Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to introduce Essence of Care, a benchmarking tool for health care practitioners and an integral part of the UK National Health Service (NHS) Clinical Governance agenda. It focuses on how one NHS Community Health Trust has attempted to introduce ...
A small group of mental health nurses in a London Trust embarked on 'getting the fundamentals right' in their quest to improve care given to patients. A working group was formed to take this idea forward: The Essence of Care Steering Group. The group uses the Essence of Care benchmarking ...
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Lessons from the humanitarian disaster logistics management : A case study of the earthquake in Haiti PurposeThe purpose of this study is to draw lessons for logistics management in humanitarian disasters, using the earthquake in Haiti as a cas... MA Salam,SA Khan - 《Benchmarking An Internation...
“Very commonly, successful ecommerce sellers are husbands and wives, or friends, who work out of their own houses. They haven’t really had an opportunity to get data like benchmarking, or advisory services, and there seems to be a big uptake for that all-around advice,” Tracey says. ...
The article presents information on the Greater Manchester Essence Care project in England which intends to put up an audit based regional network that enhances the acceptance of Essence of Care benchmarks. The benchmarking toolkit enables nurses to adopt a method of recognizing and sharing good ...
This article explores and argues for the value of the HCA role in benchmarking and actioning recommendations using the essence of care tool in mental health units. By drawing attention to three benchmarks, it demonstrates the benefits of, and for, HCAs involving themselves in practice-...
Essence of care. Patient-focused benchmarks for clinical governance. London (UK): Department of Health; 2003. p. 119-128. Avail-Department of Health. 2003. Essence of care. Patient-focused benchmarking for health care practitioners. London: HMSO.Department of Health (2003b) Essence of Care....
Findings – At the heart of commitment to improve quality of health care lies Essence of Care to which the fundamental needs and comfort of patients are paramount. This provides a benchmarking tool for national standards of practice across health and social care which is applicable across medical...
Describes the implementation of Essence of Care quality initiative that involves benchmarking essential nursing care at the Bristol Royal Children's Hospital in England in April 2003. Contribution of Department of Health nursing officer for quality Judith Ellis to the development of the initiative; ...