Strategic quality improvement: an action learning approach
The King's Fund -The King’s Fund was commissioned by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust to work with their Quality Board to facilitate an assessment of its existing approaches to quality improvement and to develop a strategy for future work. This case study details the approach and philosophy behind this work, which involved working with the trust’s five directorates to develop their ability to appraise their own approach to quality improvement with a view to improving performance, achieving better clinical outcomes and building further on the trust’s capacity as a learning organisation.
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Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 24, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS measurement and performance Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Supporting NHS staff who are volunteers
NHS Employers -This guidance for NHS employers looks at the business case and benefits of volunteering, the impact it has on an employee’s terms and conditions and gives examples from Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust who have both supported their staff to take part in volunteering activities.
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NHS Employers - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 19, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Estimates memorandum: Department of Health 2015-16 supplementary supply estimate
House of Commons Health Select Committee - The supplementary estimates are presented by HM Treasury to the House of Commons to seek parliamentary approval for voted expenditure by government departments resources, capital and cash, both for existing services and for any necessary new services. The supplementary estimates for the Department of Health estimated that the net deficit across all NHS trusts and foundation trusts would be managed to £1.8bn. This would score as a pressure against the department's expenditure limits and would therefore require offsetting mitigations to ensure that financial balance is ac...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 11, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs
Enhancing staff engagement and patient care through the 'Go Engage' survey tool
NHS Employers - This case study examines the experience of Wrightlington, Wigan and Leigh NHS foundation trust who commissioned the development of a staff engagement tool. The survey tool is based on the NHS national staff survey questions and sits alongside a number of exploratory questions. They are sent to staff every quarter to assess morale and engagement. The case study provides more information on the tool and its uses, how the trust communicates with staff and the results that have been achieved so far.
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NHS Employers news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - April 11, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Leadership and leadership development Source Type: blogs
Results of quality reports assurance 2014/15
Monitor -Monitor requires all NHS foundation trusts to produce reports on the quality of care as part of their annual reports. Quality reports help trusts to improve public accountability for the quality of care they provide. This document collates the findings of external auditors' assurance of foundation trusts' quality reports. It also allows foundation trusts to compare their performance and issues against the sector’s aggregate results. The findings may also be of interest to NHS trusts, although their data was not part of the assurance work.
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Monitor - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 23, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS measurement and performance Quality of care and clinical outcomes Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Detailed requirements for quality reports 2015/16
Monitor -NHS foundation trusts must include a report on the quality of care they provide in their annual report to improve public accountability. This guidance contains the details of contents and assurance requirements for NHS foundation trusts preparing their 2015/16 quality reports.
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Monitor - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 22, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS measurement and performance Quality of care and clinical outcomes Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Sustainability and financial performance of acute hospital trusts
This report finds that the financial performance of NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts has deteriorated sharply and this trend is not sustainable. In its investigation of the acute hospital sector, the report argues that the government has not acted quickly enough to keep acute hospital trusts in financial balance and that there is not a feasible plan in place yet for closing the funding gap. The other aspects of the acute sector's management that is highlighted as damaging were: government efficiency targets; data used to estimate potential cost savings to trusts; attempts to control agency spending; and the lack of...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 15, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Management by geographical area or management specialised by disorder? A mixed-methods evaluation of the effects of an organisational intervention on secondary mental health care for common mental disorder
This study aimed to understand the CAG programme by using realistic evaluation and assess whether it has led to changes in activity and health care quality.
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Source: Health Management Specialist Library - March 4, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Mental Health Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Quarterly report on the performance of the NHS foundation trusts and NHS trusts: 9 months ended 31 December 2015
Monitor - This analysis of NHS providers' operational and financial performance shows the sector as a whole made £741 million in efficiency savings between April and December 2015. However, the report finds that NHS providers are under sustained pressure from an increase in demand for care, issues with discharging medically fit patients, and high costs. As a result, many providers missed several national waiting times standards, such as the A&E performance measure, in the last 3 months of 2015. In addition, the sector as a whole reported a deficit of £2.26 billion in the 9 months to the end of December 2015...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 22, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity NHS measurement and performance Source Type: blogs
Reference costs guidance 2015-16
Department of Health -This document sets out requirements for the collection of 2015 to 2016 reference costs from NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts between 20 June and 29 July 2016. It follows feedback from the NHS on draft collection guidance.
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Department of Health - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - February 4, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs
Preventing avoidable harm in maternity care: Department of Health capital fund 2015-16
Department of Health -The capital funding programme (a £2.24 million fund) is for NHS maternity and foundation trusts to purchase equipment aimed at minimising risks associated with stillbirths, infant deaths and maternal deaths. This guidance outlines how NHS and foundation trusts can apply for funding for equipment to prevent avoidable harm in maternity care.
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Department of Health - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 24, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Patient safety Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Sustainability and financial performance of acute hospital trusts
National Audit Office -According to this report, the financial performance of acute hospital trusts has significantly declined in the last year and their financial position looks set to worsen in 2015-16. It found that the deterioration in the financial position of NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts has been severe and worse than expected, with their £843 million deficit in 2014-15 representing a sharp decline from the £91 million deficit reported in 2013-14. Overall, the financial position of NHS bodies worsened in 2014-15, as NHS commissioners, NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts together moved from a surplus of £7...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - December 16, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs
NHS foundation trusts: annual reporting manual 2015/16
Monitor - All NHS foundation trusts must publish annual reports and accounts to allow scrutiny of the year’s operations and outcomes. This guidance outlines the process foundation trusts should follow when producing and submitting these documents.
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Monitor publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 30, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Quarterly report on the performance of the NHS foundation trusts and NHS trusts: 6 months ended 30 September 2015
This report finds that NHS providers - both trusts and foundation trusts - are facing significant challenges on both finance and operational performance against key national standards at the mid-point of the year. The figures show that it recorded a half year (1 April to 30 September 2015) deficit of £1.6 billion. While between 1 July to 30 September 2015 - many providers struggled to achieve several key national healthcare standards.
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Press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 24, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity NHS measurement and performance Source Type: blogs
Freedom of information (FOI) release: applications to Monitor’s Foundation Trust Consultancy Approval Panel
Monitor - This request asked for details on consultancy spending over £50k and for further details on applications to Monitor’s panel that reviews business cases from foundation trusts for consultancy projects.
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Monitor publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 24, 2015 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: NHS finances and productivity Source Type: blogs
