The following links relate to policy documents around 7 day services. These documents will be added to over time. If you have a document that you believe should be listed here please let us know by emailing:

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7 Day NHS Services Factsheet

  • External Document Link

Tagged with NHS Improving Quality

Acute care toolkit 1: Handover

Handover is the system by which the responsibility for immediate and ongoing care is transferred between healthcare professionals. Patients expect, and should have, a designated consultant and nurse to coordinate the multidisciplinary team. However, at times (eg night, weekends or during an emergency admission) the responsibility for care must pass from one team, or consultant, to another.

Tagged with Best Practices | Royal College of Physicians

Acute care toolkit 2: High-quality acute care

Tagged with Best Practices | Royal College of Physicians

Acute care toolkit 3: Acute medical care for frail older people

Tagged with Best Practices | Royal College of Physicians

Acute care toolkit 4

Delivering a 12-hour, 7-day consultant presence on the acute medical unit

Tagged with Best Practices | Society for Acute Medicine

AoMRC: Junior doctors, the Academy’s position

Tagged with AoMRC | Position Papers | Statement

AoMRC: Seven day consultant delivered care

Tagged with AoMRC | Statement

BMA Position Paper Seven Day Services

Tagged with BMA | Position Papers

Caring to the End?

A review of the care of patients who died in hospital within four days of admission

Tagged with Audits | NCEPOD

Challenges and improvements in diagnostic services across seven days

Tagged with NHS Improving Quality

Designing safer rotas

Tagged with Imp Guidance | NHS Improving Quality

Directive 2003/88/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council

Tagged with Legislation | NHS Improving Quality

DoH monitoring guidance

DoH monitoring guidance

Tagged with NHS Improving Quality | Position Papers

Equality for all: Delivering safe care – seven days a week

Tagged with Case Studies | NHS Improving Quality

EWTD Position Paper

Tagged with NHS Improving Quality | Position Papers

Implementing 7 Day working in Imaging Departments: Good Practice Guidance

Tagged with Best Practices | Department of Health

Knowing the Risk

A review of the peri-operative care of surgical patients

Tagged with Audits | NCEPOD

Learning how to achieve a seven day turnaround time in histopathology

Tagged with NHS Improving Quality

NHS Commissioning Board, Everyone counts: Planning for patients 2013/14

Tagged with NHS Improving Quality

NHS England Board Paper: NHS Services, Seven days a week

Tagged with Board paper | NHS England

NHS England, NHS Services, seven days a week forum. Evidence base and clinical standards for the care and onward transfer of acute inpatients.

  • External Document Link

Tagged with NHS Improving Quality

NHS Services, Seven days a week forum; Clinical standards

Tagged with Imp Guidance | NHS England | NHS Improving Quality

NHS Services, Seven days a week forum; Costing seven day services

Tagged with Imp Guidance | NHS England | NHS Improving Quality

NHS Services, Seven days a week forum; Levers and incentives

Tagged with Imp Guidance | NHS England | NHS Improving Quality

NHS Services, Seven days a week forum; Summary Report

Tagged with NHS Improving Quality

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Written on Thursday, 18 June 2020

HiSLAC PI Prof Julian Bion features in this month’s @TheDrMagazine in his role as Freedom to Speak up Guardian… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Written on Thursday, 09 January 2020

“The search for the cause of the #weekendeffect clearly needs to include community services…it is the whole patie… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Written on Thursday, 02 January 2020

Read HiSLAC PI, Prof Julian Bion’s editorial, “Weekend effect: complex metric for a complex pathway”… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Written on Tuesday, 24 December 2019

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