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Good Practice Guide and examples
- 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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Quality requirement 3: Emergency and acute management
People needing hospital admission for a neurosurgical or neurological emergency are to be assessed and treated in a timely manner by teams with the appropriate neurological and resuscitation skills and facilities.
The Eastern Head Injury Group Study, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
The Eastern Head Injury Group Study (EHIS) was set up in 2000 to assess the current provision of HI services in the Eastern Region, and to facilitate strategic planning and development of high quality acute and rehabilitation services in line with national guidance. They have developed a number of useful resources including Head Injury Standards for Acute Hospitals, a set of rehabilitation codes which map patient pathways through the rehabilitation stages, and a template for HI coordination.
North East Acute Head Injury Initiative
In the A&E Department at North Tyneside and Northumbria NHS Trust, implementing the NICE Head Injury Guidelines has virtually eliminated the use of skull x-rays in patients presenting with head injuries. Use of CT scans has greatly increased.
North Hampshire - improving the communication service for people with acquired brain injury
See pages 30-31 and 50 of the Action on Neurology report for information on this example of a care pathway for people admitted to A&E with acquired brain injury.
Princess Royal Spinal Injuries Unit, Sheffield
The Unit has developed an accredited Specialist Awareness and Clinical Skills Development course to educate key workers for spinal cord injury (SCI).
Further reading
The NHS Modernisation Agency has produced The Neuroscience Critical Care Report, which includes examples of good practice in the field of emergency care.
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Overview of the examples
How the examples were chosen and evaluated, and how to submit an example.
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