Critical Care Workstream

  • Chair: Sally Taber, Independent Healthcare Advisory Services

This workstream aims to:

  • co-ordinate the relationship between the independent sector and the critical care networks
  • ensure the Critical Care Transfer Policy is promoted and kept up to date
  • promote a guidance document on Bariatric Surgery
  • participate in the Educational review of Critical Care.

This group co-ordinates the relationship between the independent sector and the critical care networks. It is currently updating the Critical Care Transfer Protocol previously approved by the Intensive Care Society and the Department of Health Stakeholders. It is updating the Bariatric Guidance. The workstream is working on a launch of National Standards for Critical Care Nurse Education.

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National Standards for Critical Care Nurse Education National Standards for Critical Care Nurse Education

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Date added: 19/01/2012
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To ensure equity of care delivery, it makes sense to strive for a critical care nursing workforce that is developed to common standards, so that the quality of that workforce can be assured across geographical boundaries.

This document aims to provide a set of standards and recommendations for post registered nursing critical care education that should be considered and applied to support that vision.

IHAS Critical Care Transfer for Patients Apr 09 IHAS Critical Care Transfer for Patients Apr 09

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Date added: 05/05/2009
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Independent Healthcare providers completing the IHAS Hospital Profile carry out 631,000 procedures each year of these a tiny proportion have unexpected complications that require specialised care including within NHS critical care facilities. The number of cases that need to be transferred to the NHS is less than 0.5% of the total cases.

Guidance on Comprehensive Critical Care for Adults in Independent Sector Acute Hospitals Guidance on Comprehensive Critical Care for Adults in Independent Sector Acute Hospitals

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Date added: 02/09/2002
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This document is intended as guidance to drive good practice and to provide a basis for local policy development within networks, the objective being for providers and commissioners to work together to meet the needs of all critically ill patients and their families and friends in their geographical area (DoH, 2000a).