Assessment for improvement : our approach : have your say / Healthcare Commission.

  • Care Quality Commission
Date:
[2004]
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Credit: Assessment for improvement : our approach : have your say / Healthcare Commission. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    93/96 (page 91)
    Spring 2005 From May 2005 e We will issue guidance which will help NHS organisations to assess whether they are meeting the core standards e We will announce which improvement reviews we intend to begin during the year, which organisations they will affect and the schedule for each. As part of this we will decide which trusts will be assessed for leadership and organisational capacity during 2005/2006 (expected to be some PCTs and ambulance trusts] e We will publish guidance on how we intend to assess performance in meeting existing and new national targets e We will request information for the first improvement reviews - likely to include misuse of substances, public health and children’s hospital services — from the relevant organisations From July 2005 August 2005 e Those trusts involved in the first improvement reviews will receive our assessments e We will send out the self assessment tool to those trusts that are being assessed as part of the improvement review on leadership and organisational capacity for return within six weeks. We will also request information linked to this assessment September 2005 October 2005 ¢ NHS organisations will return their statement of compliance with core standards or declare that they are at risk of not complying. If a trust admits any risk of non-compliance, we will require an action plan by the end of September e We will begin in depth reviews of those organisations that we have assessed in an improvement review as giving cause for concern or among those whose high performance may help others e Those trusts that are being assessed for leadership and organisational capacity will receive our assessment. We will resolve queries about data November 2005 ¢ We will begin visits to a minority of trusts looking at leadership and organisational capacity. These will be the trusts that have done particularly badly or well on the initial assessment December to January 2006 e We will conduct spot checks’ on trusts when our information or evidence from others causes us to doubt the trust's self assurance on core standards. We will also ‘spot check’ a further number of trusts at random April to June 2006 e We will share with all trusts the final results and the scores that will feed into performance rating for all assessments and verify them with them June 2006 e We will share with trusts the results that we intend to use for all the contributions to the annual performance rating for trusts Summer 2006 e We will publish the results of the performance ratings for all trusts