Oral Evidence Apr. 23 2024
Committee: Education Committee (Department: Department for Education)Found: Departments.
Written Evidence Apr. 23 2024
Inquiry: City Region and Growth DealsFound: CRG0004 - City Region and Growth Deals UK Government Written Evidence
Written Evidence Apr. 23 2024
Inquiry: City Region and Growth DealsFound: a parity of esteem instead of the traditional reporting to Government is suggested.
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: A9 Dualling Programme and A75 Upgrade: EIR releaseFound: This is not a flaw in the variety of methodologies used across different departments of government but
Asked by: Mochan, Carol (Scottish Labour - South Scotland)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comment made by the former Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care to the Scottish Parliament's Health, Social Care and Sport Committee on 16 January 2024 that the Scottish Government is "taking forward a range of work to encourage the adoption of good practice where it has been established in one board", what examples it can provide of such work.
Answered by Gray, Neil - Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care
The Centre for Sustainable Delivery (CfSD) has developed strong clinically-led Specialty Delivery Groups (SDG) which promote multidisciplinary team working and support local adoption of service improvement programmes.
This includes the Cataract Sub-Specialty Delivery Group which brings together key ophthalmology clinical, operational and managerial experts from across NHS Scotland and Scottish Government which has been commissioned to support an increase in surgical throughout across cataract only surgical sessions. This short life working group has supported several new and innovative pathway developments, some of which are now being successfully scaled up in a number of sites across hospital eye services, including: high volume cataract surgery in ring-fenced sessions, and delivering one cataract every 30 mins, as per Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ guidelines.
In tandem with this, The National Eyecare Workstream is undertaking clinically led peer reviews which supports new and efficient ways of working and shares best practices across the country across a number of ocular sub-specialties, including cataracts.
Additionally, the national Trauma and Orthopaedic (T&O) planned care team based within the Centre for Sustainable Delivery (CfSD) are responsible for supporting both scheduled (elective) and unscheduled (emergency) orthopaedic service delivery through implementation of sustainable improvements in Scotland.
The orthopaedic services specialty delivery group is multidisciplinary and clinically led to design, develop and implement consensus driven national clinical pathways with focus on high impact opportunities in outpatient management (active clinical triage and patient initiated review), enhanced recovery and same day arthroplasty and also hip fracture standards of care, whilst reducing unwarranted variation. The National T&O team supports delivery of clinically led peer reviews for Health Boards across Scotland, with the cycle repeating every 3 years. These clinically led peer reviews were initiated from the innovative “Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT)” programme. This programme has been highly successful at leading change, reducing variation, improving clinical pathways as well as significantly reducing costs predominantly through reduction in length of stay and improved procurement.
In conjunction with Public Health Scotland (PHS), the T&O team also supports national audits namely the Scottish Hip Fracture Audit and Scottish Arthroplasty Project. These cost effective audits drive continuous improvements through research, standards of care and by a formal governance programme to monitor outcomes. Annual reports are produced for public information.
Furthermore, as part of our wider work to deliver sustained recovery of our Urgent Care services a whole system improvement approach has been adopted. We are working with local teams through the Urgent and Unscheduled Care Collaborative Programme to develop improvement plans which contain actions for the short and medium term focusing across 5 key areas.
This programme of improvement activity is being driven forward by the Centre for Sustainable Delivery (CfSD), which we have commissioned to support Health Boards implement a range of measures to reduce A&E waiting times and improve patient and staff experience.
Some Health Boards have already started to report improvements. These include:
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: Defending BritainFound: Security is not only the first duty of government; it is the precondition for our prosperity.
Oral Evidence Apr. 22 2024
Inquiry: Statutory InquiriesFound: How do other government departments undertake sponsorship?
Correspondence Apr. 22 2024
Committee: Public Accounts CommitteeFound: re Treasury Minute response on recommendation 1 of the Committee’s report on Competition in public procurement
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: I. List of ministerial responsibilities. 88p. II. List of non-ministerial departments and executive agencies. 22p. III. Letter dated 19/04/2024 from Alex Burghart MP to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding documents for deposit, and copying them for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.Found: List of non-ministerial departments and executive agencies. 22p. III.
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: I. List of ministerial responsibilities. 88p. II. List of non-ministerial departments and executive agencies. 22p. III. Letter dated 19/04/2024 from Alex Burghart MP to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee regarding documents for deposit, and copying them for deposit in the House libraries. 1p.Found: List of non-ministerial departments and executive agencies. 22p. III.