The Midlands team in NHS England has produced its first podcast on virtual wards. Dr Tim Taylor, Associate Medical Director at NHS England – Midlands talks to Dr Will Taylor, Chief Medical Officer; NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire; Florence O'Reilly, Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner; Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust; Heather MacDonald, Programme Lead for Virtual Care; NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire and James Bartlett, Lead Consultant Acute Medicine; Wye Valley NHS Trust. The podcast focuses on the ICBs virtual ward journey and their drive and focus on quality and safety.

Welcome to the third and final episode of our new integrated care podcast series focusing on partnership working and relationship building across systems – Partnerships in Practice. This series brings together insight, knowledge and first-hand experience of how strong relationships have helped local partners to deliver more joined-up and effective responses to the collective challenges and pressures that systems face. On today’s episode we're focusing on the approaches taken within Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) Integrated Care System, and how collaboration between system partners and local communities is helping systems to design better solutions for the challenges local communities are facing. Our episode panel includes; Reverend Lloyd Denny, Julia Robson, BLMK Integrated Care Board (ICB) – Healthcare Inequalities Lead, Diana Blackmun, Central Bedfordshire Healthwatch and Michelle Summers, Associate Director of Communications and Engagement for BLMK ICB. Our host for today’s episode is Keymn Whervin, co-production manager for National Voices. Keymn and her panel of guests will also give more background to a health inequalities review from the system, led by Rev. Denny, to understand what the barriers to good health are for the local population and the benefits that partnership working can bring to everyone involved. Tune in now to discover something new. For more information, please contact england.stcomms@nhs.net

Welcome to the second episode of our new integrated care podcast series focusing on partnership working and relationship building across systems – Partnerships in Practice. This series brings together insight, knowledge and first-hand experience of how strong relationships have helped local partners to deliver more joined-up and effective responses to the collective challenges and pressures that systems face. On today’s episode we're focusing on the approaches taken by Surrey Heartlands ICS, spotlighting how collaboration between system partners is helping with the shared challenge of workforce recruitment and retention. Our episode panel includes; Bex Pritchard, CEO for Surrey Care Association, Michael Pantlin, Executive Director of People and Digital for Surrey Heartlands ICS, and Liz Bruce, Joint Executive Director, Adult Social Care and Integrated Commissioning for Surrey County Council and Surrey Heartlands ICS. Our host for today’s episode is Sir David Pearson, System Transformation Advisor to NHS England former President of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS). Sir David and his panel of guests will explain how innovative solutions are supporting staff to have more rewarding careers while providing better quality care to people. Tune in now to discover something new. For more information, please contact england.stcomms@nhs.net

Welcome to the first episode of our new three-part integrated care podcast series focusing on partnership working and relationship building across systems – Partnerships in Practice. This series will bring together insight, knowledge and first-hand experience of how strong relationships have helped local partners to deliver more joined-up and effective responses to the collective challenges and pressures that systems face. On today’s episode we're delving into the key role that the NHS, local authorities and the VCSE sector have played in Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care System (ICS). Our episode panel includes; Susannah Howard, ICP Director for Suffolk and North East Essex ; Sharon Alexander, Chief Officer for community voluntary services (CVS) Tendring  and Peter Fairley, Director for Strategy and Health Integration at Essex County Council. Tune in now to discover something new.

This NHS England podcast explores how integrated care boards can work in partnership with people and communities to improve health, wellbeing and much more. Deputy Director for People and Communities at NHS England Olivia Butterworth, in conversation with Patricia Miller, Chief Executive at Dorset Integrated Care Board.

“When we hear the phrase the return on investment, there is a predilection to jump towards cash returns on cash investment. Actually, what we invest is more than cash: we invest better knowledge, we invest better relationships, and we return not just cashable savings, but the value that is returned is more joined up care for residents.” Dr Andy Knox and Dr Sakthi Karunanithi from Lancashire and South Cumbria talk to us about making the case for population health management to improve population health and reduce inequalities. They discuss how using PHM and collaborating beyond the usual care deliverers can help systems to get upstream to help alleviate pressures. Audio transcript is on the PHM Academy on Future NHS: https://future.nhs.uk/populationhealth/view?objectId=162826597

As part of preparation to transition to the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), organisations are required to create a patient safety incident response policy and plan. In this podcast, we are joined by Jacqui Fletcher, Senior Clinical Advisor for Stop the Pressure Programme and National Wound Care Strategy, who we collaborated with to develop a guide to applying PSIRF principles in relation to planning how to respond to pressure ulcers. We discuss this guide as well wider tips for creating a patient safety incident response plan.   The pressure ulcer resource is available here: https://future.nhs.uk/NHSps/view?objectId=151094917 Additional resources to support organisations to create a patient safety incident response policy and plan are also available: PSIRF planning workshop recording, slides and Q&A: Planning workshop - NHS Patient Safety - FutureNHS Collaboration: https://future.nhs.uk/NHSps/browseFolder?fid=42253872&done=FOLCreated PlatformPatient Safety Incident Response Plan template: https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/B1465-8.-Patient-safety-incident-response-plan-template-v1-FINAL.docx Patient Safety Incident Response Policy template: https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/B1465-7.-Patient-safety-incident-response-policy-template-v1-FINAL.docx Example PSIRPs from early adopters (note template has changed significantly): Example Patient Safety Incident Response Plans - NHS Patient Safety - FutureNHS Collaboration Platform: https://future.nhs.uk/NHSps/view?objectId=38159024

Dr Brin Hodgskiss (NHS England), Debbie Floyd (NHS England) and Jacob Lant (Healthwatch England) discuss some key themes from the Patient Experience research findings that focus on service quality, what makes people happy vs unhappy with services and user-centred design, how systems can improve service design by focusing on the needs of users. Listeners can access the full Patient Experience in Urgent and Emergency care report on www.easternahsn.org/UEC . You can also listen to (Part 1) of this podcast series here https://soundcloud.com/nhsengland/the-uec-patient-experience-part-1

A key benefit of the new Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service is its introduction of machine learning to hugely enhance the NHS’s capabilities for processing and analysing records of patient safety events. In this podcast we discuss how we plan to introduce machine learning in LFPSE, how this will support the NHS to improve patient safety, what changes staff will see as a result, our longer-term ambitions, and how providers can get involved in shaping this exciting new revolution in patient safety learning.

In this podcast clinical and digital leaders share their deep understanding of the digital workforce across health and care, focusing on why clinicians are fundamental to the success of digital transformation across the sector. We hear how digital skills and knowledge are in demand more than ever before but hampered by a skills gap blocking some of the ambitions of health and care organisations. With NHS England’s upcoming Digital Workforce Plan focused on narrowing this skills gap, the panel share their ideas on ensuring its success. These ideas shape a lively discussion around “demystifying digital for clinicians”, the need to “translate opportunities across the workforce” and why we need to “enable digital roles at every level to deliver the will of organisations”. As one of the panel puts it; “we feel a bit disruptive, it’s exciting!”. Let the transformation commence.