EIDO Healthcare, who produce patient information leaflets for informed consent, have developed with the Fitness Industry Association (FIA) a new Health Commitment Statement™. This is designed to shift responsibility for personal health from a fitness or leisure facility to the user. The HCS sets out what fitness or leisure facility operators and users can reasonably expect from each other in regards to the health of the user.

With around 25,000 people dying every year as a result of a blood clot, reducing the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) has become a major national priority for the NHS.
EIDO has developed a VTE patient information leaflet to be given to patients as part of their VTE risk assessment. Developed in conjunction with EIDO’s clinical authoring team and the Plain English Campaign, this important new leaflet has only strengthened EIDO’s reputation as the UK de-facto standard for quality patient information.

EIDO Healthcare enjoyed another outstanding exhibition at ASGBI 2010, with many member surgeons taking up the offer of personalised EIDO leaflets for use in their private practices.  Significant interest came not only from UK surgeons, but also as far overseas as India, France and Kuwait.
The main star of the exhibition, however, was EIDO’s giant Operation game, which proved a hit with both consultants and trainees alike.  After three days of frenzied competition, trainee Caroline Bagley was crowned ‘the fastest surgeon in the West’, and will shortly receive a Nintendo Wii and Wii-Fit.
EIDO looks forward to ASGBI 2011 in Bournemouth!

EIDO has added 3 new leaflets to its Translation Service…

The EIDO team were pleased to meet former Health Minister Lord Darzi at the 2010 Arab Health Conference.  Lord Darzi, who has pioneered many surgical technologies and techniques, was keen to discuss some of the challenges facing the NHS, including the issue of valid patient consent.  He showed a particular interest in EIDO’s informed consent patient information leaflets, and recommended that it ‘keeps up the good work’.  This is certainly what EIDO intend to do, with now almost 300 leaflets in its patient information library, INFOrm4U.

Here at EIDO we are always keen to get into the festive spirit now that Christmas is just around the corner!  So we are pleased to announce that we are now offering 30% and 50% discounts on our newly-accredited be INFOrMED training resource.  Please contact us for further details.

EIDO Healthcare is delighted to announce that its online medico-legal training resource, be INFOrMED, is now accredited with 12 CPD (Continuing Professional Development) points.  These are awarded by the ASGBI (Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland) upon successful completion of be INFOrMED.  Updated annually to reflect the latest medico-legal circumstances and interspersed with real case scenarios and self-test questions, be INFOrMED is proving itself to be an invaluable resource for all levels of clinical staff at nearly 50 NHS Trusts.

EIDO customers can now access condition information from the Download Centre…

Informed consent patient information leaflets are now available in 6 foreign languages.
One of the most frequently asked questions is “Are the documents available in other languages?”
Although we have always offered a service to translate leaflets on an on-demand basis, we’re pleased to announce the launch of our Translation Service, a ready-to-go library of the most frequently used leaflets translated into six foreign languages. These foreign-language leaflets are also updated annually and come with a professional indemnity guarantee.
The EIDO Translation Service initially includes 20 leaflets translated into Mandarin, Polish, Turkish, Bengali, Portuguese and Arabic.
As you would expect, the documents are updated [...]