‘Culture battle’ over NHS England’s emergency recovery plans
Senior sources have described a ‘culture battle’ in NHS England’s approach to urgent care recovery after systems were told to carry out “maturity” self-assessments, and appoint “champions” to drive improvements.
Systems were last week told by NHSE to ”self assess” their compliance against key asks in the UEC recovery plan, and asked to nominate urgent care “recovery champions” to “create a community, close to the front line, who can help drive improvement” in emergency care.
The “champions” and self-assessments are part of a new “universal offer” of support being drawn up by NHSE under its scheme for urgent care recovery, in which Integrated Care Boards are also being placed in “tiers” of intervention.
It is the first project carried out under NHSE’s new service improvement banner, called “NHS Impact” or “improving patient care together”, which was established after an internal review recommended it should focus on a “small number of shared national priorities”.
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Source: HSJ, 18 July 2023