The first wave of 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...

Analysis of sickness absence among employees of four NHS trusts.

OBJECTIVES To determine the value of using routinely collected sickness absence data as part of a health needs assessment of healthcare workers. METHOD Sickness absence records of almost 12900 NHS staff for one calendar year were analysed. Three measures of absence, the absence rate, the absence frequency rate, and the mean duration of absence, were assessed for the population and comparisons...

Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust