EIDO

Reducing the risk of venous thromboembolism

phil — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:44:42 +0000

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.

From 1st June, no less than 90% of hospital patients will be required to be risk-assessed. Patients have to be given written information about:

why they are being assessed;
the risk factors that contribute to VTE;
the treatments available to reduce the risk of VTE (with relevant complications);
the importance of following the recommended treatment; and
the signs that indicate VTE

In response to these requirements, 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.

If you would like to know more, please call 0115 878 1000, or email vte@eidohealthcare.com.

ASGBI 2010 a Success for EIDO

phil — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:52:26 +0000

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 Translation Service Growing…

phil — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:02:13 +0000

EIDO is pleased to announce the addition of 3 more patient information leaflets to its Translation Service:

Diagnostic Laparoscopy;
Termination of Pregnancy; and
Paraumbilical and Umbilical Hernia Repair.

This brings the total number of translations to 90 (15 leaflets in 6 languages). If you are an existing user of the service, these new translations will be automatically added to your library.

If your hospital or trust does not currently use EIDO’s foreign language leaflets and would like to, please call 0115 878 1000 for more information.

EIDO Meets Lord Darzi

phil — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:08:34 +0000

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.

Christmas presents from EIDO

phil — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:21:24 +0000

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.

CPD Points from EIDO Healthcare

phil — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:59:37 +0000

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’s Health Commitment Statement™ (HCS) Helps Bridge Healthcare & Exercise Gap

ben — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:35:38 +0000

Over 15 years ago the fitness industry adopted the PAR-Q (Pre Activity Readiness Questionnaire) which was developed to help fitness or leisure facility operators assess if it was safe for a person to embark on a new exercise or fitness programme. Over the years, the PAR-Q became a barrier to exercise, with over 5% of new exercisers being turned away for often inappropriate reasons.

The Health Commitment Statement™ (or HCS) developed by EIDO reflects government health policy and legal trends, which aim 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.

“The health and wellbeing world has changed enormously since PAR-Q’s were first developed in Canada, over 15 years ago” said David Stalker, FIA’s COO, at the launch of the new HCS. “We believe that the HCS will help underpin the Department of Health’s physical activity engagement strategy, save PCTs and GPs millions in prescription charges, remove a frequent barrier to exercise for consumers and help get more people, more active, more often. This long overdue initiative could well prove one of the major milestones in our evolution from health and fitness operators to public health delivery partner.”

Commenting for EIDO Healthcare, Owain Tudor, Director of Product Development said “Our remit was to update the health and fitness industry on Department of Health Guidelines, legislation and case law, while promoting a joint commitment from the industry and its customers to improving health through exercise. The 24-month development process included consultation with industry operators and health & safety experts prior to approval by the FIA’s Technical Health and Safety Group and the Code of Practice Working Group.”

For more information on how the HCS™ can benefit your gym and your gym users, please contact the FIA on 020 7420 8560 or visit their website http://www.fia.org.uk.

Condition information for patients now available

phil — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:58:40 +0000

EIDO Healthcare is committed to producing the very best patient information for informed consent. Until now, this information has been procedure-specific, but EIDO is now pleased to announce the arrival of condition information on its Download Centre.

Customers logging onto the EIDO Download Centre can now select the tab ‘Conditions’, and browse a selection of condition-related patient information leaflets. EIDO has been working closely with external charities and organisations such as the Meningitis Research Foundation, Scope and The Stroke Association in order to make this information available, and hopes to add more in the near future.

Watch this space…

EIDO Translation Service goes live

matt — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:29:18 +0000

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 annually; the Service will continue to grow with new procedures and new languages being added subject to demand.