Improving Primary Care Assessment of Children under Five Presenting with Fever

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This project aimed to review and improve primary care assessment and management of pyrexia in children under five with the introduction of a succinct and simple electronic template that prompts recording of vital signs as recommended by NICE.

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“There’s No Place Like Home”: Reducing Paediatric Discharge Steps

It is widely acknowledged that the traditional system of using the hospital dispensary for completion of a patient’s discharge prescription is a “time consuming and inefficient process”. In Antrim Area Hospital, the majority of discharge prescriptions are completed at ward level. Ward level dispensing has helped to expedite the discharge process thus making beds available […]
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A Haven for Fatigue: Standardising First Outpatient Visit Experience for Young People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

An improvement project with an aim that all patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) who attend for their first clinic visit to the service will have a standardised approach to the interventions offered to them by August 2020. Change ideas included a new user friendly patient assessment form used as a template on the e-record system, […]
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A Moment For Change – Addressing Parental Smoking in the Paediatric Emergency Department

Everyday in A+E, children are attending with serious and life threatening breathing problems which we know are adversely affected by third-hand smoking within the home. The project aimed to have smoking status asked and documented in all respiratory cases presenting through A+E and for smoking cessation advice to be given to every case where a […]
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Improving Primary Care Assessment of Children under Five Presenting with Fever

Poster Description

More posters like this

“There’s No Place Like Home”: Reducing Paediatric Discharge Steps

A Haven for Fatigue: Standardising First Outpatient Visit Experience for Young People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

A Moment For Change – Addressing Parental Smoking in the Paediatric Emergency Department