Guidance Notes and Best Practice Guides
ScotGov: New guidance and a supporting online resource have been launched to assist schools in providing more opportunities for young people to learn outdoors.
Every school in Scotland will be provided with guidance to help teachers take advantage of outdoor education under the new approach through Curriculum for Excellence, including how to involve parents and the local community.
An online resource is also being launched, with best practice examples & ideas for suitable & accessible outdoor learning experiences.
Every school in Scotland will be provided with guidance to help teachers take advantage of outdoor education under the new approach through Curriculum for Excellence, including how to involve parents and the local community.
An online resource is also being launched, with best practice examples & ideas for suitable & accessible outdoor learning experiences.
Press release ~ Learning and Teaching Scotland - outdoor learning ~ Links to useful organisations ~ Curriculum for Excellence
WAG: The Minister for Business & Budget, Jane Hutt, has launched new guidance on getting maximum value for every pound spent of public money. The public sector in Wales spends approximately £4.3bn annually on goods & services. The Welsh Assembly Government has developed the guidance to ensure that local communities benefit from procurement activity.
Press release ~ WAG: Improving public services ~ Community Benefits: Delivering Maximum Value for the Welsh Pound ~ WAG: Smarter purchasing ~ Adding Value: Showcasing examples of good practice in procurement and delivery
WAG: Patients in Wales are receiving safer & better quality healthcare – thanks to life-saving interventions introduced by the 1,000 Lives Campaign. The 2-year patient safety initiative (which has just ended) has published its latest set of figures. It is estimating that 852 additional lives have been saved in its first 18 months and more than 29,000 episodes of harm have been averted in its first 12 months.
The Campaign has been effective in rolling out best practice across Wales, as seen in the implementation of the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist, which is now being used by operating theatre teams throughout Wales.
The checklist ensures that there is effective communication by those involved in the surgery. It focuses on basic good practice: checking the patient’s identity and the correct part of the body for operation, ensuring all necessary equipment is available and providing an opportunity for discussing any complications that may arise.
Press release ~ NHS Wales ~ 1,000 Lives Campaign ~ World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist
DH: Enhanced recovery is transforming NHS elective & cancer care pathways by using a number of evidence based interventions as a model of care enabling patients to recover sooner following surgery.
The guide - Delivering enhanced recovery: Helping patients to get better sooner after surgery - developed using learning from centres across the UK, provides a starting point to support implementation of enhanced recovery.
The guide - Delivering enhanced recovery: Helping patients to get better sooner after surgery - developed using learning from centres across the UK, provides a starting point to support implementation of enhanced recovery.
