Education News
James Lind Alliance Top 10 research priorities for urinary Incontinence (13.10.09)
The ACA, as an affiliate, participated in the James Lind Alliance Working Partnership on Urinary Incontinence. This projecaimed to identify and then to prioritise important areas of uncertainty about the effectiveness of treatments for urinary incontinence. Awaiting access to the Top 10 research priorities.
Barriers to Effective Care of Incontinence has been published by JLA.
The Engineering in Medicine and Health Division of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers have announced the dates for Incontinece the Engineering Challenge VIII. (posted 5-10-09)
Are you practicing at an advanced level of practice. Sharon Eustics, Nurse Consultant in continence care presents a tool to help you identify your developmental needs.
Primary Care Womens' Health Journal: The ACa has arranged for members' to receive free copies of the new journal, Primary Care Womens' Health. To receive your complimentary copy log on at www.pcwhj.com.
ChiMat Website (posted 10-9-09)
The national Child and Maternal Health Observatory (ChiMat) provides information and intelligence to improve decision-making for high quality, cost effective services. It supports policy makers, commissioners, managers, regulators, and other health stakeholders working on children's, young people's and maternal health.
Co-creating Health is the Health Foundation's ambitious three-year initiative that aims to transform the care of people with long-term conditions. Read more (posted 18-8-09)
The Relatives and Residents Association (posted 25-3-09)
This charity supports older people in care homes. One of their current priorities is the quality of continence care available to residents.
The Association has just sent a letter to all Chief Executives in England and enclosed a copy for the continence advisor. Read a copy of the letter here and prompt your CE to reply.
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Standards (posted 25-3-09)
Read the newly published standards here
NMC Guidance for the Care of Older People (posted 25-3-09)
Newly published guide can be downloaded here or you can order a free copy from the NMC
The DH is considering generic substitution (posted 19-3-09)
The Department of Health has recently renegotiated the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme with the Pharmaceutical industry. As part of this agreement they are also considering the introduction of generic substitution. Norgine has issued a discussion paper and presented some specific examples.Send your comments to Norgine; details can be found at the end of the discussion paper.
The Future of Nursing and Midwifery (posted 14-3-09)
A new commission of experts to advise the Government on the future role of nurses and midwives was announced by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Health Secretary Alan Johnson. Backgound to the report from the DH. The Nursing Times covered the news.
The Kidney Diseases and Women’s Health Specialist Libraries are launching the first Urinary Incontinence Annual Evidence Update (AEU) on Monday 19th January. Focusing on both male and female urinary incontinence this AEU brings together the latest evidence on the surgical, drug and conservative management of urge and stress incontinence and Overactive Bladder (OAB). Expert commentaries summarising the latest knowledge on various incontinence topics such as botox, post-prostatectomy and quality of life issues will be available. Find more information here.
Urology Week
An initiative of the European Association of Urology; you can find details of activities, dates and news here.
The Productive Community Services programme
The Productive Community Services programme has selected three “high volume” pathways of care to start the programme:
Wound care, stroke care and continence services. Read more
Nursing and Midwifery Council: CHRE report
Performance review makes strong recommendations for improvements to the NMC...read more here.
Urology Journal
Urology covers all aspects of urology care including access to study days, previous journal editions and jobs.
The Healthy Society (27.09.07)
First major speech delivered by Alan Johnson as Secretary of State for Health, including excerpt on specialist nurses:
'......we should ensure that more of the primary care workforce, including specialist nurses, physios, social care workers etc, are able to take a lead in providing care for patients'
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/News/Speeches/DH_078397
Current Needs of Nurse Consultants/Healthcare Practitioners and Aspiring Nurse Consultants (27.09.07)
The Practice Development team would like to identify the current needs of nurse consultants/healthcare practitioners and aspiring nurse consultants to improve the range of information offered from this site and to increase networking opportunities to other nurse consultants and groups within the UK. Have a look and feed in to the Royal College of Nursing with your thoughts.
http://www.rcn.org.uk/resources/practicedevelopment/projects/consultantnurse/
NICE Guidelines and Department of Health Consultations(17.09.07)
The ACA has registered as a stakeholder for many different NICE Guidelines and Department of Health Consultations, and has subsequently collated members responses to provide a corporate response.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is the independent organization responsible for providing national guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health. It publishes guidance for health professionals based upon the best evidence available. It has a function across the NHS in England and Wales.
- Recent past consultations which are now available as guidelines include:
- CG 42 Dementia
- CG 49 Faecal Incontinence
- CG21 Falls
- CG2 Infection Control
- CG 35 Parkinsons
- CG40 Urinary Incontinence
- CG054 Urinary Tract Infection in Children
These Clinical Guidelines can all be sourced via the following link. http://guidance.nice.org.uk/CG
The ACA is a stakeholder for the following guidelines in production:
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Consultation 4th Sept to 1st Oct 07
http://guidance.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=451991
Antenatal care Consultation 4th Sept to 29th Oct 07
http://www.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=451448
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Consultation 16th Aug to 11th Sept 07
http://guidance.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=448585
The ACA is currently involved in the Department of Health consultation of Part IX of the Drug Tariff for the provision of stoma and incontinence appliances -and related services- to primary care. This consultation is of considerable importance to those Continence services who use the services of delivery companies and company nurses for parts of their services, as there may be an effect upon the structure of provision. It is also of considerable importance to many of our corporate members.
Please take time to visit the proposals at www.dh.gov.uk\liveconsultations This consultation closes on Nov 29th 2007
Please email any comments to Cath Williams Catherine.Williams2@nhs.net 2 weeks before the end of the consultation, who will collate and return comments on behalf of the ACA.