‘National improvement board’ to be set up by NHS England

NHS England has launched a new framework for quality improvement and delivery, including a national board that will pick a “small number of shared national priorities”.

The new document says NHSE will “establish a national improvement board, to agree the small number of shared national priorities on which NHS England, with providers and systems, will focus our improvement-led delivery work”.

The review says NHSE will, among other actions: 

• Create a “national improvement board” to “agree a small number of shared national priorities and oversee the development and quality assure the impact of the NHS improvement approach”.
• Set an expectation that all NHS providers, working in partnership with integrated care boards, will embed a quality improvement method aligned with the NHS improvement approach”.
• Incentivise a universal focus on embedding and sustaining improvement practice”, including with “regulatory incentives alongside clearer and more timely offers of support.
• Work with the [Care Quality Commission] to align the revised CQC well-led [inspection method] with the improvement approach.

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Source: HSJ, 21 April 2023