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Staff Training
Innovations in Staff Training
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On-call carotid duplex service
Delivering a carotid duplex service within 24 hours of TIA or CVA symptoms.
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Care Quality Commission Registration
IVS achieves CQC registration at all sites
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Vascular Laboratory Accreditation Pilot
IVS undertakes successful pilot accreditation
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Spontaneous Cerebral Emboli
There is increasing interest in the possiblity that dementia maybe caused by multiple small emboli entering the blood flow to the brain.
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Exciting Career Opportunity
Due to continued expansion IVS will shortly be recruiting graduates for our trainee vascular scientist post. Any interested applicates should continue to look at the web-site for publication of closing dates.
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Cutting Coventry waiting times
Six weeks from initial contact to contract completion, with over 400 investigations performed and reported.
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New Primary Care Diagnostic Service
IVS in partnership with Oldham Primary Care Trust (PCT) successfully introduces a Deep Vein Thrombosis service.
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 Vascular Laboratory Accreditation Pilot
The Society of Vascular Technology of Great Britain and Ireland, (SVT) has been accrediting Clinical Vascular Scientists for the last 20years. Sponsored by the Department of Health, and with the guidance of the Chief Scientific Officer, the SVT has started the process of Vascular Laboratory Accreditation using the Improving Quality In Physiological diagnostic Services (IQIPS) programme. The aim of IQIPS is promote and recognise good quality practice in physiological diagnostic services.

IQIPS will be used by services to assess accurately their level of performance in relation to established standards and to strive to continually improve the service delivered.

While accreditation will not be mandatory it will set a badge of quality. This programme will raise the profile of physiological diagnostic services across organisations, with commissioners and patients.

It will validate and recognise success as well as seek to drive up quality ‐ aspiring towards excellence. The programme will also promote sharing of good practice and cooperation across physiological diagnostic services.

Invited as one of twelve sites across the UK, IVS successfully completed the pilot project in vascular science in Spring 2011 which involved extensive assessment of numerous standards covering four domains:

• Patient Experience
• Facilities, Resource and Workforce
• Safety
• Clinical

IQIPS pilot programmes in neurophysiology and gastro‐intestinal physiology are on-going with audiology not far behind. Urodynamics, respiratory and sleep physiology and cardiac physiology are on track to start their pilots later in the year. Ophthalmic and vision science is expected to pilot in 2012.
IQIPS and Vascular Laboratory Accreditation will hopefully go live in 2013.

IVS aspires to be at the forefront of that process. We aim to achieve accreditation of all IVS sites as part of our commitment to delivery of high quality non-invasive vascular services.


Article published: 04/11/2011
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