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

Clinical Topics for Safety and Effectiveness
THIS SECTION IS STILL IN DEVELOPMENT - MORE CLINICAL TOPICS WILL BE CONTINUALLY ADDED TO THIS SECTION.
Clinical Topics
Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection
Central Venous Catheter Related Infection
Clostridium difficile Infection
Depression: Non-pharmaceutical Management of Depression in Adults
Management of Hip Fracture in Older People
Management of Chronic Venous Leg Ulcers
Stroke: Rehabilitation, Prevention and Management of Complications, and Discharge Planning
This section covers evidence-based changes in practice.
For specific clinical topics you will find:
- Evidenced-based interventions
- Measures
- Tools and resources
- Access to the evidence and current literature
