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Improving communication at handover and transfer reduces retained swabs

6 Dec 2017

Two years incident free from never events in maternity services and near misses have reduced from 33% - 1%. Introduced simple and effective handover.

2018 NICE Shared Learning Awards – submit your entry now

27 Nov 2017

NICE are currently seeking entries from health and social care organisations for their prestigious 2018 Shared Learning Awards. Read about them here: https://www.nice.org.uk/about/what-we-do/into-practice/local-practice-case-studies/shared-learning-awards

Conference: Making healthcare more human – 28 March 18

14 Nov 2017

What does "more human" care mean to patients and staff. What helps staff to be "at their best"?

Come and join a network of like-minded individuals to support implementation of NICE guidance

9 Nov 2017

NICE is seeking to recruit up to 10 senior, influential individuals to help support the implementation of NICE guidance and standards, 1 day per month for 3 years. The NICE Fellowships start on 1 April 2018.

Interested in undertaking a project to improve care? Want to learn more about NICE?

9 Nov 2017

NICE is seeking to recruit 10 scholars to work on a project, 1 day per week for a year, to improve care. The scholarships start on 1 April 2018.

Quality Assurance Review Framework for Health Impact Assessment

13 Oct 2017

The Wales Health Impact Assessment Support Unit were delighted to publish the first broad quality appraisal tool for HIA globally in July of this year and we hope it will make a significant contribution to the practice of HIA nationally and internationally.

Social Prescribing in Wessex – an evaluation

2 Oct 2017

This new report describes the eight different services providing social prescribing in Wessex - and our work to understand and evaluate the impact they are having, to support their development.

Helping to Improve Blood Transfusion Practice Overseas

1 Sep 2017

We recently deployed a web based data collection tool to assist an overseas collaborative in Lusaka Zambia to provide evidence of practice improvements in the field of blood transfusion

Measurement and Monitoring of Safety National Sharing Events

1 Sep 2017

Are you interested in using the Measurement and Monitoring of Safety Framework (Vincent et al, 2013) in your region but don't know where to get started? We have the events for you...

Welcome to the 436 new members (and Croeso to our new Wales members!)

18 Aug 2017

Today new members join us from the East of England, Greater Manchester, Kent, Surrey and Sussex, Wessex and Wales