In his latest blog, AQuA Chief Executive David Fillingham shares his thoughts on adapting Lean thinking within health and social care, and how this can be supported through improving Whole System Flow.
We've launched new partnerships with a number of national charities to ensure that the views and experiences of people who use services always remain at the heart of our regulation of health and social care in England.
We'll be working with Carers UK, Disability Rights UK, Mind, The National Autistic Society, Patients Association, and the Relatives & Residents Association, as ‘Tell us about your care’ partners.
This guideline covers preventing and controlling healthcare-associated infections in children, young people and adults in primary and community care settings. It provides a blueprint for the infection prevention and control precautions that should be applied by everyone involved in delivering NHS care and treatment.
England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals has rated the services provided by North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust as Good following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission in September.
The Trusts have created a new organisation called ‘North East Transformation Systems Ltd (NETS Ltd), which will help the NHS become more efficient and provide better patient care by adopting management techniques and improvement principles made famous by car manufacturing.
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