NHS England’s quality functions: Responsibilities of providers, Integrated care Boards and NHS England (working document, July 2023)

Summary

This paper attached clarifies what statutory duties, accountabilities and responsibilities providers, Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and NHS England hold for quality. Please note this is a working document and will be updated.

Content

The functions covered are:

1. Strategic management of quality - National Quality Board and NHS England guidance,

2. Operational management of quality – Independent Investigations (including Mental Health Homicides); Regulation 28 reports; Professional Standards; Controlled Drugs Accountable Officer Function; Whistleblowing and Freedom to Speak Up; Quality Accounts; Medicines Optimisation; Infection Prevention and Control and Antimicrobial Resistance.

3. Patient safety - Insight, involvement and improvement (including medical examiners, patient safety improvement priorities, Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), Learning from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE).

4. Experience – Improving patient, service user and unpaid carer experience of care; insight and feedback.

5. Effectiveness – National Clinical Audits; NICE technologies appraisals and guidance.

6. Safeguarding – Safeguarding Assurance & Accountability Framework (SAAF), including Child Protection information System (CPIS) which includes all children on a protection plan (CPP) and looked after children (LAC); child death overview process (CDOP); Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews (CSPRs); Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs); Female Genital Mutilation (FGM); Prevent & Counter Terrorism and Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking; Serious Violence Duty.

7. Mental health, learning disabilities and autism.

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