Barts Health’s ‘Safe and Compassionate’ plan recognises the enormous value of staff contributing to improvements in their services. This is underpinned by Listening into Action, and supported by training for staff in Quality Improvement.
We started by providing a three day course ‘Introduction to Quality Improvement’, initially assisted by the AQuA academy. This includes both a toolkit based around the Model for Improvement including good measurement techniques, sustainability and spread, and some supporting theoretical concepts including the role of human factors in error, stakeholder and team engagement and resilience.
Those attending include members of teams who are actively involved in delivering an improvement and prospective improvement champions.
Read Chris Hall's latest blog, a reflection on the national guardian role and its impact on local guardians.
This is the fourth part in a series of blogs from Chris Hall, freedom to speak up guardian at Hounslow and Richmond Community NHS Trust, in which he shares his experiences as a guardian and the difference his role is making to staff and the organisation's culture around raising concerns.
Providers should continue to ensure that they provide communication to families of people who have died using their services and those affected by serious incidents. By Laura Paton. Please contact the library to receive a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
The report makes recommendations about establishing the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) as well as how to improve investigation, and learning from investigation, across the health system.
The independent Expert Advisory Group (EAG) report, advising the Secretary of State for Health on the creation of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB), makes the case that there is room for improvement for investigation capability throughout the NHS.
The EAG’s advice is that HSIB should be an exemplar for the whole health system on how to undertake learning-oriented safety investigations, helping those in the system improve rather than taking on the majority of investigations itself.
This guidance is intended to provide support to local commissioners and providers in implementing the access and waiting time standard for early intervention in psychosis (EIP) services.
It has been coproduced by a wide range of experts, including people with lived experience of services, to set out what works and provide a blueprint for localities to follow. It is not intended to direct but to support, by demonstrating the evidence and setting out clearly how progress will be measured.
Clinical summaries are electronic health record (EHR)-generated documents given to hospitalised patients during the discharge process to review their hospital stays and inform postdischarge care. Presently, it is unclear whether clinical summaries include relevant content or whether healthcare organisations configure their EHRs to generate content in a way that promotes patient self-management after hospital discharge. We assessed clinical summaries in three relevant domains: (1) content; (2) organisation; and (3) readability, understandability and actionability. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Minister of State for Community and Social Care, Alistair Burt, responded to an Urgent Question asked by Shadow Minister for Mental Health, Luciana Berger, in the House of Commons on the safety of care and services provided by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust on Tuesday 3 May 2016.
Open access. Since its publication in 2008, SQUIRE (Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence) has contributed to the completeness and transparency of reporting of quality improvement work, providing guidance to authors and reviewers of reports on healthcare improvement work. In the interim, enormous growth has occurred in understanding factors that influence the success, and failure, of healthcare improvement efforts. Progress has been particularly strong in three areas: the understanding of the theoretical basis for improvement work; the impact of contextual factors on outcomes; and the development of methodologies for studying improvement work. Consequently, there is now a need to revise the original publication guidelines. To reflect the breadth of knowledge and experience in the field, we solicited input from a wide variety of authors, editors and improvement professionals during the guideline revision process. This Explanation and Elaboration document (E&E) is a companion to the revised SQUIRE guidelines, SQUIRE 2.0.
Mental health services have an important role in the treatment of people at risk of suicide. Many people who attempt suicide have underlying mental health problems, and the treatment of these issues is crucial to reduce their suicide risk. In other areas of medicine, since the publication of the landmark report To Err is Human,1 there have been sustained efforts to reduce adverse events associated with health care.1,2 Internationally, an awareness has budded that effective clinical governance is a vital component of high-quality health care. Please contact the library to receive a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
This was an opportunity to hear from a peer about Quality Improvement System and how it has helped staff to focus on the most important matters of improving the lives of the people who services and develop a culture of quality improvement.
This guideline covers identifying and managing depression in adults aged 18 years and older, in primary and secondary care. It aims to improve care for people with depression by promoting improved recognition and treatment.
In April 2016, recommendation 1.10.5.1 was deleted and replaced with a link to the NICE interventional procedure guidance on repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression.
From May we will be inspecting SEND provision for children and young people by local areas.
We will also look at how well education services, social care and health work together to identify, assess and meet the needs of children and young people with special educational needs and or a disability.
We will carry out these inspections jointly with Ofsted and we have worked very closely with Ofsted and the Department for Education to develop the new inspection arrangements.
Safe staffing levels across the NHS have worsened significantly in the last year, according to UNISON’s UK-wide annual survey of nursing professionals published today (Monday), at the start of its annual health conference in Brighton.
Publication of report on closure of Bootham Park Hospital and eventual transfer to TEWV. Please contact the library to receive a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai
uality improvement (QI) is becoming an important focal point for health systems. There is increasing interest among health system stakeholders to learn from and share experiences on the use of QI methods and approaches in their work. Yet there are few easily accessible, online repositories dedicated to documenting QI activity. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details