NHS Improvement outlines strategy for providers

NHS Improvement, the body responsible for overseeing improvement in trusts and independent providers, has published its vision for providers in 2020.

The regulator will set out the first of a series of ‘roadmaps’ from national health bodies which will support its objective to turn the Five Year Forward View into a reality. It is also due to unveil how it plans to support providers in tackling the current operational and financial challenges facing the health service.

Jim Mackey, chief executive of NHS Improvement, will set out how the new organisation will create the conditions for real and lasting change in the NHS.

He said: “NHS Improvement will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the service, whether that is in getting a grip on the financial situation or providing stability and offering support as our NHS seeks to change and improve to meet the needs of its patients.

“Clinical expertise will be at the heart of our work. That’s why we’re setting up an Improvement Faculty to advise and lead the creation of an ‘Improvement Movement’ across the NHS. This expert team will include internationally respected clinical leaders such as Lord Darzi, Don Berwick and David Fish, among others. We’ll also be establishing networks of clinical leaders across the service to work alongside our medical and nursing directors.”

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt added: “It is our shared ambition that the NHS becomes the world’s largest learning organisation – so that patient safety and higher quality care are both embedded at the heart of the health system.

“Under the expert leadership of Jim Mackey and his executive team, NHS Improvement will ensure that providers get the support they need to provide excellent care for patients every day of the week.”