Quality and Innovation
Introduction
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Healthy Ambitions sets out an ambitious programme for change in NHS Y&H. Successful implementation will depend on harnessing the creativity and energy of staff at every level in every NHS organisation across the region.
Key Strategic Aims
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We will work with NHS organisations across Y&H to promote quality improvement and innovation in the following ways:
NHS Quality Foundation for Yorkshire and the Humber
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In 2009, to meet our new statutory responsibility for promoting innovation, we will work with the NHS in Y&H and with other partners to co-create and establish an NHS Quality Foundation for Y&H. Building on the relationships, networks and partnerships already in place the NHS Quality Foundation will enable front-line leaders, teams and organisations to innovate and improve.
An emerging model for the NHS Quality Foundation (fig.1) is being developed through dialogue with senior executive and clinical leaders from both NHS and partner organisations across the region.
The NHS Quality Foundation will support the implementation of Healthy Ambitions in four ways:
- The provision of dynamic, responsive strategic intelligence to support delivery of high quality health and social care
- Support for innovation and improvement at every level in the NHS
- Support for developing business and systems excellence in organisations and health communities across the region. Ensuring service functions connect directly and effectively with mainstream business processes
- Ensuring the NHS in Yorkshire and the Humber is recognised nationally and internationally as a leading centre for quality improvement and innovation
The NHS Quality Foundation will adopt a broad interpretation of innovation from discovery to adoption and will promote and support innovations that seek to improve the safety and effectiveness of healthcare and the patient’s experience. We will develop our approach to PROMS and PREMS and ensure that parients perceptions of outcomes and experience are a key feature of our approach. These will include innovation in care delivery, business processes, products and technology.
It is anticipated that the NHS Quality Foundation will facilitate events for leaders to meet together and explore key strategic issues. These might include, for example, the more complex challenges in implementing Healthy Ambitions. The output of these events will guide the NHS Quality Foundation in piloting innovative solutions to support the delivery of agreed priorities and system wide service challenges.
There are many partners with significant expertise within our region already actively engaged in innovation and improvement work. Amongst others, these partners include our local NHS organisations and clinical networks, Medipex – the regional NHS Innovation Hub; Higher Educational Institutions, Yorkshire Forward – the Regional Development Agency, local business, the NHS National Innovation Centre, the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Jönköping County Council in Sweden.
A Chief Executive will be recruited in early 2009 to lead the development of the Quality Foundation with a formal launch planned for October 2009.
Supporting PCTs in local implementation
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We will work with PCTs as leaders of the local NHS, in supporting the local delivery of Healthy Ambitions. Our impact will be in supporting PCTs to develop capacity and capability within health communities for leading large scale change. We will applying effective innovation and improvement methodologies and align pilot opportunities to support delivery. We will industrialise the spread of innovations and promote recognition and reward for the delivery of quality improvements and innovations.
This programme of support will be taken forward in 2009 as part of work to support the development of PCTs as World Class Commissioners.
Who will make sure that this work happens
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The strategic aims set out in this chapter reflect significant cross directorate working on quality improvement and innovation. Rosamond Roughton, NHS Y&H Director of Strategy and System Reform will oversee the delivery of the strategic aims working in partnership with the SHA senior management team, the local NHS and other partner agencies.