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Remote consultations handbookThis guide aims to provide clinicians with some guidance on how to modify their usual history taking and examination techniques to enable a productive and safe remote consultation via webcam or telephone.
Guidelines for managing patients with dyspepsia in primary careDyspepsia is a term that describes a collection of symptoms that affect the oesophagus (gullet), stomach or duodenum (the first part of the small intestine). This pathway provides guidance on managing patients with dyspepsia in primary care.
Handbook for video consultationsThis guide aims to provide clinicians with some guidance on how to modify their usual history taking and examination techniques to ensure a safe and effective consultation for clinicians working via a webcam.
Diabetes – Remote consulting tips for GPNsThis document provides guidance for general practices on managing patients with diabetes remotely via either telephone or video consultations.
Medical appraisalThis online guidance produced by NHS England give an overview of the medical appraisal process and includes information and resources to help medical appraisers carry out their roles effectively and consistently.
GP Supervisor and Physician Associate GuideThis guide published by the Royal College of Physicians will be helpful for any general practice that has recently recruited or is considering recruiting a Physician Associate to work as part of their primary care team.
Who are Physician Associates?This leaflet published by the Royal College of Physicians explains the role of Physician Associates, how they work, where they fit into general practice and their scope of practice.
Recruitment and development of paramedics in primary careThis guide aims to support general practices to understand the role of paramedics and how they can become part of a
multidisciplinary team with wider skill sets, enabling new and exciting models of care to develop.
Recruitment and Retention – Tier 2 Visa SponsorshipHas your practice considered becoming a Tier 2 sponsorship license holder? This licence will allow you to employ non-EEA workers, which can help support clinical recruitment and retention.
COPD – Greater Manchester COPD ProgrammeHealth Innovation Manchester is bringing together resources from the NHS, social care and pharmaceutical industry to ensure that every person with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) has access to equitable, high quality care. This clinician-led learning tool aims to support local GP practices in the care of patients with COPD.2 comments
Chain SMSDoes your practice use Chain SMS? Chain SMS is available from AccuRX ad can be used by practices to send text messages to patients for a range of purposes including recall, care plans, patient information and delivering test results. Using Chain SMS benefits both practice ...
NICE Chronic Heart Failure Guidelines in Adults 2018This guideline covers diagnosing and managing chronic heart failure in people aged 18 and over in primary care and the community. It aims to improve diagnosis and treatment to increase the length and quality of life for people with heart failure.
Flu vaccinations 2018: guidance and planning clinicsWith appropriate planning, all patients should be able to be offered protection before the flu season starts. The latest clinical recommendations and programme delivery guidance published by NHS England can help you and your team implement the changes.
A guide for general practice employing a paramedicThis guide published by NHS Fareham and Gosport CCG aims to support general practices to understand the role of paramedics, how they work, where they fit into general practice and their scope of practice.
First Contact Physiotherapy posts in General PracticeThis practical guidance will support general practices looking to recruit physiotherapists to work in a multidisciplinary primary care team as the first point of contact for their Musculoskeletal (MSK) patients.
Quality Improvement Toolkit For Early Diagnosis Of CancerThis toolkit is to help GPs and their practice teams to improve their early diagnosis of cancer principally by using the findings from the National Cancer Diagnosis Audit (NCDA). The NCDA is an audit of primary and secondary care data of patients diagnosed with cancer. It ...
Quality Improvement Project (QIP) Guidance for GP TraineesThe RCGP has produced some guidance for GP Trainees completing a Quality Improvement Project (QIP) as part of their training. Engagement with Quality Improvement activities is a mandatory part of the curriculum for GP trainees (‘Gold Guide’ Reference Guide for Postgraduate Specialty Training in the ...
Reporting and Learning from patient safety incidents in general practiceThe purpose of this guide is to:
• maximise opportunities to learn from patient safety incidents in
your practice, and to share learning via organisational or national
reporting systems
• outline a process for learning from patient safety incidents in
your practice.
Where appropriate, this guide will signpost existing well-written resources and does not seek to replicate their content.
Quality Improvement HubThe Quality Improvement Hub website provides a range of resources to support organisations to improve the quality of healthcare in Scotland. The tools provided here can support you in your improvement work.
Safety netting for cancer diagnosis in primary careThis brief guide to safety netting for cancer diagnosis in primary care aims to support healthcare professionals to detect cancers earlier and minimise delayed diagnoses.
Significant Event Analysis GP Guide: Early Diagnosis of CancerThis guide will support GPs and colleagues in primary care teams to undertake an effective Cancer Significant Event Analysis (SEA), and identify any potential improvements in practice systems using documentation or proactive safety netting.
Significant Event AuditSignificant Event Audit - also called Significant Event Review or Analysis - is an increasingly routine part of general practice. It is a technique to reflect on and learn from individual cases to improve quality of care overall.
Tips for sessional GPsThe BMA has produced some tips for appraisal for sessional GPs which includes some information about QI requirements.
Best practice in clinical auditThe purpose of this guide is to set out updated criteria for best practice in local clinical audit. As well as the guide, check lists are available which can be used to assess healthcare organisations, clinical audit programmes and clinical audits against the criteria.
Six principles for engaging people and communities: Putting them into practiceThe six principles were developed by the People and Communities Board, in conjunction with the new models of care ‘vanguards’ sites, to give practical support to services as they deliver the ‘new relationship with people and communities;’ set out in NHS England's Five Year Forward View.
District Nursing and General Practice Nursing Service Education and Career FrameworkThe development of the education and career frameworks for district nursing and general practice nursing is the first attempt to develop a national solution to enable a consistent approach to ensuring the whole district and general practice nursing team are equipped to deliver health outcomes now and in the future.
The habits of an improverIn this paper, Professor Bill Lucas offers a way of viewing the field of improvement from the perspective of the men and women who deliver and co-produce care on the ground – the improvers on whom the NHS depends.
A guide to good quality coding and safety netting for cancer diagnosisThis guide to quality coding and safety netting for cancer diagnosis aims to enhance patient safety by having the most up-to-date and connected information about your patient at your fingertips, regardless of how long you have known the patient.
Guide to quality improvement methodsThe guide brings together twelve quality improvement (QI) methods, providing an overview of each and practical advice on how and when to implement them, with illustrative case examples.
General Practice Nurse competency frameworkThis competency framework addresses the common core competencies and the wider range of skills, knowledge and behaviours a nurse needs, to be a fully proficient General Practice Nurse (GPN).
Evaluation: What to considerThis guide, by The Health Foundation, is intended to assist those new to evaluation by suggesting methodological and practical considerations and providing resources to support further learning.
Using communications approaches to spread improvementThis guide from The Health Foundation draws on this experience, and empirical evidence, to provide practical information about how communications approaches can be used to spread improvement ideas.
Enhanced Significant Event AnalysisEnhanced Significant Event Analysis is an NHS Education for Scotland innovation which aims to guide health care teams to apply human factors thinking when performing a significant event analysis, particularly where the event has had an emotional impact on staff involved.
How to develop a patient-friendly clinical audit reportHQIP's definitive guide to developing clinical audit reports and tools suitable for patients, carers and other lay readers and useful to all involved in clinical audit and quality improvement, featuring guidance, tips, examples and case studies.
Significant Event Audit: guidance for primary care teamsThis guidance published by NHS Education for Scotland aims to support primary care teams in conducting effective significant event audits with the aim of improving care for all patients.
A Handy Guide to FacilitationThis guide published by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement outlines tools and techniques to help make group workshops or meetings as productive as possible.
Improving access, responding to patients: A ‘how-to’ guide for GP practicesThis guide is a celebration of some of this good practice, sharing the successes and signposting real examples of things that have proven to work, things that make a real difference for patients and the working lives of our staff.
Health Care Assistants in General PracticeThis document published by Gwynedd Local Health Board aims to help in both the selection process and training of Health Care Assistants within general practice.
