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Patients First - Supporting Nurse-led Innovation in Practice

This programme has been made possible by a new and forward thinking partnership between FoNS and the Burdett Trust for Nursing.

Projects

The Patients First Programme provides support and facilitation to clinically based nurse-led teams to help them to develop, implement and evaluate locally focused innovations that improve patient care in any healthcare setting across the UK. Click on the links below to find out more about the projects that are currently being supported.

Date project started	Title of initiative	Location
February 2010	Fistula first in Belfast	Dialysis Unit, Belfast City Hospital
February 2010	Caring for the carers: the establishment of a support group for carers of stroke survivors	Causeway Hospital, Coleraine
February 2010	“Knowing You – Knowing Me”: improving care through working in partnership with patients and families on a dementia assessment unit	Downe Dementia Assessment and Treatment Unit, Downpatrick
February 2010	Working with patients and relatives to enhance skills in recognition, assessment and escalation of the acutely ill and deteriorating patient	Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust
February 2010	Living Well: discovering if this is what patients and their carers would find most useful in a hospice day therapy	St Nicholas Hospice, Bury St Edmonds
February 2010	Tell it like it is: delivering information to young bone marrow transplant patients	University College Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
February 2010	Improving the experience of a chest clinic using experienced based design	Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust
February 2010	Developing local service capacity to work effectively with people with learning disabilities and offending behaviour	Forensic Support Service, Macclesfield
November 2009	Enhancing service delivery and improving the experience of children and young people undergoing MRI scans	Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
November 2009	Enabling participation of young people in planning and evaluating self harm services	Cheshire and Wirral NHS Foundation Trust
November 2009	Enhancing a supportive care clinic for women with gynaecological cancer	Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
November 2009	Meeting the needs of service users with bladder problems after a stroke	NHS Lothian
November 2009	Developing an inclusive approach for people with learning disabilities	Oxfordshire Learning Disability NHS Trust
November 2009	Call 4 Concern (C4C): Patient and relative initiated critical care outreach	Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
November 2009	Pro-active rounding: effective communication and support for patients in hospital	Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust

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