Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Quality Account 2016-2017

Our reporting structure provides clarity of why projects were chosen, and their interconnectivity
with strategic objectives or organisational risk, the impact on patient experience, and workforce
and financial efficiency and effectiveness.
All reports respond to three improvements questions:-
What are we trying to accomplish?
How will we know that change is an improvement?
What changes can we make aimed at improvement?
Leadership & Safety for Doctors in training
JDSB - The junior Doctor Safety Board (JDSB) is formed following each new intake of
junior doctors in August of each year. This year the JDSB has been opened up to any
grade of junior doctor.
Aspiring to Excellence Programme – NGH have been offering this bespoke course to 5th
year medical students for 6 years. The course teaches the students the fundamentals of
safety science and focuses on one main theme each year for project focus. The students
receive a series of lectures and interactive sessions on a number of aspects of the project
theme and QI methodology as well as including patient experience.
Registrar Management Development Course – This is a nine week course modular in
nature and bespoke to NGH. The Registrars are encouraged to challenge and question the
safety principles and processes in place and lead on a project that demonstrates their
understanding of how to implement a quality improvement initiative interacting with the
appropriate personnel to deliver a sustainable change.
Our aim is to encourage all junior doctors to join the various programmes on offer and be
supported to undertake a quality improvement project, through to conference submission and
possible publication. All participants are supplied with teaching of QI principles and methodology
and guidance in submitting their work to conferences and publications.
NGH and the East Midlands Patient Safety Collaborative
The Patient Safety Collaboratives (PSC) were launched by NHS England at a national event in
October 2014. East Midlands Academic Health Sciences Network (EMAHSN) held a stakeholder
event to share priorities in March 2015.
The PSC commitment is to build Capability in Quality Improvement, grow Leaders for Safety and
improve the Safety Culture of organisations. NGH has welcomed the new PSC operating model to
support the development of system level patient safety aims in each STP footprint and are leading
on this work on behalf of the county.
We are leading a countywide improvement plan working with other care providers across teams to
identify aims, measures and adoption of QI methodology in order to make the quality interventions
as successful as possible focussing on the ‘deteriorating patient’. The overarching aim of the
collaborative is to reduce avoidable harm through the delivery in improvement in three key areas:
Reduce avoidable harm from failures or omissions in care
Prevent incidents in healthcare by sharing and learning
Working collaboratively to improve patient safety
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