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
About the Framework
Practice Development uses a range of approaches to support change in healthcare at local and national level.
This framework describes practice development as having 3 key components:
- evidence (in its broadest sense)
- quality improvement processes
- and / or interventions and approaches to sustaining change.
The development and improvement of clinical practice is underpinned by the framework's other components:
- person-centred approaches
- strong leadership
- and relevant programmes of learning and development.
This framework requires a values-based approach and commitment to integrating practice development within a wider quality improvement, clinical governance and service redesign agenda.
Delivering Care, Enabling Health provided the impetus for this work by inviting Healthcare Improvement Scotland to develop a strategy for practice development in Scotland. This was taken forward in close collaboration with NHS Education for Scotland (NES).
