Annual Report and Accounts - The Great Western Hospital

Regulation
1. To sustain compliance with the CQC regulations
2. To sustain NHSLA and Maternity Standards and develop longer term plans to achieve Level
3
3. To implement plans to improve results of the national staff survey
4. To sustain compliance with the Mental Health Capacity Act
5. To sustain compliance with Safeguarding Children
6.2.2 Priorities 2012/13
Our commitment to quality will continue through a number of priorities for 2012/13 which have been
agreed in accordance with the views and comments from clinical staff commissioners, the Trust
Governors and key external stake holders and the PSQC. Our priorities will be:
Safe Care
• Continue to reduce healthcare associated infections including MRSA and Clostridium difficile
(CQUIN)
• Continue to reduce harm associated with patient falls
• Continue to reduce hospital and community acquired pressure ulcers
• Continue to reduce avoidable mortality, disability and chronic health through improved
assessment and management of venous thromboembolism (CQUIN)
Effective Care
• Improve the care and management of patients through implementation of the Trust Nutrition
and Hydration strategy
• Improve our Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio (HSMR) year on year (100 or below)
• Improve the management of the deteriorating patient by full completion of the Early Warning
Score
Patient Experience
• Continue to improve the quality of end of life care for patients and improve access to palliative
care services (CQUIN)
• Improve care and access to services for patients with dementia (CQUIN)
• Improve patient satisfaction by improving upon the Trusts outcome measures within the
National Patient Experience (PICKER) survey (CQUIN)
6.3 Statements of assurance from the Board
During 2011/12 the Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provided and/or sub-contracted 7
NHS services.
The Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has reviewed all the data available to them on
the quality of care in 7 of these NHS services.
The income generated by the NHS services reviewed in 2011/12 represents 100 per cent of the total
income generated from the provision of NHS services by the Great Western Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust for 2011/12.
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