Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Requires Improvement overall after an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in February 2016.
England's Chief Inspector of Hospitals has rated South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust as Requires Improvement following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission.
Problem to be addressed Hospital at night team, new doctors and visiting teams often find it difficult to find key items of paperwork such as continuation sheets, anaesthetic chart and fluid prescription charts. On each ward, they are kept in different random drawers. Nurses are routinely interrupted by doctors asking for where things are kept.
Interest in measuring the quality of mental health services has increased, but challenges remain in moving from general standards of quality and best practices to specific, implementable quality measures. The International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership identified 656 mental health quality measures and then applied a modified Delphi approach to assess various available alternative quality measures. Panel members considered issues of data source, segmentation, and thresholds. Policy makers and organizations will need to make difficult choices about accountability, purpose, feasibility, and validity in order to operationalize quality measurement. Empirical data can help guide them in this process.Login at top right hand side of page using your SSSFT NHS Athens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) today (Thursday 16 June 2016) welcomed the publication of England's Chief Inspector of Hospitals report into their services following an intense, week-long inspection involving over 60 experts.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated seven of the ten services that were inspected as Good and three as requires improvement. In particular the CQC commended the Trust on the positive developments it has made in acute inpatient services, community learning disability services and child adolescent and mental health services.
PLACE stands for Patient Led Assessment of the Care Environment. A PLACE Assessment focuses entirely on the care environment and does not assess clinical care provision.
There are four areas that are assessed: access to privacy for patients and respect for their dignity, food and hydration, cleanliness, and general building condition and maintenance. Assessment teams are made up of 50% staff and 50% service users.
Each year, the PLACE inspection team visits all of our inpatient wards, making sure that Greater Manchester West is providing the best environments for its service users. The team looks at a variety of standards such as cleanliness, quality of the food, privacy and dignity and the buildings general condition and maintenance.
The inspection team is made up of GMW staff and service users.
Last week Trusts from Cornwall and Somerset met to look at how their services meet the needs of those living with a learning disability and epilepsy.
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trusts (CFT) Learning Disability Epilepsy Team met with staff from Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Community Learning Disability Team to look at how their services work to meet the needs of their patients and the different models of service design from a patient perspective.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes its report following the inspection earlier this year of Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I); it has rated the Trust as ‘Requires improvement’ overall.
The resolve to put patients at the heart of the National Health Service (NHS) has been ubiquitous in the aftermath of the Francis Report, and the policy agenda is beginning to reflect attempts to deliver that promise. The introduction of new care models at NHS ‘vanguard’ sites, the 3-year target to give all patients access to their electronic care records, and the expansion of integrated care services all exemplify the salience of patient-centricity at the national level.1 This pattern has been witnessed across many developed health systems.2
The ideals of this paradigm have also captured the attention of local commissioners and providers, offering an evolved concept of service design that resonates with patients' needs. As a result, providers are increasingly turning to patient-reported feedback to drive local improvement. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
England's Chief Inspector of Hospitals has rated Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust as Good following its latest inspection by the Care Quality Commission.
The trust has been rated as Good for providing services that were caring, effective, responsive, and well-led and Requires Improvement for safe.
We're looking at how NHS acute, community healthcare and mental health trusts investigate deaths and learn from their investigations. We also want to assess whether opportunities to prevent deaths have been missed.
This business plan sets out two main objectives.
Firstly, during 2016/17 we will complete the delivery of our comprehensive rating inspections for health and care services that we began in 2014.
Secondly, we will prepare for the further development of our approach to regulating health and care over the life time of our strategy for 2016 to 2021.
Audit and feedback (A&F) is a common intervention used to change healthcare provider behaviour and, thus, improve healthcare quality. Although A&F can be effective its effectiveness varies, often due to the details of how A&F interventions are implemented. Some have suggested that a suitable conceptual framework is needed to organise the elements of A&F and also explain any observed differences in effectiveness. Through two examples from applied research studies, this article demonstrates how a suitable explanatory theory (in this case Kluger & DeNisi's Feedback Intervention Theory (FIT)) can be systematically applied to design better feedback interventions in healthcare settings. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
NHS England has released further guidance to help NHS organisations work towards the health and wellbeing Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) payment framework.
The CQUIN was announced in March 2016 and encourages improvements to staff health by offering a share of £450m to NHS organisations. To achieve the incentive, trusts are encouraged to take steps, such as introduce health and wellbeing initiatives, increase healthy food choices on premises and increase uptake of front line staff receiving the flu vaccine.
The raising concerns team has launched a new case study on how South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT) recruited its Freedom to Speak Up (FTSU) Guardian.
Read the case study to find out out how the trust's inclusive approach with staff, led by a task and finish group, resulted in the appointment of principle guardian Suzanne Deighton who is supported by a number of local guardians.
A fully independent ‘Guardian Service’ is being launched for the North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) where staff can discuss any matters relating to service users care and safety, whistleblowing, bullying and harassment, and work grievances in complete confidence.
Hospital board members are asked to consider large amounts of quality and safety data with a duty to act on signals of poor performance. However, in order to do so it is necessary to distinguish signals from noise (chance). This article investigates whether data in English National Health Service (NHS) acute care hospital board papers are presented in a way that helps board members consider the role of chance in their decisions. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you requesting.