28.08.14
Distance learning for NHS improvement
We are always interested to hear new ideas about how services can be improved across the NHS. So, it was quite interesting that Monitor has come out and said it is looking at how acute services are provided by hospitals in other countries including France, Germany, Canada and America to see what lessons the NHS can learn.
In particular, the regulator will examine how other countries set clinical standards and set out to achieve good quality care in a range of services including stroke, maternity, and A&E.
Amy Caldwell-Nichols, project director at Monitor said that the “challenges facing the NHS are well known and it is accepted that we must change and improve in order to survive”.
As part of the project, which follows on from the Facing the Future: smaller acute providers report published in June 2014, Monitor will share the comparative evidence on acute providers and its findings later this year.
It is hoped that the analysis will lead to examples of models of care which can be adapted by the NHS to deliver equivalent or better services more efficiently. We’d just like to say good luck and don’t forget your passport.
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