Building blocks Releasing time to care Leading Better Care SPSP Better Together E Health Strategy And of course YOU!!!!

Building blocks

• Releasing time to care

• Leading Better Care

• SPSP

• Better Together

• E Health Strategy

• And of course YOU!!!!

Changing shape of the Workforce

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Healthcare Support Workers

Mandatory Standards and Codes

• Wide definition of Support Workers

• 14 Induction Standards

• Code of Conduct for HCSWs

• Code of Practice for Employers

Community Nursing

Modernising Nursing in the Community ProgrammeBoard Established in September 2009

Three Key Work streams

• Children, Young People and Families• Keeping People at Home• Nursing for Work and Well Being

Work of the Board to be completed in 2011

Website for more information – www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Health/NHS-Scotland/nursing/Modernisation

KEY OBJECTIVES

• To ensure patient safety• Person centred community nursing services• Improve quality of care• Build capacity, capability, sustainability and

flexibility of nursing teams• Identification of the most vulnerable families• Prevention and early intervention• Education and leadership• Improved IT

Nursing & Midwifery Workload & Workforce Planning Programme

• Well established programme• Developing tools to measure workload in clinical

areas• Triangulation with professional judgement and

quality indicators• Assists staff to make a rational, evidence based

argument regarding safe staffing levels• Agency spend reduced from £26 million to £8

million in 5 years.

Workload Programme

Tools developed• Adult In-patient• Professional

Judgement• Mental Health• Neonatal• Paediatric• Community

Benchmarking Profile

Under development• Paediatric• Small Wards• A & E• Perioperative• Maternity• CNS• Community Nursing

Freedom from • needless death or disease• needless pain• feelings of helplessness (amongst service users and

staff)• unwanted delay• waste• inequality in service delivery

Pursing Perfection IHI

In conclusion the ultimate challenge

We are facing a difficult and challenging time but

remember my ambitions for you and that

“Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors”

Jonas Salk American Microbiologist 1914-1995