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Tag Archives: Four Principles of Medicines Optimisation
Seven Day Hospital Pharmacy Services (NHS England / BBC News)
Summary NHS England’s “Transformation of Seven Day Clinical Pharmacy Services in Acute Hospitals” report explains how seven-day clinical pharmacy services can benefit patients. Seven-day hospital pharmacy services might also help improve hospital efficiency, in the context of ten Seven Day … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Access to Consultant-Directed Interventions (Seven Day Clinical Standards For Hospitals), Access to Diagnostics (Seven Day Clinical Standards For Hospitals), Access to Healthcare Services, Acute Care, Acute Hospitals, Ageing Population, Amber Rudd: Home Secretary, £10 Billion of Investment in NHS, Barriers to Support, Barts Health NHS Trust, BBC Health News, BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Carter Review of Operational Productivity in NHS Providers, Central Manchester Foundation Trust (CMFT), Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for England, Chris Hopson: Chief Executive of NHS Providers, Clinical Pharmacy Services in Hospitals, Clinical Pharmacy Triage and Handover Service, Design Principles for Pharmacy Clinical Triage Tools for Acute Hospitals, Diane Abbott: Labour Shadow Health Secretary, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Dr Keith Ridge: Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust: Refer to Pharmacy, Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA), Five Year Forward View (NHS England), Four Principles of Medicines Optimisation, Hospital Chief Pharmacists, Hospital Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation, Hospital Pharmacy Transformation Plan (HPTP), Incidents reported to National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS), Integrated Clinical Pharmacy Services on Acute Medical Unit (AMU), Kathy McLean: Executive Medical Director at NHS Improvement, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Lord Carter Review, Lord Carter Review: Hospital Pharmacy Transformation Plan, Lord Carter: Chair of NHS Procurement and Efficiency Board, Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Medicines Optimisation, Mental Health (Seven Day Clinical Standards For Hospitals), Multi-Disciplinary Team Review (Seven Day Clinical Standards For Hospitals), Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, NHS Culture, NHS England’s Seven Days a Week Forum, NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV), NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde: Clinical Pharmacy Triage and Handover Service, NHS Nottingham University Hospitals, NHS Providers, NHS Services: Seven Days a Week Forum, NHS Seven Days a Week Forum, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham University Hospitals: Integrated Clinical Pharmacy Services on Acute Medical Unit (AMU), On-going Review (Seven Day Clinical Standards For Hospitals), Overcoming Barriers, Patient Experience (Seven Day Clinical Standards For Hospitals), Patient Safety, Patient Safety in the NHS, Pharmacist-Physician Communication Across the Working Week, Productivity, Productivity in NHS Hospitals, Professor Sir John Temple's Time for Training Report (HEE 2010), Quality and Efficiency Opportunities, Quality Efficiency and Performance (Often Go Together), Quality Improvement, Quality Improvement (Seven Day Clinical Standards For Hospitals), Royal Pharmaceutical Society Annual Conference (2016), Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust (SRFT), Seven Day Clinical Pharmacy Services in Acute Hospitals, Seven Day Clinical Standards For Hospitals, Seven Day Hospital Pharmacy Services, Seven Day NHS Pledge: Potential Problem of Missing the Point (Not Reducing Unacceptable Variations in Care Quality), Seven Day NHS Pledge: Potential Problem of Missing the Point (Some Statisticians Now Claim Weekend Effect Does Not / Did Not Exist), Seven Day NHS Pledge: Problem of Resources, Seven Day NHS Pledge: Problem of Staff Shortages, Seven Day NHS Pledge: Problem of Unwillingness or Incapacity for Doing More With Less, Seven Day NHS Pledge: Problem of Workforce Overload, Seven Day Services, Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day NHS Services, Seven-Day Opening, Seven-Day Working, Shift Handovers (Seven Day Clinical Standards For Hospitals), Sustainability, Sustainable Funding, Sustainable Health and Care Services, System Re-Design, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, Time for Training: Professor Sir John Temple, Time to Consultant Review (Seven Day Clinical Standards For Hospitals), Transfer to Primary Community and Social Care (Seven Day Clinical Standards For Hospitals), University Hospitals of North Midlands, Unwarranted Variations, Vale of York Trust: Potential Suspension of Non-Urgent Treatment for Obese Patients and Smokers, Weekend Effect, Weekend Services, Weekend Working, Whittington Health, Whittington Health: Integrated Care Organisation
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How to Save the NHS Billions… Without Rocket Science (BBC News / Department of Health)
Summary The Lord Carter Review, which looks into better procurement, better hiring and management of staff and better use of medicines, implies that the NHS might save around £5 billion per year. It is suggested that much waste of NHS … Continue reading →
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, National, NHS, NHS England, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Absolute Savings Opportunities for Trusts, Adjusted Treatment Index, Adjusted Treatment Index (ATI), Agency Overheads, Agency Staff, Ann Farrar: Chief Executive North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust, ATI Metric of Productivity, ATI: Measure of Hospital Efficiency, Atlas of Variations in Procurement, Awareness, Bank And Agency Staff, BBC Health News, Behaviour Change Opportunities, Behaviour Change: Individual Approaches, Better Procurement, Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Buying Power of NHS, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Carter Review of Operational Productivity in NHS Providers, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Centralised Procurement (Economies of Scale), Clinician Productivity, Collective Purchasing, Cost Savings, Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Creative Use of NHS Estate, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, Economies of Scale, Efficiency Savings, Estate Efficiencies, Estates, Estates Management, Finance and Procurement, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Four Principles of Medicines Optimisation, Gershon Review (2004-05), GS1 and PEPPOL Standards, High-Value Medical Devices, Hinchingbrooke Healthcare NHS Trust, Hospital Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation, Hospital Productivity, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Investment and Procurement, Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Level 0 Output Indicator: Total Cost-Weighted Output, Level 1 Productivity Indicator: Total Operational Expenditure, Level 2 Productivity Indicators: Operational Expenditure Breakdown, Local Government Association Annual Conference (2015), Local Health and Care Economies, Local Health Economies, Lord Carter of Coles, Lord Carter Review, Lord Carter: Chair of NHS Procurement and Efficiency Board, Management of Annual Leave and Sickness Absence, Management of Staff Rotas and Shifts, Medicines Optimisation, Medicines Procurement, Medicines Waste Awareness, Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Model Hospital: Template for Standardisation, Model NHS Hospital, Modular Hospital, National Buying Power of NHS, National Electronic Catalogue of Products, National Joint Registry Pilot, National Productivity Collaboratives, New Social Contract, NHS Efficiency Challenge, NHS eProcurement Strategy, NHS Estates, NHS Estates Efficiency Fund, NHS Finance, NHS Finances, NHS Financial Leadership, NHS Hospital Nurse Roster Analysis, NHS Procurement, NHS Procurement and Efficiency Board, NHS Productivity, NHS Provider Expenditure 2014-15, NHS Reference Costs, NHS’s Collective Bargaining Power, NHS’s Collective Buying Power, Nicholson Challenge, Nigel Edwards: Nuffield Trust, North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Nudge, Openness and Transparency, Operational Productivity in NHS Providers, Opportunities for Standardisation, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Prescription Medication: Funded by UK Taxpayer Reminders, Price Range Variations, Procurement Performance Metrics, Procurement Review, Productivity, Productivity in NHS Hospitals, Reducing Number of Product Lines (NHS Consumables), Reducing Waste in the NHS, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, Sir David Nicholson, Sir Ian Carruthers: Chair of Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust, Sir Peter Gershon, Standardisation, Sunshine Act (US), Tony Chambers: Chief Executive of the Countess of Chester NHS Foundation Trust, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, Variations in Procurement, Variations in Spending, Waste of Prescription Medicines, Wasted Resources
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Medicines Optimisation: Helping Patients for Medication Best Usage (Royal Pharmaceutical Society)
Summary The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has release guidance which helps health and care professionals to assist patients with their medicines to improve outcomes and avoid waste. The “Medicines Optimisation: Helping Patients Make the Most of Medicines” document offers four guiding … Continue reading →
Posted in For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Management of Condition, National, Person-Centred Care, Pharmacological Treatments, Practical Advice, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Tagged Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Ill-Health, Best Practice, Checking Medication, Four Principles of Medicines Optimisation, Medication, Medication Errors, Medications: Best Usage, Medicines Optimisation, Patient Experience, Royal Pharmaceutical Society
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