ANNUAL REVIEW master Final3a - St Vincent's University Hospital
ANNUAL REVIEW master Final3a - St Vincent's University Hospital
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<strong>St</strong>. Vincent’s Healthcare Group Limited - Annual Review 2007<br />
Allied Health Professionals - Department of Preventive Medicine and Health Promotion<br />
• Cardiac Rehabilitation<br />
This department’s involvement in cardiac rehabilitation continues. The monthly cardiac lifestyle information<br />
session is open to patients and the general public.<br />
Smoking Advice Service<br />
This service continued to be delivered to in-patients, outpatients and staff who were interested in stopping<br />
smoking. The increase in reviews seen in 2007 reflects the need to regularly reassess patients’ nicotine<br />
requirements for efficacy while in hospital. In July 2007, a pilot workshop was held for CNMs and Senior <strong>St</strong>aff<br />
Nurses to explore ways of dealing with patients and relatives who smoke in a smoke free campus<br />
environment. SVUH was awarded the European & National Network for Smoke Free <strong>Hospital</strong>s Silver award<br />
and the Tom Hurst Award from the International Network for Smoke Free <strong>Hospital</strong>s in recognition of its<br />
smoking cessation programmes.<br />
Smoking Advice Service Activity 2005 - 2007<br />
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268 450 392 572 570 587 1699 1634 2189<br />
2005 2006 2007 2005 2006 2007 2005 2006 2007<br />
Group Attendance Initial Interventions Reviews<br />
Culinary programme for overweight cardiac patients: a randomised controlled trial.<br />
This programme is run by this department and is a co-operative initiative with the National Nutrition<br />
Surveillance Centre, UCD, Community Dietetic Services of the HSE, Dublin Mid-Leinster Bray and the<br />
Cardiac Rehabilitation Coordinator, SVUH. It is partially funded by a Noel Hickey Bursary which was awarded<br />
by the Irish Heart Foundation (IHF).<br />
Overweight and obese patients were invited into the study from a census of all cardiac patients who<br />
completed the rehabilitation programme in 2006/07 (n =172). To date 62% have agreed to participate. Half<br />
of these people have been systematically randomised into a cookery skills course, with an 80% participation<br />
rate. The first of three courses in this pilot phase of the study took place in autumn 2007.<br />
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