This Quality Strategy sets out our approach to ensuring each patient contact is safe and effective.
The strategy outlines our objectives and the outcomes we want for our patients along with information about the support we have put in place for our teams and our workforce in their constant pursuit to improve services and the care we provide.
The Quality Strategy is currently undergoing an annual review and an updated version will be uploaded soon.
Quality Priorities
Our quality ambition to be a regional centre of excellence as one of the leading major teaching hospitals in the country will see us provide evidence based, efficient and cohesive healthcare pathways. This strategy alongside the Clinical Services Strategy defines our priorities as follows:
Safety
- Harm-free care and learning from events.
Effective
- Right patient, right place, right time and best clinical outcomes.
Learning
- Listening from patients and staff experience and improve engagement with staff, patients, and the public.
Focused
- Person-centred care, end of life care, mental health outcomes and dementia care.
Make a Quality Pledge
We invite you to make a Quality Pledge in support of the Quality Strategy and the drive to improve patient safety and care. It will be displayed anonymously below.
Quality Pledges
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Encourage shared learning across Clinical Support to becoming effective in being more environmentally friendly.
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Be an inclusive leader and promote Quality and Excellence.
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Ensure staff, all 10,000 people, feel engaged, involved and motivated so they provide quality care.
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Proactively promote the QI agenda and strategy for our trust.
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Support and promote quality throughout the organisation, ensuring that good practice is shared to all members of the MDT.
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Continue to strive for open and honest complaints handling with improvement in identifying areas for learning.
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Be compassionate and understanding to my patients and work colleagues, even in times of stress.
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Discharge patients when they do not need to be in hospital.
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Remember that it may be just a day at work to me, but a life-changing experience for my patient.
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Be a Quality and Patient Safety champion.