NHS foundation trusts

Meeting the needs of patients: Improving strategic planning in NHS foundation trusts

Do clinicians receive adequate training to identify trafficked persons? A scoping review of NHS Foundation Trusts

OBJECTIVE We investigate whether physicians in secondary care in the English NHS receive adequate training to recognise and appropriately refer for services those persons suspected to be victims of human trafficking. DESIGN Freedom of Information requests were sent to the 105 England's NHS Trusts delivering acute care in England. SETTING NHS Trusts providing secondary care in England. PAR...

Advance directives: questionnaire survey of NHS trusts.

An advance directive gives patients the legal right to give or withhold consent to specific medical treatments prospectively. This provides them with some reassurance about the dying process being managed in accordance with their wishes. Apprehension could be further allayed if it were known that the legal status of advance directives was consistently applied across the NHS. Guidance on advance...

Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

How well do NHS trusts react to patient safety alerts?

The study, first published in 2007, used several methods to study the nature of patient safety alerts, find out how trusts received and implemented them, assessed their impact and recommended improvements. Methods included surveys and interviews of staff at different levels from 41 NHS organizations and an in-depth study of 11 alerts.