NHS Scotland
NHS Scotland national procurement
... legislation. NHS Scotland National Procurement is committed to reducing, as far as possible, any adverse environmental and social impacts which may be caused by it contracting ...
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Lean and Six Sigma methodologies in NHS Scotland : an empirical study and directions for future research
... It was very interesting to observe that projects were not selected by critically looking into its alignment with strategic objectives of hospitals or government targets. Moreover, there was very little attention paid to ...
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Integrating clinical information in NHS Scotland: the role of Scottish Care Information Store
... Across NHS Scotland we are in no doubt that strong clinical leadership is sine qua non. Recent moves to help drive this have been to establish a Clinical IM&T Lead in the Scottish Executive Health ...
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Summary of NHS Scotland (NHSS) procurement strategies
... - Resources: Further developing an integrated procurement function, to serve the needs of all NHS Scotland and its collaborative partners. While developing and resourcing the Procurement service ...
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IMatter: validation of the NHS Scotland Employee Engagement Index
... Background: Employee engagement is a fundamental component of quality healthcare. In order to provide empirical data of engagement in NHS Scotland an Employee Engagement Index was co-constructed with staff. ...
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Universal screening for meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus : interim results from the NHS Scotland pathfinder project
... Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections are associated with greater risk of treat- ment failure, increased patient mortality and higher costs than infections with meticillin- susceptible S. aureus. ...
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Managed clinical and care networks (MCNs) and work: an ethnographic study for non prioritised clinical conditions in NHS Scotland
... a NHS manager to act as go between for clinicians and bureaucratic process [my knowledge of both ‘languages’ – ...within NHS QIS (NHS Quality Improvement Scotland) to help meaningful data ...
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Risk factors for resistance and multidrug resistance in community urine isolates : population level analysis using the NHS Scotland Infection Intelligence Platform
... 121 Statistical Analysis 122 Associations between gender, age group, comorbidity, previous hospitalisation, care home 123 residence, antibiotic exposure measured as number of different a[r] ...
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XML-based clinical data standardisation in the National Health Service Scotland
... Second, the Scottish health market is relatively small in comparison with its English and most im- portantly US counterparts. However, most IT vendors operate also in the much larger, and potentially more profitable, ...
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Promoting physical activity in primary care: review of evidence and recommendations
... The new GMS Contract heralded changes in the way in which General Practitioners provided medical services (NHS Scotland, 2004). However, there is no current requirement for primary care staff to record and/ ...
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Nursing and Midwifery in Scotland: Being Fit for Practice The Report of the Evaluation of Fitness For Practice Pre Registration Nursing and Midwifery Curricula Project
... in Scotland (Pankaj 2004), examined the current status of cultural competency training in NHS ...Health Scotland 2006), which provide the legal and moral cases for training in the area of cultural ...
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Social Partnership and Political Devolution in the National Health Service: Emergence, Operation and Outcomes
... in NHS Scotland’ (Scotland-Unite ...26 NHS Trusts and discarded the purchaser-provider split (Greer ...Area NHS Boards responsible for planning and providing acute, primary and ...
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What patient assessment skills are required by pharmacists prescribing systemic anti-cancer therapy? A consensus study
... Within the GU national group there was a relatively equal spread of participants from each regional network meaning that the national group can be said to have been representative of all NHS Scotland cancer ...
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Five key recommendations for the implementation of hospital electronic prescribing and medicines administration systems in Scotland
... Drawing on our previous and ongoing work in English hospitals as well as the international literature, we reflect on key lessons that NHS Scotland may wish to consider in going forward. These deliberations ...
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How could primary care meet the informatics needs of UK Biobank? A Scottish proposal
... NHS Scotland is committed to the principle that all people can easily register for general NHS Scotland services, specifically with a GP and dental practice, and change aspects of that ...
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Five key recommendations for the implementation of Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration systems in Scotland
... Drawing on our previous and ongoing work in English hospitals as well as the international literature, we reflect on key lessons that NHS Scotland may wish to consider in going forward. These deliberations ...
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Development of the NHS Education for Scotland Online Palliative Care Training Package for Health and Social Care Staff: Final Report
... In Scotland, many health and social care support staff already have access to a variety of education and training opportunities provided by a number of organisations including: Macmillan Cancer Support; Cruse, ...
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Effect of Some Synthetic Parameters on Size and Polydispersity Index of Gelatin Nanoparticles Cross-Linked by CDI/NHS System
... CDI: NHS (5:1) solution, 5 mL of 1.2% CDI: NHS (5:1) solution and ...without NHS solution) were added and the resulted mixture stirred at 750 rpm for 12 ...
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Analysis of routine hospital administrative data (including hospital episode statistics) to assess variation in process and outcomes in gastroenterology
... The HES database was devised in 1987 with data entry beginning in 1989. Prior to HES, data was collected on just 10% of hospital inpatients. More than 12 million new patient episodes are now added each year covering all ...
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Innovation Landscapes
... Entrepreneurship is an exciting and empowering life skill which brings many benefits to the individual and society. We aim to increase the number of students in Scotland who consider entrepreneurship a real option ...
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