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Leading Better Care - Delivering for Patients

Leading Better Care enables Senior Charge Nurses / Midwives and Team Leaders to deliver better care in consistent, measurable, evidence based way

To achieve this vision, the following aims and objectives have been agreed:

LBC Aims

  • All Senior Charge Nurses, Senior Charge Midwives and Team Leaders will be working in the context of the LBC components:
  • To ensure safe and effective clinical practice
  • To enhance the patients experience
  • To manage and develop the performance of the team
  • To ensure effective contribution to the delivery of the organisations objectives

by March 2013 and able to demonstrate this.

  • Nurses & Midwives will be able to demonstrate  the contribution they make to the quality and experience of care that patients receive under the three themes by March 2013:
  • Safe
  • Effective
  • Person centred

Welcome

Evidence into Practice, part of The Knowledge Network, helps clinicians to find, share and apply evidence to practice to deliver the best quality patient care. It provides a targeted clinical evidence search which includes guidelines, pathways, evidence summaries and systematic reviews.

In addition a range of resources to support organisations improve the quality of health and care in Scotland has been developed through The Quality Improvement Hub website.

  • Point of Care Resources

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    • Dynamed
    • Nursing Reference Center
    • Rehabilitation Reference Center
    • Joanna Briggs Institute [Proquest]
    • NHS Inform
    • Prodigy
    • Clinical Decision Support Search for mobile and desktop
    • Clinical Decision Support Search browser plug-in
  • Medicines Information

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    • BNF
    • BNF for Children
    • Micromedex (Martindale, DrugDex, Reprorisk, IV Index)
    • Stockleys
  • Got a clinical question?

    Try CLEAR - the online clinical enquiry and response service from Healthcare Improvement Scotland and NES.

    Ask a clinical question.

    Please note, to submit a clinical enquiry you must log in to the website using your NHS Education for Scotland Athens username and password. If you do not have a username and password you can register for one here.

  • Guidelines

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    • Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN)
    • National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)
    • Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme
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  • Quality Strategy Image

    • Effective
    • Efficient
    • Safe
    • Timely
    • Person Centred
    • Equitable
    • QualityLink

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