Our 2018-2028 Strategy - Summary Version - Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
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Introduction This is a time of significant change and transition for Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH), the system and the wider NHS. We have recently seen a number We also have a number of Ensuring our patients receive We are determined to consistently of organisational and leadership challenges to navigate our way consistently high quality, safe care demonstrate we listen to and care changes. This presents opportunities through. NUH faces a significant with outstanding health outcomes for our patients and staff. to reflect on the journey we have financial challenge, we have an and experience is at the centre of Thank you to everyone who has been on over the last 12 years since ageing estate and infrastructure all we do. had their say and influenced our NUH was formed and look closely and we need to improve our We are very clear we need to be strategy, including our patients, at what is needed in the future. We performance in a number of ambitious for our patients and system partners and our staff go into our next chapter with many areas, including the emergency brave, bold and innovative moving (including our clinical leaders). strong foundations, recognising we access standard, if we are to fulfil forward. Importantly, we must The feedback we have received have made some great progress in our true potential. We have think differently about how we has influenced the content of recent years to improve patient and workforce challenges due to deliver safe, high quality and this document and will help us staff experience and safety national shortages in some areas, effective care for our patients. to remain focused on what we year-on-year. and we are committed to working set out to achieve in the future. ever closer with our health and Leading-edge research, teaching social care partners across and technology is an important This is a challenging, yet exciting Nottinghamshire to part of our future strategy. If we time for NUH. We look forward respond to our growing and are to realise our potential, we will to working with our patients, ageing population who have work even more closely with our our partners and our staff to more complex health and social full spectrum of partners, including shape the future of health and care needs. our patients, those across health social care services for the local and social care, academia and communities we serve in the next beyond in the years to come. decade and beyond. 3
About us We have an important QMC is where our Emergency With 15,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the Department (ED), Major Trauma Centre contribution to make city with a central role in supporting the health and and the Nottingham Children’s Hospital to life in Nottingham wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, are based. It is also home to the education and innovation. University of Nottingham’s School and the wider region NUH was established in 2006 of Nursing and Medical School. and we take this following the merger of Nottingham Nottingham City Hospital is our City Hospital and Queen’s Medical responsibility seriously. Centre. We have a budget of just under £1billion, 90 wards and planned care site, where our cancer 1,700 beds across three main sites: QMC, City Hospital and Ropewalk centre, heart centre and stroke services House. We deliver district general are based. This site also supports our services to 2.5 million residents of urgent and emergency care pathway. Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and its surrounding communities. Our expertise and specialist services Ropewalk House is where allows us to deliver care to 4-5 we provide a range of outpatient million people from across the East Midlands and nationally for services, including hearing services. a handful of services. 4
Our vision and values 1 We will develop our local hospital 2 Our Vision services in a way that better integrates them with community services, and moving forward, Outstanding in health outcomes Our Mission we will ensure only patients who need to come into hospital for and patient and staff experience. care do so. This will enable more patients to be treated at home or Working together with our closer to home in the community. patients, staff and partners to This means that we will be able deliver world class healthcare, to grow and further develop our research, education and 3 specialist services to secure our future as a leading specialist centre. training. A leading teaching hospital and an innovative We want our values and behaviours partner, improving the to capture what makes working at NUH and being part of ‘Team health and wellbeing of the Our Promises NUH’ special. The standards apply communities we serve. to all of us, are part of everybody’s job and apply to every action we Patients People Places take, every decision we make and how we care for our patients, their family members, carers and each other. They underpin our ability 4 Performance Partners Potential to deliver exceptional patient care and create a great environment for everyone who works at NUH, We Listen. and one where we consistently We Care. demonstrate to patients and staff that we listen and we care. In (Refresh our values 5 2018, we look forward to working - Summer 2018 onwards) with our patients and staff to refresh our values. Our enabling Strategies & Plans 5
Our promises that can make us world-class To achieve our vision, we will deliver six promises. PLE • P EO PL • A Patients People Places S C T We will ensure our patients We will build on our position We will invest in our estate, N ES receive consistently high quality, as an employer of choice; with equipment and digital IE safe care with outstanding an engaged, developed and infrastructure to support • PAT outcomes and experience. empowered team that puts the delivery of high quality TENTIAL patient care at the heart of patient care. OUR everything it does. PROMISES • TAKING US FORWARD PA R Performance Partners Potential PO TN We will consistently achieve We will support the improvement We will deliver world-class • our performance standards and of the health of the communities research and education E S E R make the best use of resources we serve through strong system and transform health • PER NC that contribute to an affordable leadership and innovative through innovation. FORMA healthcare system. partnerships to deliver integrated models of care. 7
PLE • P EO PL • A S C T N ES IE • PAT TENTIAL OUR PROMISES • TAKING US FORWARD PA R PO TN • E S E R • PER NC FORMA Promise 1: Patients
Promise 1: Patients Consistently high quality, safe care with outstanding outcomes and experience is our overriding priority. What this means Making it happen: Our year 1 goals We want every interaction our We will change our relationship Benchmark our current clinical outcomes and develop a staff have with patients to have with patients, their families and programme of interventions to improve performance a positive impact on our patients’ carers so that they are empowered Complete a full review of our services against the Care Quality health and wellbeing and every to make choices for the planning Commission domains (CQC) and implement any neccessary NUH contact to add value to and management of their own care. improvements to maintain a rating of ‘Good’ overall and improve each patient’s experience. We will carefully listen to the from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’ for patient safety Where ill-health occurs, we feedback and views of our patients Identify services we consider ‘Outstanding’ and develop plans to want to ensure our patients have and their families to improve our achieve this rating by the CQC by 2020/21 outstanding clinical outcomes services and learn when we fall from being in our care. short of the standards we and our Develop a programme to improve our Patient Experience metrics patients expect, and we will be We will ensure we consistently Develop a single NUH Clinical Services Strategy to enable open and transparent where this get the basics right and this reconfiguration of services to provide a more flexible bed base happens. includes cleanliness standards, across QMC and City Hospital privacy and dignity and high We will secure our future as quality patient information. a leading specialised centre, growing or consolidating with We will work towards offering other providers. We will focus a 24-hours-a-day, seven days a on complex care and will reduce week acute hospital service and duplicated activity and unnecessary will create an open and just culture follow-ups that do not add clinical of patient safety improvement value as well as procedures of across NUH. limited clinical value. 9
PLE • P EO PL • A S C T N ES IE • PAT TENTIAL OUR PROMISES • TAKING US FORWARD PA R PO TN • E S E R • PER NC FORMA Promise 2: People
Promise 2: People Be the place people choose to work What this means Making it happen: Our year 1 goals The evidence proves that engaged We are a clinically-led organisation, We will further strengthen our Improve overall staff engagement through clear action plans to and empowered staff, who are with five Clinical Divisions, programme of work to listen to improve our position against other acute trusts well-trained, developed and supported by Corporate Services, our staff, acting on their ideas and Develop a robust workforce plan in line with the well-led are more likely to deliver and we embrace inclusivity and the feedback to continuously improve Clinical Services Strategy excellent patient care. many benefits to patient and staff our services and the experience experience that having a diverse of our workforce. Improve retention across the Trust, specifically for We believe that every member workforce brings. healthcare assistants of ‘Team NUH’ has a vital part to We aim to become the first acute play in making our future become We are investing in a new hospital in the UK to achieve Develop a comprehensive career development strategy a reality. leadership programme – mindful Magnet® recognition. This is a Improve NUH’s reputation as a place to work and our recruitment that we have leaders working at all symbol of nursing and midwifery If we are to deliver Promise 1, we processes to reduce the number of vacancies levels of the organisation, in a wide excellence which will provide a need to attract and retain the best Improve accessibility of training for all staff range of professions. platform to further meet the people to support us to do so. We recruitment and retention can only do this by making NUH We will develop a new training challenges we face. one of the best places to work and and development programme by becoming the employer of choice. 2020 to support new models of Many of our teams contribute care and appropriate staff roles. to the city in other ways, including We want to embed strong This will include developing fundraising, working with our teamworking across NUH and our alternative roles such as Trainee local schools, promoting career health and social care systems, and Nursing Associates, Advanced opportunities and supporting for career, development and Nurse Practitioners and expanding the more socially-deprived areas leadership opportunities to be our support for apprenticeships of the local populations we serve available at every level of the across the organisation. and we take these responsibilities organisation. seriously as a major player in the We will retain the best people city of Nottingham. and ensure we have a fulfilled workforce by nurturing our talent, creating and promoting career opportunities and valuing and recognising our staff. We will invest in succession planning. 11
PLE • P EO PL • A S C T N ES IE • PAT TENTIAL OUR PROMISES • TAKING US FORWARD PA R PO TN • E S E R • PER NC FORMA Promise 3: Places
Promise 3: Places Improving our estate and digitising our hospitals What this means Having a fit-for-purpose estate and We are developing our future clinical We aim to expand our neonatal digital infrastructure is essential if models and will listen to and engage capacity so that fewer of our we are to deliver high quality care with our patients, public and staff to smallest and sickest babies and (and Promises 1 and 2). Yet this is inform this. Over time, we hope to their families have to be transferred one of the areas in which we face consolidate QMC’s position as our to other hospitals, therefore the biggest challenge with major emergency site, where we care for improving the experience of our investment needed to address the our sickest patients, and City Hospital patients and their families. Trust’s ageing buildings and as the site that prioritises ambulatory Our ambition is to become the infrastructure which increasingly and more routine procedures and East Midlands hub for diagnostics. impacts on patient care and our operations and long-term condition Knowing that delivering world- operational effectiveness. management. Ropewalk House will class patient outcomes relies on continue to focus on Hearing We have developed short-term access to modern medical Services, outpatients and vital plans to address ‘today’s’ concerns, equipment. We will generate a research activity in this field. notably those about the condition surplus so we can invest in our of our estate. We have plans to We will aim to improve the capital programme. mitigate the highest risk areas. We environment of our Emergency We will be expanding our robotic are also developing Department by modernising and services in Colorectal and long-term plans for ‘tomorrow’s expanding our facilities through the Thoracics. We will look to maximise NUH’ which will involve applying development of a new Urgent and specialist and complex surgical for and securing significant emergency Care Centre by 2023. work using the latest innovations capital to transform our estate We will explore the validity of across all of our surgical services. and support the delivery of future continued dual-site working for This will include owning at least clinical models for both NUH a number of services by the end eight modern MRI scanners and and the wider system priorities. of 2018/19, including Maternity, seven CT scanners, with a Through this programme of work Neonates and Children’s Services Paediatric Imaging Suite and new we aim to right-size our estate, to assess their effectiveness to Interventional Radiology (IR) facility remove duplication of services inform our Trust-wide clinical for Mechanical Thrombectomy and reduce the inefficiencies services strategy. and Vascular day cases. that this causes in many cases. 13
Promise 3: Places Improving our estate and digitising our hospitals What this means (cont’d) Making it happen: Our year 1 goals We will accelerate the digitisation Implementation of the NUH Estates Strategy to improve building of our hospitals by launching a and infrastructure resilience and reduce critical infrastructure risk community-wide ‘Clinical Portal’ Implement our plan for medical equipment replacement to and community-wide bed and support our Promise 1: Patient objectives ‘flow’ management system. We will also continue to deploy the Make progress towards becoming a Paperless Hospital and Paperless Hospital Programme and implement plans for a network infrastructure refresh the roll-out of an Electronic Patient Record throughout 2019 to support safe, high quality clinical services. We will invest £12 million in replacing our Network and Telephony Infrastructure, bringing a step-change in speed, reliability and security of the network to support our increasingly bandwidth-dependent healthcare applications. There will also be significant improvements (best in class) to wireless capability throughout the organisation for staff and visitors and enhancements in collaboration technologies such as video conferencing. We will keep abreast of the latest advancements, and also risks in relation to Information Governance and data protection, including cyber-security. 14
PLE • P EO PL • A S C T N ES IE • PAT TENTIAL OUR PROMISES • TAKING US FORWARD PA R PO TN • E S E R • PER NC FORMA Promise 4: Performance
Promise 4: Performance Consistently achieving performance standards What this means Making it happen: Our year 1 goals We recorded a £10.8m deficit in Like many hospitals across the NHS, We want to reduce unwarranted Improve performance in areas we are not meeting standards and 2017/18 and will need to achieve we have been unable to achieve variations and benchmark in the sustain this position a balanced budget (and therefore the 95% four-hour emergency upper quartile nationally for Model Develop and implement plans to improve patient flow by reducing get into surplus) by 2018/19. access standard. We have Hospital. We will also work with unwarranted variation in service delivery Between 2006 and 2015, we have environmental constraints in our our local Clinical Commissioning recorded a break-even position Emergency Department (ED) and Group to reduce new to follow-up Achieve our financial control total every year and made modest have challenges maintaining flow ratios across a number of our surpluses. However, these through and out of our hospital specialties, to bring them into the successful financial results had due to high medical bed occupancy national upper quartile and to been increasingly achieved by at QMC, resulting in inadequate implement standardised pathways unsustainable one-off actions and availability of assessment beds, and of care across a number of non-recurring income streams a high number of patients specialties to improve the efficiency which have now been withdrawn, medically safe waiting to leave our of the care system by reducing resulting in a large underlying care. There are also significant inappropriate referrals. deficit. Nationally we do not medical vacancies With more appropriate referrals, envisage there being additional in ED, often resulting in extended we aspire to expand delivery of funding to meet the demand we waits to be seen and delays in seven-day services to some of our expect we will face. clinical decision-making. We are elective specialties, including aiming to consistently achieve the We have consistently been one of Cancer Services. emergency access standard by the country’s strongest performers March 2019 and are working with for 18 weeks Referral to Treatment system partners to develop future (RTT) and for the national urgent and emergency care models diagnostic standard. We are with plans to build a new Urgent consistently strong at delivering and Emergency Care Centre seven out of the eight national in the future to address the cancer standards. A key area of environmental and space focus is to sustainably deliver the constraints we have with Constitutional Standard for at least our current ED. 85% of patients being seen and treated for their cancer within 62-days from urgent GP referral. 16
PLE • P EO PL • A S C T N ES IE • PAT TENTIAL OUR PROMISES • TAKING US FORWARD PA R PO TN • E S E R • PER NC FORMA Promise 5: Partners
Promise 5: Partners Strong system leadership & innovative partnerships What this means We are committed to working even Mid Nottinghamshire. These will be We will work closely with other healthcare providers such as University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL), more closely with our system provider-led functions likely to Derby, Lincoln Hospitals, Sheffield and Birmingham to deliver outstanding care for patients in the East Midlands partners to deliver NUH’s strategy, undertake the most of the clinical and further afield. and contribute to the delivery of the service transformation. The Building on our specialised service portfolio, we aim to secure our future as a leading specialised centre by: system’s strategy. Our partners are integrated system goals will be based our patients, their carers, our local on ambitions to reduce demand on Maintaining excellence in areas we have considerable Research and Innovation strengths or focus within our community, our health and social our hospitals by redesigning primary Biomedical Research Centre, and also across the breadth of our specialised service portfolio (e.g. Digestive care partners and those in academia, and community services. Diseases, Respiratory, Renal Services, Endocrinology, Ear Surgery Ophthalmology, Paediatric Surgery and pharma and in other sectors. Medicine, HIV, Hep C and Haemoglobinopathies). Work is already underway with By working together with our Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Continuing to lead and innovate our two nationally-commissioned highly specialised services, partners, we will meet the health Foundation Trust (SFH) where we Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (Adult) (LAM) and Ataxia Telangiectasia Service (Children), aligned to our strengths and operational challenges our are working collaboratively to in respiratory and neurology. Nottinghamshire system faces by develop a plan for what acute Consolidating our services by working with other regional and national providers to create sustainable, providing seamless pathways of (hospital) care will look like in patient-focussed networks of care.For example, work with University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) to care, improving patient flow and Nottinghamshire going forward. consolidate key specialist Children’s Services and improve the sustainability of pathways across the East reducing the demand on health We are exploring ways to Midlands. and care services by keeping transform the models of care to people healthy, not just intervening improve or innovate patient care Exploring opportunities to become the main cancer centre in the region for maxillo-facial cancers by when they are ill. and operational arrangements, incorporating the workload from Lincoln as part of the nation-wide restructuring of Cancer Services. with an initial focus on the Further developing our role as the East Midland’s Major Trauma Centre, including the underpinning specialties We are a key partner in the following clinical areas: Urology, such as Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology and Vascular. Integrated Care System (ICS) and we Neurology, Cancer, Stroke, will work with our partners to better Developing an East Midlands hub for Neurology and Neurosciences services, supporting other centres and Radiology, Pathology, Pharmacy, co-ordinate the Nottinghamshire pioneering a new service for Mechanical Thrombectomy. Renal, Sterile Services and Neuro- health and care system through Rehabiliation. Further expanding our expertise in specialised diagnostic areas (e.g. PET CT, Medical Genetics), working with key strong system leadership. This will include the development of a single partners locally and nationally. strategic commissioning function at ICS level and the development of two Integrated Care Partnerships (ICP) across Greater Nottingham and 18
Promise 5: Partners What this means (cont’d) Making it happen: Our year 1 goals We are a key partner in a number of collaborative initiatives regionally Develop and implement a Partnership strategy and stakeholder management plan and need to build on this. We will progress work with the Defence and Refresh the Patient and Public Involvement Strategy and stakeholder engagement plan with a focus on National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC) and contribute to redesigning how we will involve and listen to patients, families, carers and the local population rehabilitation services across the region. This will have benefits for staff training and development. Build on existing partnership foundations and deliver the actions already agreed for these key partnerships We are a key partner in the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine (NCSEM), an Olympic Legacy project, providing a focal point Develop and commence implementation of robust governance arrangements and a roadmap for the for advice and guidance on sport, exercise and physical activity, injury development of an Integrated Care System (ICS) across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and rehabilitation to sufferers of chronic diseases. We aim to develop the Understand the future implications for NUH as part of an ICS centre further to play a key role in driving the prevention agenda forward with our partners at UHL, Loughborough University, University of Leicester Develop a vision for acute services across Nottinghamshire through leadership of the and University of Nottingham. ICS Clinical Services Strategy We will work together with our partners to successfully implement: Develop and implement a framework for clear decision-making for business development and potential East Midlands Pathology network (pathology services) and East Midlands new business opportunities Radiology Service (EMRAD) to develop a sustainable long-term model Identify potential NHS and non-NHS business development opportunities and develop a refreshed for Radiology Services in the region. business development strategy 19
PLE • P EO PL • A S C T N ES IE • PAT TENTIAL OUR PROMISES • TAKING US FORWARD PA R PO TN • E S E R • PER NC FORMA Promise 6: Potential
Promise 6: Potential World-class research and education What this means Our potential to achieve the best As one of the largest teaching Our ambition is for NUH to be a We want NUH and Nottingham Nottingham hosts one of the quality care and outstanding health hospitals in the UK, we are an centre of excellence for education to be at the forefront of research fastest growing Life Science outcomes can only be realised in an organisation that embraces and training by: and innovation that impacts on clusters in the UK with 14,000 environment that fosters research, innovation and research, international discovery and Life Science and Healthcare related Continually strengthening education and innovation. There is with a strong culture of embedding technological advancement that companies. Nottingham and the our training environment overwhelming evidence that learning from each other and can be translated into enhanced East Midlands has the second and supporting and nurturing patient health outcomes are better from colleagues across the NHS health outcomes for our patients. highest cluster of MedTech our learners. in such organisations. More than and internationally – with the We are involved in a range of companies in the UK with over 300 doctors and nurses work to overriding aim to provide Developing a multi-faceted initiatives, for example, we are 400 companies based in the city. ensure that research and innovation outstanding outcomes for our high quality leadership part of the National Genomic Nottingham is home to BioCity, is embedded in our routine clinical patients and their families. NUH programme for leaders of project with Leicester and one of Europe’s largest life science practice and that research findings has strong links to the University a variety of levels. Cambridge Hospitals where business incubators. It houses lead to continued improvements in of Nottingham and Nottingham we will be contributing to cutting- approximately 200 businesses Developing our new Nursing the quality of care and the treatments Trent University, and provides high edge research to enable more in cutting-edge industries of and Midwifery Institute. available to our patients. Last year level expertise in the fields of both effective diagnosis and treatment advanced biopharma and medical more than 10,000 patients took undergraduate and postgraduate Developing regional quality of diseases in the future. technologies. In partnership with part in clinical trials at our hospitals. learning, playing a vital role in the Doctor in Training passport to Biocity, Medicity, Medilink and the education, training and ensure they are up-to-date with Nottingham Hospitals Charity accreditation of doctors, nurses their NHS Core Skill Framework we aim to launch the Nottingham and other healthcare professionals. topics without repeating Innovation and Capacity Building training too frequently. Funds. These will support short Developing the inter-professional term visits/fellowships between educators forum and expertise clinicians and industry to enhance - which includes DREEAM, Trent joint working. Simulation Centre, Postgraduate Education, building on inter- professional learning and development and collaboration between Patient Safety Academy and the Core Medical Trainee 21 Simulation centre. 21
Promise 6: Potential What this means (cont’d) Making it happen: Our year 1 goals We will continue to expand Nottingham’s substantial research We are one of only eight funded Develop an innovation plan, including portfolio through: Hyper Acute Stroke Research commercial opportunities Centres in the UK, delivering Agree consistent improvement and transformation Our partnership with the University of Nottingham successfully secured clinical trials of new therapies. methodology to be used across NUH awards totalling £26m for the period 2017-2022 for NUH to host the We will build on our strong clinical NIHR-funded Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and Clinical Research Develop and start implementation of a Trust -wide trial portfolio and high recruitment Facility (CRF). inter-professional education and training strategy rates by further increasing Investing in globally-competitive research areas through the BRC: recruitment to cancer clinical trials, Number of patients recruited to National Institute establishing NUH within the top for Health Research (NIHR) studies > 14,000 • Deafness and Hearing problems five of recruiting NHS Trusts in the • Gastrointestinal (including Liver and Pancreatic) disease country, continuing increase the •M ental Health and Technology - to be delivered in partnership effective integration of research with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust within clinical care, initially across renal, breast and palliative care • Musculoskeletal disease and then across all other Divisional • Respiratory disease specialties and establishing a joint Oncology/Haematology phase one • A cross-cutting MRI theme (MRI was pioneered in Nottingham) clinical trial unit and a Cancer and Associated Specialties (CAS) wide phase two/three trial research facility. We will also aim to develop strengthened partnerships with Pharma and our collaboration with University of Nottingham for translational research. 22
Please refer to the full version of the NUH strategy and 2018/19 Annual Plan for year 1-3 milestones and fuller detail on our action plans. If you would like this document in another language or format, please contact: nuhcommunications@nuh.nhs.uk or call 0115 9249924 ext. 61975
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