Professional Affairs
This page has been written to advise Physiologists about what is happening within the profession at the cutting edge. It contains information and downloads relating to the MSC (modernising scientific careers) plans, departmental development and other news which modern Physiologists may have an interest in.
Joint National Audit Project
Following the first Joint National Audit Project (held in London, 11 October 2012), ANS are pleased to provide slides from the presentations.
If you prefer you can download everything at once in the following zip file. You will need to have a decompression program on your computer to unzip the following package. This package is over 12 MB in size so please consider downloading using a broadband connection or when you have plenty of time.
Children and Young People's Health Forum
This is important information for those professionals who work with young people. Please download and review this document to offer some assistance in improving your own department.
M-Level Register
The M-Level Register is now open. Application forms and guidance to apply for CSci (and the RCCP M-Level register) is available on the RCCP website now.
- www.clinphys.force9.co.uk
- A Mark of Achievement in Science
- Kelly St Pier's interview on CSci website
For application enquires please contact Kelly St Pier on 020 7405 9200 ext 1466. She can be emailed on kelly DOT stpier AT gosh DOT nhs DOT uk
Transforming the Patient Experience
Excerpts of a Communication from Sam Hudson (Head of Experience and Engagement, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement)
A complete guide to improving patient experience – one click away!
A package of patient experience research and on-line support is being launched today to support NHS services to improve patient experience:
- Transforming Patient Experience: the essential guide
- What Matters To Patients? Developing the Evidence Base for Measuring and Improving Patient Experience
Transforming Patient Experience: the essential guide provides you and your organisation with a resource to enable better understanding and optimal use of patient and staff experiences to improve services. It is suitable for anyone with designated responsibility for improving patient experience – either as a provider of services or as a commissioner.
It contains practical guidance and covers the crucial aspects of:
- The importance of organisational culture
- Making the case for a patient experience improvements
- Helping leaders and staff to improve patient experience
- How to organise a patient experience programme
- Commissioning for a positive patient experience
Kind regards,
Sam Hudson
Head of Experience and Engagement
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
IQIPS
Improving Quality in Physiological diagnostic Services sees the Royal College of Physicians encouraging individual Trusts to look at their own practices and with some detailed tools can look at how to improve these services.
More details can be found on the IQIPS website. The latest newsletters are provided here for download.
Modernising Scientific Careers (MSC)
ANS are working hard on behalf of professional Physiologists throughout the United Kingdom in order to ensure government changes to the training and education program
does not compromise the academic and skills training required for this highly specialised career.
For the interest of our members we have developed this dedicated page to highlight the huge amount of work ANS are investing for the benefit of neurophysiology in the UK.
March 2011 - Workforce Profiling Tool
Please be advised that the 'zipped' workforce profiling tools are available to download (they are too big to email).
These email addresses are now 'live'. Interested parties are requested to send a note requesting the particular tool to the appropriate email address.
The message will then be validated that the requestor is authorised
(i.e. has an 'nhs' address 'of sorts', and if so, send them a link to the tool's location and a password to decrypt the files).
August 2010: Official Response
In keeping with the representation ANS make at DoH and government level, it was felt necessary to prepare a statement relating to the proposed MSC (modernising scientific careers) plans.
This should make important reading for all department managers.
It is likely to be of interest to anyone associated with training and developing Physiologists and
those who are involved with succession planning at departmental or patch level.
Joanne Horrocks (Hon Chair)
November 2009: Open Letter from Professional Affairs
Peter Bill (Professional Affairs)