MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'assurance'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:32:44 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5158859&cid=t_290009_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F23%2Fhow-to-guide-improving-transitions-from-the-hospital-to-a-skilled-nursing-facility-to-reduce-avoidable-rehospitalizations%2F Scan or click to download 'How-to Guide: Improving Transitions from the Hospital to a Skilled Nursing Facility to Reduce Avoidable Rehospitalizations ' Title: How-to Guide: Improving Transitions from the Hospital to a Skilled Nursing Facility to Reduce Avoidable Rehospitalizations The Skinny: Guide from Institute for Health Improvement on avoiding avoidable rehospitalisations as a result of poor co-ordination of care settings. Avoiding this is a key step toward achieving broader delivery system transformation. Based on the healthcare system of the USA this guide is of use to those looking to aviod rehospitalisation from a residentia care/nursing home and rehabilitation setting.   Publisher: Institute for Health Improvement Published: August 2011 Size: 60p. Filed under: Ooops... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5158859 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:35:32 +0100 5158859 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5139624&cid=t_290009_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F18%2Fsarcoma-measures-for-the-manual-for-cancer-services%2F Title: Sarcoma: Measures for the Manual for Cancer Services Scan or click to download ‘Sarcoma Measures for the Manual for Cancer Services’ The Skinny: Dear collegue letter announcing that Sarcoma Measures are being issued today as part of the Manual for Cancer Services. A copy of the measures can be found in the Cancer Section on the Department of Health web-site or the CQuINS web-site www.cquins.nhs.uk. Publisher: DH Published: 09/08/11 Size: 2p Filed under: Ooops Missed Category! Tagged: Cancer, Clinical Governance, Commissioning, Grey Literature, Health Outcomes, Management control, Monitoring of standards, Neoplasms, NHS Circulars, Outcomes, Patient outcomes, Performance monitoring, Quality, Quality Assurance, Quality assurance in health services, Quality control, Sarc... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5139624 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:42:35 +0100 5139624 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5139626&cid=t_290009_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F18%2Fsafe-and-sustainable-review-of-childrens-congenital-heart-services-in-england-interim-health-impact-assessment%2F Title: Safe and sustainable: Review of Children’s Congenital Heart Services in England Interim Health Impact Assessment Scan or click to download ‘Safe and sustainable: Safe and sustainable: Review of Children’s Congenital Heart Services in England Interim Health Impact Assessment’ The Skinny: Looks at the impact of moving to Congenital heart networks as the new model of care to ensure that in future care for children and young people with congenital heart disease are better coordinated. Within the new model of care, each network would include a Specialist Surgical Centre, a Children’s Cardiology Centre and District Children’s Cardiology Services. It states that concentrating surgical expertise onto fewer sites and bringing non-surgical care closer to home wi... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5139626 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:38:06 +0100 5139626 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5139633&cid=t_290009_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F17%2Fdiagnostic-tool-for-emerging-clinical-commissioning-groups%2F Title: Diagnostic tool for emerging clinical commissioning groups Scan or click to download ‘Diagnostic tool for emerging clinical commissioning groups’ The Skinny: A developmental, self-assessment tool to enable emerging clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to understand and reflect upon their values, culture, behaviours and wider organisational health has been issued as an Excel spreadsheet. It allows CCG leadership teams to assess the capability of their emerging CCG across six domains, identify their development needs and access further resources and examples of good practice. The tool is intended to encourage conversations about the roles and responsibilities that will be expected of CCGs as statutory bodies and their readiness to take these on. It includes some of the ... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5139633 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:35:50 +0100 5139633 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5139639&cid=t_290009_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F17%2Fnational-cancer-patients%25e2%2580%2599-experience-survey-programme-2011%2F Title: National Cancer Patients’ Experience Survey programme 2011 Scan or click to download ‘National Cancer Patients’ Experience Survey programme 2011 ‘ The Skinny: Dear Colleague letter that announces the launch of the 2011 Cancer Patient Experience Survey, and informs that the Review of Central Returns steering committee has approved this survey in all trusts offering adult acute in-patient cancer services. This is a priority in Improving Outcomes: A Strategy for Cancer, and the NHS Operating Framework 2011/12 recognises the value of patient surveys for measuring performance and driving improvement in NHS services. Publisher: DH Published: 21/07/11 Size: 3p. Additional Document:  Annex A National Cancer Patients’ experience survey programme 2011 – survey ... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5139639 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:26:40 +0100 5139639 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5130646&cid=t_290009_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F15%2Fsafe-effective-service-improvement-delivering-the-safety-and-productivity-agenda-in-healthcare-using-a-lean-approach%2F Title: Safe & Effective Service Improvement: Delivering the safety and productivity agenda in healthcare using a Lean approach Scan to download Safe and Effective Service Improvement: Delivering the safety and productivity agenda in healthcare using a Lean approach. The Skinny: Guide for those with a responsibility for safety and productivity working in healthcare organisations, introducing the concept that Lean can, and already is, being used to tackle both of these important agendas. Aims to show that an absence of “Lean Thinking” inside healthcare organisations can lead to increased patient safety risks. Tackling patient safety incidents in all their many forms, from near misses through to events that cause severe harm or even death, is a priority for healthcare organisations. I... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5130646 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:21:41 +0100 5130646 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5130656&cid=t_290009_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F15%2Fmanual-for-cancer-services-brain-and-cns-measures%2F Title:  Manual for Cancer Services: Brain and CNS measures  Scan or Click to download 'Manual for Cancer Services: Brain and CNS measures' The Skinny: Following a three month consultation period, the final Brain and CNS Measures are now published for inclusion in the Manual for Cancer Services. The measures can also be found on the CQUINS website at http://www.cquins.nhs.net/ Publisher: DH Published: 11/07/11 Size: 66p. Filed under: Ooops Missed Category! Tagged: Brain cancer, Cancer, Grey Literature, Health Outcomes, Neoplasms, Outcomes, Quality, Quality Assurance, Quality assurance in health services, Quality Improvement, Quality management (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5130656 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:10:18 +0100 5130656 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5130657&cid=t_290009_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F15%2Fpiloting-payment-by-results-for-drugs-recovery-%25e2%2580%2593-draft-outcome-definitions%2F Title: Piloting Payment by Results for Drugs Recovery – draft outcome definitions Scan or click to download 'Piloting Payment by Results for Drugs Recovery – draft outcome definitions' The Skinny: The Government has set the following high-level outcomes: Free from drug(s) of dependence Offending Employment Health and well-being A Co-design Group has developed proposals to measure these outcomes and set eligibility criteria and now invites comments from the sector on draft proposals. Publisher: DH Published: 13/07/11 Size: 13p. Filed under: Ooops Missed Category! Tagged: Addiction, Addiction units, Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol abuse services, Alcohol and drug consumption, Clinical Governance, Drug Abuse, Drugs of Abuse, Grey Literature, Health Outcomes, Health Services, Outcomes, ... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5130657 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:04:28 +0100 5130657 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5130660&cid=t_290009_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F15%2Fkeeping-patients-safe-when-they-transfer-between-care-providers-%25e2%2580%2593-getting-the-medicines-right-good-practice-guidance-for-healthcare-professions%2F Title: Keeping patients safe when they transfer between care providers – getting the medicines right: Good practice guidance for healthcare professions Scan or Click to download 'Keeping patients safe when they transfer between care providers – getting the medicines right: Good practice guidance for healthcare professions' The Skinny: Guidance from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society on the safe and effective transfer of information about patients’ medicines. The guidance contains high level core principles and responsibilities that underpin the safe transfer of information about medicines whenever a patient transfers care providers both internally within an organisation or externally, at any point in the care pathway. Publisher: Royal Pharmaceutical Society Published: 13/07/1... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5130660 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:53:30 +0100 5130660 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159035&cid=t_290009_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D4422%26utm_source%3Drss%26utm_medium%3Drss%26utm_campaign%3Dwilletts-private-university-in-trouble-private-eye-explains Jump to follow-up We live under a highly ideological government. It wishes to privatise everything in sight, not least universities and the National Health Service. Of course they don’t put it that way: they call it “reform”. It’s easier to deal with open ideology than with ideology disguised as social reform, but luckily a 10-year old could see through the weasel words. One example is the raising of tuition fees to £9,000 pa. It costs the taxpayers more than charging £3,000 did. Students obviously lose, and universities probably lose too. It takes a very blind form of ideology to devise a system in which all three parties lose money, for the sake of a principle. No doubt Education Minister David Willetts was moved by the same ideological considerations... DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159035 Sat, 28 May 2011 10:47:25 +0100 5159035 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4803141&cid=t_290009_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fdo-most-hospitals-have-similar-performance-scores%2F2011.05.09 Quality measures. Patient satisfaction surveys. With our new health care reform law, these “performance measures” are the new black in health care. Hospitals are currently spending, conservatively, tens of millions of dollars to bolster these “performance measures” in hopes of securing a refund of a mere 1% of payments that CMS will soon withhold from them in the name of “assuring” quality improvement. But what if, nationwide, there wasn’t a big difference in these measures between hospitals? What happens then? Might payments then be made on political grounds? Performance measures have been collected for some time now in anticipation of this new payment initiative by the government, so data exist to evaluate. In fact, Kaiser Health News was nice en... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4803141 Mon, 09 May 2011 13:00:00 +0100 4803141 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4281269&cid=t_290009_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F12%2Fmedical-authorities-revoke-license-surgeon-dr-virginia-stevens%2F The Medical Quality Assurance Board has revoked the license of surgeon Dr. Virginia Stevens for a cosmetic breast surgery that was high irregular and other offenses. (Source: Inside Surgery) Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4281269 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 02:15:41 +0100 4281269 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3652497&cid=t_290009_112_f&fid=34971&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdoctorandpatient.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F06%2Fquality-control-in-ivf-laboratory.html This is a guest post by Dr Sai, Chief Embryologist at Malpani Infertility Clinic.Quality Control (QC) and Quality Assurance (QA) in the IVF laboratory plays an important role in the success of any IVF program. The role of QC procedures in the IVF laboratory is to fine tune existing protocols in order to more effectively help infertile patients in their quest to have a healthy baby. The three most important physical conditions in the IVF laboratory that can be controlled are the temperature, pH and osmolality of the IVF culture medium. Laboratories are required to document and monitor these physical conditions regularly as part of their ongoing QC/QA programs. Monitoring and documentation of temperatures inside incubators, refrigerators and freezers is an integral part of routine day to day... The Patient's Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3652497 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:24:00 +0100 3652497 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3224849&cid=t_290009_105_f&fid=38964&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdrwes.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fhow-hospitals-can-help-invalidate-non.html Non-compete clauses are familiar to the business community as a means to prevent a former employee from using corporate trade secrets to compete against the former employer. But when a doctor is forced to leave a practice and three other doctors in that practice join him, that non-compete clause may also impact a hospital in the same geographic area as the non-compete. Hospitals, not wanting to lose admissions, are more than happy come to the aide of the exonerated:A noncompetition clause in the four doctors' employment contracts prohibited them from practicing medicine within 25 miles of the clinic if they left it.All four doctors have continued seeing patients at the clinic because their contracts allow them to work for 90 days after termination or resignation. The clause would have gone... Dr. Wes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3224849 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:37:00 +0100 3224849 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3175905&cid=t_290009_105_f&fid=38964&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdrwes.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fwhere-were-techs-and-nurses.html Medicine is a team sport. No single doctor can do what they do without tons of help from nurses, technicians, clerical staff, and yes, even adminstrators.So it was with considerable surprise that I saw this piece from the Baltimore Sun:"An internal review, begun last May at the behest of federal investigators and in response to a patient complaint, has turned up 369 patients with stents that appear to have been implanted in their arteries unnecessarily, CEO Jeffrey K. Norman said in an interview yesterday. Patients began receiving letters alerting them to the finding early last month, and more notifications are expected as the review continues. "We take our interaction and the care of our patients with the utmost seriousness, and so we wanted to alert patients and their physicians to what ... Dr. Wes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3175905 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:17:00 +0100 3175905 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3100734&cid=t_290009_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F12%2F18%2Fworld-class-commissioning-december-2009-update%2F Title: World class commissioning – December 2009 update Skinny: Dear colleague letter detailing the latest information on the WCC assurance framework, practice based commissioning and integrated care pilots, PCT Spend and Outcomes Factsheets and Tool (SPOT), Whats new on the WCC Website and the Belfield Blog. Publisher: DH Size of Publication: 4p. Published: 16/12/2009 Posted in Commissioning, Grey Literature, NHS, Primary Care Tagged: Assurance Framework, Commissioning, Good Practice, Grey Literature, Integrated Care, Practice Based Commissioning, Quality, World Class Commissioning (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3100734 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:53:01 +0100 3100734 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2800302&cid=t_290009_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F09%2F16%2Fworld-class-commissioning-assurance-%25e2%2580%2593-year-2%2F Title: World class commissioning assurance – Year 2 The Skinny: A guide for PCTs and SHAs that explains World Class Commissioning assurance in detail.  It details on the assurance process and focus’ on Outcomes Competencies Governance Potential for improvement Publisher: DH Size of Publication: 111p Published: 16/09/2009 Posted in Commissioning, Grey Literature, NHS, Primary Care, Quality Tagged: Assurance, Commissioning, Grey Literature, Primary Care, Quality, World Class Commissioning (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2800302 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:00:14 +0100 2800302 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2681873&cid=t_290009_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FqXYZkv_j5gA%2F An AP story today contains a quote that caught my eye, an indication that apparently jet-gate hasn’t jaded me as much as I thought it had. In the context of rising enrollment in the federal food stamp program (now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) and private charity efforts to feed poorer Americans, Senate Agriculture Committee chairman Tom Harkin (D, IA) says this: Ensuring that our kids have enough to eat during summer months is critically important, especially during these tough economic times… Unfortunately, despite repeated efforts, the number of children participating in federally reimbursed summer nutrition programs in 2008 was the same as it was 15 years ago. (emphasis added) At first I thought maybe he was saying how unfortunate it was ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2681873 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:38:34 +0100 2681873 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1494232&cid=t_290009_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F06%2F05%2Fworld-class-commissioning-assurance-handbook%2F is linked to the World class commissioning: vision and World class commissioning: competencies published in December 2007 and to resources for support and development available both nationally and locally. Together these provide a coherent programme aimed at supporting commissioners in delivering their health agenda. This handbook provides a detailed explanation of the content of commissioning assurance, with a practical guide on how to follow the process. (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1494232 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:41:33 +0100 1494232