConcern/7E11D4D927FD4DAEA169D1B0804D9405.asp.

 
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