Welcome to the National Outreach Forum (NOrF)

Welcome to the National Outreach Forum official website. The National Outreach Forum is a multi-professional interest group which seeks to promote excellence in the care of acutely unwell patients.

Outreach News

The National Outreach Forum was represented by John Welch at the recent 6th International Symposium on Rapid Response Systems (May 2010, Pittsburgh). The conference presentations are available online following this link Rapid Response Systems 2010

Currently recruiting to SPOT(light)
SPOT(light): A Wellcome Trust & ICNARC supported multi-centre, prospective observational study to measure how timing of critical care affects outcome. Further information available at http://spotlightstudy.org/

NCEPOD Peri-operative care study: critical care nurses required for advisory group

NCEPOD is examining the peri-operative care of inpatients who underwent surgery in a given time period, looking for remediable factors. The closing date for applications for clinical advisors was on 5 March 2010 but more critical care nurses are required. The role entails reviewing patients’ casenote extracts and providing expert opinion on the patients’ care.

Advisors are welcome throughout the UK (except Scotland) and need to be in current clinical practice.

There is a training day on 8 July 2010 (alternative date is 21 July) followed by approximately 6 meetings over an 8 month period starting in August 2010. Meetings are held in central London, on Mondays and Thursdays from 10am-4pm. NCEPOD will reimburse applicants for their travel expenses.

If you are interested in applying, kindly email your (preferably abridged) CV together with the names of 2 referees to periopcare@ncepod.org.uk

Thank you to all of you that fill the 3-Minutes Questionnaire. Please continue to support these informal opinion polls. Results are available following 3-Minute Questionnaire link.

The NOrF website is still under construction and there have been some delays with the members page.We apologise for the inconvenience and we hope that very soon the Critical Care Outreach community will be able to use the NOrF website as a platform to share ideas and good practices.

Upcoming events

10 years of Critical Outreach: Are we meeting ward acuity?

27 Sep 2010 • Southampton General Hospital

"The Leeds Critical Care Outreach Update” “Hot Topics for Outreach Nurses”

27 Sep 2010 09:00 AM • Thackray Museum, Leeds

10 Years of Critical Care Outreach: Looking Back and Moving Forward

24 Nov 2010 • The Medical Institute, Archimedes Centre North East Wales NHS Trust, Wrexham N.Wales

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	The National Outreach Forum was represented by John Welch at the recent 6th International Symposium on Rapid Response Systems (May 2010, Pittsburgh). The conference presentations are available online following this link Rapid Response Systems 2010
	Currently recruiting to SPOT(light) SPOT(light): A Wellcome Trust & ICNARC supported multi-centre, prospective observational study to measure how timing of critical care affects outcome. Further information available at http://spotlightstudy.org/
	NCEPOD Peri-operative care study: critical care nurses required for advisory group NCEPOD is examining the peri-operative care of inpatients who underwent surgery in a given time period, looking for remediable factors. The closing date for applications for clinical advisors was on 5 March 2010 but more critical care nurses are required. The role entails reviewing patients’ casenote extracts and providing expert opinion on the patients’ care. Advisors are welcome throughout the UK (except Scotland) and need to be in current clinical practice. There is a training day on 8 July 2010 (alternative date is 21 July) followed by approximately 6 meetings over an 8 month period starting in August 2010. Meetings are held in central London, on Mondays and Thursdays from 10am-4pm. NCEPOD will reimburse applicants for their travel expenses. If you are interested in applying, kindly email your (preferably abridged) CV together with the names of 2 referees to periopcare@ncepod.org.uk
	Thank you to all of you that fill the 3-Minutes Questionnaire. Please continue to support these informal opinion polls. Results are available following 3-Minute Questionnaire link.
	The NOrF website is still under construction and there have been some delays with the members page.We apologise for the inconvenience and we hope that very soon the Critical Care Outreach community will be able to use the NOrF website as a platform to share ideas and good practices.