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Landelijke Prevalentiemeting Zorgkwaliteit (LPZ) - Care Homes Harms Prevalence Audit Tool measures the occurrence of common care issues such as pressure ulcers, continence, nutrition, falls, restraint and pain. Routinely reviewing LPZ data, allows care homes to make improvements to the care they deliver resulting in reduced falls, reduced pressure ulcers and improved continence and pain management.
The East Midlands Patient Safety Collaborative (EM PSC) initially started delivering the LPZ programme, which was developed by Maastricht University in the Netherlands, in 2016. After establishing that improving safety in care homes was a priority area, the East Midlands’ team searched for best-practice examples of care home safety initiatives to address common care issues. LPZ was selected as an exemplar for improving patient care and safety in this area.
Geoff Smith OBE, EMAHSN Patient and Public Involvement Senate Member
Geoff has been a prominent member of the EMAHSN Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Senate for five years. He is retiring as a Senate member on his eighty-ninth birthday after making an incredible contribution to the Senate and the wider health and care system across the East Midlands. Here he gives an account of his experience in PPI across the region and an overview of the importance of PPI and the EMAHSN PPI Senate.
Here, Dr Mittal PReCePT Clinical Lead, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust talks about his role in PReCePT and his experiences of the programme so far. To find out more about PReCePT you can visit: www.healthinnovation-em.org.uk/our-work/innovations/precept
I am at present working as a Neonatal Consultant at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. I have over 18 years’ experience in paediatrics, and have completed five years of training in the UK which was mainly in neonatal intensive care.
Since the Academic Health Science Networks (AHSN) were first established in 2013, excellent progress has been made to achieve our collective goal to improve health and generate economic growth across the country.
In the East Midlands, we’re proud to have developed long and lasting relationships with our local health and care partners. We have worked with these partners to deliver programmes and innovations which answer national health and care priorities. In addition, we have collaborated with them to develop potential new programmes that fit with local health and care challenges through our Innovation Exchange process. We have also worked with numerous of commercial and NHS innovators and supported them to test, develop and spread their innovative health and care solutions within the system, using our unique position to bridge the gap between industry and the NHS.
I’ve had an absolutely fantastic time at the East Midlands Academic Health Science Network (EMAHSN). As a relatively small organisation, currently employing just over 40 people – I am immensely proud of the impact we have in improving patient’s lives. Our success is built on the strong collaborative working relationships we have across the NHS, academia, social care, voluntary sector and industry as well as the synergies we derive from working in the ‘connected network of networks’ formed by the 15 Academic Health Science Networks across the country.
Whilst in a meeting at a GP practice a doctor said something that really resonated with me, they said “we are all recruited by patients to serve the patients”.
The Innovation Technology Payment or ‘ITP’ programme which is delivered in partnership with the country’s 15 Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), works to support NHS organisations to adopt a number of selected evidence-based innovative solutions. The scheme has been running since 2017 (although in a different guise previously), and a new selection of exciting innovations has just been announced – you can find out more about these here.
In May we held a social prescribing networking event for professionals in the health and care and voluntary sectors, who wanted to know more about social prescribing and hear from others who are delivering or thinking of delivering initiatives.
Every year after a lengthy period of consultation with various stakeholders, NHS England and NHS Improvement publish something known as ‘national tariffs’. NHS England defines the national tariff as ‘a set of prices and rules used by providers of NHS care and commissioners to deliver the most efficient, cost effective care to patients’.
A simple way to understand the tariff system is to look at them as a set of statutory pricing structures, essentially a pricing list, which commissioners (buyers of the health services) use to determine the cost of services they would like to buy (mostly acute care) for its populations. For providers (deliverers of services) the tariffs determine how much they will get paid.
Mental health is now recognised as a key priority within health and care, and with unavoidable statistics on the prevalence of mental health conditions it’s easy to understand why:
In my experience, Human Factors as a term sometimes prompts a vague look from people. If that is the case, I mention ergonomics instead because this may be more familiar to some.
The word ergonomics is derived from the Greek words, ergon (work) and nomis (law) and is often used in relation to the physical aspects of the environment, such as workstations, while ‘human factors’ is often used in relation to the wider system in which people work but both terms can be used interchangeably.