Leading Better Care - Delivering for Patients
Leading Better Care enables Senior Charge Nurses / Midwives and Team Leaders to deliver better care in consistent, measurable, evidence based way
To achieve this vision, the following aims and objectives have been agreed:
LBC Aims
- All Senior Charge Nurses, Senior Charge Midwives and Team Leaders will be working in the context of the LBC components:
- To ensure safe and effective clinical practice
- To enhance the patients experience
- To manage and develop the performance of the team
- To ensure effective contribution to the delivery of the organisations objectives
by March 2013 and able to demonstrate this.
- Nurses & Midwives will be able to demonstrate the contribution they make to the quality and experience of care that patients receive under the three themes by March 2013:
- Safe
- Effective
- Person centred
Patient Safety
The vast majority of health care workers are hard-working, dedicated professionals who go to work with the intention of delivering high quality, safe care to their patients.
The patient safety paradox
Health care aims to preserve life, treat disease and alleviate suffering - an aim seemingly synonymous with 'safety'. This aim is central to the history and culture of the caring professions and is expressed through maxims such as 'first do no harm'. However, over the last two decades it has become increasingly and undeniably clear that patients are harmed directly and indirectly through their contact with health care.
A number of high-profile cases have been widely reported in the media and helped to focus the attention of the public, politicians and health care workers on the scale of the patient safety problem. Patient safety has become a national and international priority. NHS Scotland is the first health service in the world to adopt a national approach to improving patient safety.
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Patient Safety Newsfeeds
National Patient Safety Agency
- Harm from flushing of nasogastric tubes before confirmation of placement
- NRLS Quarterly Data Workbook up to September 2011
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Institute of Medicine: Quality and Patient Safety
- Committee on Improving the Quality of Cancer Care: Addressing the Challenges of an Aging Population - Meeting 1
- Roundtable on Health Literacy
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