Safe, high quality nursing, midwifery and therapy care at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Introduction

At Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) we know you expect our staff to take good care of you while you are a patient. It is our job to make sure the care we give is safe and of a high quality. We are always working to improve the quality and safety of care and improve the patient experience. We call this work our Nursing, Midwifery and Therapy Strategy. The strategy sets out our aims for care, and how we will achieve them.

You can find out more in this section of the website about what we are doing to improve the quality and safety of care at BHT.

An overview of our strategy

The strategy sets out 7 aims, these are:

1. To ensure safe care is delivered for all patients, their carers and families
2. To ensure high quality, effective care
3. To ensure care is delivered with compassion, respect, and dignity for all
4. There will be adequate levels of staffing
5. Improving patients’ experience
6. A culture of innovative and effective practice
7. Strengthen clinical leadership and innovation to deliver improved patient care experience

National guidance and support

There are two key national NHS initiatives that have strongly influenced how we make sure our care is safe and of high quality. These are:

• ‘Energise for Excellence’, developed by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, sets out everything that hospitals need to have in place to make sure their nursing care is of a high standard.
• ‘Safety Express’ which is a package of tools that helps hospitals to work towards reducing harm to patients caused by:
  • falls in hospital
  • blood clots developed in hospital
  • urine infections caused by catheters
  • pressure ulcers developed in hospital