NHS East Midlands provides strategic leadership to the NHS organisations in the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland. These organisations have a total NHS budget of £6billion, and serve a combined population of 4.3 million.
We have four main roles:-
- Strategic Leadership
- Development
- Co-ordination
- Performance Assurance
We also make sure that local health systems operate effectively and efficiently and that national standards and priorities are met, so that services for patients and the local communities we serve continually improve in line with Government policy.
NHS East Midlands promotes ‘joined up service’ provision between health and social care, supporting PCTs to work in partnership with local authorities to secure better joint-working solutions and seamless care for those who access these services.
Our Vision - innovating for excellence
Our regional clinical vision as set out in From Evidence to Excellence, is to create a stronger health system that is evidence-based, patient-centred, safe, high quality and championed by clinicians.
To achieve this, we are developing a coherent, over-arching quality strategy that will encompass;
- Clinical leadership development
- Service Improvement expertise and capacity
- Support and incentives for innovation
- Productivity and value for money
- Data analysis, interpretation and bench-marking
We see innovation as a key catalyst to pursue the goal of increased quality. We will maximise the benefit of research and service improvement by supporting the diffusion and adoption of innovation by all organisations for the benefit of patients.
Building the foundations for innovation
In April 2009, SHAs were given a new duty to promote innovation. To fulfill this duty, we have put in place a number of key building blocks to support and incentivise innovation.
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Building on the Regional Clinical Vision, from Evidence to Excellence, principles of co-production, two Chief Executive sponsors for innovation have been appointed: Peter Homa and Andrew Kenworthy. Peter Homa is Chief Executive of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and Andrew Kenworthy is Chief Executive of NHS Nottingham City and NHS Nottinghamshire County. Each organisation in the region has nominated a Board-level and operational lead for innovation who will work with the SHA to further develop our innovation strategy.
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We are using the new Regional Innovation Fund to increase the quantity, spread and speed of innovation, improve quality and increase productivity. there are 30 successful projects in total.
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We are working with PCTs to agree a small set of consistent quality and innovation metrics to be included in contracts.
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Through our East Midlands Quality Observatory, we have agreed key data sets to enable PCTs and other organisations to benchmark their outcomes and improvements locally and nationally.
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We are working closely with all major stakeholders in health and social care, industry, education, the voluntary and third sectors to develop clear priorities for action, identify key deliverables and agree measures for success.
