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The new updated UK-SBA Code of Ethical & Professional Conduct has been published. If you employ or contract with a behaviour analyst, behaviour specialist, or behaviour support practitioner in the UK please check they are registered members and accountable to this code, the safeguards that come with membership and the UK-SBA complaints procedure underpinning this. #safeguarding #consumerprotection #ethics

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It has been a big week! Even my coffee machine is working overtime to provide my foamy latte.. In no particular order, a few highlights; 🗂📊📈 POC South East group.. audit data has arrived! We are at 20/22 Acute Trusts #POCT service and resource data..with the other 2 to hopefully come next week. Data like this ticks my Scientist box - questions to answer, lessons to learn and comparisons to be made. All with the aim of helping each service with evidence for business cases. 📚📢💡 POC national community of practice, chaired by David Wells. The first meeting of this kind.. a growing piece of work lead by the national team. I am looking forward to supporting this venture and I hope widening membership to support POC service growth. 🖱💻✅️ -Presentation prep work.. Really looking forward to speaking at the Clinisys conference in a few weeks time, thanks to Matthew Fouracre for asking me. POCT integration challenges are plentiful, there has been some progress but we have a way to go! 🥼🧪👍 -Qpoint Annual Management Review.. our EQA Scheme has grown significantly in the last 3 years. We work continuously on improving experience for our participants and have been developing our next scheme ready for launch. The team are so passionate and knowledgeable, it is a pleasure to work with them. Maintaining every aspect of quality management system is a big pressure and the annual review a time to reflect and strategise. 📃📃📃 -Service on a page.. I have been preparing a report on all our #HealthcareScience services at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust for our Execs. There are areas of excellence in all of them and areas of challenge to tease out and plan improvement. A real learning curve for me. (and no.. its not 1 page! it's closer to 11!!..) 💡💡💡 -I had a get to know you chat with our BSPS board chair, John Pattulo. Great to share with John what our POCT service is all about, the work we do with Virtual wards and Rapid respiratory. I feel so grateful to work in a network that values #POCT in the way we do. This weekend.. PTA summer fair including face painting, BBQ, cake stall and lots of happy kids. Refreshing to get outside even if rain coat is likely needed! #IValueLabStaff #POCT #Pathology #HealthcareScience

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Considering the NHS cyber attack, this is a crucial webinar! Online via Zoom 12th June 7pm Join Our Webinar: Protecting Vulnerable Adults from Scams Home Visit Healthcare is hosting a scam awareness webinar featuring special guest Bill Cowley, Community Relationship Manager at Home Instead UK. The event is in partnership with scam awareness charity “Think Jessica” and the “Take 5 Stop Fraud” initiative. Bill, with extensive experience in cyber security from Vodafone and BT, will discuss common scams and provide tips for identifying threats in everyday life. Key Takeaways: - Understanding Scams - Preventative Measures - Support and Resources Why Attend? - Expert Insights - Interactive Q&A - Networking Opportunities Reserve your spot for this Wednesday, 12th June at 7pm by registering here: [link to registration form] #ScamAwareness #CyberSecurity #ProtectingVulnerableAdults

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Some great material here from HPMA Healthcare People Management Association on avoiding hard in employee investigations. Includes links to academic research. HPMA Healthcare People Management Association #HR #OD #NHS The paper covers: 1. An introduction to avoidable employee harm 2. The cost and impact of employee investigations 3. The impact on those who lead them 4. Relooking at your policy and processes 5. Making employee investigations a last resort 6. Ideas for engaging your HR team, executive and board

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☄️☄️☄️3 things this last week 1️⃣ It’s good to have colleagues working in privacy who live nearby, who you can meet occasionally for a coffee (sadly no cake) In April I met Alan Cooke at Privacy Space. Alan lives not far from me (even if he does live in Essex, and I’m in Suffolk). We met at the lovely Stoke by Nayland Resort. Alan has played golf there in the past. I’ve had golf lesson (x2) but never played on the course, I was also a member of the gym for about 12 years. Back to our coffee and chat about all things privacy. What a journey Alan has had, it was good hearing how you got to where you are today, and I will be watching from a short distance, how the next stage of your journey progresses. I have a simple saying “we are not competitors, but colleagues”. Coffee again in the autumn? 2️⃣ Many of you will know, that at Data Privacy Simplified Ltd & BJM IG Privacy #Taining, we deliver a 5 module IG Practitioner course, delivered over 6 months. Once the course is completed we carry out a ‘Professional Discussion’ with the successful students. This is when we get to hear what the course meant to them. What I hear the most (as well as learning things they didn’t know before) is…. #CONFIDENCE. They now have the confidence, in delivering internal training, writing and reviewing policies, giving advice and support to staff and the organisation and much more. In one professional discussion this week, the organisation were so impressed with the progress, the student got a pay rise 😀 (result). The next cohort is in Oct/Nov. You can always ask for more info. 3️⃣ 2 weeks ago, we (well Tania Palmariellodiviney (MSc) she employs the staff) employed Karen Lawrence This week Tania has done a runner and legged it on holiday with Yagmur Sahin and Laura Palmariello, which means Karen has been left holding the fort with some clients. Don’t get me wrong, Karen is experienced and has hit the ground running. I was on a call on Friday with a client. Earlier in the week, Karen had been dealing with an issue for them. The client told my, Karen was “amazing, awesome, lovely and helpful and supportive” (words to that effect). I have to add, I was not surprised, and I’m sure it will not be the last comments we hear. I needed to tell Karen, but I was not going to do it via text, or email, that feedback needs to be verbal… I rang and told her. (Going back to number 1 above) Karen only lives about 40 mins away, looks like coffee and cake catch up with Karen soon will be on the cards. Positive feedback is important. #BEHAVE #BeKind #BeThatPerson

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What actually is clinical governance if you don't deliver clinical care? 🤔 Clinical governance often means little to those in non-clinical service delivery roles, especially in corporate environments. Even I struggled to grasp its significance in a corporate environment for many years, despite working with a Clinical Governance Framework in place. It was clear, however, that whatever it was meant to achieve, it wasn't working effectively ❌ The clinical governance team and I went about embodying the very principles of clinical governance. This led us on a journey of collaboration and partnership with our colleagues, we built on existing evidence, we listened and learnt from the way people viewed the principles, and we heard their confusion 😕 We uncovered what they were already doing that demonstrated how their work supported the foundations of safety, quality and continuous improvement. We linked their work back to the person at the point of care🌟 And it has stuck! 🙌 This built trust and confidence in their products and services. Their clinical governance framework remains active, and it is relevant! 👏 You don’t need to be at the point of care for clinical governance to matter. It is more than a set of rules, it’s a culture and a way of doing things; it’s about safety and quality; and it’s about learning and continuously improving while maintaining a focus on improving health and care outcomes and experiences for patients, customers, consumers, clients – for people 🤝 When you work in a corporate environment, don’t get distracted by the word “clinical” – it’s simply good governance that incorporates the principles of clinical governance for any organisation that touches the health sector... It’s governance for health and care – It’s “Health and Care Governance” 💡 #thinkdifferently #healthandcaregovernance #clinicalgovernance #corporategovernance #samesamebutdifferent

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"If online banking services were like electronic patient record platforms, they'd have a hard time convincing people to use them." Have been thinking about this sentiment a lot since hearing it at an EPR workshop a couple of months ago. It underscores a prevalent issue in EPR development - user experience often takes a back seat. In my experience, EPR design broadly falls into 2 approaches. In the first, the company dictates the platform design, with varying consideration for user feedback. Users are often left to adjust their workflows to fit the EPR, resulting in inefficiencies and frustration. Alternatively, some companies actively solicit user input, resulting in feature-rich platforms. However, this can lead to a lack of cohesion across the platform and can overwhelm new users, especially those implementing later versions of the product. Neither approach fully embraces the holistic UX approach necessary to allow these platforms to truly transform healthcare delivery. Recently, in discussions with an EPR developer about their UI refresh, I offered clinical insights, only to be told that clinical input wasn't necessary since it pertained solely to UI elements and not functionality. I can't help but feel this disconnect is a significant factor contributing to the often challenging user experience encountered with many EPR systems.

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New joint guidance published by the BMA and NHS Employers on how to create specialist doctor roles. There are some key questions that employers ask us about creating specialist roles, and we hope this will make the process easier. #SASWeek24

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Phishing makes up more than 8 in 10 cyber attacks against UK small businesses. Check your cyber security with the UK Government’s free and quick tool that instantly spots IT vulnerabilities in your systems. Strengthen your organisation’s cyber security in just a few clicks. Check your cyber security now⬇️

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As the #GeneralElection is almost upon us, you may have read key party manifesto pledges regarding the #NHS. But what will truly fix the #waitinglists issue?🤔 ❓What is the history of the decisions that have led to the current state of the waiting lists? ❓What has worked before and what can help now and the future? ❓Can the promises being made now, especially by The Labour Party - who is likely to be in power come 5th July, truly curb the growth? At Acumentice , we never take anything on the face of it, so we decided to do some rapid data analysis on *all* the historic waiting list information available publicly and bring you this white paper pre election. (We may have enjoyed doing it too! 😁 ) “Reducing NHS waiting lists from historic highs - the political policies that led to the current state and how to solve it” This paper provides an analysis from 2007–2024 of the opportunities to clearing the backlog and reduce waiting list sizes to sustainable levels, including an assessment of Labour’s pledge. Here you can read a sneaky summary, but to read the full paper with all its pretty data analysis – please go to: https://cdn.prod.website -https://lnkd.in/gCuTH-vT #electivecare #dataanalysis #whitepaper

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It is now NHS DSP Toolkit season at PrivacyAid. I am just looking at question 1.3.1 - "updated every three years as a minimum" ??? !!!! A lot can happen in three years, surely it should be 'updated annually or whenever there is a significant legislative or technological change? Does your organisation have up to date policies in place for data protection and for data and cyber security? You should have policies and staff guidance in place communicating your organisation’s principles and procedures for data protection. - data protection - data quality - record keeping - data security - where relevant, network security These should be updated every three years at the minimum, and locally maintain evidence of when each update was made. #NHS #DSP #Cyber #DataProtection #DPO

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IT security, data flow mapping, records management and more. Information Governance in the NHS is changing, and your processes, protocols and training will need to adapt with it. We're here to help identify where your information governance compliance needs work, so you can handle personal and corporate information legally, securely and effectively. Find out more about our information governance consultancy, training and learning products ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ePuPbsNh #HealthcareIT #HealthIT #Data #DigitalTransformation #NHS #InformationGovernance #CyberSecurity #DataSecurity

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ANOTHER SURVEY 🙄 I know this is what you are all thinking, but don't turn away now. If you work in a Trust, click the link. Don't let your frustration with surveys get in the way of your opportunity to tell your digital teams where your health service needs optimisation of your electronic patient record to meet your needs, where more training is needed (or training of a different type). This isn't just for NHSE - this information will be going to your Trust digital teams to inform their future workplan. And if this isn't enough, there is the element of competition. Can your Trust get the most responses? Will nurses do better than doctors, admin, and allied health? Trust me. It only takes a few minutes. Click the link.

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Interesting read. The Data Protection & Digital Information No. 2 Bill in the UK aims to strengthen data protection and digital information management by addressing issues related to personalised data collection, storage, use, consent, sharing and individual control. Nothing we haven’t been talking about for years but does Healthcare IT have the means to adopt. System suppliers have their role as does the NHS: together can we address the challenges raised from emerging technologies in the digital space.

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The management of Patient Billing are proud to say we have flown through another audit with no majors, no minors and no opportunities for improvement. This demonstrates our commitment to improving information security and is something we are particularly proud of. We are the only medical billing agency in the UK to hold the certification. Information security is a fundamental component to consider when selecting your billing supplier. With cyber threats on the rise, this should be a crucial part of the decision making process. We wanted to reshape how our industry views cybersecurity and we did it. #medicalbilling #cybersecurity #privatehealthcare

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Some mentions of digital front doors / wards; however it lacked focus on key areas (for me) on rewriting ambulance & urgent care assessment prioritisation & response models. Key areas of focus for these sectors: Confident & Competent workforces (People) Less risk averse more risk stratified assessment orgs, systems & cultures - NO WRONG FRONT DOOR (Process) Effective simple computer decision support assessment software, remote assessment & monitoring (Technology). https://lnkd.in/eMqU-A9v

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The #NHS is facing long waits, poor outcomes and record-low rates of public satisfaction. Investing in technology may not seem like the priority but without it, nothing will change. Globally, Digital Health Records (DHRs) are fast becoming the foundational building block of all modern health systems, changing the way we generate health and consume healthcare in the AI era. By embracing a DHR, the #NHS can be prepared for the #AI era – enabling patients and clinicians to take advantage of cutting-edge developments in digital technology, pharma and biotech, and AI as they emerge. Learn more about why we’re advocating for a DHR from Dr Charlotte Refsum, Adam Bradshaw, Oliver Large and Darcy Ward: https://bit.ly/4dQ8oLP #healthcare #NHS #GPs #innovation #technology 

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