LEICESTER CITY PRIMARY CARE TRUST - NHS

Paper YNHS Leicester City Board Meeting24 September 2009as; patient involvement, patient safety, clinical pathways, staffwellbeing, innovation, managing the talent and the environment. Withfour key enablers for success being good leadership, quality,productivity, and communication.The methodology relating to the development of the strategy, with afocus on ‘Every Nurse Matters’ was explained to the Board. Acommitment to involve every single nurse from band two upwards incontributing had been made and this theme is picked up and translatedthroughout the nursing strategy document as ‘Every Person Matters’,every nurse, every patient, every carer, every family.Mrs Holroyd advised that it was decided early on that the strategyneeded to be a celebration for community nursing in the city, to putLeicester on the map, to let all our stakeholders know our commitmentto providing the very best services and to being the very best provider.There are a number of planned actions to carry forward with staff beingencouraged to volunteer to progress the agreed activities.Another integral theme will be the development of Q-set methodologywhich is the ongoing quality self evaluation tool developed by the RoyalCollege of Speech and Language. This tool will be adapted by thecommunity nurses to provide a robust means of measuring evidence ofeffectiveness; identifying their improvement and communicating thevalue of activities to commissioners.This approach will allow the pledges made in the Nursing Strategy to betested annually over the next five years.IT WAS RESOLVED:MINUTES FOR NOTING- to note the contents of the update reportPS/09/71Minutes of the Health and Safety, Fire and Security CommitteeMeeting held on 26 th March 2009The following items were referred to from the above minutes:-Page 4 of 6/Item 10/Risk RegisterBrian Wilson asked whether we received this register. Paul Millerconfirmed that this was in development and would be brought to thismeeting upon completion.Page 5 of 6/Item 11/Policies and ProceduresBrian Wilson sought clarity on progress with policy reviews relating toAsbestos; Water Management and Codes of Practice from CommunityTeam.9