AH ANNUAL REPORT 2018

in improved ward to board reporting of risk, incident
reporting, and shared learning.
Staff are well settled into the new hospital building
and are becoming increasingly satisfied with their
working life which is reflected in the 2017 staff survey,
which shows many areas of significant improvement
compared to the previous year. We have continued to
employ Listening into Action as a key enabler for staff
involvement in resolving local issues and making local
improvements, with excellent results in many areas.
We have also maintained other avenues for staff to
raise any issues or areas of concern they may have
through our ‘Raise it, Change it’ mechanism or through
direct contact with one of our ‘Freedom To Speak Up’
champions.
We continue to work closely with children and families
to make ongoing improvements and will place a
particular focus during the coming year on further
developing a culture of continuous quality improvement
and on involving children and families in the co-design
of improvements.
3.2 SIGN UP TO SAFETY
Sign up to Safety is a national patient safety campaign
whose vision is for the whole NHS to become the safest
healthcare system in the world, aiming to deliver harm
free care for every, patient every time. The campaign
was launched on 24th June 2014 with an ambition of
halving avoidable harm in the NHS over a three year
period and saving 6,000 lives as a result.
As an organisation committed to improving patient
safety, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
joined the Sign up to Safety campaign and developed
a Trust Wide Safety Improvement Plan with specific
improvement outcomes as highlighted in the previous
quality report. The aim is that by March 2018, against a
2014/15 baseline, we will:
• Achieve no never events year on year
• Reduce all avoidable harm by 30%
• Reduce avoidable moderate, severe harm or death by
50%
• Achieve a 95% patient satisfaction score
In this final year of the Sign up to Safety campaign,
the Trust has shown great progress against most
of the extremely challenging targets declared in our
Safety Improvement Plan. We are proud to be able to
demonstrate improvements and contribute to saving
lives over the three years of the campaign. Progress
against each of the individual elements of the Sign up to
Safety campaign is reflected in separate sections below
as part of the Trust’s quality performance declarations.
3.3 KEY PRIORITIES FOR IMPROVEMENT IN QUALITY 2017/18
The key quality priorities set out for 2017/18 are summarised in the table below. The following sections describe the
progress made in these areas throughout the year.
Quality Domain
Priority Area
Aim 1 Patients will not suffer harm in our care Further embed a safety culture throughout the organisation
Aim 2
Aim 3
Aim 4
Aim 5
Patients will have the best possible
experience
Patients will receive the most effective
evidence based care
Improve workforce health & wellbeing
Our environment will enable us to deliver an
excellent service
Increase engagement of children, young people & families
in improving quality and developing services
Increase number of defined clinical care pathways across
our clinical specialties
Provide support that will enable our staff to feel valued and
respected by the organisation and actively contribute to the
organisation’s success
Continue to improve the environment to make it work for
both patients and staff
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