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Safety measurement and monitoring in healthcare: a framework to guide clinical teams and healthcare organisations in maintaining safety
(2014)Patients, clinicians and managers all want to be reassured that their healthcare organisation is safe. But there is no consensus about what we mean when we ask whether a healthcare organisation is safe or how this is ... -
Understanding and working with suicide risk
(2015-07)Key learning points: Understanding risk factors associated with suicide; Considering a framework for understanding suicide; How to assess and manage suicide risk -
Managing resources and reducing waste in healthcare settings
(2015-12)The NHS is under pressure to increase its effectiveness and productivity. Nurses are tasked with delivering effective and efficient care, as well as improving patient safety, experiences and results. The reduction of ... -
Difficult conversations? Engaging patients in reducing waste in health care
(2016)Purpose – Reducing waste in health care can result in savings that could be used to meet the projected shortfall in NHS funding or to meet the care needs of vulnerable groups. Patients and their families can contribute ... -
Increase in antibiotic prescriptions in out-of-hours primary care in contrast to in-hours primary care prescriptions: service evaluation in a population of 600 000 patients
(2016)Objectives The objective of this study was to describe the frequency and nature of antibiotic prescriptions issued by a primary care out-of-hours (OOH) service and compare time trends in prescriptions between OOH and ... -
The Role of Self-Management Practices as Mechanisms for Re-Establishing Normality in Cancer Survivors
(2016)This article explores the relationship between cancer survivors' use of self-management practices and their search for normality. Using Frank's illness narratives and other theoretical literature on normality in chronic ... -
Reducing waste in the NHS: an overview of the literature and challenges for the nursing profession
(2016-04-20)Waste in the NHS is estimated to account for 20% of health expenditure. This article examines the literature on reducing waste, analyses some approaches to waste reduction, and identifies the role that nurses and other ... -
Treatment of Inappropriate Sexual Behavior in Dementia
(2016-08)Inappropriate sexual behavior (ISB) is a relatively common and potentially disruptive form of behavior in people with dementia. It can cause considerable distress and put placements and people at risk. Yet it is poorly ... -
Absconding: reducing failure to return in adult mental health wards
(2016-11)Failing to return from leave from acute psychiatric wards can have a range of negative consequences for patients, relatives and staff. This study used quality improvement methodology to improve the processes around patient ... -
Young People who Self Harm: a Prospective One-Year Follow-up Study
(2016-12)Purpose: To explore repetition, service provision and service engagement following presentation of young people to emergency services with self-harm. Methods: 969 patients who presented to accident and emergency services ... -
Psycho-spiritual Care in Health Care Practice
(Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017)Meeting the psychological and spiritual needs of patients is vital to supporting their wellbeing in health care settings. To develop an effective, holistic and inclusive approach to care within predominantly medical health ... -
A web-based clinical decision tool to support treatment decision-making in psychiatry: a pilot focus group study with clinicians, patients and carers
(2017)Background Treatment decision tools have been developed in many fields of medicine, including psychiatry, however benefits for patients have not been sustained once the support is withdrawn. We have developed a web-based ... -
Predicting clinical deterioration after initial assessment in out-of-hours primary care: a retrospective service evaluation
(2017-01)Background: Accurate assessment of the need for admission is challenging in out-of-hours (OOH) primary care. Understanding more about patient contacts where the decision to continue care in the community may have been ... -
Experiences of remote mood and activity monitoring in bipolar disorder: a qualitative study
(2017-01)Mobile technology enables high frequency mood monitoring and automated passive collection of date(e.g.actigraphy) from patients more efficiently and less intrusively than has previously been possible. Such techniques are ... -
Helping young people who self-harm
(2017-02)Key learning points: For many young people, the function of self-harm is to escape an unbearable emotional state; relief and negative feelings experienced following self-harm can result in a cycle of self-harming behaviour; ... -
Typologies for Restructuring Relationships in Cancer Survivorship
(2017-07)Background: Cancer survivors with good social support are generally more motivated to undertake self-management behaviors and make lifestyle changes. However, the impact of changes in social support over time, from ... -
Improving the effectiveness of psychotherapy in two public hospitals in Nairobi
(2017-08)This paper is the first in a planned series of papers studying the effectiveness of psychotherapy and counselling in Nairobi. It describes a method for checking the effectiveness of psychotherapy and improving service ... -
The effects of improving sleep on mental health (OASIS): a randomised controlled trial with mediation analysis
(2017-09-06)Summary: Background Sleep difficulties might be a contributory causal factor in the occurrence of mental health problems. If this is true, improving sleep should benefit psychological health. We aimed to determine whether ... -
The Role of the Clinical Practice Educator in a large integrated NHS Trust
(2017-10)This article examines the work of a team of six clinical practice educators employed by a large integrated Mental Health and Community Health NHS Trust over a two year period. The article assesses how the role of the ... -
Elevated homocysteine and N-methyl-D-aspartate-receptor antibodies as a cause of behavioural and cognitive decline in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
(2017-12)A 19-year-old male with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome presented with a 4-year history of cognitive decline and symptoms suggestive of atypical psychosis. Potential for elevated homocysteine and NMDA-receptor antibodies in the ...
