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Brenda Prentice

Dear NHS Improvement,

NHS Improvement is holding workshops on the 'future of patient safety'.

Please tell me what is the budget for these workshops?
What is the budget for NHS Improvement as a whole?
Will public attending have their travel expenses paid?

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-...

I am surprised there is a need for these workshops.

I would have thought all the information gleaned from the many of the public enquiries and other enquires, reports and so, would have been information enough to start work on the ACTIONS to improve the NHS. More hot air is not a requirement.

How do these workshops hope to improve on what is already in the public domain?

Yours faithfully,

Brenda Prentice

Brenda Prentice

Dear NHS Improvement,

Please respond to this request.

Yours faithfully,

Brenda Prentice

enquiries,

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Dear Ms Prentice,

 

Thank you for your request for information regarding the workshops NHS
Improvement are holding to discuss the future of patient safety
investigation in the NHS. We will be treating your email dated 2 May 2018
as an enquiry as opposed to a request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act.

 

The workshops are being held to support the wider engagement programme NHS
Improvement are running which seeks views on how  and when Serious
Incidents should be reported and investigated in the NHS.

 

While many reports and enquiries have described the problems associated
with Serious Incident management, there has not been enough analysis of
why such problems occur. The workshops we are delivering aim to bring
stakeholders (including NHS staff, staff across arm’s length bodies,
patients, families, and members of the public) together to build knowledge
and understanding in relation to underlying causal factors, and consider
how we can work together to address these issues so that the quality of
investigation and it’s management can improve.  

 

The budget for these workshops was between £2,000 – £3,000 depending on
location. All events were booked through a central booking system to
ensure we booked venues that offered the best value for money.

 

The public and patient representatives invited to attend and co-present at
these workshops will have their travel expenses paid. Other attendees are
expected to cover their own costs.

 

Regarding the budget for NHS Improvement as a whole, as you may be aware,
as part of the creation of NHS Improvement which took effect from 1 April
2016, NHS TDA and Monitor were brought under joint leadership and working
arrangements. Both organisations now operate under the umbrella of NHSI
but remain separate legal entities.

 

The main source of funding for Monitor is Government grant-in-aid from the
Department of Health. This is credited to the general reserve as it is
received. In addition, Monitor receives income as a result of its
operating activities. Details of which can be found  from page 130 of
[1]Monitor: annual report and accounts 2016/17.

 

The NHS TDA continues to be resourced by the Department of Health and
Social Care. [2]The NHS Trust Development Authority: annual report and
accounts 2016/17 also contains information about parliamentary funding.

 

I hope this information is of use.

 

 

Kind regards

 

 

Claire Upton | Enquiries Manager

T 020 3747 0097
E [3][email address] | W [4]improvement.nhs.uk
Wellington House, 133-155 Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8UG

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Brenda Prentice

Dear enquiries,

I simply don't understand why if two organisations are 'brought together' they remain separately funded?
At the Ombudsman open meeting 22nd May, I was told NHS Improvement do not look at personal cases?

Please tell me what is the difference between Monitor and NHS Improvement?
I take it Monitor does still exist, so please tell me for what purpose?
Does Monitor investigate cases?
I would also like to volunteer my services as a parent of a patient where a serious incident took place.
Yours
Brenda

While many reports and enquiries have described the problems associated
with Serious Incident management, there has not been enough analysis of
why such problems occur. The workshops we are delivering aim to bring
stakeholders (including NHS staff, staff across arm’s length bodies,
patients, families, and members of the public) together to build knowledge
and understanding in relation to underlying causal factors, and consider
how we can work together to address these issues so that the quality of
investigation and it’s management can improve.
Regarding the budget for NHS Improvement as a whole, as you may be aware,
as part of the creation of NHS Improvement which took effect from 1 April
2016, NHS TDA and Monitor were brought under joint leadership and working
arrangements. Both organisations now operate under the umbrella of NHSI
but remain separate legal entities.

Yours sincerely,

Brenda Prentice

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Dear Ms Prentice,

Thank you for your email dated 27 May.

About Monitor

Monitor was established in January 2004 to authorise and regulate NHS
foundation trusts. As you may be aware, the Health and Social Care Act
2012 made changes to the way health care was regulated in order to
strengthen the way patients’ interests are promoted and protected.
Monitor’s role changed significantly as we took on a number of new
responsibilities. Monitor became the sector regulator for health care,
which meant that we regulate all providers of NHS funded services in
England, except those that are exempt under secondary legislation. During
2013 we started to introduce a licence for providers of NHS-funded care.
We also began to manage key aspects of health care regulation, including:

·       regulating prices

·       enabling services to be provided in an integrated way

·       safeguarding choice and competition

·       supporting commissioners so that they can ensure essential health
services continue to run if a provider gets into financial difficulties.

 

Monitor continues to carry out these functions under the operational name
of NHS Improvement. But has no role in the NHS complaints process or
investigating personal cases, this remains true of NHS Improvement

 

NHS Improvement

In June 2015 the Secretary of State announced the move to a single leader
of Monitor and the Trust Development Authority -the organisation
responsible for overseeing the performance management and governance of
NHS Trusts, including clinical quality, and managing their progress
towards foundation trust status.

 

NHS Improvement (NHS I) is the operational name for the organisation which
is bringing together two distinct legal entities, namely Monitor and the
NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA) and it is for this reason that NHS I
is funded separately. Four other teams from other bodies (Patient Safety
Domain from NHS England, the Advancing Change team from NHSE, the National
Reporting and Learning System and Intensive Support Teams from NHS
InterimManagement and Support) also joined NHSI, which was formally launch
in April 2016.

 

NHSI’s vision is better health, transformed care delivery and sustainable
finances; its purpose is to support NHS providers and local health systems
to improve. Building on best practice from our constituent parts, our aim
is to focus first on helping providers and systems tackle the challenges
they face, in the context of holding boards of directors to account for
their actions against clear expectations. We will intervene using our
legal powers only where necessary.

Therefore, NHSI will be a combination of the continuing statutory
functions and legal powers vested separately in Monitor and the TDA, and
of the complementary

functions of the said four teams.

 

Volunteering in the NHS

There are various routes into volunteering in the NHS. You can find
information about patient and public participation on NHS England’s
[1]website.

 

I hope this information is of use.

 

Kind regards

 

 

Claire Upton | Enquiries Manager

T 020 3747 0097
E [2][email address] | W [3]improvement.nhs.uk
Wellington House, 133-155 Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8UG

NHS Improvement

 

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We support providers to give patients safe, high quality, compassionate
care within local health systems that are financially sustainable.

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Brenda Prentice

Dear enquiries,

Thank you Claire for a very clear and precise picture. It is very complicated. I do wonder why it has been made so complicated and I feel this is where so much money is spent in the NHS, not on the front line.

Yours sincerely,

Brenda Prentice

enquiries,

Thank you for your email. Please accept this automated response as
acknowledgement that we have received your email. Please do not reply to
this specific email. We will reply to you within 18 working days.

 

Please note, if you have copied NHS Improvement into the email you have
sent us, rather than sending it directly to us, we will not reply to your
email, but we will retain any information relevant to our role. You can
find out more about our role on our website, [1]www.improvement.nhs.uk.

 

If your email is a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000,
please re-send it to [2][email address] and we will respond within 20
working days of receipt.

 

 

NHS Improvement

 

[3]www.improvement.nhs.uk
Wellington House, 133-155 Waterloo Road. London SE1 8UG

 

Follow us on: [4]Twitter | [5]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.

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