...healthcare setting where digitalisation has become a key priority in the quest to improving healthcare outcomes for patients. Market Overview The importance of technology and information technology (IT) systems in meeting the challenges placed on the health care system is becoming increasingly apparent. The NHS is currently driving a technological revolution with the vision of becoming paperless by 2018. As a result, there is an increase in demand for SME’s like PathWay to contribute to increasing efficiency and working systems in the NHS by providing technological solutions. Our aim is to launch our product one hospital at a time, beginning with UCLH. PathWay will address the problems faced in monitoring patient’s results in a busy healthcare setting. It will improve efficacy and resolve dependability on having to log on at selected terminals to receive patient results. As a result, it will allow healthcare professionals to provide immediate and timely care to patients at risk. This concept will be of great benefit not only to the product users, but also to patients as it improves healthcare outcomes by improving efficiency in the NHS. There is a great potential for growth for PathWay in the market of this NHS technological revolution. Product Overview PathWay is an integrated mobile phone application that will provide a platform for capturing real-time patient information and to live-stream patient data to a clinician, allowing them to interpret and respond to information...
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...Growing up in a family where both of my parents who did not receive any education. I have seen them struggle in life, financial trouble and jobs. Seeing my mom come home late at night from work and my dad complains every day about his job. I realized the importance of education and what it means to me. I truly believe that education is the key to success which is why I have a great interest in NHS. National honor society serves students who have demonstrated a great example of leadership, scholarship, service and character. Joining NHS would allow me to acquire these skills and prepare me for college. I want to grow as a better student and a better person. I also want to continue to grow academically and surround yourself with people who hold...
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...I am deeply honored to be invited to join National Honor Society. This is something that I never heard of, but after understanding the organizations I am looking forward to be a part of NHS. I would be excited to join such a society because it will allow me to grow as a person, and give as much as I can for others. I believe that I am qualify to become a member of the NHS because I work hard and I possess the qualities of scholarship, service, leadership, and character. I consider myself a scholar because I always aim to be the best in everything I do. I work hard and I strive for excellence in all of my classes. I also like to challenge myself, such as getting out of my comfort zone, taking honor classes and AP classes to build more knowledge. I make sure that...
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...Are government cuts to NHS funding affecting how services are received by the older generations in the UK? Introduction: In recent times, this particular topic has raised a lot of interest and the question on most people’s mind is ‘are government cuts to NHS funding affecting how services are received by the older generations in the UK?’ I have researched and found many interesting opinions regarding this topic including ‘The Local Authority of public health’, who believe “It is feared that this cut will not only affect the public health services but will also have a serious knock on effect on NHS healthcare services.” (Bevan, 2015) This is emphasised repeatedly as according to ‘The Department of Health’ “there has been an estimate on the NHS...
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...The Final Report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry – Chaired by Robert Francis QC On the day briefing by the Foundation Trust Network (FTN) 1. Background The following briefing provides a summary of our action to date, the Francis recommendations and an initial response from the FTN. 2. Initial Reaction from the FTN In the run up to publication of the Francis Report, our Chair, Peter Griffiths and Chief Executive, Chris Hopson wrote an open letter to members acknowledging that pockets of poor quality care can exist in all types of trust, but emphasising that failures as serious, protracted and devastating as Mid Staffordshire are rare and isolated. We recognised that the FTN and the wider NHS need to do much more to identify and share best practice on improving quality of care and to provide practical tools to support trusts in doing so. Our work programme will identify how the FTN can help develop sector led support to complement government led initiatives, focussing on: • • • • The drivers of quality identified through research such as culture, ward level leadership, team effectiveness, staff satisfaction and support; The role of the board; Defining what support could be provided to trusts finding it difficult to meet standards; Exploring the link between increasing financial pressure and quality. Clearly, today’s announcements and recommendations will have a major impact on everyone in the NHS. We are committed to engaging fully in the evolving...
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...MODELING INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT I. EXECUTIVE Through this report, I will analyze and evaluate Hung Vuong Joint Stock Company’s price and compare with the 10 other companies in the same industry. To evaluate the value stock of enterprises, we have a lot of methods, such as: Dividend Discount Model (DDM), price to earnings (PE) or market price to book value (PB)… Each method has its pros and cons. However, in this report, I will evaluate stock price in three methods: PE, PS and PB. In this report, there are three main parts: overview the foods industry and background of HVG, valuation of stock price and give some comment about these methods. II. OVERVIEW FOODS INDUSTRY AND HUNG VUONG JOINT STOCK COMPANY 1. Overview foods industry After becoming a member of WTO, Vietnam has more opportunities for foods industry. However, with the advantages, foods industry in Vietnam has also faced with a lot of challenges. Foods industry in Vietnam develops very quickly with two types: domestic foods and exported foods. With the local consumers, with the variety, there are a 1 NHUTHSB60381 VALUATION FINANCIAL MODELING INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT lot of types of foods. Moreover, in fact, when Vietnam joined WTO and ASEAN, it promotes foods exported and agriculture and maritime products. In recent years, even though growth rate of foods industry is not high, mission and vision are established in the true way and changing in infrastructure. a. Strength Foods industry helps us increase production and GDP...
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...Practice (2007) 7, 26–35 Nurse Education in Practice www.elsevierhealth.com/journals/nepr Exploring bullying: Implications for nurse educators Sharon L. Edwards a a,* , Claire Frances O’Connell b Department of Pre-registration, Nursing Faculty of Health Studies, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, Chalfont Campus, Newland Park, Gorelands Lane, Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire HP8 4AD, United Kingdom b Green Lawns, Kilmona Grenagh Co., Cork, Republic of Ireland Accepted 27 March 2006 KEYWORDS Bullying; Violence; NHS; Higher education; Nurse education Summary This article examines briefly the issue of workplace violence and bullying in the hospital environment, but more importantly how the same and different styles of bullying and intra-staff bullying are emerging in nurse education. The content describes the aetiology of violence and bullying and their place in the National Health Service (NHS) including nursing. It explores bullying as the principle form of intimidation in nurse education, the different types and subtle forms of bullying, why individuals become bullies, dealing with and the consequences of bullying. The legislation, guidelines, policies are part of the recommendations for practice. c 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Introduction In modern day society, it could be argued that violence and aggression is a common aspect of daily life. Violence and abuse within the hospital setting occurs throughout the entire health...
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...Tesco, a British supermarket chain, and the National Health Service (NHS), a British organisation which provides free healthcare to everyone in the United Kingdom. Both organisations have a strong mission statement. A mission statement is a short summary of a business’s aims and objectives for the future. The NHS’s mission is to provide “High quality care for all, now and for future generations”. (http://www.england.nhs.uk/about/our-vision-and-purpose/ 07/10/2014) This is a summarised version of the full aims and objectives of the NHS, which ensures that they are committed to prioritising; * Satisfied patients * Motivated, positive NHS staff * Preventing people from dying prematurely * Enhancing quality of life for people with long term conditions * Helping people to recover from episodes of ill health or following injury * Ensuring that people have a positive experience of care * Treating and caring for people in a safe environment and protecting them from avoidable harm * Promoting equality and reducing inequalities in health outcomes * NHS Constitution rights and pledges, including delivery of key service standards * Becoming an excellent organisation * High quality financial management (http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ppf-1314-1516.pdf 07/10/2014) Tesco, unlike the NHS, don't have a mission statement but, instead, have a “vision”, which...
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...also more effecting at doing so. One of the main causes of death in the early 1900s was the common flu, however, modern medication has now made a vaccine for this, making it very hard to catch in the first place, and also easily treatable. Because of this modern medication, the death rate has fallen over the past 100 years. Another reason for the decrease in the death rate is the improvement in health care. The NHS (National Health Service) was introduced in 1948. The NHS is a public service that provides people with free health care. Before this time, you would have had to pay for your health care, which a lot of people were unable to do, especially the dependant elderly people. This meant that many people went through life with very little health care, or sometimes none at all, which usually led to lots of people becoming ill, and then dying early on in life. The NHS fixed this problem by making health care free for everyone, meaning that people could now get medication for free if needed, which helped in keeping them much healthier, and therefore living longer. The NHS has had a massive impact in the life expectancy during the latter half of the 1900s; this is proven by the life expectancy for females in 1948 being 70.1 and then the life expectancy for...
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...NHS - ESSAY Being inducted into National Honor Society would be an honor for me, Armando Olivan, to be able to do and achieve while in high school. Many and much gratitude would be given for the opportunity to be part of such talented and very well thought of organization in school. Knowing that many students get the opportunity and fail to take a chance at what could be a life changing experience for them. I know that with being inducted into National Honor Society there does come responsibility. There are meetings I must attend, there are activities I must help with and so forth. Whether it be a car wash I must wake up early for to go help raise money. Or something as simple as volunteering as picking up the trash. I must also keep my...
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...analysis will discuss the relationship between organisational values, stakeholder engagement and the delivery of quality patient care, before relating this to his professional practice, prior to drawing and presenting conclusions. The author having worked in the NHS for a number of years as a Commissioning Manager in a non-clinical role has often found it difficult to see the impact that sound organisational values and robust stakeholder engagement can directly have on the delivery of patient quality, experience and care, working through Module 3 has been a truly eye opening experience for the author. Having completed Module 1 and 2 of the EGA course and now coming to the end of Module 3, there have been many opportunities for self-reflection and time to make sense of how and why organisational values, engagement and service delivery are all interlinked. Analysis Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Care & Quality “Stakeholder engagement is the process by which an organisation involves people who may be affected by the decisions it makes or can influence the implementation of its decisions.” The notion of engagement with patients in their care has been a growing focus of health and social care policy. In 2000 the NHS published their plan (Department of Health 2000) which spoke of moulding services around the needs and desires where possible of patients themselves. Seven years on,...
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...Becoming a member in the Keystone Chapter of the National Honor Society would be an astonishing honor for me. I am so thankful to have the opportunity to apply for such an amazing organization. To be inducted into NHS has always been an academic dream of mine. I know this organization would be beneficial to my Scholarship, Leadership, Character, and Service aspirations throughout my high school and college careers. These values that the National Honor Society adds to will stay with me for the rest of my life. Ever since I began high school, my grades have been very important to me. I have tried to stay as an A and B student. Not only have I maintained that, but has also been getting straight A’s for the past year. While my grades have been...
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...needs for the author, the team and the sphere of practice. It begins by outlining policy drivers relating to leadership within the NHS generally and health visiting specifically. It is interesting to note that despite the vast literature on leadership there is very little agreement amongst scholars on the definition of the term (Willcocks 2012; Alimo-Metcalfe and Lawler 2001). Contemporary government policies such as the Health Visitor Implementation plan (GBDH 2011) focus on the desirability of strong leadership to improve the quality of care but are equally vague on defining leadership (Willcocks 2012; Martin and Learmonth 2012). Some authors have found that the term “leader” has merely superseded the terms “administrator” and “manager” within the confines of the NHS (Martin and Learmonth 2012; Sheridan, Rastan and Foulkes 2008; Hodgetts 2012) as it confers an image of “heroism” and, as yet, carries none of the negative connotations associated with administration or management. It has been suggested that leadership may be seen as a panacea (Parker 2004) for any problems within the NHS or as a route to reforming the system (Massey and Munt 2009). Leadership has been a key theme in several government documents in recent years, despite changes in government, including: High Quality Care for All (Darzi 2008); Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS (GBDH 2010) and the Health Visitor...
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...national diabetes pathway from the National Institution for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which was published in February 2015 (NICE, 2015). I will also exploring local agendas and guidelines that are available from a local trust. I will be exploring one patient in particular, who cannot be named for confidentiality reasons, in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Councils (NMC, 2008) the code of conduct governing patient confidentiality, (NMC, 2008). Diabetes is growing in the United Kingdom (UK) at an alarming rate, (Diabetes UK, 2012). In 2010, evidence showed that approximately 3.1 million people in the UK aged over 16 years old have diabetes. By 2030, this figure is estimated to rise to 4.6 million, (National Health Service [NHS], 2014). It is important as an adult nurse, that I understand the pathway of diabetes as individuals with the condition are at risk of developing further health complications (Diabetes UK, 2012). This includes conditions such as heart disease, stroke and blindness (Diabetes UK, 2012a). A pathway is a “foreseen care placed in an appropriate time frame, written and agreed by a multidisciplinary team. It has locally agreed standards based on evidence where available to help a patient with a specific condition or diagnosis, move progressively through the clinical experience”, (National Leadership and Innovation Agency for healthcare, 2005). Care pathways improve the delivery of effective care, strengthen the multidisciplinary communication and...
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...using the PESTLE framework. The impact of the macro - environment is evaluated. 2.1 The PESTLE is a management tool that involves identification of the political, economic, sociological, technological, legal, environmental factors that had an impact on an organisation in the past, and could affect organisation in the future. Carry out PESTLE along with SWOT analysis, assist in strategic decision- making, and setting realistic objectives. 2.2 The PESTLE analysis is attached as Appendix 1. 2.3 The SWOT analysis is attached as Appendix 2. 2.4 The evaluation of high impact environmental factors based on PESTLE analysis. 2.5.1 The Department of Health is making provisions to a number of changes to the NHS dental contract, based on capitation, quality and registration, rather than UDA system. The two prototype contracts will begin operating in 2015-2016 for a two year trial, before a general new contract is introduced for everyone, in consequence it is difficult to predict a full impact on our organisation until the trial is finished. This requires contract monitoring for the time being. 2.5.2 Due to providing assurance and reporting to the commissionaires in line with CQC and GDC requirements, our practice has been forced to invest over £100000 to meet mandatory standards by the end of 2012. This involved building of an extension and allocation of separate decontamination room, along with a staff training. Failing in compliance could...
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