Our regular update from one of the regional Implementation Consultant’s.
This month Val Moore tells us what she's been up to in the East.
The themes covered in this month's bulletin include:
the multiple demands (and some solutions), experienced locally, for performance information relating to NICE from national organisations and local commissioners
the thinking behind where the Field team efforts should be primarily directed during the early part of 2008.
The 4 finalists of the Shared Learning Award 2007 were invited to the NICE annual conference to give a 10 minute presentation on their submission. Following the presentations, the judging panel selected two of the submissions as the joint winners. The winners received a trophy, certificate and £1000 to be spent on NICE implementation within their organisation. The two runners up won £100.
Following a review of the audit criteria provided for our guidance, NICE have changed the format that clinical audit support is produced in. As well as audit criteria, there are now data collection tools - organisational and clinical - which can be printed or cut and pasted into local clinical audit templates.
These will save clinical audit professionals time and encourage a standardised approach to auditing NICE guidance, enabling easier comparison between results from wards, units, localities or trusts. Drugs misuse was the first guidance to be produced in the new format.
Latest implementation tools
Thoracoscopic excision of mediastinal parathyroid tumours
Thoracoscopic aortopexy for severe primary tracheolmalacia
NICE launch new and updated guides to support effectivecommissioning of services
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is publishing, during the week commencing 14 January 2008, six new commissioning guides to help the NHS in England effectively commission evidence-based care for patients.
The ´How to change practice: Understand, identify and overcome barriers to change´ guide was launched at the NICE conference in December. This guide is based on the best available evidence of the effectiveness of implementation strategies and ways to change practice, and provides practical suggestions on how to put NICE guidance into practice.
