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\n***Get involved*** \u2013<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0share your fab stuff!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n- 68% OF SURGICAL BEDS SAVED THROUGH A SERIES OF IMPROVEMENTS IN AMBULATORY CARE\u00a0<\/a>Staff from the Acute Surgical Unit (ASU) at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary have made significant improvements to patient flow and care through the surgical department. More than 2,481 patients from July 2017- March 2018 were seen in the Surgical Emergency Ambulatory Care Unit (SEAC) at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT). Only […]<\/li>\n
- Renal education with an international reach from Lancashire\u00a0<\/a>Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has held two international courses to improve education and awareness of kidney conditions and procedures. Dr Aimun Ahmed and the renal team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals have led two important and prestigious international courses; the first Preston Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Interstation Course and the seventh Preston Renal Biopsy Course. […]<\/li>\n
- First robotic recruit into international clinical trial\u00a0<\/a>Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has recruited the first robotic patient into an international clinical trial. The trial aims to improve the outcomes of patients having minimally invasive surgery for rectal cancer. When undergoing rectal cancer surgery, there is the potential for a leak from where two parts of the bowel have joined; called […]<\/li>\n
- The return of the Camerados teepee to Blackpool Victoria Hospital: how a simple tent can help to create a \u2018human hospital\u2019\u00a0<\/a>When social movement Camerados put a teepee in Blackpool Hospital in 2017, staff, patients and visitors \u2013 several thousand people in total \u2013 began to make connections and look out for each other more than ever. They felt it helped to make the hospital a better place to work, a more supportive place to get […]<\/li>\n
- Innovative organisational development team and the \u2018rising stars\u2019 initiative\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0The Leadership and Organisational Development team at Lancashire support members of staff who are identified as \u201crising stars\u201d to shine through talent management systems. The project has involved creation and embedding of a talent management programme which fosters ongoing development for staff, identifies individual strengths and areas for development; ultimately retaining talent and enhancing staff […]<\/li>\n
- Improving emergency care for those with acute biliary disease<\/a>\u00a0A team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been named as a finalist in a national awards ceremony for improvements to emergency care. The upper gastrointestinal (upper GI) team\u00a0at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been recognised in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) National Quality Awards Ceremony 2018 for the improvements that they […]<\/li>\n
- Improvement Fundamentals \u2013 A radical new programme of online courses for those involved in health and social care<\/a>\u00a0Are you: Working in, or with, health or social care? Enthusiastic about make things work better in your local service? Keen to put your improvement ideas into practice, but not sure how? Eager to hear from colleagues across the country with the same concerns? Looking for free, bite-sized Quality Improvement training that you can access […]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Safe medical staffing The Royal College of Physicians has published Guidance on safe medical staffing: report of a working party.\u00a0 This guidance aims to help those planning and organising core hospital medical services to answer the question: \u2018How many doctors or their alternatives, with what capabilities, do we need to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[37,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ccg","category-daily-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4kWbe-31y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11628"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11679,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11628\/revisions\/11679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/Sando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}