Health development consultant & specialist

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Health Development Consultant

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	I am a health development consultant with extensive experience of working in the NHS. Previous experience also includes work with WHO (World Health Organisation), local authorities, private businesses and the private healthcare sector.
	My expertise lies in the facilitation, development and management of projects, in service reviews and standards development.
	I am currently an Associate of the Health Quality Service (now known as CHKS).

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Health at work in primary care. This unique self-assessment tool is designed to help general practice. It contains all the essential elements needed in a simple, easy to use audit format, with coloured sections, and action planning pages. The tool is presented in a ring binder, with five sections : Lifestyle, Environment, ,Management and Personnel. The tool has been produced by general practice, promotion, in Southampton and South West Hampshire Health Authority area. It has been piloted, evaluated and refined. This tool could also be used to help small and medium sized businesses improve their workplace activities. It could also be used by small and medium sized business to assist with workplace activity.     Care Homes. The project’s aims This project was set up to help promotion quality standards for Care Homes that address a total organisational approach to quality. By teasing out the key standards applicable for care homes, the process undertaken by the homes helps to raise all standards, and thus the overall quality of care provided by the homes. Further enhancement of quality is also achieved by the sharing of ‘good practice’. The standards developed focus on: The maintenance of good practice, The promotion of well being, for staff, clients and visitors to the care home, The demonstration of partnerships developed in the community. The tool developed is based on the Promoting Hospitals / Trusts ‘Self assessment and peer review toolkit’ in the South and West NHS Region. The project group agreed to adopt the broad themes and process already developed for this tool, as they felt that it was also applicable to care homes. There are six sections : Management Issues, Customer Care, Workplaces , Hotel Services and Environmental Issues, Community and Alliances, Clinical Audit and Effectiveness. In each of the sections there are criteria and attached guidelines for a basic and advanced level of achievement. There is also a scoring system for three levels of accreditation. Promoting Hospitals and trusts.