Network group march 2016

Public Health England leads the NHS Screening Programmes

Who are the Screening QA Service?

2 Midlands and East Screening QA Service

Department of Health

Public Health England (PHE)

Health and Wellbeing Directorate

Programme Improvement and Delivery Division

National Screening Committee and SQAS

Function of Quality Assurance

‘ doing the right things right’ – Sir Muir Gray.

What does this mean –

• Screening is performed to acceptable standards.

• Patient safety

• Constantly striving to improve


How does QA do this?• Provide advice to programmes and commissioners

• Monitor performance of screening programmes using pathway standards reports, referral trackers and other activity data

• Participate in programme management boards

• Advise on potential screening safety incidents and serious incidents in accordance with national guidance

• Undertake QA visits to providers to assess the quality of the screening pathway and to ensure that service is delivered in accordance with national standards

• Share with the national programme learning and outcomes for incidents and findings from QA visits to support service improvements


AAA QA visits

• Prioritisation schedule - many East of England AAA programmes

were implemented in phase 3.

• All programmes will be subject to a full QA visit during the first cycle.

• Desktop review will be introduced from the second cycle.

• Midlands and East’s first visit was completed in February at

Birmingham.

• More professional/clinical advisors (PCAs) needed!



Objectives of QA visit

• QA led process with professional / clinical advisor support

• Examine quality of care

• Verify achievement of minimum standards

• Identify and disseminate best practice – gain knowledge & expertise

• Share experiences & understanding and contribute to national development

AAA QA visit timeline


- 6 months

Agree date,receive formal

notification

Visit day

+ 4

Draft report issued

Receive• contact list• room agenda• self assessment questionnaire

Complete and return• contact list• room agenda

Familiarisation visit

Returnself assessment

questionnaire

- 2 months

Return draftreport

- 5 months + 6weeks

+ 8

Final report issued

Action plan

Complete questionnaire

After a visitPCAs provide their report to SQAS

SQAS produces the draft report and issues to programme to check for factual accuracy

Final report issued to programme

Executive summary of the final report is published on PHE website

Programme develops action plan to manage the implementation of recommendations that is then monitored by the programme board


Network group march 2016

Healthcare

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