Improve health & wealth

Improve health & wealth

• Improve health & wealth

• Partnership

• Research
• Practice
• Industry

• Members

• Trusts, CCGs, Universities

• Stakeholders

• Local Authorities, Industry, NIHR Clinical Research Networks, Clinical Networks, Other NHS bodies and organisations, Public Health, LETB, NEQOS, NHS England

Many organisation-based initiatives, clinical networks and partnerships and collaborative projects

• Many organisation-based initiatives, clinical networks and partnerships and collaborative projects

• Safer Care North East (led by former NE SHA)

• Investing in Behaviours (led by NHS England North, in collaboration with the Health Foundation)

• Leadership and Quality Improvement programmes (led by North East Leadership Academy and North East Transformation System)

• Mortality monitoring

• Measurement tools commissioned from NEQOS

• Collaborating for better care - NICE Best Practice Partnership

• Academic experts

Steering group has met 3 times, chaired by Professor Richard Thomson and agreed TORs. Membership remains open to review but includes patient and public representatives.

• Steering group has met 3 times, chaired by Professor Richard Thomson and agreed TORs. Membership remains open to review but includes patient and public representatives.

• Process to appoint small team to run the PSC

• Call for proposals January 2015: ~£450K

• 22 projects received, 6 projects are in detailed contract negotiation, 2 more for resubmission to next call

• Funded projects to begin in April 2015

• Link to Health Education North East Faculty of Patient Safety

An approach is being developed locally

• An approach is being developed locally

• Indicators in the public domain (no new measures at this stage)

• Helpful in identifying priorities

• Need to acknowledge the difficulty in answering the two key questions:

• Is the NHS getting safer?
• If it is, what contribution to that are PSCs making?

Patient Safety Collaboratives have a key role in helping organisations work together on patient safety for system improvement

• Patient Safety Collaboratives have a key role in helping organisations work together on patient safety for system improvement

• We need to build on our strengths as a region and focus on the priorities

• The projects we fund aim to reach across the whole pathway of care for patients and engage as many of you as possible

• We will measure what we do to see if, working together, we’re having the impact on safety we all desire

Tony Roberts

• Tony Roberts

• Interim Programme Lead

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• Cate Quinn

• Interim Programme Manager

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