Quality and performance
Quality strategy
High quality care should be as safe and effective as possible, with patients treated with compassion, dignity and respect. As well as clinical quality and safety, quality means care that is personal to each individual.
View our Quality Strategy 201215
Clinical Strategy
This three-year Clinical Strategy, is driven by our commitment to quality and builds upon the work of primary, community and secondary care clinicians and social care colleagues who over the past few years have worked together to improve the services available to people in central and eastern Cheshire, south Cheshire and Vale Royal. It provides direction to the next stage of the transformation of clinical services over the next three years which will result in:
- more people being treated in their local community
- more people being treated in their own homes
- more efficient and responsive services.
View the Clinical Strategy
Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Healthcare Professionals Strategy
This strategy has been developed to provide a framework for Nurses, Midwives, and Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) in East Cheshire NHS Trust to identify the priorities and actions required during the next three years. The priorities support the Trust’s Clinical and Quality Strategies and our ambition to ensure that quality is at the forefront of everything we do. We will deliver this ambition in partnership with our medical colleagues and other health and social care professionals.
Our Nursing Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals Strategy will ensure that we:
- Have the right number and correct skill mix of staff to deliver quality patient care and that all staff are competent and fit for practice
- Deliver clinical excellence in all care settings at all times
- Continuously improve the care we deliver
- Treat all patients with compassion, dignity and respect
- Support all staff in their roles to deliver clinical excellence
View the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Healthcare Professionals Strategy
Preceptorship framework for newly registered healthcare professionals
East Cheshire Trust is committed to supporting newly registered health professionals, those returning to practice or entering a different part of the register, for example Specialist Community Public Health Nurses through a period of preceptorship.
Preceptorship is ‘a period of structured transition for the Newly Qualified Practitioner (NQP) during which he or she will be supported by a preceptor, to develop their confidence as an autonomous professional, refine skills, values and behaviours and to continue on their journey of life-long learning (Department of Health 2010).
The period of preceptorship will assist newly registered practitioners to make a smooth transition to enable them to be confident and competent autonomous professionals. (DOH 2011).
The preceptorship period will normally last six months but this may vary according to individual need and local circumstance. (NMC 2006).
View the trust’s preceptorship framework
Our quality
Patient experience - privacy and dignity
The trust has focussed on continuing to improve privacy and dignity for patients. Alterations have been made to increase the number of bathrooms and toilets and additional staff training has been given.
The trust provides same sex accommodation unless there is clinical justification for an exception.
Performance against national standards - targets
Advancing Quality fourth year results published
The quality of care in North West hospitals is continuing to improve, according to new figures released by Advancing Quality today. The fourth annual results from the programme show the region's NHS trusts achieved improvements of more than 30 per cent in key quality measures designed to drive up standards.
East Cheshire NHS Trust are pleased with the latest set of results from the Advancing Quality programme which show there has been an overall improvement in the care we deliver to patients with heart conditions.
The trust are committed to providing excellent quality care for our patients and these latest results highlight our commitment and achievements in specific clinical areas. The programme has highlighted areas where the trust can improve and learn lessons from other hospitals and the trust are now beginning to see clear improvements in the way we are treating and caring for our patients across all four areas.
View the trust results
CQC standards
The CQC regulates care provided by the NHS, local authorities, private companies and voluntary organisations. They aim to make sure better care is provided for everyone - in hospitals, care homes and people's own homes and ensure standards are met.
View the trust's standards of care page
