Knowledge @lert for Monday 13th April
Acute hospitals and integrated care: From hospitals to health system – The King’s Fund
C Naylor, H Alderwick, M Honeyman
“If the health and social care system is to respond to the changing needs of the population, and also address the financial challenges it faces, acute hospitals will need to play a fundamentally different role within local health economies.”
Clinical feedback tool helps hospital trust bring down sepsis rate – Nursing Times
One of England’s largest teaching hospitals has achieved a dramatic turnaround in the care of patients with life-threatening severe sepsis after developing a tool to hold individual clinicians to account for their care.
How much does a diabetes out-patient appointment actually cost? An argument for PLICS
Paul Grant. Journal of Health Organization and Management, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 154-169, April 2015.
The national tariff system for clinical processes and procedures aims to put a discrete unit cost on clinical activity. Calculating such costs can be subject to a great deal of local variation and interpretation. Given the rising costs of diabetes the purpose of this paper is to ask the question what does a diabetes outpatient appointment in the UK NHS actually cost? This is important in a time of financial austerity and healthcare rationing because it can be difficult to decipher the attribution of costs within the acute hospital setting.
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Frontline First: The fragile frontline – Royal College of Nursing
The RCN’s final report before the General Election, Frontline First: The fragile frontline, finds that there are fewer nurses than in 2010 and that an already over-stretched workforce is being forced to carry out even more work. Visit The Frontline First website
Eyes on Evidence
The April 2015 issue of Eyes on Evidence has been published and includes the following items:
- Social integration and risk of suicide in men
- Surgical versus non-surgical treatment for fracture of the heel
- Improving cardiovascular disease through networks of general practices
- Antibiotics in fetal and early life and subsequent childhood asthma
- Detecting atrial fibrillation in people who have had a stroke
- Case studies from the Quality and Productivity collection
- Evidence Updates: NICE has recently published an Evidence Update on:
- Fertility; Psychosis and schizophrenia in children and young people;
- Occupational therapy and physical activity interventions to promote the mental wellbeing of older people in primary care and residential care;
- Promoting physical activity for children and young people.
NICE consultations
Diabetes in pregnancy: topic engagement. Closing date for comment 22 April 2015
Pneumonia: topic engagement. Closing date for comment 22 April 2015
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