Workshop on Improving Handover in Emergency Care
Invitation for Participation
Monday July 16th 2012, 10:00 – 16:00
The College of Emergency Medicine, 7-9 Bream’s Buildings, Chancery Lane, London EC4A 1DT
Warwick Medical School are pleased to invite you to participate in a workshop on improving handover in Emergency Care, funded as part of a National Institute for Health Research project. The workshop aims to provide a platform for practitioners with an interest in handover and researchers to share experiences and ideas for improving the quality of handover in Emergency Care and reducing the risk to patients.
The workshop will include a presentation on organisational barriers to high-quality handover by Prof Matthew Cooke, National Clinical Director for Urgent and Emergency Care. There will be a number of break-out sessions dedicated to the identification and discussion of promising interventions to which participants are encouraged to contribute actively and freely. A University of Warwick certificate of attendance can be issued for your portfolios.
Please confirm your participation by email to Sallyann Edwards (sallyann.edwards@warwick.ac.uk) before June 29th. The workshop is free of charge, and lunch will be provided. For further information please contact Prof Cooke (m.w.cooke@warwick.ac.uk).
Programme
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Coffee |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Welcome & introduction to the day  (Dr Matthew Inada-Kim, Hampshire Hospitals) |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Overview of the NIHR Emergency Care Handover (ECHO) Study (Dr Mark Sujan, Warwick Medical School) |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | National policy, local practice - vulnerabilities in inter-departmental and inter-organisational handover (Prof Matthew Cooke, Warwick Medical School) |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Coffee |
| 11:30 - 12:10 | 11:30 - 11:50 Improvement experiences: Electronic PRF
11:50 - 12:10 Improvement experiences: Referral from A&E |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Plenary discussion on risk areas for group work (Dr Matthew Inada-Kim) |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:30 | 13:30 - 14:00 Group work: Discussion of risk themes
14:00 - 14:30 Group work: Group shuffle and continuation of discussion |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Coffee |
| 14:50 - 15:20 | Feedback from groups & discussion |
| 15:20 - 16:00 | Plenary discussion: Themes & directions (Dr Matthew Inada-Kim & Prof Matthew Cooke) |
| 16:00 | Close |
| This project was funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research (NIHR HS&DR) programme (project number 10/1007/26). Visit the HS&DR website for more information. The views and opinions expressed therein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the HS&DR programme, NIHR, NHS or the Department of Health. |
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