UHDB is celebrating a year of embarking on an improvement practice this month. On 12 April 2018, we were chosen as one of seven trusts nationally to take part in a programme which draws on learning from an American hospital to enable staff in a new improvement method which delivers results that patients will see and feel.
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust provides a range of inpatient and community mental health services to adults, older people and children. Between 4 December 2018 and 23 January 2019, a team of CQC inspectors visited the trust.
Following the trust’s previous inspection, in 2017, the trust was rated as Good overall.
The Procurement team, based at Shrewsbury Business Park, is a finalist in the Financial or Procurement Initiative of the Year category of the Health Service Journal’s Value Awards 2019, which recognise excellent use of resources and also seek out examples of demonstrable improvement in outcomes.
They have been nominated for their ‘Lean Methodology Journey’ – which saw them making savings of £1.8million in the 2017/18 financial year. The overall winner will be announced in May.
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Health inspectors say there has been a “significant improvement” in how public sector organisations work together to provide services for older people who need care in Stoke-on-Trent.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has revisited the city to look at how well older people – and specifically those over 65 – can move through the health and social care system following an initial inspection in September 2017.
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Professor Steve Field, Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care, said: “Our review of health and social care services in the county found that older people had varied experiences of health and social care services. There were variations in what was available to them depending on where they lived, which meant that people’s experiences of care and the support they received were inconsistent.
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Mandie Esp, Ward Manager, said: “By removing non-productive time we now have so much more time in the day to do what is important. The ward is now a calmer environment, so that our patients have commented on the positive changes.
“The atmosphere in the department is also much better as everyone feels more empowered. We spend more time delivering direct patient care, while staff are now able to finish their shifts on time.”
The three new areas we have now been asked to review and will report on individually by December are:
Staffordshire
Leeds
Reading
We have also been asked to choose three local system areas, from those that we carried out in our programme of work in 2017/18, to follow up on progress made.
The three follow-up areas are:
Stoke-on-Trent
York
Oxfordshire
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Now three years into the partnership with the Virginia Mason Institute (VMI) in Seattle, The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is reaping the rewards of its own Transforming Care Production System (TCPS) with the procurement team making savings of £1.8 million in the last financial year.
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Frank discussions, prompted by the improvement work SaTH are doing through its partnership with the Virginia Mason Institute in Seattle, has resulted in defects in C. diff being reduced by 13 per cent in just one month.
During the weeks either side of the Easter holidays the Trust will focus on working differently, testing new ideas; and with local partners such as local authorities and other community providers keep ‘patient flow’ as smooth as possible.
This means resolving any blockages in a patient’s pathway on the same day to ensure the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford do not go into the following day with any unresolved patient issues.
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust has today welcomed the publication of its latest CQC inspection, which - for the first time in the Trust's history - rates every Combined Service as "Good" or "Outstanding". The Trust's overall rating is "Good".
The results mean that Combined Healthcare is the best rated mental health trust across the whole of the Midlands and East of England and third highest in the whole country - only 1 of 3 with every service rated at least Good and at least two Outstanding.
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust is among just a handful of organisations to feature in a new Care Quality Commission (CQC) report showcasing how mental health trusts have led by example in raising standards.
The CQC’s ‘Driving Improvement’ report focusses on a select few mental health trusts that, like Combined Healthcare, have achieved significant improvement in their CQC ratings.
The Open Days, which will be held quarterly, offer the opportunity to hear about the [Virginia Mason] work, our journey and our own learning in developing our Transforming Care Production System.
During the day the people present got the opportunity to hear from the teams on the genba about the improvement work going on across the Trust and also got the opportunity to attend our Friday Report Out.
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is one of five hospital trusts in the UK taking part in an exciting partnership with VMI and last week it held a Regional Sharing Event to celebrate some of the significant improvements to patient care which have been made since this began.