Hospital & Urgent Care

An Overview of the Current State of NHS Funding and Finance

NHS financial budgets are increasing broadly in line with a long-run historical average rather than the larger increases committed during the New Labour years. In this video, Siva Anandaciva, Chief Analyst of The Kings Fund, outlines the current state of NHS funding and finance, highlighting questions of liminality and dissonance and what this means for finance leaders.

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Clinical Audit: Driving Improvements in Adult Critical Care

Clinical Audit is a way to ensure that healthcare is provided in line with standards and lets healthcare providers know that their service is doing well. Professor Kathy Rowan from The Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre shares the methods used to perform audits in clinical settings.

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Clinical Audit: Using Data, Audit and Evidence to Drive Quality Improvement

Using evidence-based data in Clinical Audit is at the heart of quality improvement at the Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. Andrea Gibbons shares the clinical improvement strategies of the Somerset Trust.

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Patient Safety: Preventing Contamination and Infection through Improved Hygiene Procedures

Kate Harkus and Helen Dunn from Great Ormond Street Hospital share methods of reducing contamination in hospitals through improved hygiene procedures.

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Patient Safety: Creating Regulation to Support Healthcare Workers Achieve Better Patient Outcomes

Dr Sean Weaver shares ways of creating regulation that supports healthcare workers to achieve better patient outcomes.

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Patient Safety: Learning from Inpatient Deaths to Drive Improvements in Palliative Care

Dr Dan Monnery from the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre discusses why inpatient deaths should inform the development of better patient safety strategies.

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