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1. Standard infection control precautions: national hand hygiene and personal protective equipment policy

   Policy 25 Mar 19

   This national policy is a practice guide for NHS healthcare staff of all disciplines in all care settings. It covers responsibilities for organisations, staff and infection prevention and control teams. It also sets out how and when to decontaminate hands.

   Patient safety

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2. Guide to reducing long hospital stays

   Collection 25 Mar 19

   This guide offers practical steps and tactics to support the NHS and partners to use an optimal approach to managing hospital length of stay.

   Quality | Quality improvement

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3. Implementing huddles and handovers — a framework for practice in maternity units

   Improvement guide 25 Mar 19

   Part of: Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme

   This framework provides a structure for maternity units to create and develop their own approach to effectively communicating clinical data and transferring key safety information.

   Maternity and neonatal | Quality

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4. Guide to system challenge events

   Improvement guide 22 Mar 19

   Part of: Rapid improvement guides for urgent and emergency care

   This rapid improvement guide provides a brief guide to running a system challenge event.

   Emergency Care | Emergency care

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5. The Emergency Care Intensive Support Team (ECIST) ambulance offer

   Improvement tool 22 Mar 19

   This document outlines the core ambulance offer from ECIST, including resources and contact details.

   Emergency Care | Emergency care

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6. Fit2Sit improvement tool

   Improvement tool 22 Mar 19

   This improvement tool provides guidance on the principles of Fit2Sit.

   Emergency Care | Emergency care

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7. Hospital ambulance liaison officers (HALOs)

   Improvement tool 22 Mar 19

   This pack outlines the purpose and role of HALOs.

   Emergency Care | Emergency care

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8. Principles of ambulance flow

   Improvement tool 22 Mar 19

   The five principles of ambulance flow support timely care for patients presenting to the ambulance service with an urgent care problem — whether they are treated at home or need to go hospital.

   Emergency Care | Emergency care

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9. Mental health acute flow improvement tool

   Improvement tool 21 Mar 19

   Part of: Making data count

   An intuitive data visualisation tool that gives providers of NHS mental health services and their stakeholders extensive information on flow through the adult acute inpatient pathway.

   Quality | Quality improvement

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10. Funnel plot tool

    Improvement tool 13 Mar 19

    Part of: Making data count

    A funnel plot is a scatter plot of rates against population size. It compares results from different populations over the same period, e.g. the referral rate for a particular condition from a number of GP surgeries.

    Quality | Quality improvement

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11. Executive nurse handbook

    Shared learning 12 Mar 19

    Part of: Culture and leadership

    A guide for those who aspire to be an executive nurse working effectively at board level, those already in post, and for NHS trusts that want to support and develop this important role.

    Quality | Workforce

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12. Student paramedic programme

    Shared learning 8 Mar 19

    Part of: Best practice in workforce planning

    A case study describing action by West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust to develop a student paramedic training programme to support the workforce.

    Finance and use of resources | Workforce

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13. Guide to developing and implementing ward and unit accreditation programmes

    Improvement guide 8 Mar 19

    This guidance is for chief nurses and those in other senior nursing and midwifery roles.

    Quality | Quality improvement

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14. Quarterly performance of the NHS provider sector: quarter 3 2018/19

    Transparency data 7 Mar 19

    Between October and December 2018, more patients were treated and discharged in Emergency Departments (EDs) within four hours. However, the focus on treating high numbers of patients across EDs was one of the key reasons the provider sector as a whole reported a year-to-date deficit of £1.2 billion.

    Operational performance

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15. Retention of older nurses: a focus group study in UK hospitals

    Improvement guide 6 Mar 19

    Part of: Supporting the experienced workforce

    This piece of research was led by Professor Anne Marie Rafferty of King’s College London and commissioned by us to explore the perspective of older nurses (50+) working in acute hospital trusts.

    Quality | Workforce

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