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Practice Development Network for Allied Health Professions Bulletin
Welcome to the Practice Development Network for AHPs Bulletin. We hope you find this useful and would be grateful for your feedback and any suggestions as to future content, please contact ahpadmin.qis@nhs.net for further information.
We are keen to showcase AHP achievements so don't miss this opportunity to tell us about any awards or success stories!
Click here to download the Practice Development Network for AHPs Bulletin - December 2009 issue (PDF, 325KB, 1 min 40 secs)Please note, Nicola Munro's email address is nicola.munro@ggc.scot.nhs.uk and not the sgh address as stated in the Bulletin
The Road to Recovery – One Step at a Time
Ankle-Foot Orthoses Following Acute Stroke – Best Practice Statement
The Best Practice Statement: Use of Ankle-foot Orthoses Following Stroke has been published with effect September 2009. This Best Practice Statement was jointly developed by NHS Quality Improvement and the National Centre for Prosthetics & Orthotics at University of Strathclyde and was compiled following recommendations from the NHS QIS Ankle-Foot Orthoses Following Acute Stroke Scoping Report from 2007
The Road to Recovery Easier to Swallow
Taking a Multidisciplinary Approach to Dysphagia Following Acute Stroke
This report describes the programme of practice development support provided by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland Practice Development Unit (NHS QIS PDU) to nurses and AHPs in the management of the patient with dysphagia. This project followed the recommendations made in The Road to Recovery, Hard to Swallow, Dysphagia Following Acute Stroke Scoping Report.
NHS QIS Response to Aphasia in Scotland
This publication sets out NHS QIS response to Aphasia in Scotland.
This response document, led by Sheena Borthwick, Speech and Language Therapist Clinical Specialist in Stroke, promotes the transfer of knowledge from the Aphasia in Scotland Report and provides actions and advice for future work in aphasia. The document includes a self-assessment tool to facilitate local evaluation of aphasia services based on the findings from the Aphasia in Scotland research.
An Easy Access Version of the NHS QIS Response to Aphasia in Scotland has just been developed for people with aphasia and was published early January 2009.
Hard copies of the Easy Access Version can be obtained by emailing ahpadmin.qis@nhs.net
AHP 'Together We Can' Network Report
Although now out of date, this was the first Allied Health Professions Network Report to emerge from the Practice Development Unit published in April 2006 and gives an overview of how and why the AHP Practice Development Network was established. If you would like a hard copy please contact at ahpadmin.qis@nhs.net with your mailing address.