Recently added articles from British Journal of Perioperative Nursing:
Let's hear it for our volunteers
Dec 01, 2005; ... 2005 is the Year of the Volunteer and this month I would like to reflect on the invaluable contribution that our volunteers make to the success and development of our Association. The number of paid employees on which the Association depends is dwarfed by the amazing number of volunteers ...
Getting it write
Dec 01, 2005; ... Someone told me that if you leave a troupe of monkeys in a room with a typewriter for long enough they will eventually come up with one of Shakespeare's plays. As a natural sceptic who will happily pour cold water over anything, I was dubious about this notion. However, as a researcher I ...
Silver alloy coated foley catheter
Dec 01, 2005; ... Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare NHS Trust is the first hospital in the UK to offer the new silver alloy coated Foley catheter which can help to dramatically reduce healthcare associated infections as a first line treatment option in all departments. BARDEX® IC, the new silver alloy ...
Illuminating experience at AfPP
Dec 01, 2005; ... MGC Medical Lamps, UK medical lamp distributor, would like to thank everybody who visited their stand at the AfPP exhibition in October. This was the company's first year at Harrogate and it has proved to be a worthwhile experience. MGC ran a competition to win an iPod. The draw was made ...
State of the art heart and lung centre
Dec 01, 2005; ... Plans to create a centre of excellence for all heart and lung operations at the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank have been approved. It means all patients in the West of Scotland who have heart or lung problems could eventually be treated at the hospital. Greater Glasgow and ...
£6m tag in Welsh health violence
Dec 01, 2005; ... Staff working in the NHS in Wales are subjected to an average of 22 cases of violent or aggressive behaviour every day, according to a study. Nurses, midwives and health visitors are most likely to be the victims. The Wales Audit Office study found violence and aggression towards health ...
PeraScope steriliser is top in two-year trials
Dec 01, 2005; ... Trials carried out by an NHSTrust to compare different chemical sterilising solutions for endoscopes have concluded that MediChem's PeraScope solution was the best of the products tested for its effectiveness and in offering good overall value, the manufacturers claim. Sue Lamont, ...
OPEN FORUM
Dec 01, 2005; ... Letters, ideas, reviews - issues that concern, interest or amuse you (payment may be offered for published letters) Cochrane review Ovarian tumours Each month, this series presents a systematic review relevant to theatre practice taken from the Cochrane Library. The ...
New director of clinical services
Dec 01, 2005; ... BUPA Hospitals has appointed Jean-Jacques De Gorter, as its new Director of Clinical Services. De Gorter was previously Medical Director of NHS Direct in the South East. He will assume responsibility for driving BUPA Hospitals' clinical ...
Agenda for chaos
Dec 01, 2005; ... Do you remember a few months back when I told you I had been JAQ'd? For the uninitiated or those with short memories I was required to fill in a Job Assessment Questionnaire to assist in assessing and awarding my band on the Agenda for Change pay scale. Well, I have not received my band yet: ...
Cash crisis hits student nurses
Dec 01, 2005; ... The number of student nurses with debts totalling more than £10,000 has doubled in two years, a study says. A joint NursingTimesand health workers' union Unison survey of 2,000 students found 14% had accumulated such debts - up from 6% in 2003. The poll also revealed more than half had ...
Don't trivialise cosmetic surgery
Dec 01, 2005; ... Leading plastic surgeons are 'naming and shaming' organisations which they say trivialise cosmetic operations. The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) is attacking clinics, magazines and health organisations which 'belittle' procedures. Loyalty cards, money off ...
Praise for progress
Dec 01, 2005; ... The NHS still has a long way to go to achieve a 'patient-led' service, says the Healthcare Commission. The independent Commission is publishing its flagship annual report to Parliament on the state of healthcare in England, focusing ...
Razors versus clippers
Dec 01, 2005; ... KEY WORDS Randomised controlled trial, Preoperative hair removal, Wound infection A randomised controlled trial The purpose of this randomised controlled trial was to determine if patients showed a preference for preoperative hair removal with razors or clippers and to identify ...
Walk or be driven?
Dec 01, 2005; ... KEYWORDS Choice, Patient, Transplant, Trolley, Walk A study on walking patients to the operating theatre The objective of this study was to determine patients' perception on the possibility of changing a tradition-based practice to a more patient-empowering service, thus ...
Dealing with the media
Dec 01, 2005; ... KEY WORDS Media, Confidentiality, Codes of conduct, Press enquiries Dear AfPP We have recently had an incident where members of the press contacted theatres directly requesting information relating to a high profile patient who was undergoing emergency surgery. As the incident ...
Hospital acquired infections
Dec 01, 2005; ... What's going wrong? The Patients Association, of which I am President, mounted the UK's first ever Clean Hospitals Summit in April. It was attended by 1,300 delegates and addressed by senior industry and political leaders. It made me think about theatre life in my day, some of the ...
Waiting lists
Dec 01, 2005; ... What are we doing right? According to The Sunday Times Good Hospital Guide (2004), the Mater Hospital scored highest for waiting lists, admitting 84% of inpatients within six months of referral. To achieve this result the Trust was originally invited by commissioners to submit a bid to ...
The patient agenda
Nov 01, 2005; ... Last month during Congress my term of office as Chairman of the Association for Perioperative Practice was ratified. I look forward to the opportunities and challenges that this will bring and in working with AfPP colleagues to deliver on the priorities ahead. Within the organisation, I ...
£8bn negligence pot 'worst case'
Nov 01, 2005; ... Nearly £8bn has been set aside over the next ten years to deal with the rising cost of medical negligence cases. The £7.8bn pot will cover compensation claims and legal bills which have rocketed from £1 m a year to more than £500m annually since the mid-1990s. The Department of Health ...