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In this 1 hour training webinar, Formic Training Consultant, Chris Nweke, will demonstrate how to:

• Use external data to populate picklists
• Set up standard and extended field validation
• Create and configure user defined fields
• Set up pre-population for electronic forms

Course Details:

Date:             Wednesday 16th May 2012

Time:             10:30 (BST) / 11:30 (Europe)

Duration:      1 Hour

Cost:              FREE

Chris will demonstrate techniques and offer tips, live on delegate’s PC Screens, followed by a short ‘Question and Answer’ session.

Places are strictly limited to 20 and will be allocated on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.

Click here to BOOK. You will then receive email confirmation and instructions.

Through a series of focus sessions, panel discussions, masterclasses and poster presentations, this two-day conference brings together leading practitioners, clinicians, policy makers and academics, to set out the major developments, promote innovative areas of work, and debate the key challenges affecting delegates and their organisation.

The conference will focus on Clinical Audit Improvement at a Local Level and making Clinical Audit work for the Board.  Alongside the main conference are practical masterclasses on the most important issues impacting on Clinical Audit Leads and Managers.

Masterclasses include:

1. Legal
2. Action planning
3. Cross sector pathway audit
4. Junior Doctors Clinical Audit
5. Training and educating clinical audit
6. Mortality Audit
7. Clinical Audit for Patient Safety
8. Social Care Audit

Further information and to book a delegate place.

• Find out more about our patient experience survey and clinical audit survey solutions
• Find out more about the National Heathcare Conference in Dublin

Extensive information on hospital death rates, the individual performance of surgeons and GPs and overall patient experience is to be published in order to improve standards.

Data will be published in regards to ‘Patient Experience’ – see below:

PATIENT EXPERIENCE

44 Patient experience of GP services; GP out-of-hours services; NHS dental services; hospital care (overarching indicators).

45 Patient experience of outpatient services.

46 How well hospitals respond to in-patients’ personal needs (ie basic care   such as help with eating and going to the lavatory).

47 Patient experience of A&E.

48 Ease of access to GP services and NHS dental services.

49 Women’s experience of maternity services.

50 A measure of the experience of end-of-life care (by asking bereaved   carers).

51 Patient experience of community mental health services.

52 Children’s/young people’s experience of health care.

Following this news, the area of monitoring patient experience, treatments, feedback and the setting and achieving of clinical audit and patient experience objectives will become of increasing focus for NHS Trusts. Whilst most Trusts already have teams in place that are experienced in clinical audit and statistical analysis, these have been predominantly focussed on gathering information from internal clinical sources.  The switch in emphasis toward patient feedback will mean that processes will have to be put in place for designing and processing patient surveys in volume, whilst ensuring the quality of the data.

Formic makes it easy for NHS Trusts to collect data ‘at the point of experience’ and facilitates the delivery of highly robust, proven and fit-for-purpose solutions including solutions for Patient Experience Surveys on Tablet PC, Kiosks, Touch Screen, Web and Mobile Devices.

To find out how your NHS Hospital or GP Surgery can meet the challenge of providing openness, transparency and comparability of information to the patient, Download our FREE Whitepaper: Putting the Patient at the Centre of the NHS.

 The event will enable all juniors selected by the review panel to showcase their clinical audit work and for participants full details of the competition are available by clicking here.

The event will take place at Devonshire Place in Leicester. This is an excellent venue situated just two minutes from Leicester train station with 80 free onsite car parking spaces available. To find out more about accessing the venue, please click here.

The cost of attending the conference is just £100 plus VAT for junior doctors taking part in the competition and just £125 plus VAT for all other delegates.

The Clinical Audit Support Centre is currently offering a 10% discount to all those who book in groups of 2 delegates or more.

 To obtain the relevant booking form for the event, please click here. If you require any other information with regard to the event, please email the CASC team via info@clinicalauditsupport.com

Around 120 delegates from NHS Trusts across the North West region are expected to attend.  Sessions for demonstrations on Formic Fusion software will be available early morning (from 9.00 till 9.45), mid morning (11.00 till 11.30) and during the long lunch break (12.30 till 13.30)

For further information, please email: sara.clark@formic.com

This meas that clinical audit and patient experience teams need to provide their NHS Trust Boards with more comprehensive, qualitative information than ever before.  However, despite some progress, there are, within Trusts, still some barriers to overcome in order to achieve effective clinical audit and patient experience surveys:

Resistance - Within the NHS the terms clinical audit or patient experience can elicit a variety of negative responses, primarily: frustration, misunderstanding and very rarely enthusiasm.  However, under good management and with the right tools and systems in plac, clinical audit can achieve important and measurable improvements in patient care as a matter of routine.

Organisational culture – Many clinicians and managers fear that participation in clinical audit will lead to punishment of poor performers or even litigation.  NHS organisations need to make it clear that it is safe to reveal mistakes and that, as a result, lessons can be learnt.

Information requirements need re-addressing – Continual improvement of clinical service quality depends on accurate clinical information being availble to clinicians, managers, service users and the public.  This information can come from a variety of sources, which may include: internal IT management systems, patient focus groups, surveys, specific databases and routine audits. Frequently, information needs must be reassessed and systems identified, to provide the information in a way that makes it useful.

Inefficiency – Although the adoption of technology solutions has increased in the NHS over the last 20 years, many departments continue to run independently of each other, preventing the free-flow of communication.  Some clinical audit departments continue to process audits and survey forms with inefficient manual systems. Now is the time for them to adopt a comprehensive Trust-wide approach to information collection, that minimises clerical effort and utilises modern technology in a way that both improves the quality, timeliness and availability of this critical information.

Low prioritisation – Previous to the recent Government Whitepaper, clinical audit has been a low priority for some NHS organisations, often seen as time-consuming, not relevant and expensive.  Some Chief Executives and Trust Boards have rarely considered clinical audit as an organisational priority so instead, topics for clinical audit have been identified and undertaken according to departmental preference.  As a result, the data is rarely shared across the organisation.

Lack of investment – Low prority leads to a lack of investment, both in terms of adequate staffing and supporting systems, as well as necessary administrative resourcesw. 

All of these barriers to clinical audit must be addressed if NHS Trust are to achieve the Government’s ambitious objectives.  Good quality, accessible data is essential to effectively support management and bring about improvements in patient care and outcomes.

Formic works in partnership with hospitals and healthcare professionals in order to deliver highly robust, proven and fit-for-purpose clinical audit and patient experience survey solutions.

Click here to find out more.

This latest version includes many new features that will help NHS Trusts and other organisations to manage their audit and survey projects more efficiently and effectively:

• Fully compatible with Windows Vista and Windows 7
• 64 bit and 32 bit compatible
• Compatible with SQL Server 2005/8
• All projects/images/results stored in single SQL Server database
• Many performance improvements
• Named users can access Fusion from multiple workstations
• Browser-based access to the Fusion system (Enterprise version only

For further information, contact Gemma Males on 0870 197 5608 or email gemma.males@formic.com

Back in 2001 every NHS Trust had to put measures into place to gather information about infectin on their wards and across their hospitals.  At that time, a report by the National Audit Office came to a series of conclusions including:

• That there was a basic lack of comparable information about the rates of HAI
• That over 60% of healthcare teams complained of a basic lak of clerical resources to support them
• That there was a lack of computer software and hardware to provide effective surveillance of infection control
• That infection control teams should spend more time on planned surveillance activities
• That surveillance was central to reducing infection rates and therefore needed to be done effectively

In 2011 MRSA and CDI infections are now at their lowest rates since records began.

It could be argued therefore, that the best cure for hospital acquired infections may not be antibiotics or disinfectant on the wards, but the use of controls, involving the timely delivery of surveillance data.  If you gather the information about the incidence of infection and then feed it back to the medicaol team, the Board, and now (more recently) the public, the number of case drop.

To find out more…

Download your FREE copy of our Whitepaper