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
Practice Development Framework
This framework provides 6 key elements to consider when planning any practice development activity.
- Evidence
- Improvement Processes
- Enabling and Sustaining Change
- Person-centredness
- Leadership and Facilitation
- Learning and Development
Use the framework to support a range of improvement initiatives such as:
- implementing a national standard
- planning a clinical audit
- patient safety work
- introducing a care pathway
- developing improvements locally.
Work through each element in the order they appear. The relationship between elements is important.
Go to evidence first. This may help you choose a quality improvement process or intervention. Now plan to enable and sustain change. The other elements person-centredness, leadership and learning will make your change effective.
At each stage you will find:
- key questions
- points to consider
- examples from practice
- links to further resources.
