Into Practice: October 2007

October 2007

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Consultants' catch-up

Our regular update from one of the regional Implementation Consultant’s. This month Chris Connell tells us what he has been up to.

Shared learning update

Learn from yourcolleagues across the NHS and beyond

Take a look at the latest submissions on our shared Learning database:

Implementing Head Injury Guidance by Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Process for dissemination, implementation and monitoring of NICE guidance by Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Implementing Interventional Procedures by Basildon University Hospital
Compliance with NICE guidance spreadsheet by Tameside & Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust
Algorithm showing NICE guidelines on monitoring Lithium, Valproate and Carbamazepine in Bipolar Affective Disorder by Berkshire Health Care NHS Foundation Trust
NICE Management by Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
See all entries

ERNIE update

See the latest reports on the Evaluation and review of NICE implementationevidence(ERNIE)database:

Costing team on tour

Two members of the costing team at NICE joined the implementation consultant, Jayne Chidgey Clark, at a workship hosted by the South West Strategic Health Authority (SHA) in September. The aims of the workshop were to:

discuss why forward planning and costing is important
demonstrate the forward planning and costing tools
explain how they were developed
get feedback on how they are being used and
explain what improvements can be made.

Latest implementation tools

Alzheimer's disease - donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine (review) and memantine	Drug misuse -Psychosocial interventions
Audit criteria - September 2007 (amended)	Slide set
Magnetic resonance (MR) image-guided transcutaneous focused ultrasound ablation foruterine fibroids	Haemorrhoid - stapled haemorroidopexy
Audit criteria	Audit criteria Costing tool
Acutely ill patients in hospital	Intrapartum care
Audit criteria Implementation advice Slide set	Slide set
Drug misuse - Detox	Head injury (Update)
Slide set	Costing report Costing template

Recruiting front line staff to provide valuable feedback to NICE about an exciting new project

More and more information is now accessed electronically. While some of this is well presented and easy to access, a lot of it is not. NICE are keen that the electronic versions of its guidance improve not just access to the content, but also its relevance to the end user.

Recommendation reminders

Coming up next month


	Reminders on recommendations from existing NICE guidance that identify ineffective practice
	Fertility

The NICE Board Meeting and Question Time will be held on 21 November in London and will focus on the work of the implementation team, highlighting latest developments, the work of the field-based teams and the range of online support tools available to support the implementation of NICE guidance. Register now