Hospital at Night News

More evidence of Hospital at Night teams improving patient care
Observational study at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for 14 nights before and after implementing H@N found that:

• Patients were reviewed more frequently by senior medical staff
• Significant inter-specialty differences in response times eradicated
• Reduction in adverse patient outcomes from 17% to 6% (Defined as unplanned transfer to critical/cardiac arrest in the 18 medical/surgical wards and the Combined Assessment Unit)

Source: QJ Med 2009; 102:539-546. Authors Dr D.J. Beckett, Dr Gordon et al

Case for Hospital at Night - The Search for Evidence

Skills for Health - Workforce Projects Team's Hospital at Night team have worked in partnership with the NHS Information Centre for Health and Social Care to analyse evidence around patient outcome data. This has been done by comparing pre and post implementation indicators drawn from datasets of NHS trusts who have implemented Hospital at Night, supplied and validated by the NHS Information Centre..
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Making Hospital at Night mainstream and beyond Conference September 19th 2008
Join us at our free national Conference QEII London on September 19th 2009. Pre-registration now taking place. Click here >>>

Survey of the Hospital at Night approach highlights a major uptake across the UK.

The Hospital at Night 2008 UK Implementation Survey is the second major assessment of progress since Hospital at Night (HaN) was introduced in 2004. In 2006 the original survey report for England only found that 48% of NHS trusts had started to or implemented HaN.
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Online forum
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Hospital at Night housekeeper case study
The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch NHS Foundation trust has recently developed a housekeeper role to work with the hospital at night team. Click here >>> for the case study

Royal Liverpool case study
The Hospital at Night concept proposes that the way to achieve effective clinical care is to have one or more multiprofessional teams who between them have the full range of skills and competences to meet patients' immediate needs. Read how the Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen NHS Trust approached implementing Hospital at Night.

Hospital at Night Assessment 2008
Skills for Health - Workforce Projects Team's Hospital at Night team have completed the UK audit of Hospital at Night implementation and a report will be made available in the Publications & Resources section of this portal. To access the survey click here >>>

Hospital at Night Team survey 2007
The Hospital at Night team has produced a publication that highlights the rewards of using the H@N multiprofessional team Click here >>>

Hospital at Night and Ibleep The Links to Safety
Hospital at Night as well as a solution towards the WTD 2009, when used with iBleep, can assist NHS trusts implement the recent NICE guidance relating to management of the Acutely Ill Adult in Hospital. Click here >>>

Benefits Realisation & Business Case
Skills for Health - Workforce Projects Team's Hospital at Night team has produced a publication that highlights the rewards of using an effective Hospital at Night multiprofessional team to provide care during the night. The Benefits Realisation and Business Case, details how implementing Hospital at Night can lead to increases in productivity and can have clinical and financial benefits. Click here >>>

Hospital at Night / NPSA Resource
The Hospital at Night team and National Patient Safety Agency have come together to produce a resource for risk assessing implementation or advancing Hospital at Night. Click here >>>

Hospital at Night goes International
Read about the Hospital at Night going International in Calling Time. Click here >>>

BMA Survey
Hospital doctors think that WTD will have a positive effect on their personal health and safety. Click here to find out more >>>