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Storytelling to influence: Speaking and presenting
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untilPeople invest time in hearing a story. Whether you want to influence key decision makers or develop a stronger rapport with your audience, telling a story helps you convey essential pieces of information in a relatable, memorable and humanistic way in a professional environment. By examining the stages and structure of storytelling, and how you can apply it to your organisation, the Storytelling to Influence: Speaking and Presenting course explores useful techniques that enable you to hook your audience and become a more powerful verbal communicator. Through a range of practical exer -
Content ArticleRecommendations Early mobilisation Collaborative multidisciplinary working is needed to ensure that pain, hypotension and delirium do not hold back early progress in physiotherapy. Patients should be helped to get up by the day after surgery – such ‘mobilisation’ is key to patients’ wellbeing and avoidance of complications such as delirium, deconditioning and pressure damage. This mobilisation is just one element of the physiotherapy provided to patients, but it is the key measure that the National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD) will use to drive forward local quality improvemen
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NHS trialling 'smart goggles' so nurses can see more patients
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NHS nurses will wear “smart goggles" as part of efforts to see more patients under a £400,000 pilot scheme. Health chiefs said the virtual reality headsets would mean details of a consultation could be directly transcribed, reducing the amount of time spent filling in patients’ notes. The technology will also allow live footage to be streamed to hospital specialists for second opinions, so patients do not have to have extra appointments in hospitals. The intention is to give nurses more time for clinical duties such as checking blood pressure, dressing wounds and assessing a pat -
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Covid redeployment ‘wrong’ and ‘will never be repeated’
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Redeployment of community staff to other services – meaning visits for babies and parents were missed – was the “wrong decision” and would “never be repeated”, a provider has stated. Nikki Lawrence, the head of public health nursing at Sirona Care and Health, which provides community services for Bristol and the surrounding area, appeared to blame the government for about 70% of its health visiting staff being redeployed to adult services, leaving around 30% to care for new families at the height of the pandemic. Health visitors take over from midwives to monitor the health of childr -
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NHS leaders warn that social care workforce crisis risks patient safety
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NHS leaders across England say staffing gaps and a lack of capacity in social care are putting the care and safety of patients in the NHS at risk. Almost 250 NHS leaders responding to an NHS Confederation survey say that patients are being delayed in hospital much longer than they should, with the knock-on impact resulting in higher demand on A&E departments and longer ambulance response times. More than 9 in 10 NHS leaders warn of a social care workforce crisis in their area which they expect will get worse this winter. Nearly all NHS leaders say the lack of capacity in -
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Norfolk and Norwich Hospital unable to discharge 180 patients
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
A senior hospital nurse said she could not discharge 180 patients due to a lack of "care and support" at home. Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital said among the people that did not need to be in hospital was a patient who had been there for 145 days. Claire Fare, senior discharge matron, said delays "impact on the whole of the flow" of patients. Norfolk County Council's social care department blamed the "national care crisis" for the problems. In June, the hospital, which has about 1,200 beds, pleaded for family and friends to help look after fit patients to ease deman -
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Rehab services ‘very bizarre’ in some places, says NHSE director
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NHS England’s director of community health has said a new strategy for rehabilitation care is needed, because present coverage is sometimes ‘bizarre’, with other services ‘masquerading’ as rehab. Matthew Winn, who is also Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust CEO and senior responsible officer of the “ageing well” programme in the NHS long-term plan, made the comments in a webinar for local senior clinicians and managers in the sector. He said there was an intention to roll out a national “intermediate care strategy”, describing it as “the essence” of providing rehabilitation and h -
Content ArticleKey points The National Health Service (NHS) is in serious decline – struggling to recover from the devastating impact of the pandemic and Brexit. The issues are deep-seated and more extensive than the pandemic’s treatment backlog. The future sustainability of a tax-funded comprehensive NHS is now open to doubt. Throughout its history, the NHS has focused on treating ill-health, even as the disease profile of the UK has vastly changed. Rising demand will mean the NHS is unable to provide services to all, ushering in a two-tier health system that no longer provides free
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Content ArticleThe Draft Mental Health Bill includes proposed changes to legislation around: Autism and learning disability Grounds for detention and community treatment orders Appropriate medical treatment The responsible clinician Community treatment orders Nominated persons Detention periods Periods for applications and references Patients concerned in criminal proceedings or under sentence Help and information for patients After care
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Content ArticleKey findings Positive results Of those who have been told who is in charge of organising their care, 96% said that they knew how to contact this person. 90% said the person organised their care quite well or very well. There was a statistically significant improvement since 2019 in the percentage of people who have had the possible side effects and purpose of their medicines discussed with them. Areas for improvement Accessing care Two in five people (42%) thought the waiting time for their NHS talking therapies was too long. Only 41% of people ha
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Investigation and learning from deaths in the community/primary care
Patient Safety Learning posted a calendar event in Community Calendar
This conference focuses on investigating and learning from deaths in the community/primary care. The conference focuses on the extension of the Medical Examiner role to cover deaths occurring in the community and the role of the GP in working with the Medical Examiner to learn from deaths and to identify constructive learning to improve care for patients. The conference will also focus on implementation of the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework and learning from a primary care early adopter. For further information and to book your place visit https://www.healthcareconference -
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Government to pick ‘integration frontrunners’ to test ‘radical new approaches’
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Government will pick five or six ‘integration frontrunner’ areas ‘to lead the way in developing and testing radical new approaches’ to speeding up discharge from acute hospitals. Along with NHS England, ministers today wrote to local NHS and council directors asking for bids to take part by 30 June. They said there was “a need to take a more fundamental look at [how the] system currently manages the discharge of patients, their post-acute care, and their access to high-quality social care”. The “discharge integration frontrunner sites” will focus on exploring “new service models -
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News ArticlePharmacists say physical and verbal abuse against them has become unacceptably common and many now feel unsafe when at work. Police forces say they are being called out to handle pharmacy-based crimes. The Pharmacists' Defence Association (PDA) says there have been reports of a stabbing and physical attacks in pharmacies around the UK and that more needs to be done to enforce the NHS's zero tolerance policy on worker abuse.. Pharmacist Conor McAreavey was stabbed in the hand with a knife at his pharmacy in Belfast in March. He told the BBC he was "very lucky" not to have suffere
