South East Coast kicks off the regional events today
Teams of clinicians in the South East Coast
region will go head to head today in pitching their innovative
ideas to a Dragon’s Den style panel as part of the Transforming
Community Services Multi Professional Leadership Challenge.
The challenges are open to all clinicians within the NHS who have
a local idea which could improve primary or community care
services within their area.
Each event brings together the skills of clinicians in how best
to design and deliver high quality, seamless care, including child
and family centred public health from the beginning of life to end
of life care.
Up to 13 different teams from each Strategic Health Authority,
made up of GPs, allied health professionals and nurses, will
compete for a regional prize of £50,000 to implement their idea.
Teams will present their business case to a panel of experts in
the style of Dragon’s Den who will assess the teams on their
leadership skills and the validity of their idea. The panels will
be made up of credible local professionals from the NHS such as
directors for finance, innovation, nursing and quality as well as
patient representatives. Regional winners will also be invited to
a final event to share their learning and best practice ideas.
Public Health Minister, Anne Milton said:
“These challenges are a great way to show off and bring out the
new ideas and improvements that I know the NHS has. If we want to
improve patient outcomes then community services need to be
designed, developed and provided by the people who know the needs
of patients best - the nurses, doctors and other health professionals.
“Good community services are vital in helping patients
recover or providing them with essential care, from health
promotion to managing long term conditions. I look forward to
hearing about their ideas to improve services in their area and
raise the standards of patient care.”
The teams have come together from acute trusts, mental health,
social care and community organisations and will present their
idea on how to improve a service.
For example, at the South East Coast event today, ideas range
from improving clinical care for patients with heart failure to
developing services to support young people who are morbidly obese.
All ideas have come from talking to patients or other
professionals about care in their local communities. On the day
itself the ideas will be turned into a robust business case that
take into account local priorities and the best use of resources.
Each regional winner will be supported for a year to develop,
implement and deliver their idea by the local region. All the
teams who take part in the day will have the benefit of working
with other clinical leads including local GPs and will have
benefited from translating their idea into a viable business case.
All these ideas can then be used by the new local GP consortia to
inform service improvement and enhance the patient experience.
Dame Christine Beasley, Chief Nursing Officer said:
“Patients and communities view and judge their overall experience
by the quality of nursing care they receive and I am pleased to
see the high level of involvement from nurses in these regional
events.
“Strong nursing leadership in any part of the NHS is highly
valuable and I encourage nurses to get involved in events like
these so that they can work with other professionals in the
community and improve outcomes for patients.”
Notes to Editors
1. The full list of SHAs and their regional events are as
follows.
South East Coast 14 February
East Midlands 18 February
North West 28 February
Yorks and Humber 1 March
East
of England 4 March
North East 8 March
South West 11 March
West Midlands 15 March
London 18 March
South Central
21 March
Final Winners Event (London) 24 March
2. For more information on the Transforming Community Services
(TCS) programme and the leadership challenge please see http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Healthcare/TCS/DH_122630
3. Community services represent a significant investment of NHS
staff and resources - employing over 200,000 staff and
representing around £10 billion of NHS spend.
4. Good community services are vital when transferring care and
treatment from hospital settings – they provide essential and
efficient joined up care and services, from health promotion to
managing long term conditions and end of life care.
5. For media enquires please contact the Department of Health
Press Office on 0207 210 5221.
Contacts:
Department of Health
Phone: 020 7210 5221
NDS.DH@coi.gsi.gov.uk