In this booklet the author describes how the ward team introduced bedside handover to increase patient involvement in the planning and evaluation of the care they received. This series looks at some ways nurses in Nursing Development Units (NDUs) have tried to make their nursing more beneficial to patients. The ...
The aim of this paper is to highlight the fundamental principles upon which the future curriculum will be based, and to discuss the implications in terms of curriculum design and the issue of where students should learn, with special reference to London. In this way the likely developments in undergraduate ...
This working paper argues that the development of acute services should be a managed process, one in which they are positively reshaped and not just one in which development is coped with in isolation. The paper highlights some of the technological developments which have recently taken place, and those which ...
This book is aimed at hospital doctors in search of practical ideas for medical audit within their own specialty, but it will also be helpful to other clinical professions to show some of the ideas that have been developed in other specialties. It collates published work and practical experience of ...
This working paper examines the London labour market for health care staff. The study was conducted against the background of the early implementation of the National Health Service and Community Care Act and focuses on labour supply and on the extent to which planned or predicted changes in the profile ...
This workbook outlining the ENQUIRE system is intended to be a practical guide to establishing and running quality assurance programmes for health and social care. The workbook is based on a number of conceptual tools, which provide both a framework for quality assurance, and assistance in appreciating its full potential. ...
A major incident is a high profile event which places the emergency services in the spotlight of public attention. It typically involves a number of autonomous agencies working together in hostile conditions. Some of these individuals will be working in an unfamiliar environment for the first time. Many lives are ...
This report examines the work of research ethics committees (RECs) in the United Kingdom. RECs examine proposals for research on human subjects largely within the NHS which throws up a variety of ethical problems. The role of RECs is essentially that of a public watchdog: to try to protect subjects ...