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Latest News from the Academy of Fabulous Stuff
Make a pledge… start a ripple… move oceans
This year, who do you want to be?.... The person who watched it happen ? The person who wondered what happened ? Or the person who MADE it happen ? This year, [...]
#FabChangeWeek – Janet Davies RCN General Secretary with a challenge for nurses
Watch Janet Davies explaining why FabChangeWeek is a huge opportunity for all nurses to #JustDoIt and make your idea a reality. Janet has a challenge for all nurses "we are the best" so [...]
July award winners – congratulations
Thank you to the hundreds of you who voted in the July awards - it was a hotly contested shortlist and you have all made your vote count. We can announce that the [...]
Jon Ashworth Shadow SoS for Health on the value of #FabChangeWeek
In this short film Jon Ashworth discusses his support for #FabChangeWeek and the frontline health and social care staff who are working to innovate and make a difference to care everyday. He hopes they [...]
Latest fab stuff
Leicestershire Recovery College expands access to free mental wellbeing courses
Recovery College expands access to free wellbeing courses Leicestershire Recovery College, run by Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT), is expanding access to free mental wellbeing courses this Autumn. The college, based on the Glenfield Hospital [...]
New way of learning through supported practice in a familiar environment.
The Simulation and Clinical Skills Teams at Wirral University Teaching Hospital have been mobile around the Trust working closely with Departments and Teams to bring educational events to clinical areas. According to the Society for [...]
Physiotherapists workout at work
Physiotherapists in Cumbria have been encouraging NHS staff to move more as part of the national Workout at Work campaign. The campaign, led by The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, encourages people to move more at [...]
STEM careers built into the school curriculum
Health Education England working across Kent, Surrey and Sussex (HEE KSS) has worked in partnership with Skills UK and Kent Education Business Partnership (EBP) to introduce ‘Careers and Curriculum’ Events for Key stage 2 & [...]
NAViGO and Tukes introduce ‘The Hub’ – Education and Training Centre
NAViGO Health and Social Care and Tukes education and training are delighted to announce the opening of their brand new education and training suite; The Hub – a new area to provide education and a [...]
Leading centre changes name to reflect national status (National Inpatient Centre for Psychological Medicine)
The Yorkshire Centre for Psychological Medicine has changed its name and is now called the National Inpatient Centre for Psychological Medicine (NICPM). The NICPM is based in the Brotherton Wing of Leeds General Infirmary and [...]
The Buzz is coming!!
Last year we ran a successful campaign at James Paget University Hospital and managed to nearly double our Flu Jab uptake amongst our frontline. http://www.nhsemployers.org/blog/2017/05/energy-and-flu-fighting During last year’s campaign we spent a lot of time [...]
Dermatology: Our Recovery
Dermatology: Our Journey Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust Our Dermatology service has always been a very busy department with increasing demand for appointments. In June 2016, we had a huge waiting list [...]
Yorkshire and humber leadership academy
Fab Change Week 2017 Pledge Over the next couple of months we aim to support #NHS #staffnetworks growth and development #FabChangeWeek
New ‘Show How to Know How’ training film for health and social care
HRCH have produced this short training film (27 minutes - suitable for use in team meetings) to show how professionals, paid and family carers can use the principles of the Mental Capacity Act to support [...]
Mobile devices help nurses deliver healthcare at the point of care
During the past 12 months, the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) Clinical Content team at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) have developed and rolled out the Digital Nursing Record across the three [...]
Webinar on building student resilience through a community of learning
Date: 6 September 2017, Time 12.30 -1.30 PM SPEAKER - Pamela Shaw: Practice Educator/Health Visitor/Queen’s Nurse (MSc, BSc Hons, PGCE, PGDip, RHV, RM, RGN, QN) & Paula Elliott: Practice Educator/Health Visitor/Nurse Teacher (MSc, BSc (Hons), [...]
Using Sprint/Agile-Lite Management Techniques in the NHS
Agile or Sprint working is common in the software industry and is associated with the successful delivery of projects. Advocates of the method discuss these values: - Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. - [...]
#TheBlonde discovers the Patient Experience Library
I'm probably not the only person who hadn't heard of the Patient Experience Library: Bringing patient experience into the light. The Patient Experience Library makes it easy for people to get a patient's-eye view of service quality. [...]
Improving patient pathways for neutropenic sepsis – leadership from the front-line
I started my role as Chief Nurse Excellence in Care Junior Fellow (CNF) in June 2016 at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH). These roles were developed to encourage Band 5 nurses to develop their [...]
How to be brilliant…
English, maths, geography, history, PE, science, and resilience… all in a day’s work for students at schools in Long Eaton and Ilkeston. ‘Resilience’ you say? Yes, resilience, the art being taught locally of ‘being brilliant’. [...]
Working, Improving and Delivering Together
The Southern Trust Continuous Improvement Team has developed a range of quality improvement capacity and capability building accredited programmes, learning opportunities and practical resources to support staff deliver safe, high quality care. THE “5 STEP [...]
New Persistent Physical Symptoms Service Website
http://ppss.cumbria.nhs.uk/. A new website, the first in the UK, to support people in West, North and East Cumbria managing persistent pain, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Medically Unexplained Symptoms went live on 12th [...]
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