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About AHA UK
The Alcohol Health Alliance UK brings together organisations whose mission is to reduce the damage caused to health by alcohol misuse. Members include medical bodies, charities and alcohol health campaigners. more >> |
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Accreditation services
The Royal College of Physicians offers a range of accreditation services, with the aim of improving the quality, safety and outcomes of healthcare, the patient experience and service delivery. Our Accredition unit also manages certification and quality assurance processes for trainees and practitioners. more >> |
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Admission records
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Alcohol Health Alliance UK
The Alcohol Health Alliance (AHA) UK brings together organisations whose mission is to reduce the damage caused to health by alcohol misuse. Members include medical bodies, charities and alcohol health campaigners. more >> |
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Clinical Commissioning Hub
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Commissioning stroke services
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Consultation responses on record keeping and patient care
At the RCP, The Health Informatics Unit (HIU) responds to national consultations on matters related to the delivery of high quality patient care through setting standards of medical practice and promoting clinical excellence. more >> |
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E-learning modules on record keeping
E-learning modules on record-keeping standards have been developed by the Health Informatics Unit (HIU); they focus on generic health record-keeping standards, and standards for the hospital admission clerking, inpatient handover and hospital discharge. more >> |
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FallSafe
The FallSafe project is about quality improvement. It focused on prevention and management of falls in clinical hospital wards in Southern England SHA. The project was led by the RCP, and overseen by key stakeholders including the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), Royal College of Nursing (RCN), British Geriatrics Society (BGS), NHS South of England, and the patient support group Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA). more >> |
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Future Hospital Commission
Future Hospital Commission is RCP’s innovative and groundbreaking project to review all aspects of the design and delivery of inpatient hospital care. more >> |
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Generic standards for clinical records
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Handover records
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Healthcare record standards
The latest version of the healthcare record standards have been signed off by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC). Standards for admission, handover, discharge, outpatient and referral records and communications are available for free and ready to use now to develop and implement electronic health and social care records. more >> |
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Hospital discharge records
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Hospital workforce: fit for the future?
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Hospitals on the edge? The time for action
All hospital inpatients deserve to receive safe, high-quality, sustainable care centred around their needs and delivered in an appropriate setting by respectful, compassionate, expert health professionals. Yet it is increasingly clear that our hospitals are struggling to cope with the challenge of an ageing population and increasing hospital admissions. more >> |
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Implementing NICE guidance for the workplace
This project supports the implementation of NICE public health guidance for the workplace by the NHS. This fits into a programme of activities run by the Health and Work Development unit in collaboration with NHS trusts. The overarching aim of these activities is to improve the health, wellbeing, effectiveness and productivity of the NHS workforce and ultimately the care provided to patients. more >> |
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Improving clinical coding
The Health Informatics Unit (HIU) conducted a programme of work that focussed on improving clinical coding, and clinicians’ understanding of analyses of hospital activity data and Hospital Episode Statistics (HES). more >> |
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Improving Lung Cancer Outcomes Project - ILCOP
The Improving Lung Cancer Outcomes Project (ILCOP) brought together multi-disciplinary healthcare teams from different NHS Trusts to share best practice in diagnosing, treating and supporting patients with lung cancer, to ensure improvements in survival and quality of life. more >> |
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Learning to Make a Difference (LTMD)
Learning to Make a Difference is all about empowering junior doctors to learn and develop skills in quality improvement and put these new skills into practice to make a real difference to their patient care. Find information and examples on how to get quality improvement projects started and keep going until the project is completed. more >> |
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National Audit of Continence Care (NACC)
The National Audit of Continence Care is currently closed. This website contains information of previous audit cycles and other work for information. The National Audit of Continence Care is a highly successful and influential audit project building on the National Audit of Continence Care for Older People which demonstrated the variability of care and service delivery across the country. It subsequently showed the utility of clinical audit in improving continence care. more >> |
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National audit of falls and bone health in older people
The national audit of falls and bone health is a programme of work which examines the organisation and commissioning of services provided to older people for falls prevention and bone health, the clinical care delivered to people that have fallen and fractured a bone and patient’s experiences of fall services. more >> |
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National audit of services for people with multiple sclerosis
The national audit of services for people with multiple sclerosis is a clinically-led audit of the organisation, resourcing and performance of NHS services for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) in England and Wales, funded by the Royal College of Physicians and the Multiple Sclerosis Trust. The primary goal is to improve care for all people with multiple sclerosis. more >> |
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National clinical guideline for stroke
The Royal College of Physicians National clinical guideline for stroke is an evidence based guideline updated every four years that gives guidance to clinicians in the field of stroke care. The draft for the fourth edition is now out to public consultation. more >> |
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National occupational health clinical audit programme
The Health and Work Development Unit (HWDU) at the Royal College of Physicians offers the only national clinical audits for occupational health (OH) services. These projects support OH services by measuring and raising standards, and reducing variability in clinical practice. more >> |
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National Review of Asthma Deaths
The National Review of Asthma Deaths (NRAD), run by a consortium of asthma professional and patient bodies, led by the Royal College of Physicians, will look into the circumstances surrounding deaths from asthma from 1 February 2012 to 30 January 2013. The NRAD has been commissioned and funded by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP). more >> |
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National Sentinel Stroke Audit
The National Sentinel Stroke Audit (NSSA) monitored the rate of progress in stroke care and services in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on a two year cycle from 1998 until 2010. It consisted of a clinical component which measured the quality of stroke care and an organisational componenet which measured the quality of stroke service organisation. The NSSA has been replaced by the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP). more >> |
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Outpatient records
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Policy positions
The Alcohol Health Alliance UK has developed evidence-based positions on a range of alcohol policy issues. more >> |
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Policy standards for record keeping
The Health Informatics Unit (HIU) makes major contributions to the development and implementation of national policy for fully inter-operable, clinically relevant patient focussed records to support high quality clinical care, research and patient empowerment, which are major goals for the NHS. more >> |
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Referral records
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Resources
The Alcohol Health Alliance (AHA) UK provides expert advice on alcohol-related health harms and regularly contributes to government consultations and inquiries. more >> |
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Revalidation
Revalidation is the process whereby, from 2012, all licensed doctors will have to demonstrate to the General Medical Council (GMC) that they are up to date and fit to practice. The Royal College of Physicians believes that revalidation should support professional development and result in higher standards of care for patients and the public. more >> |
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Revalidation and the quality of medical note keeping
Guidance for the use of evidence of the quality of medical note-keeping for consultant revalidation has been developed by the Health Informatics Unit (HIU). It was developed with wide consultation including online questionnaires and clinician workshops. more >> |
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Risk management
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SINAP (Stroke Improvement National Audit Programme)
The Stroke Improvement National Audit Programme (SINAP) is a national clinical audit, which collected information from hospitals about stroke patient care in the first three days in hospital. SINAP was run by the RCP Stroke programme on behalf of the Intercollegiate Stroke Working Party (ICSWP) and commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP). Data submission for SINAP has now ended. The new stroke audit, the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP), is now the single source of stroke data nationally. more >> |
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SSNAP (Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme)
The Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP) is a new programme of work which aims to improve the quality of stroke care by auditing stroke services against evidence based standards. SSNAP will build on the work of the National Sentinel Stroke Audit (NSSA) and the Stroke Improvement National Audit Programme (SINAP). more >> |
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Staff health improvement project
This project aims to facilitate faster implementation of NICE public health guidance relevant to the workplace by NHS trusts. The project is funded by the Department of Health and has two phases: more >> |
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Standards for core clinical information
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Stroke Programme
The Stroke Programme at the Royal College of Physicians has been at the forefront of quality improvement programmes in stroke since 1996. more >> |
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The Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme (FFFAP) 2013
The Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme (FFFAP) is a national clinical audit run by the Royal College of Physicians designed to audit the care that patients with fragility fractures and inpatient falls receive in hospital and to facilitate quality improvement initiatives. more >> |
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The future of urgent and emergency care
How can the health service cope with rising demand for urgent and emergency care and ensure patient needs are met? more >> |
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The medical registrar: Empowering the unsung heroes of patient care
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The young adult and adolescent initiative
The young adult and adolescent initiative aims to improve healthcare outcomes for patients in the 16-24 year age group. more >> |
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UK Carotid Interventions Audit
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Future Hospital Commission Future Hospital Commission is RCP’s innovative and groundbreaking project to review all aspects of the design and delivery of inpatient hospital care. more >> |
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FallSafe The FallSafe project is about quality improvement. It focused on prevention and management of falls in clinical hospital wards in Southern England SHA. The project was led by the RCP, and overseen by key stakeholders including the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), Royal College of Nursing (RCN), British Geriatrics Society (BGS), NHS South of England, and the patient support group Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA). more >> |
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SSNAP (Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme) The Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP) is a new programme of work which aims to improve the quality of stroke care by auditing stroke services against evidence based standards. SSNAP will build on the work of the National Sentinel Stroke Audit (NSSA) and the Stroke Improvement National Audit Programme (SINAP). more >> |
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Hospitals on the edge? The time for action All hospital inpatients deserve to receive safe, high-quality, sustainable care centred around their needs and delivered in an appropriate setting by respectful, compassionate, expert health professionals. Yet it is increasingly clear that our hospitals are struggling to cope with the challenge of an ageing population and increasing hospital admissions. more >> |
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National Review of Asthma Deaths The National Review of Asthma Deaths (NRAD), run by a consortium of asthma professional and patient bodies, led by the Royal College of Physicians, will look into the circumstances surrounding deaths from asthma from 1 February 2012 to 30 January 2013. The NRAD has been commissioned and funded by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP). more >> |
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SINAP (Stroke Improvement National Audit Programme) The Stroke Improvement National Audit Programme (SINAP) is a national clinical audit, which collected information from hospitals about stroke patient care in the first three days in hospital. SINAP was run by the RCP Stroke programme on behalf of the Intercollegiate Stroke Working Party (ICSWP) and commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP). Data submission for SINAP has now ended. The new stroke audit, the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP), is now the single source of stroke data nationally. more >> |
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Revalidation Revalidation is the process whereby, from 2012, all licensed doctors will have to demonstrate to the General Medical Council (GMC) that they are up to date and fit to practice. The Royal College of Physicians believes that revalidation should support professional development and result in higher standards of care for patients and the public. more >> |
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Commissioning stroke services more >> |
Updated: 10 June 2013 Published by: Chief Executive’s Office |
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The Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme (FFFAP) 2013 The Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme (FFFAP) is a national clinical audit run by the Royal College of Physicians designed to audit the care that patients with fragility fractures and inpatient falls receive in hospital and to facilitate quality improvement initiatives. more >> |
Updated: 3 June 2013 Published by: Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit |
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The future of urgent and emergency care How can the health service cope with rising demand for urgent and emergency care and ensure patient needs are met? more >> |
Updated: 27 March 2013 Published by: Policy Team |
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The medical registrar: Empowering the unsung heroes of patient care more >> |
Updated: 6 March 2013 |
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Hospital workforce: fit for the future? more >> |
Updated: 22 April 2013 |
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Improving Lung Cancer Outcomes Project - ILCOP The Improving Lung Cancer Outcomes Project (ILCOP) brought together multi-disciplinary healthcare teams from different NHS Trusts to share best practice in diagnosing, treating and supporting patients with lung cancer, to ensure improvements in survival and quality of life. more >> |
Updated: 30 April 2013 Published by: Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit |
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Policy positions The Alcohol Health Alliance UK has developed evidence-based positions on a range of alcohol policy issues. more >> |
Updated: 4 December 2012 Published by: Policy Team |
