We know your NHS, the services and support we provide are important to you, your family and your community. We want to listen and involve you in shaping and planning the things we are doing to improve.
Your voice and your experiences are the core ingredients to building better services together, and there are lots of opportunities to get involved and be part of monitoring, developing, and transforming our future.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust faces a significant challenge to rapidly improve the quality of our services to provide the standards of care deserved by our patients.
We have launched an ambitious integrated plan to cover all our improvement work, called ‘The Big Improvement Plan’, or simply ‘Our BIG plan’, which includes all the actions we must do as part of the special review commissioned by government earlier this year, as well as other ideas to make services better for our patients in the long term.
The Big Improvement Plan is an opportunity for all our staff, patients, and carers to work together to help steer these improvements.
Colleagues from across the Trust have taken the opportunity to speak directly to senior leaders about the plan at a series of roadshow events.
We call these events the Big Conversations, and we want to involve patients and carers in these discussions too.
There are five key areas in our Big Improvement Plan with a range of different proposals for improvements under each heading. To make sure we are focussing on the right priorities, we want to involve the people who use our services and have lived experience. We hope this will help us understand what works well now and where we need to make improvements.
We have listed these five key areas below, with a few examples of work already happening. The information below is also available to download here (PDF Form) (opens in new window)
We are focusing on delivering sustainable improvements for safety and quality, for patients and their carers and families, on the services and support we provide.
For example:
We have been looking at the way we support leaders across the Trust.
The plan looks at saving money in the way we use buildings and facilities and proposes changes to financial controls. Most of the proposals aim to improve patient experience and outcomes as well as save money to reinvest in services.
This work is about investing in people within the Trust, to encourage good staff to stay with us as well as attract the best new talent.
The final key area is Governance, and describes how the Trust will be held to account.