Health Foundation, February 2015
- This report examines the improvement capability building approaches taken by five health and social care trusts across the UK -
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust
- Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust
- The report makes it clear that you can’t drive and sustain improvement across an organisation unless you have a process in place to develop the improvement knowledge and skills of clinicians and managers across health and social care.
- Key lessons for providers include
- Getting early board-level support is essential for any provider organisation considering building improvement capability at scale
- Provider organisations need to think carefully about how they will fund improvement capability programmes
- Provider organisations need to find ways of freeing up staff time to take part in training programmes
- Commissioners need to do more to support organisations developing improvement capability building programmes
- Arm’s length bodies need to give organisations the time and space to develop and embed their quality improvement programmes
- The report includes a checklist of points for provider organisations to consider before planning, designing and delivering an improvement capability building programme.
