Epilepsy emergency rescue training

"The intervention has a significant positive impact on patient safety, prescribing costs, and was anecdotally evidenced by reduction of paramedic call outs and ED admissions."

Epilepsy emergency rescue training
R Shankar, C Jory, J Ashton, B McLean, M Walker
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u208167.w3566

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Keeping patients with epilepsy safe

"While there is no proven intervention or national surveillance of epilepsy mortality, the safety checklist is a simple and practical tool that can be used to demonstrate effective clinical and corporate governance while enhancing patient safety. It can also help give some assurance to bereaved families that every effort was made to reduce risk and prevent a fatality."

Keeping patients with epilepsy safe: a surmountable challenge?
R Shankar et al.
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u208167.w3252

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Epilepsy12

"The key aims of Epilepsy12 are:

• To facilitate health providers and commissioners to measure and improve quality of care for children and young people with seizures and epilepsies; and
• To contribute to the continuing improvement of outcomes for those children, young people and their families."

Epilepsy12
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
September 2012

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NICE clinical case scenarios

Clinical case scenarios are an educational resource that can be used for individual or group learning. Each question should be considered by the individual or group before referring to the answers.The resource is available in a PDF document for individual learning or as a power point presentation to help facilitate group learning.

Here is a list of clinical case scenarios that are currently available:

• CG108 Chronic heart failure
• CG113 Anxiety
• CG122 Ovarian cancer
• CG123 Common mental health disorders
• CG126 Stable angina: chest pain algorithm
• CG127 Hypertension
• CG131 Colorectal cancer
• CG133 Self-harm (longer-term management) 
• CG135 Organ donation
• CG137 Epilepsy

Sharing commissioning experiences

“Right Care enables sharing of good practice by compiling local examples of commissioning work, which demonstrate the philosophy behind Right Care or showcases the tools available through the programme.”

Sharing commissioning experiences: The Right Care Casebook Series: Volume 2
NHS Right Care
March 2012

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