Knowledge @lert for Wednesday 20th June

  Grand Round – SDGH Education Centre – Lecture Theatre, 1-2pm, Friday 22nd June. Dr May Ng – Diabetes UK 2018 Mary MacKinnon Award Lecture ‘Technology Telemedicine and Social Media are tools to improve health outcomes, education and patient engagement in a diabetes service’. All staff and students welcome. NHS…

Knowledge @lert for Tuesday 19th June

Grand Round – SDGH Education Centre – Lecture Theatre, 1-2pm, Friday 22nd June. Dr May Ng – Diabetes UK 2018 Mary MacKinnon Award Lecture ‘Technology Telemedicine and Social Media are tools to improve health outcomes, education and patient engagement in a diabetes service’. All staff and students welcome. Advice on…

Knowledge @lert for Wednesday 13th June

Grand Round – SDGH Education Centre, Friday 15th June Dr Chris Goddard – ‘Building a Safety Culture’ A lunch will be provided from 12-1pm in the Lounge and the presentation will follow in the Lecture Theatre 1-2pm. Mortality review toolkit The Royal College of Physicians has published The National Mortality…

Knowledge @lert for Wednesday 6th June

Elective care: demand and capacity models – NHS Improvement NHS England has published a suite of demand and capacity models to help estimate the capacity needed to run elective care services.  The tools are generic and can be applied to all elective, non-overnight services. Junior doctors’ payroll resources – NHS Employers…

Knowledge @lert for Monday 4th June

Emergency readmissions to hospital The Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation have published Emergency readmissions: trends in emergency readmissions to hospital in England.  This report, part of the QualityWatch research programme, looks at hospital data detailing patient diagnoses and the reasons behind emergency hospital readmissions between 2010/11 and 2016/17. It…