NHS England Podcast

In this podcast to support providers with the transition to the Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service, the NHS's new national system for the recording and analysis of patient safety events, we talk to Zahra and Mandy, NHS England reporting leads, about the practical steps providers can take to get connected to LFPSE. We cover how to get started, what to do with your old data, the kinds of support available, what transition means for ICBs, and what the Reporting Leads have learned from the process so far.

The leadership and management functions of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) oversight are wider and more multifaceted compared to previous patient safety response approaches. In this latest podcast we are joined by Lauren Morgan, director of Morgan Human Factors Ltd, and Donna Forsyth, director of Patient Safety Science not for profit Ltd, to discuss the PSIRF ‘oversight roles and responsibilities specification’ document. During the podcast they provide insightful answers to questions like: Why is oversight changing? Why is mindset so important? Are dashboards a thing of the past? You can access the ‘PSIRF oversight roles and responsibilities specification’ document by visiting https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/B1465-4.-Oversight-roles-and-responsibilities-specification-v1-FINAL.pdf

The digital workforce team at NHS England is producing a plan to narrow the skills gap for digital, data, technology and informatics roles. In this podcast, senior digital leaders come together to discuss what they think is fundamental to the success of the plan. Hear representatives from Health Education England, NHS England, and Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust discuss how a focus on culture should be central with a workforce encouraged to accept change and empowered with the skills “to use digital well”. It’s team working though that really stands out with the panel discussing how a focus on collaboration, trust and learning will help shift ways of working to being more outcome focused, with strong relationships, at every level, supporting organisations on a more sustainable journey.

In this episode we're joined by Jenny Cooke from Leeds Health and Care Partnership along with Claire Turner from Carers Leeds. They were on wave one of the NHS England Population Health Management Development Programme and were also part of the Place Development Programme this year. They have been working closely to embed population health management within their system and talk to us about how this structure works and how relationships with the third sector have been developed. Audio transcript is on the PHM Academy on Future NHS.

In our latest Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) podcast, Tracey Herlihey, head of patient safety incident response policy, in the national patient safety team, is joined by Vicky Ainsworth, a communications lead at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trus,t and Stuart Kaill, from Health Innovation Manchester, to discuss ways of communicating about large scale change projects in NHS organisations. The podcast explores Vicky’s experience of leading on communications for a large scale change project in Manchester, with a specific focus on sharing advice and suggestions relating to communicating the changes related to PSIRF. It includes expert tips on how to communicate large scale change to different audiences as well as within both large and small organisations. National comms tools are available on our FutureNHS website here: https://future.nhs.uk/NHSps/view?objectId=142843365 Images to use in local communications are available here: https://future.nhs.uk/NHSps/view?objectId=37394320

Welcome to the final episode of our new five-part series - the Clinical and Care Leadership Lowdown podcast series. Our final episode of the series sees our expert panel focussing on examples they’ve been a part of that demonstrate the clinical and care professional leadership guidance in action. This episode highlights how different ways of working can glean different results by nurturing a culture of shared learning and collaboration through open dialogue and mutual respect across professional, organisational and sectoral boundaries. Our expert panel showcase some of the great work within their systems already and consider the opportunities for clinical and care professional leadership for the future of integrated care. For more information on Clinical and Care Professional Leadership or our other podcast series, please contact the System Transformation communication team - england.stcomms@nhs.net

We are joined by Jackson Stubbs from University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay (UHMB) NHS Foundation Trust, who describes his experience of leading his trust's switch from the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) to the Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service, his top tips, and what to avoid when planning your transition.

Welcome to our fourth episode of our new five-part series - the Clinical and Care Leadership Lowdown podcast. On today’s episode our expert panel will be discussing the final two principles, four and five, of the design principles for effective Clinical and Care Professional Leadership. These principles focus on what a good development offer needs to look like to develop the system clinical and care leaders of the future, how we might find them in non-traditional places and at earlier points in their careers, and the importance of a demographically as well as professionally diverse leadership structure. From discussing different skillsets needed for system leadership compared with organisational leadership, to the need for cultural and behavioural shifts within systems and across specialisms, this episode is sure to be an interesting listen for all. Even the need to ensure leadership structures demographically reflecting the populations they serve is covered by our expert panel in today’s episode. Tune in now to get started. For more information on Clinical and Care Professional Leadership or our other podcast series, please contact the System Transformation communication team - england.stcomms@nhs.net

We hear from the team at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear (CNTW) NHS FT about how they have found the switch from the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) to the Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service, their key learning points from the process, and where they’d like to see the project go next

The Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) team talk to the National Director for Patient Safety about the new LFPSE service, why it’s important, and the benefits he thinks it will bring for patient safety