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In-Brief
The inclusion issue - Autumn 2019
Welcome to In-Brief
Welcome to our autumn 2019 edition of Niche In-Brief; our collection of insights and articles from our
practitioners and partners. In this edition we are focussed on various aspects of inclusion including an indepth article on culturally competent healthcare, reflections on deafness and this ‘unseen’ epidemic. We
have two informative articles about the use of evaluative evidence and also how data is used to support
clinical decision making. We continue with our third in the series debunking NHS ‘sacred cows’, in this case
focussing on prevention and some of its pitfalls. Our lead and second articles focus upon the recent and
important Patient Safety Strategy – we give you some hints and tips on overall strategic implementation. As
many senior leaders in the NHS know, there are far more blocks than simply culture when implementing
strategy. We hope you enjoy this edition and we will see you again in spring 2020.
In this edition:
Better by design?
Pages 1-2
How to align staff…
to strategy. Page 2
The impact of (X) on (Y).
Page 3
NHS sacred cows article 3.
Page 4
The unseen epidemic.
Page 5
Culturally competent
healthcare. Page 6-8
Do the mathematics.
Pages 9-10
Management
consultants.
Page 11
Better by design?
Implementing the NHS Patient Safety Strategy
Three months after delivery of the
new NHS Patient Safety Strategy,
organisations are starting to think
locally (and hopefully systemically)
about how this can be implemented.
The broad, quantifiable aims of the
strategy include saving up to 1,000
lives and £100 million care costs
annually from 2023/24. The bold aim
of reducing claims provision by £750
million per year by 2025 is vital and
all of this will be done under the
auspices of strategic programmes
around insight, involvement and
improvement.
The case for improvements in patient safety is clear; it is estimated that 11,000
inpatient deaths per year result from patient safety incidents (based upon a
multiplied assumption on current NRLS data). It has been abundantly clear for
a long time that the current ways of reporting and disseminating NRLS data is
open to interpretation by individual trusts and can therefore be, unreliable. The
NHS has still not grasped the nettle in terms of learning from deaths (see the
article on mortality in our summer 2019 issue) and the role of the Medical
Examiner is a vital step forward in ensuring this method of learning becomes
routine and embedded. Will the new Strategy finally enable the NHS to align
the planets which are essential for continuous quality improvement?