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Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust secures place on ground-breaking scheme to transform care for patients

July 16, 2015
by Pareeta Nayee
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Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust is one of just five NHS trusts in the country set to benefit from the influence of internationally acclaimed healthcare experts as part of a new initiative launched by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt and the NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA) today.

The USA’s ‘Hospital of the Decade’ will mentor the Trust in an ambitious development programme – bringing their tried and tested system to East Surrey Hospital to help staff develop and deliver improvements in healthcare for local people.

As part of a trailblazing move to make the NHS one of the world’s greatest learning organisations, clinicians and leaders from the Virginia Mason Institute will teach our doctors and nurses the principles and systems that have made it so successful. The initiative is led by the TDA and will mean patients in our area can benefit from the systems that have led to Virginia Mason receiving awards for excellent and safe care.

Trust chief executive, Michael Wilson said: “We are delighted to be chosen as part of this development programme which will help us continue our journey of transformation and become one of the country’s safest hospitals, delivering world class services to the people we care for. ”

Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health, said: “I want to make the NHS the safest healthcare system in the world, powered by a culture of learning and continuous improvement.

“The achievements at Virginia Mason over the past decade are truly inspirational and I’m delighted they will now help NHS staff to learn the lessons that made their hospital one of the safest in the world – patients will see real benefits as a result.”
The initiative is to be led by the TDA as part of its focus on providing NHS Trusts with development support in order to improve care for patients across the country.

Bob Alexander, chief executive of the TDA, said: “This is great news for Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust. Since the TDA began, we have focused on helping organisations to improve. The Virginia Mason approach concentrates on ensuring each and every patient gets the safest, best quality care every time.

“Virginia Mason has demonstrated over the last decade that by getting the quality of care right for each patient this improves productivity and lowers cost through reducing waste.

“Through this partnership, five NHS Trusts will eliminate waste and concentrate on the things that add real value for patients and staff, leading to better, safer, more efficient care. They will lead the way in bringing some of the most innovative ways of working from one of the safest hospitals in the world into the NHS.”

After creating and implementing the Virginia Mason Production System, nurses were able to spend more time with their patients. Virginia Mason estimated that on average nurses spent about 35 percent of their time in direct patient care. After transforming its systems this increased to 90 percent.

Their approach is centered on enabling doctors and nurses to monitor patients and quickly attend to their needs. For example, the most commonly used supplies for each department were moved to patient rooms so nurses reduced walking back and forth to get them. Steps walked per day fell from 10,000 to roughly 1,200. They also developed innovative electronic dashboards to remind clinicians to address specific issues, for example to undertake a quality review for every critical care patient.

Staff from the Virginia Mason Institute will spend time at the Trust over the course of the next five years helping the doctors, nurses and leaders work out how they can improve using the tools developed in Seattle.

The programme will run over five years and set The Trust on the road to becoming a leading healthcare institution, at the same time sharing learning and benefitting the NHS as a whole.

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