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Electronic discharge summary within 24 hours - PRSB eDischarge summary
This page provides a best practice example for standard 7 of Facing the Future: Together for child health standards, which outlines guidance developed by the Professional Records Standards Body on standards for organising information on discharge. This is a key component of improving patient safety ...
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GP access to immediate consultant paediatrician telephone advice - Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
This page provides a best practice example for standard 1 of Facing the Future: Together for child health standards, which outlines the GP hotline service at Wexham Park Hospital. Providing telephone communication allows GP to access advice on admission avoidance, outpatient department avoidance and...
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Knowledge exchange sessions with GPs - Tameside Hospital
This page provides a best practice example for standard 4 of Facing the Future: Together for child health standards, which outlines education sessions at local GP (General Practitioner) surgeries provided by consultants and nurses from Tameside Hospital. GPs and practice nurses become more skilled a...
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Rapid access service - Hillingdon Hospital
This page provides a best practice example for standard 2 of Facing the Future: Together for child health standards, which outlines the hot clinic provided in Hillingdon Hospital. The hot clinic prevents children from attending A&E unnecessarily by providing rapid access to a consultant for any chil...
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Twenty-four hours community children's nursing service - South Staffordshire
This page provides a best practice example for standard 6 of Facing the Future: Together for child health standards, which outlines the service provided by the South Staffordshire Community Children's Nursing team. The service prevents hospital admissions, facilitates early discharge and provides ca...
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Using quality improvement methodology to reduce central line associated blood stream infections - a case study for NNAP
This case study was included in the 2017 National Neonatal Audit Programme annual report to highlight how a neonatal unit has used its results from the National Neonatal Audit Programme as a basis to identify and implement local quality improvement activities. You can download full case study below.
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Winter pressures case study - a range of measures at East and North Herts NHS Trust
Dr Amitabh Gite, Clinical Director of Paediatrics at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, outlines measures they implemented to address winter pressures, including a second registrar at night, a paediatric decision unit, increased nursing staff and ward clerk support.
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Winter pressures case study - a winter pressures clinic in the ED
Dr Stephen Mullen, Consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, describes an initiative to introduce a Winter Pressures Clinic in the Emergency Department.
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Winter pressures case study - escalation strategies
The team from the Children’s Emergency Department at Leicester Royal Infirmary describes how their department developed and adopted common strategies to use at times of escalation and major incidents.
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Winter pressures case study - GP streaming and impact on patient flow in the ED
Dr Michael McCarron, Paediatric Emergency Medicine Grid Registrar (ST8) from Sheffield Children’s Hospital, outlines the introduction of a GP streaming model and its impact on patient flow through the emergency department.