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1 October 2012
Toolkit
Acute medicine
Acute care
Acute medical illness is a 7-day problem, with patients just as likely to develop an acute illness requiring an emergency admission on a Saturday or Sunday as on a weekday.
3 September 2015
Toolkit
Acute medicine
Older people
Acute care
All staff working in acute medical units (AMUs) will be familiar with the increasing number of older people living with frailty who require access to acute care. The AMU provides a key role in identifying frailty, along with urgent and important issues that need addressing.
1 May 2011
Toolkit
Acute medicine
Acute care
Handover is the system by which the responsibility for immediate and ongoing care is transferred between healthcare professions. Changing work patterns mean that establishing standards for handover should be a priority.
10 March 2016
Audit
Stroke Medicine
The SINAP regional audit findings are based on stroke records submitted for patients admitted to hospitals across England. They present the results from seven public quarterly reports, and detail the performance of individual hospitals against the 12 key indicators for stroke.
10 March 2016
Data document
Stroke Medicine
The Stroke Improvement National Audit Programme (SINAP) was a national clinical audit which collected information from hospitals in England about the first 72 hours of acute stroke care.
10 March 2016
Audit
Stroke Medicine
The final results for the Stroke Improvement National Audit Programme (SINAP) are for patients admitted between October to December 2012. The report presents audit findings based on 10,069 stroke records and include key indicators of care provided. Individual hospital results, compared with national level results, are also available and include details of non-participating hospitals.
10 March 2016
Audit
Stroke Medicine
The 5th round of the National Sentinel Audit of Stroke on the organisation of care was conducted in April 2006 having taken place on a two-year cycle since 1998.
10 March 2016
Audit
Stroke Medicine
In 2008 the NSSA carried out an audit of 224 hospitals in Britain to find out whether hospitals had followed the Guideline. The information from each hospital was collected by the hospital staff themselves, then compared to previous audits to see whether stroke service organisation had improved or not over the different rounds of the audit.
28 October 2015
Working party report
Delivery of care
General practice
Hospitals
The intention of this document is to inform professions, policy makers and commissioners about the options available for moving care ‘closer to home’ and to develop the concept of ‘Teams without Walls’.
10 March 2016
Audit
Stroke Medicine
With the 7th biannual report the NSSA aimed to demonstrate that national audit can help improve the quality of stroke care in community hospitals by involving trusts across the country in large-scale audit that enables them to compare their results to the national data (Irwin et al 2005).