NHS E/I are creating a core, national onboarding offer to board level and governing body very senior leaders, which will compliment local inductions and onboarding. It is anticipated that the offer will support board level leaders across commissioning and provider worlds and is also likely to...More
The National Doctors in Training Improvement Programme is committed to affect an improved experience for trainee doctors employed by Lead Employers from August 2019 onwards as they change host location. To achieve this, all Lead Employers have been invited to actively participate in the...More
We would like to provide you with some webinars to help clarify anything that is unclear or to discuss the different options for implementing some aspects of the guidance.
What we need you to do is tell us what you need! More
We hope that you have received and reviewed your Trust’s Programme Health and Wellbeing Data Pack.
We would value your feedback to inform the design of the next data pack. More
The Acute Frailty – SDEC sub group overall aim is to support hospital teams to implement frailty services as an integral part of the care provided to patients presenting at an SDEC service.
There are a number of different formats for assessing clinical frailty, the most common method is to...More
The next phase of the Patient Safety Incident Management System ( PSIMS ) project will include potential development of a mortality review recording module ( Alpha and Beta phases ).
PSIMS will replace the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) and the Strategic Executive Information...More
The purpose of this review is to identify what corporate records, information and information assets NHS Improvement holds and identify gaps and risks in the current systems. We need to innovate within the information, communication and technology (ICT) domain and to ensure NHS Improvement...More
The NRLS, Professional organisations, Safety teams, National bodies and international groups are made aware of combinations of medication names and packaging that are confused and lead to patient harm. In the absence of an agreed valid generalisable method for ranking the potential of pairs of...More
The 2019/20 tariff changed the default payment approach for adult mental health services to a blended payment approach, consisting of:
a fixed element based on forecast activity
a variable element
payment linked to quality and outcome measures and the delivery of access and wait...More
The GIRFT Mental Health programme is divided into three seperate workstreams; Crisis/Acute Mental Health, Psychiatric Rehabilitation, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Three individual, supplemental questionnaires will be distributed for each workstream....More
The GIRFT Mental Health programme is divided into three seperate workstreams; Crisis/Acute Mental Health, Psychiatric Rehabilitation, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Three individual, supplemental questionnaires will be distributed for...More
The NRLS, Professional organisations, Safety teams, National bodies and international groups are made aware of combinations of medication names and packaging that are confused and lead to patient harm. In the absence of an agreed valid generalisable method for ranking the potential of pairs of...More
Dear colleague,
NHS Improvement has agreed, via a Memorandum of Understanding, to provide funding to support a weight management guidance and support offer ("your Programme") for staff at your Trust. In return, you agreed to submit a data set following the implementation of your...More
The first WHO World Patient Safety Day takes place on 17 September 2019.
To help make the day a success and support organisations to prepare and plan activities, we would like to provide you with regular World Patient Safety Day updates and links to useful campaign resources and...More
The NHS Long Term Plan sets out clear objectives for outpatient policy to reduce the total number of outpatient appointments and to make it much easier for patients to access these appointments from their homes or another convenient location.
As part of the 2019/20 National Tariff ...More
NHS England and NHS Improvement is learning from a selection of hospital trusts across England, and your trust is one of ten we will visit. We would like to understand how trusts are either making good progress in adopting new innovations, or coming across challenges that prevent the successful...More
We are excited to open up nominations to the 'best support offer to new starters and newly qualified staff'. If you believe your trust has shown exceptional work in this category please submit your nomination form before 5pm Friday, 13th September 2019. More
We are excited to open up nominations to the 'best career planning and development offer'. If you believe your trust has shown exceptional work in this category please submit your nomination form before 5pm Friday, 13th September 2019. More
We are excited to open up nominations for the 'best support offer to those approaching retirement'. If you believe your trust has done exceptional work in this area please submit your nomination form before 5pm Friday, 13th September 2019. More
We are excited to open up nominations to the 'best use of data diagnostic to inform retention initiatives'. If you believe your trust has shown exceptional work in this category please submit your nomination form before 5pm Friday, 13th September 2019. More
We are excited to open up nominations for 'retention team of the year'. If you believe a team from your trust has done exceptional retention work please submit your nomination form before 5pm Friday, 13th September 2019. More
We are excited to open up nominations to the 'best flexible working offer to support work-life balance'. If you believe your trust has shown exceptional work in this category please submit your nomination form before 5pm Friday, 13th September 2019. More
We are excited to open up nominations to the 'best retention offer to support equality, diversity and inclusion'. If you believe your trust has shown exceptional work in this category please submit your nomination form before 5pm Friday, 13th September 2019. More