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- Quality requirement 1: A person-centred service
- Quality requirement 2: Early recognition, prompt diagnosis and treatment
- Quality requirement 3: Emergency and acute management
- Quality requirement 4: Early and specialist rehabilitation
- Quality requirement 5: Community rehabilitation and support
- Quality requirement 6: Vocational rehabilitation
- Quality requirement 7: Providing equipment & accommodation
- Quality requirement 8: Personal care and support
- Quality requirement 9: Palliative care
- Quality requirement 10: Supporting families and carers
- Quality requirement 11: Caring for people with neurological conditions during admission
- Chapter 3 of the NSF: Neuroscience networks
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The Eastern Head Injury Group Study, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
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Last modified date:8 February 2007
The Eastern Head Injury Group Study (EHIS) is a multi-organisational, multi-specialty study covering the 6 million population of the Eastern Region with 3 SHAs, 6 counties, 20 acute hospitals providing A&E services, and 2 Neurosurgery Units. It has existed since 2000 and its aims are:
- To assess the organisation and clinical management of HI and facilitate strategic planning, including rehabilitation, across the East of England.
- To determine current provision & pattern of care for all HI patients
- To look at current resource use, gaps and deficiencies at various stages of care and rehabilitation and determine the likely pattern of future resource use
- To collaboratively develop planning tools which complement national initiatives such as the NICE guidelines and the NSF, to assist in planning and development of optimum HI services and management both locally, regionally and nationally.
Resources that the Group are willing to share include:
- Head Injury standards for Acute Hospitals, collaboratively developed using a participative action research approach, and piloted regionwide. (The standards complement the NICE guidelines for the early management of head injuries, the NSF for Long-term Conditions and the standards for Neurosurgery currently being developed by the SBNS.)
- a set of rehabilitation codes which map patient pathways through the rehabilitation stages, developed using the same method and being piloted in a number of organisations in the Eastern Region and nationally.
- HI Co-ordination template
These resources, references and selected papers are available on a website.
Contact:
Helen M Seeley, Clinical Auditor and Researcher & EHIS Co-ordinator, Academic Neurosurgery, Box 167, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QQ
Tel. 01223 216146, Fax 01223 414369, email:
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