Implementing good practice across an organization
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 8:27PM The Practice Based Evidence consultancy has been engaged across 2010-11 by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust (formerly Hampshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust) to design and deliver a programme of practice development to focus on good practice in working with risk.
Phase 1:
Individual interviews and small group facilitated discussions with staff across the Acute Care Pathway (in-patient and CRHT) and Community Pathway. Identifying good practice from the experiences across current services, including a specific focus on positive risk-taking in practice. Developing draft practitioner guidelines to link with Trust policy statements, and to be read and used by all staff across all clinical teams/services.
Phase 2:
Facilitated team-based discussions with all services across the Trust, focusing on what constitutes good practice in working with risk. Using specifically designed Practice Based Evidence team practice evaluation tools to facilitate self-evaluations, and to produce evidence to inform subsequent individual, team and service development (see Working with Risk for a summary of 297 evaluation responses). The findings reflect an organization that is proactive in its focus and desire to examine and develop good practice, including responding constructively to perceptions of the organization being risk averse (views that are widely held by practitioners about their managers in all other organizations).
Phase 3:
Specific initiatives for developing practice in response to messages from Phase 2 evaluations. [Currently in development, to be reported at a later date].
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