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A guide to commissioning cardiac surgical services
References and supporting information
Department of Health (2000) Coronary Heart Disease NSF
www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/05/75/25/04057525.pdf
Audit Commission (2003) Review of Operating Theatres
Compressive assessment of NHS operating theatres.
www.audit-commission.gov.uk/nationalstudies/health/other/pages/operatingtheatres.aspx
Department of Health (2003) Discharge from Hospital
Pathway Process and Planning
www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuid
ance/DH_4003252
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (2005) Consent in cardiac
Surgery: a good practice guide to agreeing and recording consent
The issue of consent and communication of risk to patients is outined in this guide.
www.ombudsman.org.uk/pdfs/informed_consent.pdf
NHS Heart Improvement Programme (April 2006). Making Moves
Results of a data audit and review of service improvements in interhospital transfer
arrangements for cardiac patients.
www.heart.nhs.uk/Heart/Portals/0/docs_2006/Making_Moves_April_2006_HIP008.pdf
NHS Heart Improvement Programme (September 2006)
Web-based referral systems for interhospital transfers
This document provides a review and comparison
of systems in English cardiac networks
www.heart.nhs.uk/heart/Portals/0/docs_2007/signposts_IHT.pdf
NHS Heart Improvement Programme (2007) - Signposts to Improving
Cardiac Interhospital Transfers - ‘Get the right response to the right
patient at the right time’
This document focuses on the transport issues and signposts to potential solutions
surrounding the complexity of the booking and transfer of non-elective cardiac
inpatients between hospitals for diagnosis and/or intervention.
This is an interactive pdf document, aimed at commissioners, managers and
clinicians within NHS trusts, primary care trusts, cardiac networks and the
ambulance service and is produced by the Heart Improvement Programme working
in partnership with cardiac networks, ambulance services, ASA and the DH.
www.heart.nhs.uk/heart/Portals/0/docs_2007/signposts_IHT.pdf
NHS Heart Improvement Programme (2007). Getting it Right -
Improving the Consent Process for Cardiac Surgery
A range of materials to support the implementation of the Ombudsman's
recommendations for Consent in Cardiac Surgery: a good practice
guide to agreeing and recording consent.
www.heart.nhs.uk/consent
NHS Heart Improvement Programme (2008)
National Priority Projects 2007/08
Summary documents from the Heart Improvement Programme’s 2007/08 national
priority projects are available to download from: NHS Heart Improvement
Programme - 2007/08 Priority Projects:
• Making Best Use of Inpatient Beds Project;
• 18 Weeks Whole Pathways Project;
• 18 Weeks - Focus on Cardiac Diagnostics Project;
• 18 Weeks - Atrial Fibrillation in Primary Care.
www.improvement.nhs.uk/Publications/tabid/56/Default.aspx
The summaries include descriptions, supporting information and key learning from
the projects. Details of each project site are available in the summary documents,
and are linked to the priority project online.
National Confidential Enquiry Patient Outcome and Death (2008)
Coronary artery bypass grafts: The Heart of the Matter
This NCEPOD report analyses the care of a sample of patients who in the majority
did not survive to leave hospital following their CABG operation. It takes a critical
look at the selection of the surgery and the strategy and the organisational factors
involved in its implementation. The report is available to download from: NCEPOD -
CABG: The Heart of the Matter Report (2008).
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