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The Fifteen Steps Challenge – Quality from a patient’s perspective: A toolkit for clinics and outpatient settings

This document, focusing on clinics and outpatient settings, is part of a suite of toolkits for The Fifteen Steps Challenge, which helps to explore patient experience and are a way of involving patients, carers and families in quality assurance processes.

The Fifteen Steps Challenge – Quality from a patient’s perspective: Community care in a patient’s own home

This document, focusing on community care in a patient’s own home, is part of a suite of toolkits for The Fifteen Steps Challenge, which helps to explore patient experience and are a way of involving patients, carers and families in quality assurance processes.

The Fifteen Steps Challenge – Quality from a patient’s perspective: An mental health toolkit

This document, focusing on the mental health inpatient healthcare setting, is part of a suite of toolkits for The Fifteen Steps Challenge, which helps to explore patient experience and are a way of involving patients, carers and families in quality assurance processes.

The Fifteen Steps Challenge – Quality from a patient’s perspective: An inpatient toolkit

This document, focusing on the inpatient healthcare setting, is part of a suite of toolkits for The Fifteen Steps Challenge, which helps to explore patient experience and are a way of involving patients, carers and families in quality assurance processes.

The Fifteen Steps Challenge – Quality from a patient’s perspective: A guide for commissioners

This document, aimed at commissioners, is part of a suite of toolkits for The Fifteen Steps Challenge, which focuses on seeing care through a patient or carer’s eyes, and exploring their first impressions.

Cold weather alert: level 2 – alert and readiness

Issued at 8:46am on Monday 27 November 2017 There is an 80 per cent probability of severe cold weather/icy conditions between 9.00am on Monday 27 November and 9.00am on Saturday 2 December in parts of England. Cold weather could increase the health risks to vulnerable patients and disrupt the delivery of services. Find out more about […]

Improvements in document management frees up one hour of clinician time a day

Case study summary Parkview Surgery in Cleckheaton has three GPs and one nurse practitioner, serving over 7000 registered patients.  Document management was taking up a huge amount of clinicians’ time at the surgery.  Struggling to recruit new GPs and relying on locums who were reluctant to deal with post, the practice team recognised it had […]

Valuing patients’ time

The Chief Nursing Officer for England previews a new winter framework aimed at ensuring patients do not spend any time longer than they need to in hospital:  The last few months have been exceptionally busy in the NHS and I want to acknowledge all the hard work that has gone into planning for the challenges […]