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Library information services are part of the core business of the NHS, ensuring access to the best evidence and the skills to evaluate it. Library information services are essential for supporting:
Library information services are part of the core business of the NHS, ensuring access to the best evidence and the skills to evaluateit. Library information services are essential for supporting:
The Central and Eastern Cheshire End of Life Care (EoLC) Service Model was designed to facilitate a seamless, collaborative approach to leading and facilitating education and best practice in EoLC across Central and Eastern Cheshire. Its key objective is to improve the experience of care for patients, families and care workers. This has also led to significant cost savings, helped secure future funding and has had a real impact on the workforce in regards to training opportunities.
A model of consultative clinical supervision has been implemented for a team of genetic counsellors at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, based at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. This integrative, multi-theoretical, dual model, which incorporates recommendations from the AGNC, combines individual and team-based supervision, and has helped the Trust win awards for excellence in; patient care, team-working and partnerships.
Since December 2004 Central Manchester Foundation Trust (CMFT) has implemented a Vulnerable Baby Service (VBS) across Manchester city centre, as part of its Community Children’s Safeguarding programme.The aim of this service is to reduce the risks of Sudden Unexplained Deaths in Infants (SUDI). Initially implemented as a pilot, it was developed into a mainstream service, and as a result SUDIs have dropped significantly. Health staff and multiagency partners have also developed closer and more productive partnerships.
Tate Liverpool’s Opening Doors Programme has been running since 1997, in partnership with local NHS Trusts such as Liverpool PCT and Mersey Care. Each year it is aimed at cross-sector professionals, working within broad health & wellbeing settings, with the aim of empowering them to use art as a way of supporting service users. This has had a positive impact on the mental health of staff, as well as helping patients to express their creativity in a constructive therapeutic way.
At the end of April 2012 a cross-section of students from the University of Chester were interviewed in order to gather a range of views from our next generation of nurses.
The aim of the Merseyside Personal Health Budgets (PHB) pilot was to help the Department of Health evaluate Personal Health Budgets, which can be used to purchase goods and services to help individuals achieve their agreed health outcomes.
Greater Merseyside’s Condition Management Programme (CMP) was in operation for five years until March 2011 as part of the national Pathways to Work Choices Programme and in partnership with Jobcentre Plus. It was highly successful at attaining its core aims, which were to help people gain the skills to necessary to better manage their own health conditions and to ultimately return to work.