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
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
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
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 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...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
NHS Improvement’s response to the Kirkup report included reviewing arrangements for the induction and onboarding of very senior NHS managers. This was as part of a wider effort to create a well-supported leadership environment.
We would like to find out your views about what support would...More
Dear colleague,
You have recently worked with NHS Emergency Care Intensive Support Team (ECIST).
As part of our commitment to providing the best possible service and our desire for continuous improvement we value feedback from our partner organisations. To...More
To support the further action learning set practice development for Philippa she has asked for your views on her management and support to the group. More
Coding underpins activity metrics, payment for Trusts and epidemiological data. Despite this, coding still has a relatively low profile within provider organisations and is understood to a varying degree by clinicians.
Each of the GIRFT reports published to date has...More
As part of our drive towards a single national cost collection , we are currently considering the mandation of patient-level costing (known as PLICS) for community health services.
This survey is for all providers (NHS and other) regardless of the main service you provide. We want your...More