Implementing Evidence-based Suicide Prevention Training in Communities

"Suicide prevention trainings are implemented to equip the public’s ability to intervene with those who are at-risk, but their implementation is not often monitored for quality. In this study, we propose a quality improvement model to improve trainer skill, demonstrate evidence of knowledge uptake, and document the quality of training workshop implementation."

Implementing Evidence-based Suicide Prevention Training in Communities: Implications for Quality Improvement
KC Osilla, R Ramchand, R Seelam, D Barnes-Proby, ML Gilbert 
Journal of Community Medicine and Health Education, 2015;5:371. doi:10.4172/2161-0711.1000371

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National training survey 2014: concerns about patient safety

"some doctors in training told us negative stories about their experiences of raising concerns at their workplace. In this report, we explore some of this information and outline the action that we intend to take."

National training survey 2014: concerns about patient safety
General Medical Council
November 2014

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UK healthcare expertise collection

This is a collection of documents from Healthcare UK containing "information about the UK's different healthcare capabilities including case studies of successful overseas partnerships and projects with the UK"; including:

• Primary care: working in partnership
• Education and training in healthcare: working in partnership
• Infrastructure for health: working in partnership
• Digital health: working in partnership
• Health systems development: working in partnership
• Healthcare: public private partnerships

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Draft Health Education England research and innovation strategy

"This R&I Strategy addresses the research capacity and capability of our multi-professional workforce, for example through an academic career pathway for all healthcare professionals. It also addresses the importance of creating a workforce that is responsive to research and innovation and an education and training system that is evidence based." 

Research and Innovation Strategy: delivering a flexible workforce receptive to research and innovation 

Health Education England

HEE are accepting feedback on the strategy until 13th June 2014.

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Team-training in healthcare

"Our synthesis suggests that there is moderate to high-quality evidence that team-training can positively impact healthcare team processes and, in turn, clinical processes and patient outcomes. These effects have been demonstrated across a variety of acute care areas."

Team-training in healthcare: a narrative synthesis of the literature
SJ Weaver, SM Dy, MA Rosen
BMJ Quality and Safety, 2014; 23: 359-372

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Positive and Proactive Care: reducing the need for restrictive interventions

"Rigorous governance is needed to ensure that positive and proactive care is the main approach within services to reduce excessive reliance on restrictive interventions and to ensure that if they are used, it is only ever as a last resort, and they are undertaken in a proportionate and least restrictive way."

Positive and proactive care: reducing the need for restrictive interventions
Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnership Directorate
Department of Health
April 2014

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Improving the safety of patients in England

"Place the quality of patient care, especially patient safety, above all other aims."

A promise to learn - a commitment to act: Improving the safety of patients in England
National Advisory Group on the Safety of Patients in England
August 2013

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The Cavendish Review

"This Review can only ever be a first stage on a long journey. These recommendations are intended to start that journey, by ensuring that support staff are treated as a strategic resource in health and social care."

The Cavendish Review: an independent review into healthcare assistants and support workers in the NHS and social care settings
C Cavendish
July 2013

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Environmental scan of patient safety education and training programs

"This report, published by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, presents the results of an environmental scan of existing patient safety education and training programs."

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Your health – your decision

"The aim of this publication is to spread the learning and the results from the AQuA workstream of the National QIPP Right Care Shared Decision Making Programme and to complement the wide range of resources that have been developed to support the continued embedding of Shared Decision Making so that more patients can benefit."

Your health – your decision
Advancing Quality Alliance Workstream, National Shared Decision-Making Programme
May 2013

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Health promotion innovation in primary health care

"This paper provides an argument for training primary health care (PHC) practitioners in health promotion, while encouraging them to embrace innovation within their practice to streamline the treatment process and improve patient outcomes."

Health promotion innovation in primary health care
A McManus
Australasian Medical Journal, 2013, 6(1): 15-18

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Too posh to wash? Reflections on the future of nursing

"This publication and its contributors explore some of the possible solutions and take a forward looking approach at nursing and its role in modern medicine, rather than looking back to a ‘Golden Age’ which may not always offer meaningful answers to the challenges which nurses face today."

Too posh to wash? Reflections on the future of nursing
Edited by G Beer
2020health.org
January 2013

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Impact of the Working Time Regulations on medical education and training

"This report presents the findings of primary research that aimed to evaluate the possible effects of the Working Time Regulations on postgraduate medical education and training across the UK."

The impact of the Working Time Regulations on medical education and training: final report on primary research: a report for the General Medical Council
G Morrow, B Burford, M Carter, J Illing
Centre for Medical Education Research
August 2012 (published February 2013)

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Ensuring education reform enhances patient outcome

"The creation of Health Education England (HEE) and Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs) provides the opportunity for employers to ensure that the £5 billion annual national investment in education and training delivers the maximum benefits for patients."

Ensuring education reform enhances patient outcome: providers' planning and driving a workforce budget of £5bn
NHS Employers
June 2012

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World class education and training, for world class healthcare

"The values embedded across Health Education England shall support its goal to develop a flexible and compassionate workforce focused on high quality care that is responsive to changing needs."

World class education and training, for world class healthcare: introducing Health Education England
Health Education England
June 2012

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Improving safety in maternity services

Improving safety in maternity services: a toolkit for teams, has been developed by Vinice Thomas and Anna Dixon at The King's Fund, and is organised around five key areas for improvement in maternity care on which the teams focused:

• teamworking
• communication
• training
• information and guidance
• staffing and leadership