AHPs working differently: Assistant & Advanced roles in Radiography
Benefits identified: Increased plain imaging and nuclear medicine, and procedures.This study is part of the AHPs working differently series.
Tools & Resources
Developing Resilience in the Workforce: A Health Visiting Framework Guide
This document presents a Resilience Framework to help organisations support their health visitors and foster their resilience in the workplace.The purpose of this framework is to continue to develop, support and retain resilient, compassionate health visitors thereby improving health outcomes and experiences for children and families.This Resilience Framework is an innovative toolkit which can be applied to other professions and at organisational, team and individual level and to other professional groups.
AHPs working differently: Integrated Assessment Team
Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists work with reablement staff, social services and discharge facilitators. The team works over 7 days from 08:30-16:30 and 8.00- 16.00 at a weekend, with patients of any age, but predominantly frail older people. The team covers: Acute Medical Unit (AMU - 56 beds), Clinical Decision Unit (CDU - 12 beds) the Emergency Department. Part of the AHPs working differently case study series.
AHPs working differently: Integrated Therapy Teams
Community teams working in 5 localities delivering all community based services including supporting reablement, rehabilitation and equipment provision. The redesign has brought together traditionally separate teams to work in an integrated way.Part of the AHPs working differently case study series.
AHPs working differently: Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy
Redesigned the way the Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy teams work together to become more integrated. Changed referral mechanism and introduced a joint prioritisation tool. Part of the AHPs working differently case study series
AHPs working differently: Adult Speech and Language Therapy Team
The team use the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) with patients with Parkinson's Disease; a standardised intensive programme of 4 one hour-long sessions per week for 4 weeks. Using new software introduced in the trust (Microsoft Lync) the programme is offered through a mixture of face to face and online webcam sessions (1 face to face and 3 online sessions per week). Clinicians have to complete a course to become qualified in the technique which has to be updated every 2 years.
AHPs working differently: Community Occupational Therapy Service
Occupational Therapists and Community Assessment Officers (CAO) as part of their role in the Contact Team spend regular time rotating into the Social Services Contact Centre on a monthly basis. The team are employing an innovative approach to integration looking at creating links between all of the community services in Salford (all now under the umbrella of Salford Royal Foundation Trust including social services) to look where they can link up and reduce duplication.Part of the AHPs working differently case study series.
AHPs working differently: Crisis Response Team
The Crisis Response team is an interdisciplinary team working in the community. The team will work with patients for up to 72 hours and have a 2 hour response time. They work 7 days a week from 9am-8pm.Part of the AHPs working differently case study series.
AHPs working differently: Proactive Elderly Care Team
The team work in Emergency Department and Clinical Assessment Unit, 8-7 Monday to Friday and 8-5 at weekends. The multidisciplinary team deliver the comprehensive Geriatric Assessment and Dementia Assessments to support achieving a local CQUIN.Part of the AHPs working differently case study series.
AHPs working differently: Aintree at home team
The introduction of the Aintree at Home (A@H) Community Therapy led Service in December 2012 was in response the Trust needing to increase the number of medical discharges. This was achieved by facilitating more timely and effective safe discharges and contributing to an improved patient experience by providing continuation of their functional rehabilitation and short term care support in their own/family home. This new model presented an innovative solution to supporting bed capacity management at Aintree.