these we should seek and act on national and local guidelines. We also have a specific responsibility to ensure that essential care continues with the minimum burden on the NHS. We must engage with those planning our local response. We may also need to work outside our specific areas of ...
Historically the NHS has worked to a number of different standards, with various contributions to the Apps Library and a digital assessment questionnaire that had evolved. From a patient-facing perspective that was very complex, but it also raised issues for commissioners who had no common standard...
Of these patients, 64 per cent did not have a pre-operative assessment prior to the admission for the planned surgery; 6 per cent had inadequate documentation of relevant past medical history; and 30 per cent (patients with significant medical problems) were not referred to the anaesthetist for...
Implementation of the NHS health checks programme: baseline assessment of risk factor recording in an urban culturally diverse setting. Fam Pract. 2011;28(1):34–40. Article PubMed Google Scholar Muirie J, McCartney G, Fischbacher C, Lewsey J, Connolly J. The impact of Keep Well: an ...
Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas Mark 5. Spread the oats out on a baking tray, place in the oven and toast for 20 minutes. Leave to cool. (The oatmeal can be toasted well in advance and stored in an airtight jar). Combine all the dry ingredients with the milk or apple juice,...
Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas Mark 5. Spread the oats out on a baking tray, place in the oven and toast for 20 minutes. Leave to cool. (The oatmeal can be toasted well in advance and stored in an airtight jar). Combine all the dry ingredients with the milk or apple juice,...
with pre-admission assessment service at the Trust: –Not enough capacity, in terms of staffing and space, to allow all patients to be pre-assessed –Some patients were being brought back to the hospital at the time of their OP appointment when they could be pre-assessed in a different ...
65. On 2 May, Dr Holmes, the Medical Director, and Ms Susie Lowe, Head of the Employee Relations team, took some telephone advice from NCAS – the National Clinical Assessment Service. They are a division of NHS Resolution (the replacement body for the NHS Litigation Service), and they ...
Assessment of the usefulness of sputum culture for diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia using the PORT predictive scoring system Arch Intern Med, 164 (2004), pp. 1807-1811 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar 21 21 Surviving Sepsis Campaign,. Guidelines,. www.survivingsepsis.org/Guidelines/Pages/defaul...
There were no concomitant changes to obstetric services and early pregnancy problems such as miscarriages and ectopic pregnancy were managed in the early pregnancy assessment unit within emergency gynaecology services. These changes had a significant impact on the working patterns of the medical and ...