QIPP & Productivity – Carol Davis describes how the use of lean principles has reduced waste and delays, and improved patient care

Adopting an initiative from the car parts industry to transform culture at ward level, Nursing Management, 2011, Vol. 18(6) pp.8-9 Carol Davis -  The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust , Chester, UK Abstract: Carol Davis describes how the use of lean principles has reduced waste and delays, and improved patient care Techniques devised by [...]

Quality, Innovation & QIPP – Health leaders from across Suffolk joined together in a collaborative action-learning project to identify ways of offering more productive and personalised care for patients with dementia and their carers.

Collaborative project to co-ordinate care for patients with dementia, Nursing Management,  2011, 18 (2) pp. 27-31 Dorothy Kennerley, The Suffolk Nurse Leaders Group – NHS Suffolk Abstract: Health leaders from across Suffolk joined together in a collaborative action-learning project to identify ways of offering more productive and personalised care for patients with dementia and their [...]

Innovation – NESTA – Making Innovations Flourish

NESTA – Making Innovations Flourish Click on the website above to access information and resources Abstract: Innovations in Mental Health challenged frontline workers, service users and carers to come up with new ways to deliver mental health services. Eleven projects were selected and piloted to find out how we can strengthen, support and spread good [...]

HSJ Awards 2011 – Rewards the best innovation, ideas and dedication found throughout the healthcare sector over the last year

The Open Doors Network: Pioneering support scheme run by and for people with Dementia in Salford, Greater Manchester , HSJ Awards, 2011, Page 46 Professor  John Keady, Ageing Research Team, University of Manchester; Cathy Riley, Manager, Reach Beyond and Open Doors Network and Dr Michael Howorth, Open Doors Network Facilitator, Greater Manchester West NHS MH Trust [...]

QIPP & Productivity – Creating efficiencies in the acute care pathway: the rapid assessment, treatment and discharge approach

Creating efficiencies in the acute care pathway: the rapid assessment, treatment and discharge approach,  Mental Health Review Journal, 2011, Vol. 16 (2) pp.50 – 55 Alexis Bowers, Elham Aldouri Consultant Psychiatrist’s working for the Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, St Albans, UK Abstract: Despite contemporary mental health services shifting to a community-based model of care, acute inpatient [...]

A pilot investigation of the Graduated Recovery Intervention Program (GRIP) for first episode psychosis

A pilot investigation of the Graduated Recovery Intervention Program (GRIP) for first episode psychosis, Schizophrenia Research, 2011 Feb;125(2-3):247-56 Abstract: The Graduated Recovery Intervention Program (GRIP) is a new individual cognitive-behavioral therapy program designed to facilitate functional recovery in people who have experienced an initial episode of psychosis. The purposes of this study were to evaluate [...]