Service Improvement for Nurses and AHPs
Safer Nursing Care Tool (SNCT)
This new tool from the NHS institute is designed to review the impact of actual staffing levels on the quality and care delivered by nurses, evaluate ward team size and mix and provide a means for nurse managers to deliver evidence-based workforce plans.
AHPs can improve clinical outcomes and patient experience through innovation in service
Case studies from the AHP Service Improvement Project compendium demonstrate how AHPs can improve clinical outcomes and patient experiences through innovation in service delivery.
You may also find the following sources of information useful:
RCN’s Service Improvement Tools
Allied Health Professionals Network North West – Innovation and Improvements
Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals Network
Rapid Improvement
Rapid improvement is a mechanism for making radical changes to current processes and activities within very short timescales.
See the NHS Institute’s Rapid Improvement Programme, which includes Rapid Improvement Events (RIEs).
The details of some RIEs are listed below, and may be of interest:
Endoscopy Rapid Improvement event
Orthopaedic Rapid Improvement Programme
High Volume Care: Rapid Improvement Programme
Also see Time to Move beyond Rapid Improvement Events.
eQIPP website
NHS Improvement’s website dedicated to QIPP. Featured this month: Cancer
Read April’s National Cancer Programme Bulletin
Models of care to achieve better outcomes for children and young people living with and beyond cancer
Children and young people cancer survivorship initiative: developing pathways for aftercare
Paediatric pathway
Teenage and Young Adult Pathway level 1 & 2
Teenage and Young Adult Pathway level 3
This month’s tool: Needs and Gets Matrix
The 'Needs and Gets Matrix' is a way of developing understanding between departments so that they are able to work together more effectively. This tool can help by building bridges between departments to improve communication and the flow of information between them.
See the NHS Institute’s ‘Needs and Gets’ tool.
You may also find the following tools useful: Pool Similar Work Together and Share Staff Resources; Responsibility Charting; Stakeholder Analysis.
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