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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
22 days
We are developing standards for the care of older people living with frailty. We welcome feedback on the draft standards. The consultation closes on 18 June 2024. Click the link in the comments to access the standards.
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We are deeply saddened to hear that Dr Dame Denise Coia has passed away. Denise was Chair of Healthcare Improvement Scotland from 2011-2018, and was a committed and energetic leader from its inception. We send our condolences to Denise’s family at this sad time.
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What’s it like being a non-executive director on the board of Healthcare Improvement Scotland? As we recruit for a new board member, Rhona Hotchkiss explains how she became a non-executive director and the qualities you need for the role:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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We would like to extend our best wishes to our clinical professionals as they return to their NHS boards and integration authorities to help combat Coronavirus. We hope to see you all back with us again as soon as possible!
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On her last day with our organisation, June Wylie, Head of Improvement Support, reflects on her career and explains how COVID-19 gave her a last, unexpected challenge before retirement:
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What are the components of psychological safety that can lead to a culture of trust and innovation? On #WorldPatientSafetyDay , Michael West outlines the components and the process during our #HISQIConnect WebEx:
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We’ve published Scotland’s first clinical guidelines for delirium to help health and social care professionals recognise, treat and provide support for people with delirium: #WDAD2019 @Scotdelirium @ajjuss @A_MacLullich @MarkThomHudson @signguidelines
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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Our guideline on ‘Assessment, diagnosis, care and support for people with dementia and their carers, is the first guideline for dementia in nearly 20 years. It provides recommendations that apply to all settings including home, care homes and hospitals. Link is in the comments
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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We're delighted for our own Ann Gow for her award at the #QNISAwards for addressing inequalities and improving care:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
2 years
Today, we open consultation on the draft Bairns' Hoose standards, a transformational concept in Scotland that supports a child-centred response to health and justice for victims or witnesses of serious crime and abuse. Find out more here:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
4 years
We've developed a single source of information about how health and care staff have found ways to provide compassionate care that makes a difference during COVID-19. Please check this page regularly for inspirational ideas: #C19carescot
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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We're delighted to announce the appointment of Robbie Pearson to the role of permanent Chief Executive of Healthcare Improvement Scotland:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
4 years
Dr Simon Watson, Chief Quality Officer at NHS Lothian, is set to join our organisation in the role of Medical Director. Read NHS Lothian's news story for more:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
7 years
We're delighted to announce our new Director of Nursing to help support nurses/midwives/AHPs drive improvements in health and social care:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
4 years
Our NMAHP Director, Ann Gow, temporarily stepped away from her role with us and into the unknown as Nurse Director for NHS Louisa Jordan. In our latest blog, Ann talks about the challenges of setting up a fully-functioning hospital in three weeks:
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We have been commissioned by the Scottish Government to develop national standards for Gender Identity Healthcare Services. Full details at . We welcome feedback on the scoping document. Please complete our online survey
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Clare Morrison @clareupnorth is joining Healthcare Improvement Scotland as Director of Community Engagement, from @rpharms , in January 2023.
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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10 years ago today our story began. We would like to thank everyone across health and social care for working with us to deliver improvements for the people of Scotland. We look forward to continuing that work with you to bring about further improvement in the years ahead💙
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
4 years
For Jane Ross, our Internal Improvement Advisor, returning to work as an ICU nurse with NHS Lothian has been a rollercoaster of emotions. She tells her story in our latest blog from our staff deployed to aid the COVID-19 response:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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Our SIGN colleagues have published a new guideline on eating disorders. The Mental Welfare Commission says the guideline gives key recommendations which will improve the care and treatment of people living with eating disorders in Scotland. Read more:
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NHS Lanarkshire started on a journey to deliver Hospital At Home to patients 10 years ago. Claire Ritchie explains how they got there and the importance of seeing the service in action to fully understand the benefits it brings: #ukhah #HaHMonth
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3 years
In our next #HISQIConnect session, Professor Jason Leitch, National Clinical Director at the Scottish Government ( @jasonleitch ), will be reflecting on the COVID-19 pandemic and his learning from the past 12 months of leading in a crisis situation:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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We've established a new section of our website highlighting reliable resources that can aid health and care professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Follow the link below to see the latest evidence:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
7 years
Great to see recognition for our Scottish Patient Safety Programme in today's think tank report on NHS Scotland:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
4 years
As part of our response to #COVID19 we are providing @NHSNearMe implementation support to deliver remote consultations in Primary Care, Maternity and Mental Health services, enabling people to continue to receive care and #StayAtHome safely. More info:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
8 years
What matters to me: a simple tool to put older people at the centre of their care - @karen_goudie at #integratedcare
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
7 years
Well done to all in NHS Scotland responsible for further reducing the hospital mortality ratio. Access the data here
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
4 years
As part of our series of blogs from staff deployed to respond to COVID-19, Excellence in Care Lead Nurse Norma Dodds tells how she’s helping NHS Lothian ensure they have the right people in the right place at the right time:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
5 years
Today @signguidelines and @online_his have published fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) guidelines which will assist healthcare professionals to provide early diagnosis and support
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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Well done to our @FocusOnDementia team who today won the Margaret McAlees Award, a joint award between us and UNISON's Scottish Health Care Branch. The award recognises work to reduce inequalities and is in memory of Margaret, a former employee who championed people's rights.
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
8 years
Two giants of the improvement world @jasonleitch @donberwick making use of the NHSScotland stand #quality2016
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
6 years
Today sees the launch of a public awareness campaign on #Sepsis by @scotgovhealth - follow @stopsepsisnow and #stopsepsisnow for more info on how greater awareness can save lives. Visit for info on how healthcare professionals can help combat sepsis.
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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Important information from the National Clinical Director for Scottish Government @jasonleitch as we head into the weekend. By staying at home, we're all saving lives, so let's keep it going, Scotland! Watch Jason's video message to hear more 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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Delighted for our Chair, Denise Coia, who was made a Dame today - a lifetime dedicated to raising awareness of mental health! #mentalhealth
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
4 years
Hospital at Home provides acute, hospital-level care in a home context. We've published a resource to assist in local and regional planning for acute and specialist services for older people with frailty:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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The NHS is 70 years old on 5 July 2018. Join us in celebrating 70 years of achievement in Scottish healthcare since 1948 #NHSScot70 #quality2018 @scotgovhealth @nhs_education system
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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The more conversations we have, the more barriers we can break down about mental health. Our staff are taking part in #TimeToTalk and we're encouraging everyone to get involved. Take the time to talk, to listen, to understand.
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Do you provide care or plan services for people living with or at risk of frailty? Join our early identification and assessment of frailty webinar. We’ll be sharing good practice for improved outcomes, and how to access person centred care. Link below. #Frailty #Ageing
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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It’s #CarersWeek , and at a time when the work of both paid and unpaid carers is more vital than ever, our own Christine Sutton shares her experience of becoming a full-time carer just as COVID-19 restrictions arrived:
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You won't want to miss the next #HISQIConnect WebEx! Speaker: Brené Brown, ‘Dare To Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts’ Date: Tues 28 May 2019 Time: 16.00 – 17.00 UK Time Register:
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Are you a current or aspiring nurse, midwife or AHP leader? Learn about how our new LEiC Education and Development Framework can support you in your leadership development. Link to join in the comments. #ExcelInCare
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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Over 400 teams across the world sign up to Scotland's #WMTY16 . Read our news story for more:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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A special message of thanks from our Nurse Director and Deputy Chief Executive, Ann Gow, to mark International Day of the Nurse: #ScotNurses2020 #InternationalNursesDay #InternationalNursesDay2020
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
6 years
To mark #AHPsDay we highlight the important work that AHPs do to help improve health and social care in Scotland. First up is @AndreaBoydahpmh on of our team of Improvement Advisors:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
5 years
Frank Federico outlines the key components for a joyful, engaged workforce in today's #HISQIConnect WebEx:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
8 years
Our Chair @denisecoia is to be made a Dame of the British Empire #BirthdayHonours
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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Community engagement is vital, especially during a pandemic. During #VolunteersWeek , Lynsey Cleland of @HISengage explains how COVID-19 has reinforced the important role people can play in shaping health and care services:
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Scott Hamilton, Associate Improvement Advisor, was deployed back to the frontline as a nurse on a COVID-19 ward. He describes what it’s been like to manage the fear, connect with family and appreciate the many things that nurses do to make a difference:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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Congratulations to our Director of Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals and Deputy Chief Executive, Ann Gow, who has been nominated as the next chair of the Scottish Executive Nurse Directors group.
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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Today's @TheScotsman highlights the benefits of hospital inspections by highlighting how @DGNHS have used feedback from inspections to improve care for older people:
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In our latest impact blog, guest blogger Eddie Docherty of NHS Dumfries & Galloway explains how inspections for the care of older people have brought about improvements in care:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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There are many reasons why people with dementia fall. Our @lynnflannigan1 explains at #scdc2017 @FocusOnDementia @ihubscot
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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Today we have published the first UK guideline on #LongCOVID , complete with patient version. To access the guideline, visit: The guideline was produced with our colleagues at @NICEcomms and @rcgp .
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Ann Gow explains how NMAHPs are set to play a crucial role in making improvements to health and social care:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
7 years
Cab Sec helps launch our 'My Anticipatory Care Plan' toolkit with our CE Robbie Pearson at #NHSScot17 - find out more at stand 70!
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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Great conversation guide for those with serious illnesses, highlighted by Atul Gawane during #HISQIconnect To access the guide, visit:
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New clinical guidelines published today for delirium will help health and social care professionals to recognise, treat and provide appropriate support. Mark Hudson explains how delirium can affect anyone: #WDAD2019 #delirium
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
8 years
Our health + social care improvement programmes have a new home: The Improvement Hub (ihub):
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
3 years
Hospital At Home is growing across Scotland and we're helping NHS boards establish and develop their services. But what's it like to deliver such a service? NHS Lanarkshire Hospital At Home nurse Richard Wells-Holland explains a typical day:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
4 years
"We have a team of nurses, therapists and doctors who deliver care to a patient's house. We do interventions normally expected in a hospital." Graham Ellis, Clinical Lead for Older People, explains the role of Hospital At Home in responding to COVID-19:
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On International Day of the Nurse, our own Judy Sinclair ( @bjudesinc ) tells her story of returning to frontline nursing with NHS Orkney as part of the national response to COVID-19: #ScotNurses2020 #InternationalNursesDay #InternationalNursesDay2020
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
3 years
Congratulations to Ruth Glassborow, our Director of Improvement, who has been appointed to the Oversight Board for The Promise, a team established to take responsibility for translating the findings of the Care Review. Find out more about their work:
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As we work across Scotland to help establish more Hospital At Home services, Dr Claire Steel of @NHSLanarkshire explains how she became a convert to the benefits it brings to patients:
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We're delighted to share the #HospitalAtHome Knowledge and Skills Framework for Nurses and AHPs in Scotland, designed to support those aspiring to work within Hospital At Home. Visit the @NHS_Education website to access the framework:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
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Scotland's #WorldPatientSafetyDay campaign focusing on #SafeStaffSafeCare is under way. Get involved and share how you are marking 17 September 2020. Find out more at
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Anticipatory Care Planning (ACP) ensures the right things are done for each person should their health change. In our latest blog, Dr Paul Baughan, clinical lead with our Primary Care team, explains the stages to enable the right outcome for patients:
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5 years
In today's @TheScotsman Andrew Moore, Head of Excellence in Care, explains how his experiences as a Deputy Nurse Director helped him realise that caring for vulnerable people is most effective if patients, families and staff work together as a team:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
7 years
We've published our strategy for supporting better care in Scotland for everyone. You can read the strategy here:
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11 months
Thanks to all who attended our #frailty session at #NHSScot23 to learn about our Focus on Frailty improvement programme. We are delighted to be working nationally with 6 teams including NHS boards, HSCPs, GPs and the third sector. More info:
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4 years
Today we share tips on overcoming communication barriers with #COVID19 patients. For example, visor stickers, symbols boards or coloured name badges. More info in the Therapeutic Relationships section of our Compassionate Care web page: #C19carescot
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6 years
70 years of the NHS / 70 years of innovation. In this video, our staff come together to highlight key innovations that resonate most with them from the 70 years of the NHS. Happy birthday, NHS! #NHS70 #NHSScot70
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As we publish our guideline on eating disorders, Ellen Maloney, a patient representative on the guideline group, shares her experience of living with anorexia nervosa and outlines the changes she hopes the guideline will bring. Read Ellen’s blog:
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Our second podcast episode is now live. Join us for a special discussion on frailty – how it affects those living with it, how it’s assessed and what we can do to prevent it. Listen now on Spotify or Podbean: @laramitchdr @agescotland @GrahamEllis247
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
4 years
Our list of ideas to deliver compassionate care during #COVID19 includes ways to keep staff safe and well. Find out about @NHSinMind toolkit to manage anxiety and fatigue, and tips from @NHSGGC to keep your home COVID-19 free. Read more at: #C19carescot
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10 months
The definitions used for falls and falls with harm in Scotland vary. Have your say on a national definition for use in clinical and care settings. If you have worked in health or social care in Scotland in the last 5 years, take part in this survey:
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Care co-ordination ensures people living with dementia and their carers get the right health and social care at the right time, in the right setting. Watch our new animation to find out the 12 Critical Success Factors and how to use them #FODFacts
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Prof Tom Evans is an infectious disease specialist and a member of the development group for the #LongCovid guideline created with @signguidelines . Tom reflects on the past year and the importance of sharing knowledge to diagnose and treat Long COVID:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
7 years
Get simple, practical advice on how to deal with data in run charts with our short guide for improvement projects:
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Returning to work as an occupational therapist in mental health during COVID-19, Andrea Boyd ( @AndreaBoydahpmh ) of @ihubscot noticed that in a time of big challenges, it was often the little things that mattered. Click here to read our latest blog:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland is hosting a Leading Excellence in Care event. This will celebrate the work of Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals (NMAHP) leaders as key influencers in assurance of quality, safe and effective care. Register:
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As we publish our revised Long COVID guideline, GP Scott Jamieson explains his experience of diagnosing Long COVID and his contribution to developing the guideline, which will play a key role in assisting doctors to diagnose and treat the condition:
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland
4 years
September marks the start of Scotland's #WorldPatientSafetyDay campaign about #SafeStaffSafeCare . Learn more about what's planned for 17 September and how to get involved at
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If you’re attending #NHSScot21 and are looking for something to do during break times, why not grab a cuppa, sit back and hear how our work can support you. Session links will be posted on our exhibition.
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We’re recruiting for new Improvement Advisors to work in our ihub teams. In our latest blog Benjamin McElwee explains how this varied role has allowed him to improve health and social care in a wide range of ways: Apply here:
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In light of concerns raised about care at the Emergency Department at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Dr Simon Watson, our Medical Director & Director of Safety, talks about the importance of speaking to us if you are an NHS worker and have a patient safety concern.
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7 years
Our medicines booklet explains how people can work with their doctor to decide if a medicine is needed:
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5 years
In our latest blog, Dr Liza Morton, Patient Representative on our standards development group, explains the need for standards around congenital heart disease:
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2 years
Find out what the Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019 means for your team by accessing our learning resources: #safestaffingscotland
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Keeping staff morale high can be hard at stressful times. Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital is spreading #Covid19Kindness with their 'positivi-tree'. Find out more on our dedicated page highlighting great examples of compassionate care: #C19carescot
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Ruth Thompson, Associate Director of Nursing & Midwifery at Healthcare Improvement Scotland, started her nursing career in coronary care, and today celebrates International Nurses Day in our latest blog: #hereforlife #BestofNursing
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To mark #WorldPatientSafetyDay , our Chief Executive, Robbie Pearson, reflects on Scotland’s patient safety journey and looks ahead to a more holistic approach to safety in the future, including the importance of #SafeStaffSafeCare . Read the blog here:
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We're delighted to announce that Carole Wilkinson has joined us as the new Chair of Healthcare Improvement Scotland. Read our news story to find out more about her appointment:
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"Creating at the place where love stories can continue" - Tommy Whitelaw establishes a Healthcare Improvement Scotland pledge tree #WAM2017
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To coincide with new national reports from NDTi, our own Gillian Fergusson reflects on what we've learned about Community Led Care in Scotland as we transition towards recovery from COVID-19:
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We're proud to be working in partnership with local clinicians and managers to enable Mental Health Crisis Teams across Scotland to implement @NearMe , rethinking how care can be delivered. Dr Rob Waller of NHS Lothian reflects on the benefits of video consultations:
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In our latest impact blog, Dr Calum McGregor explains how the number of cardiac arrest in Scottish hospitals are being reduced due to the work of our Scottish Patient Safety Programme:
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Beyond frontline staff, there's a host of vital jobs that staff are undertaking to support the COVID-19 response. In the latest blog from our deployed staff, @katyhaslam28 explains how her love of spreadsheets and processes is helping NHS Lothian:
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"Gradually the message is getting through to healthcare professionals and the public that overuse of antibiotics is dangerous, not just for our own health but for everyone else’s too." @jacquisneddons of @SAPGAbx writes in the Scotsman:
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A minute's silence will take place tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11am. The silence is an opportunity to pay tribute to those who have died as a result of their work to serve, care for and save others during the COVID-19 emergency.
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