This NCEPOD report highlights the quality of care provided to patients with Parkinson’s disease aged 16 years and over who were admitted to hospital when acutely unwell.
Audit Toolkit (Excel) above. We hope you find this useful and if you have any feedback please do contact us at info@ncepod.org.uk. Please can you advise your local audit department if you plan to undertake this audit, it is important that they are made aware of it for the benefit of demonstrating Trust/Board activity and also so that they are in a position to support you and endorse the activity for your benefit. Information for primary care clinicians Summary checklist and QI ideas for primary care Resources for the public on Dysphagia and Parkinson’s disease Parkinson’s UK: https://www.parkinsons.org.uk/information-and-support/eating-swallowing-and-saliva-control In Wales: https://www.parkinsons.org.uk/about-us/parkinsons-uk-cymru Parkinson’s Care and Support UK: https://parkinsonscare.org.uk/ NHS England: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/parkinsons-disease/ SCOPE: https://www.scope.org.uk/advice-and-support/swallowing-difficulties-dysphagia/ Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists: https://www.rcslt.org/speech-and-language-therapy/clinical-information/dysphagia/ National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Parkinson’s Disease. Quality Standard (QS164): https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/qs164/resources/parkinsons-disease-pdf-75545600441029 National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Parkinson’s disease in adults. NICE Guideline (NG71): https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng71/resources/parkinsons-disease-in-adults-pdf-1837629189061 Parkinson’s UK. Consensus statement for the optimisation of Parkinson’s medicines in hospital: https://www.parkinsons.org.uk/sites/default/files/2017-12/cs2877_consensus_statement_0.pdf International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative: https://iddsi.org/ For more information on quality improvement: Health Foundation: https://www.health.org.uk/collection/improvement-projects-tools-and-resources King’s Fund: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/topics/quality-improvement NHS Improvement: https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/cause-and-effect-fishbone-diagram/ East London NHS Foundation Trust:https://qi.elft.nhs.uk/about-us/what-is-qi/ Institute for Healthcare Improvement: http://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/Tools/default.aspx Participation Please click here to view which sites took part in the study. |
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