Champions and NHS Partners Meeting - November 2009
This meeting, the third national meeting of Champions and NHS Partners following on from the Induction Workshop that took place in May 2008, was held in London on 30th November.
Updates from Wales and each of the 10 SHA regions in England were provided in the delegate packs to inform participants about events and workstreams where champions had been, or were planned to be, involved.
Speakers included Martin Fletcher, Chief Executive NPSA, who proposed 10 areas where champions could get involved in the work of the NPSA. General discussion also took place about NPSA policies and Martin provided background to their planned activities. Emma Forbes from the NPSA extended project team, described the strengthening of the Being open policy and the recent events around the re-issue of the NPSA Alert for this.
Anna Allford, Project Manager, discussed the way in which the Formative Evaluation of the first year of the project had been conducted and the findings that had emerged. People involved in the project had responded to surveys and also given interviews that provided a narrative of their experience of being involved in the project. AvMA has made some recommendations in the report of the evaluation to inform the project. The report will be made available as soon as it is finalised.
International Speakers; Helle Eckeroth, Project Manager for the PFPS in-country project in Denmark, and Stine Elkjaer Larsen, a new Danish Champion, spoke about the way their project is working and Stine kindly shared her experience of being a patient. It was felt that there is much to learn from each other about the differences in the way the projects have developed but also it was agreed that there are some strong commonalties between the two.
One participant said "I loved the Danish presentation and the insights they brought with them."
Peter Walsh, Chief Executive of AvMA, led champions and NHS Partners in further discussions around the topics. Additional opportunities to discuss issues and concerns around patient safety with the project team had been built into the day. Importantly it was felt that looking forward to the future possibilities for partnership working, not only regionally/locally but nationally across agencies that have patient safety remits, is most valuable during these meetings.
The day was an exceptionally full one as always but much of the feedback has been about people reflecting on the role of champions and the way in which they can be involved in patient safety workstreams.
Click here to view or download Notes of the Meeting in WORD format
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Click here to view or download the PowerPoint presentation of Anna Allford
Click here to view or download the PowerPoint presentation of Helle Eckeroth
