Issuing of Alerts & Advice

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Dear NHS Improvement,

1. Please can you provide a list of all alerts & advice that NHS Improvement has issued for 2015-2017 relating specifically to Mental Health Services?

2. Please can you provide a list of all alerts and advice that you have issued relating to:

A. Information handling & exchange including electronic or paper records ;

B. The use of care plans and/or Risk Assessments within the mental health setting;

C. The inclusion of family / carers within a beneficial relationship with patient and care providers;

D. Complacency in staff attitudes to enduring risk in long term care ;

E. Managing transition between services (including where the patient is moving away from local area)

Yours faithfully,

Darren Watts

FOI (NHS IMPROVEMENT - T1520), NHS Improvement

Dear Mr Watts,

Receipt of your request for information by email dated 30 July 2017 is acknowledged.

NHSI will respond promptly to your request within 20 working days following the date of receipt, so by 25 August 2017.

Yours sincerely,

NHS Improvement

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NHS Improvement is the operational name for the organisation that brings together Monitor, NHS Trust Development Authority, Patient Safety, the National Reporting and Learning System, the Advancing Change team and the Intensive Support Teams.

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FOI (NHS IMPROVEMENT - T1520), NHS Improvement

Dear Mr Watts,

 

NHS Improvement publishes news and alerts on its web-site [1]here

 

The national patient safety team at NHS Improvement issues advice and
guidance to providers of NHS-funded care in the form of Patient Safety
Alerts. You can read more about Patient Safety Alerts [2]here

 

A full list of the patient safety alerts issued by NHS Improvement can be
found [3]here

 

Please note that NHS Improvement was established in April 2016. Prior to
this, Patient Safety Alerts were issued by NHS England.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

NHS Improvement

T 0203 747 0000
W [4]improvement.nhs.uk
First floor Wellington House, 133-155 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8UG

 

Follow us on: [5]Twitter | [6]LinkedIn

 

NHS Improvement is responsible for overseeing foundation trusts, NHS
trusts and independent providers. We offer the support these providers
need to give patients consistently safe, high quality, compassionate care
within local health systems that are financially sustainable. By holding
providers to account and, where necessary, intervening, we help the NHS to
meet its short-term challenges and secure its future.

 

NHS Improvement is the operational name for the organisation that brings
together Monitor, NHS Trust Development Authority, Patient Safety, the
National Reporting and Learning System, the Advancing Change team and the
Intensive Support Teams.

 

 

 

Dear FOI (NHS IMPROVEMENT - T1520),

This response seems somewhat unhelpful and contrary to the nature of FOI?

The links that appeared to be embedded in your response did not work for me.

If you are saying that NHS Improvement cannot extract meaningful information from their databases , then this seems a little concerning ?

If there is a better way of phrasing my questions in relation to the data sets that are held , I would be happy to take advice.

Please could you re-consider the nature of your previous response and provide the information held as requested.

Yours sincerely,

Darren Watts

Dear FOI (NHS IMPROVEMENT - T1520),

In your initial response to my request , you directed me to look at your generic database. The links in your response did not work.

If I had been able to answer the request by looking at the generic database , I would NOT have submitted a FOI request !

Please could you answer the original questions , even if the answer is 'nothing is held'

Yours sincerely,

Darren Watts

FOI (NHS IMPROVEMENT - T1520), NHS Improvement

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Dear Mr Watts,

 

Please see the attached decision letter dated 8 September 2017.

 

Yours sincerely

 

NHS Improvement

T 0203 747 0000
W [1]improvement.nhs.uk
First floor Wellington House, 133-155 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8UG

 

Follow us on: [2]Twitter | [3]LinkedIn

 

NHS Improvement is responsible for overseeing foundation trusts, NHS
trusts and independent providers. We offer the support these providers
need to give patients consistently safe, high quality, compassionate care
within local health systems that are financially sustainable. By holding
providers to account and, where necessary, intervening, we help the NHS to
meet its short-term challenges and secure its future.

 

NHS Improvement is the operational name for the organisation that brings
together Monitor, NHS Trust Development Authority, Patient Safety, the
National Reporting and Learning System, the Advancing Change team and the
Intensive Support Teams.