Making The Case For Quality Improvement | The King's Fund
Oct 10, 2017 · Introduction. The NHS faces the challenge of improving quality of care while coping with the biggest funding squeeze in its history.This challenge is significant and, in some parts of the NHS, quality is deteriorating rather than improving: waiting times are increasing (Murray et al 2017), the numbers of people waiting to leave hospital are at record levels (NHS England 2017a) and services in ...
Improving NHS Culture - The King's Fund
Jun 4, 2015 · Inspiring vision and values. The first characteristics key to shaping an organisation’s culture are vision and values. Leaders at every level should communicate an inspiring, forward-looking and ambitious vision focused on offering high-quality, compassionate care to the communities they serve.
Leadership and leadership development in health care
Feb 25, 2015 · A key challenge facing all NHS organisations is to nurture cultures that ensure the delivery of continuously improving high-quality, safe and compassionate health care.Leadership is the most influential factor in shaping organisational culture and ensuring the necessary leadership behaviours, strategies and qualities are developed is fundamental.
What Is Compassionate Leadership? | The King's Fund
Feb 15, 2022 · Trzeciak and colleagues make a compelling case for ‘compassionomics’, the knowledge and scientific study of the effects of compassionate health care.Their research review of hundreds of published studies shows that compassion is the most powerful intervention in health care, and that compassionate health care is beneficial for patients through improving clinical outcomes; for health care ...
GP funding and contracts explained - The King's Fund
Jun 11, 2020 · The way general practices are contracted and funded is complex and very different from other parts of the health and care system. This explainer sets out how general practices are contracted and paid in England, looking at the services they are contracted to deliver, and the different streams of funding they receive.
Primary Care Networks Explained | The King's Fund
What do primary care networks do? PCNs were designed to support general practices in the face of growing pressures, to bring general practices together with other primary care and community services, and to improve primary care through the introduction of additional services and an expanded multidisciplinary workforce.. The funding attached to the DES enables PCNs to provide a more extensive ...
The future of leadership and management in the NHS
May 18, 2011 · At a time of enormous change in the NHS, leaders and managers have a crucial role to play. But what sort of leaders does the service need? Does the model, prevalent in public service over recent years, of the 'hero' chief executive still hold sway?
The NHS nursing workforce – have the floodgates opened?
Despite the constant pressures and chronic shortages, the number of nurses leaving the NHS had flatlined over recent years.Now our analysis of new data shows there has been a large increase in nurses leaving the NHS, and that this trend is being driven by younger workers. The last year's data (June 2021 - June 2022) saw a 25 per cent increase …
Leadership In Today's NHS - The King's Fund
Jul 18, 2018 · Key messages. In 2014, work by The King’s Fund assessed the level of leadership vacancies in NHS provider organisations. As pressures on services have increased and NHS organisations are called on to work more collaboratively, levels of leadership vacancies and leadership churn continue to pose problems.
Embedding a culture of quality improvement | The King's Fund
Nov 9, 2017 · Key lessons for leaders Issues to consider before starting work on quality improvement. Adopting a quality improvement approach involves significant and sustained cultural change within organisations, which will require time and resource.