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NHS Live is the NHS Institute's free, national learning network which aims to stimulate innovation from the NHS frontline, to encourage innovative partnerships and networks, and to create mechanisms for the diffusion and adoption of innovation.

The NHS Live community has a membership of 11,000 frontline enthusiasts, innovators and improvers from across the NHS. 

NHS Live Award finalists host event

Enhancing roles, improving quality and efficiency: Non-medically led cardiac stress - best practice in action - 10 March 2010

A nuclear medicine team from University Hospitals of Leicester devised a training programme to enable non-medical staff to stress patients for myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS).  The approach led to waiting times being reduced from 42 to 2 weeks and the team was a finalist in the 2009 Health and Social Care Awards. This free interactive event will use this example to explore how extending the role of non-medical professionals can enhance patient care and make services more efficient.

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