PEN is devoted to improving patient experience across the healthcare industry, whatever the sector; and including whole organisations, companies, teams and individuals. PEN embraces the NHS, whether it be primary or secondary care, all of the allied partner companies (e.g. staff agencies, outsourced services), private health, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies, home healthcare, or any other services that impact the patient and their experience. PEN focusses on the fact that everyone has the capacity to make a difference whatever their role – receptionists, cleaners, car park attendants, nurses, doctors and other clinicians, pharmacists and management – if you are in the industry you have a part to play in improving Patient Experience.
PEN (The Patient Experience Network) was established in 2010 to recognise, share and celebrate best practice with the over-arching aim of promoting, stimulating and accelerating improvements in patient experience. It does this in a number of ways. The PEN National Awards celebrate the fantastic initiatives in practice which are focussed on improving patient experience. The publication – Patient Experience – Best Practice in Practice contains real life case studies showcasing and sharing a wealth of practical patient experience. PEN works with individuals and organisations to develop and deliver best practice in patient experience through training, consultancy, conferences, best practice days, newletters and a ‘library’ of best practice information.
From now on we will be sharing best practice on a monthly basis via Customer Experience Magazine, providing news, views and information which we hope you will find interesting, useful and stimulating.
Forthcoming Events
Recognising and Responding to the Deteriorating Patient
Implementing the National Early Warning Score (NEWS)
Improving the reliability of patient observations and ensuring quality of care to reduce failure to rescue of acutely ill patients on the wards
Wednesday 3 July 2013 Manchester
This one day conference will focus on recognising and responding to the deteriorating patient including implementing the new National Early Warning Score (NEWS), improving the reliability of patient observations and ensuring quality of care to reduce failure to rescue of acutely ill patients on the wards.For further information and to book your place visit http://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/deteriorating-patient-early-warning-score or contact gemma@healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk
A 20% discount is available to your members by quoting ref: HCUK20DP when booking.
New Report available:
The Health Foundation has published a new learning report, Implementing Shared Decision Making. In the NewsHospital investing in techonology to improve the ‘patient experience‘ Hospital wins top listening award |
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| Infographic: Prioritize the patient experience | Articles | Main This illustration runs the gamut from showing what’s going wrong to what’s right with health care. www.healthcarecommunication.com/…/Infographic_Prioritize… |
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Foundation aims to improve hospital experience of dementia patients with …
Home Care
An initiative designed to improve the hospital experience of dementia patients, their families and carers is to be piloted in an Essex hospital. The Mickey Payne Memorial Foundation and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT …
Radiotherapy service rated highly in survey
Harrogate News
In summer 2012, Professor Sir Mike Richards, National Clinical Director for Cancer, commissioned a survey of radiotherapy patients to understand their experience of radiotherapy services. It was designed to follow up the 2011/12 National Cancer Patient …
Parking and food as crucial to patients as surgeon
Scotsman
He blamed the focus on targets and cost-cutting for the negative effect on the patient experience, which was why levels of satisfaction had dropped at the same time as clinical performance was improving. The BMJ Open study focused on more than 4,700 …
Survey praise for hospital
News Guardian
Annie Laverty, director of patient experience at the trust, said: “We place great emphasis on listening to our patients and pay a lot of attention to stories of care and the experiences people have while they are in hospital with us. “This is so we can …
And finally in case you missed it:
Do doctors need to work on their people skills? – WSJ article suggests they do
‘Good’ Patients, ‘Bad’ Patients
Happiness: The path to better hospital performance
Changes in the Patient-Doctor Relationship!
Please let us know your views and if you have any news you’d like included next month.
Ruth
Ruth Evans
Director
PEN Key Contacts:
Ruth: 07798 606610 or r.evans@patientexperiencenetwork.org
Louise: 07811 386632 or l.blunt@patientexperiencenetwork.org
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