DH seeks views of commissioners of health and wellbeing

The primary care and community services team at the Department of Health is preparing a guide to commissioning health and wellbeing services, which will look at, among others, practical measures of support for commissioners. The DH PCCS team is running an online survey to seek the views of primary care and practice-based commissioners.

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Help improve the PCC website

A major overhaul of the PCC website is planned for later this year, so the views of users of the site would be invaluable. Please take the five-minute survey and help shape the site you want.
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National NHS inpatient survey 2009 -From the Picker Institute

The Picker Institute will be offering the national inpatient survey this September, providing trusts the opportunity to monitor progress and benchmark their services against the last six such surveys. Visit their website to learn about the service the Picker Institute offers or for an example report and further information contact Nick Pothecary.

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GP Patient Survey Results

The results of the GP Patient Survey run between January and April 2009 have now been published.
In order to help with access to the results of the survey a separate website has been provided for the results to be shown online.
The GP Patient Survey Results website is designed to help people find additional information about the GP Patient Survey and view the final results of the survey run between January and April 2009. It also has links to data published from previous waves of the survey.
To access this website please click here.

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Have your say on the future of nursing and midwifery

The Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery wants your views about nursing and midwifery by 10 August 2009. Lord Darzi’s High Quality for All identified nurses and midwives as key to providing quality care. Following this, the Prime Minister launched the Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery in March 2009. It has been set up to ensure that frontline nurses and midwives have the support, skills and competencies that they will need to design and deliver 21st century quality services. You can submit your views here!

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The Productive Ward survey for maternity and delivery units

The Productive Series is carrying out a survey into how it can benefit maternity services/delivery units. We would like to hear from organisations that have implemented the programme in both maternity wards/delivery units, including those that have not done so yet but are interested in doing so. Please click here to participate in the survey.

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The first national Innovation and Improvement Survey for the NHS

Are you interested in making the NHS better for patients, families, the public and NHS staff? The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has launched the first nationwide Innovation and Improvement survey specifically designed for the NHS. It offers all NHS staff an opportunity to influence the national innovation and improvement agenda. It is your chance to have your say and help the NHS Institute to understand what is needed to create the best solutions to some of the biggest challenges that face NHS staff and organisations.

The survey will capture the challenges that you are facing and will provide an insight into what you need to help improve patient care and the health of the population. It gives you the opportunity to feed back information about the ways you are already improving your services and captures your ideas about how innovation for improvement in the NHS could be even better. The survey is now live and will close on the 8 June.

The potential of this is phenomenal. The results will be the main mechanism that informs the programmes of work that happen at national and regional level in the NHS over the next year.
The survey is open to all NHS staff. There are two things that we would like you to do:
1. Complete the online survey, it takes around 10 minutes. To complete your survey, go to www.institute.nhs.uk/innovationsurvey
2. Forward this link to anyone else who will be interested in having their say and influencing the national innovation agenda

Please note:
Results will only be analysed at nationwide and SHA level and will not be analysed at the level of an individual NHS organisation or team. All responses will be anonymous and no individual responses will be shared. It will not be possible for anyone to identify respondents as a result of the survey.When the survey is complete, everyone who has completed the survey will have the option to view their results in comparison to the overall responses.

Knowledge Management Specialist Library Survey Now Available

The Knowledge Management Specialist Library is very interested in your views and would like to know why you use the NHS Knowledge Management Specialist Library, so why not take their short survey now!

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Health Service Journal and Nursing Times - Survey on nutritional care and management in the NHS

Sister magazines Health Service Journal and Nursing Times are carrying out a survey on nutritional care and management in the NHS.
They are researching the progress made since the first national plan for improving nutritional care was launched by the Department of Health in October 2007 and would really appreciate it if you could take five minutes to answer a few, short questions. The survey will close this Monday at 5.30pm and the results will be published in the magazines and websites.
If you haven't already entered the survey, please click here to have your say

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Give your views to the NHS Institue on training for service improvement

The NHS Institute is considering offering training courses for frontline staff, managers and service improvement teams. They would like your help in shaping the types of service improvement training on offer. Please click here to complete a five minute survey about what matters to you and how training should be tailored to your needs. The Institute are seeking feedback from all types of NHS organisation and as many different roles as possible, therefore please forward this on to any colleagues and contacts who may like to contribute their views.

Innovation Practitioner Programme Survey

The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has developed a suite of innovation products and is considering consolidating these into a coherent package which would support innovation for improvement within the NHS. Current plans are to deliver this through an Innovation Practitioner Programme. In order to design a truly useful and relevant programme for the NHS we would value your opinion and would be most grateful if you could spare a few minutes to answer a few questions on the subject in a quick online survey.
The online survey will take only 5 minutes to complete access it here!

Invitation to Contribute to Kings Fund Survey on Commissioning

The King's Fund would like to invite you to contribute to a national survey on the subject of PCTs' use of external support for commissioning. This research is aimed at informing and influencing the World Class Commissioning policy by developing an understanding of the national picture of PCTs' developmental needs with respect to their commissioning function. In particular, The King's Fund are interested in the role that external organisations are playing in supporting such improvements – what is happening, in what areas, and whether this support is proving beneficial.The King's Fund are therefore inviting all PCT and SHA employees with knowledge of this area to give information on their experiences. Take part in the survey or click here to find out further information.