'Ways Forward' New Ways Event

'Ways Forward' New Ways Event will take place on Wednesday 19 March at the Beardmore Conference Centre in Clydebank.

This will be an event of two halves. The morning session will look at what has been achieved so far, progress made, lessons learned and the 'ways forward', in the afternoon the topic is diagnostics - the application of New Ways principles to radiology waiting times , and short diagnostic waits.

You can sign up for morning or afternoon or both. To see the full programme and to register for the event go to http://conventions.nss.scot.nhs.uk/index.php.

New Ways Short Life Working Group

Some of you will already be aware that the Scottish Government Health Directorate (SGHD) has very recently established a short life working group to support and oversee the work required across Scotland to provide good quality New Ways data to the national warehouse data.  The group has been set up as a result of discussions at the February Chief Executives meeting where Kevin Woods asked that each NHS Board works along with ISD to ensure that all necessary action is taken locally to enable New Ways data submission to be achieved. The group is chaired by John Connaghan of the SGHD and has representation from NHS Boards, NHS National Services Scotland, ISD and SGHD.

Frequently Asked Questions

A couple of new FAQ's have just been added on the subject of Transfers:

• We transfer patients between hospitals within our NHS Board area on a daily basis, how should this be recorded under New Ways?
• Why does information on transfers from our hospitals require to be collected?

These (and many other) FAQ's are available on the New Ways website at: http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4544.html.

Patient Communications

If you wish to place an order for patient information - posters and leaflets - large print, Braille and soon A4 you can e-mail your request to newways@isd.csa.scot.nhs.uk. Apologies for the delay to those who have been awaiting translated leaflets - we hope to get these organised very soon.