NEWS CULTURE UNMASKED IN BEST AND
WORST NHS HOSPITAL TRUSTS A new report published by Pulse UK, finds stark trends in the workforce culture of the best and worst performing hospital trusts. Key findings include staff at ‘inadequate’ hospital trusts being 20% less likely to believe their trust prioritises patient care than at ‘outstanding’ trusts.
The report is based on research of Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection reports and NHS data. It also finds staff at ‘inadequate’ trusts, when compared to peers at ‘outstanding’ rated trusts, are:
• 20% less likely to recommend their organisation as a place to work or receive treatment
• Less confident in reporting unsafe clinical practice
• Less likely to find the procedures for reporting unsafe clinical practice fair or effective
Dennis Bacon, Executive Chairman at Pulse UK, said: “If ever there was a time for NHS providers, arms- length bodies and everyone across the health sector to ‘get serious’ about workforce culture, it is now.
We are calling on the system to stop confronting the symptoms of poor culture and start tackling the systemic route causes.”
With culture set to be a central tennet of the forthcoming NHS national patient safety strategy, the report calls for NHS trusts to measure and report their culture in the same way they would report their finances and A&E waiting times to NHS Improvement or the CQC.
The research also finds notable trends in leadership and strategy, with CQC inspectors citing supportive and cohesive leadership teams and a unifying vision and strategy as central to the success of ‘outstanding’ trusts. Meanwhile ‘inadequate’ trusts tolerate high levels of risk to patient safety and suffer from a workforce disconnected from the trust’s vision.
Another significant challenge facing the NHS is the growing turnover of trust executives. The report calls for NHS leaders to be given adequate time to implement change programmes, discouraging quick fixes in favour of getting to the root cause of why a trust may be struggling.
https://pulseuk.org/
SITEZONE WELCOMES NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
EXECUTIVE Proximity warning system supply specialists, SiteZone Safety, has hired Gareth Evans as its new Business Development Executive. He joins at a time when the company is preparing to approach new markets in industrial equipment and construction.
Gary Escott, Director of SiteZone Safety said: “The SiteZone team is delighted to have Gareth on board. With his wealth of experience and understanding of the safety culture and distribution links that we are trying to cultivate, we look forward to our next phases of growth being enhanced by his input.”
Gareth brings with him several years’ experience in distribution, sales and manufacture of specialist equipment across different sectors. The majority of his expertise has been in supply and distribution for off-highway plant and machinery safety systems for vehicular use, for sectors in which SiteZone operates.
Gareth said: “Joining the SiteZone Safety team is a fresh and new adventure. I’m looking forward to helping them grow, in the spirit of collaboration and innovation that has made SiteZone such a valued safety product.”
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