NHS England Podcast

Key to the success of PSIRF is the application of system-based approaches to learning from patient safety incidents. In this podcast we talk about our learning response toolkit and are joined by guests Darren Thorne (Facere Melius), Jane Carthey (Human Factors and Patient Safety Consultant) and Laura Pickup (HSIB).

This podcast focuses on the training NHS organisations should ensure staff undertake as part of their preparation for the implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) by Autumn 2023. The podcast provides an introduction to the training requirements, the PSIRF training procurement framework, training offered by the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch, and an overview...

Published alongside the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework(PSIRF), the ‘Guide to engaging and involving patients, families and staff following a patient safety incident’ sets out expectations for how those affected by an incident should be treated with compassion and involved in any investigation process. The guide has been produced by NHS England in partnership with the Healthcare Safety...

The NHS England National Patient Safety Team has produced two podcasts to provide an overview of the background and development of the new National Maternity Early Warning Score (MEWS) tool. This is the first of two podcasts from the NHS England National Patient Safety Team. In this first podcast, Professor Marian Knight, University of Oxford; Professor Peter Watkinson, Oxford University Hospitals...

The NHS England National Patient Safety Team has produced two podcasts to provide an overview of the background and development of the new National Maternity Early Warning Score (MEWS) tool. This is the second of two podcasts from the NHS England National Patient Safety Team. In this second podcast, Tony Kelly, National Clinical Advisor Maternity & Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme (MatNeoSIP)...

In this podcast, you can learn more about what autism is, what it’s like to be autistic and how to make simple, reasonable adjustments. It features a discussion with Dr Anita Pearson, GP and National Speciality Advisor, Autism and two team members with lived experience: Aaron Senior who is autistic and Fazilla Amide, a family carer, who are all employed within the Learning Disability and Autism pr...

Podcast from the NHS England and NHS Improvement National Patient Safety Team, where Tracey Herlihey, head of patient safety incident response policy, and Lauren Mosley, head of patient safety implementation, talk about the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) which will be launched in Spring 2022. The framework is a key component of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy, and will outline...

In a wide-ranging conversation Sean Duggan, Chief Executive of the Mental Health Network at NHS Confederation, and Melanie Walker, Chief Executive of Devon Partnership NHS Trust, take a detailed look at provider collaboratives and the fundamental role they play in integrated care systems. With a particular focus on mental health, they draw attention to the need for early intervention and investmen...

James Pollitt, Assistant Director of Strategic Development at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, and Jean Templeton, Chief Executive at the youth homeless charity St Basils, discuss how the NHS in their ICS is working with partners to enable social and economic development, and why other systems should be following suit. The lively discussion sees James and Jean discuss how partnership workin...

Autumn’s Integrated Care Podcast Series kicks off this week with a deep-dive into Somerset ICS’s journey to substantially improve mental health services through NHS, local authority and VCSE partnership. Their way of working, “a masterclass in positive risk taking and leadership” as Jane Yeandle from Somerset NHS Foundation Trust puts it, has seen a model influenced by co-production and an innovat...

A discussion on how partnership working is building stronger ties between housing and health that is seeing positive outcomes for local populations. Work that is achieving vast efficiencies, while also seeing a reduction in people needing to contact their local GP or NHS111. All accomplished in part by focusing on the solution rather than the process, taking the time to get it right and remaining...

The creation of a shared purpose is seeing great improvements for patients in the Sussex Health and Care Partnership, as organisations in the integrated care system work closer together to meet the changing needs of the local population. A great example of this is the Mental Health Collaborative that recognises mental health and wellbeing as the responsibility of the whole health and care system....

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The last session of the fourth meeting of the NHS Assembly focused on the Future of General Practise. Listen to our third and final podcast to find out what happened when Simon Enright, caught up with Dr Vishanka Ratnasuriya and Clare Gerada after their session. The podcast also features an interview with Dr Nikki Kanani, Director of Primary Care for NHS England and NHS Improvement who is chairing...

Prerana Issar, Chief People Officer at NHS England and NHS Improvement returned to the Assembly to discuss the work needed to support the implementation of the NHS people plan. Building on this discussion in the second podcast we've created a special podcast about supporting NHS staff, and stamping out racism in the NHS. This conversation features Prerana Issar, Chief People Officer at NHS England...

The Assembly heard from Professor Michael West, Visiting Fellow at the Kings Fund and author of the report Caring for Doctors, Caring for Patients, which directly connects the wellbeing of doctors with better patient outcomes and experience. Simon Enright, Director of Communications at NHS England and NHS Improvement, caught up with Michael after his session regarding workforce. Listen to the inte...

With Population Health Management (PHM) charting the way for systems and primary care networks (PCNs) to precisely understand the people in their communities who need more support we hear from a team in Berkshire West integrated care system (ICS) already using these techniques. Bringing together colleagues from across the system – GPs, data analysts, acute specialists, third sector and many more –...

Episode 17 - NHS Assembly: The NHS Assembly Podcast - September 5th Edition by NHS England

Professor Jaqueline Dunkley Bent – Chief Midwifery Officer for England talks to Jessica Clasby-Monk, David Monteith and Hayley Leyshon about how we can better work with bereaved parents to make maternity services safer in future. They are joined by Lisa Ramsey, Service User Lead for NHS England and NHS Improvement.

Michael Wood, Head of Health Economic Partnerships at NHS Confederation leads a discussion with colleagues in Dorset integrated care system (ICS) about how place-based partnership working, particularly between the ICSs, Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEP), universities and others can be of enormous benefit to a system and its population. It's the forging of mutually beneficial partnerships to infl...

Clinical leadership is key to serving the needs of local populations and making true integrated care a reality - but how can health and care systems support clinicians into these vital leadership roles? In our latest podcast, Dr Amanda Doyle, GP and leader of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS), is joined by Professor Des Breen, medical director for South Yorkshire and Ba...

This is the first in the NHS Assembly podcast series, covering a range of topics discussed during the second meeting of the assembly held in July 2019 including making the NHS the best place to work, the NHS's contribution to carbon neutrality and how the NHS supports carers within and outside the workforce.

England’s first Chief Midwifery Officer, Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, talks to Chief Nurses Mandie Sunderland from Nottingham University Hospitals and Alison Smith from North Cumbria University Hospital around the importance of delivering continuity of carer to women who will benefit from this the most and how senior nursing leaders can help achieve this. The long-term plan pledges that we w...

England’s first Chief Midwifery Officer, Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, talks to Chief Nurses Kim O’Keefe from Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust and Pippa Nightingale from Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals around the importance of delivering continuity of carer to women who will benefit from this the most and how senior nursing leaders can help achieve this. The long term plan pledges that we wil...

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