Managing Quality assignment 2



As a care worker in a Prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections at NHS:

Quality control in NHS.

Improving and assuring the safety and quality of NHS commissioned and non-commissioned services are what every elected government apparently strives for. NHS has developed sound quality control procedures and systems to ensure the safety and promote the well-being of all NHS patients. The following are the building blocks of quality control mechanism at NHS.

Following all the national quality standards set by government. NHS ensures to follow the entire national level health care standards, developed by NSFs (National Service Frameworks) and NICE (National Institute for Clinical Excellence), in its systems, processes and procedures to ensure quality and promote well-being of all the patients at NHS.

Dependable local delivery in NHS organizations through the systems of clinical governance.

Strong monitoring mechanism: New statutory commission for keeping checks and balance on quality of the services and improve quality through continuous improvement by following NHS performance assessment framework and a national survey of NHS user and patient experience (Agarwal, 2006, Pp.16-18).

Using quality assurance procedures to guide my daily activities

NHS has quality assurance procedure to guide the daily activities of workers in basically PH36 Prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections. NHS with its Quality Framework provides guidance to health care professionals in their approach to quality assurance with commissioned services as well as within the commissioning process. NHS has laid down standard operating procedures, emergency measures, processes and system that put quality at the core of all pathways and service. The following are three core elements of NHS Quality Framework

The Vision

Everyone in UK will have an access to safe care that provides evidence based responsive and personalized service to every patients of NHS.

The Core Themes and the Priorities

Patient safety

Priorities

Prevention of healthcare associated infection

Safeguarding vulnerable children and adults

Learning on a continuous basis from clinical incidents in order to improve services and reduce risks

Acting and monitoring on variations in HSMR (Hospital Mortality Rates)

Clinical effectiveness

Priorities

Ensuring that the services are delivered and commissioned using the available evidence base, are outcome focused and reduce variations.

Patient Experience

Priorities

Monitoring and improving the experience of NHS patients who are accessing commissioned health care services.

Assurance

Priorities

Ensuring that all the service providers are appropriately registered with NHS CQC (Care Quality Commission)

Ensuring effective quality input into the commissioning cycle

Strengthening the quality evaluation of all the commissioned services

Policies and procedures in achieving quality care standards

Following the reports of National Audit Office that highlighted concerns about HCAIs, NHS in collaboration with Department of Health has introduced a range of measures and policies that are designed to minimize the rates of infection in all the patients at NHS. For instance, NHS made the surveillance mandatory to all the workers who are taking care of MRSA (meticillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus patients. The surveillance was made mandatory in 2001. In 2004, NHS in collaboration with Department of Health introduced a target to reduce the infections related to MRSA bloodstream by 50% by 2008 in all NHS foundation and acute trusts. In 2005, Health Act was introduced ...