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Join our first medicine safety campaign called "Safer Prescribing Tayside" from 17th to 21st June.Inspirational speakers, Gerry Marr , Jason Leitch and Carrie Marr will be delivering the opening plenary. Key themes for staff: medicine reconciliation, polypharmacy and high risk medicines.Key theme for patients: empowering patients to gain knowledge and ask questions about t...
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The fourth Steps to Better Healthcare (SBH) staff event which showcased the developments and improvements in delivering services to patients was held at Whitehills Health and Community Care Centre in Forfar.SBH is NHS Tayside’s programme of activity, redesign and improvement which has been ongoing since 2010. Its aim is to be a focus for redesign and innovation to...
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NHS Tayside Chairman Mr Sandy Watson has been elected to the role of Chairman of the Scottish NHS Board Chairs’ Group. Mr Watson, who has been chairman of NHS Tayside for more than five years, was previously vice chair of the Scottish group. In his new national role, Mr Watson will represent the collective decisions and views of the chairs of all NHS boards to S...
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Nursing and allied health professional staff from NHS Tayside have completed a course to improve their skills in working with patients with dementia. The 19 staff graduated from the University of West of Scotland (UWS) as Dementia Champions, joining 38 other colleagues from across Tayside who have already completed the course. The newly graduated staff will join their colleagues in supporting pati...
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A Ninewells Hospital Consultant Plastic Surgeon and leading international expert on lymphoedema has led an Australian cancer team into a new leg surgery. Mr Alex Munnoch recently visited Macquarie University in Sydney to continue a global knowledge transfer in surgical skills for treating the little-known condition lymphoedema. Mr Munnoch, who is also the chair of the British Lymphology...
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NHS Tayside has launched a project to develop the skills of non-clinical support staff across all areas of support services including portering, domestic services and catering.Non-clinical support services staff provide a range of vital services required to support the delivery of high quality patient care. In order to ensure a more structured approach to learning and development plannin...
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The Familial Arrhythmia Network of Scotland (FANS) Steering Group based in Tayside has been nominated for a British Medical Journal Award. The Familial Arrhythmia Network Scotland (FANS) Steering Group has been shortlisted for the Cardiovascular Medicine Team of Year category - recognising teams who are developing new and innovative ways of treating people with cardiac conditions in the UK.&n...
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A new specialist hearing device for patients with mild to moderate hearing losses has been switched on for the first patient in Scotland at Kings Cross in Dundee.Dundee is one of the few UK centres to be offering the Bonebridge device to patients who are suitable.Karen Thomson (42) of Brechin, who is a healthcare assistant at Stracathro Hospital, was the first patient in Scotland to have her Boneb...
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Celebration events are taking place across Tayside to showcase improvements being made to health services for the benefit of patients, as a result of a national programme of learning rolled out by the Scottish Government. More than 250 nurses across NHS Tayside have participated in the three-day Leading Better Care education programme which focuses on leadership and improvements to enha...
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The University of Stirling led the UK’s largest ever study into patient experience and nursing care.Launched on Monday, 11 February in NHS Tayside, Improving Patient Experience of Care (IPEC) involves around 6000 patients and almost 1000 nurses over a two year period.IPEC will draw on the collective expertise of academics at Stirling, Dundee and Glasgow Caledonian universities.The study&rsqu...
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