Category: Improvement

Knowledge @lert for Monday 4th June

June 4, 2018 CCG Improvement
Emergency readmissions to hospital The Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation have published Emergency readmissions: trends in emergency readmissions to hospital in England.  This report, part of the QualityWatch research programme, looks at hospital data detailing patient diagnoses and the reasons behind emergency hospital readmissions between 2010/11 and 2016/17. It…

How new technology is benefiting patients living with respiratory conditions

May 25, 2017 Improvement
A team of nurses have improved the way patients living with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) are discharged from Furness General Hospital (FGH) onto the Furness Respiratory Care Team in the community. University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) is responsible for caring for patients with COPD, when…

Leeds Teaching Hospitals reducing agency spend case study

May 25, 2017 Improvement
This case study shares the experience of Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust on how they reduced levels of medical agency spending | NHS Employers The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has reduced its medical agency spend by introducing a central deployment service and making effective use of e-rostering to deliver…

NHS e-Referrals

May 23, 2017 Improvement
Staff from NHS England and the Health & Social Care Information Centre discuss how digital patient referral services are being extended to include more providers of NHS care.

The Model Hospital

May 23, 2017 Improvement
The Model Hospital is a digital information service designed to help NHS providers improve their productivity and efficiency. It is an easy-to-navigate tool that can be used by anyone in the NHS from board to ward to explore and compare productivity, quality and responsiveness data to identify opportunities to improve.…