The quality team are based on South Tyneside site and help to ensure that postgraduate doctors receive the highest quality of training and education to assure the highest quality of patient care.   

 

It is the role of the quality team to monitor the standard of education and training.  We do this by monitoring and triangulating feedback from national and regional quality assurance and benchmarking exercises as well at trust level by way of end of placement surveys and departmental feedback.

 

The Quality Cycle includes:-

  • Annual visit to the trust from postgraduate dean
  • Submission of biannual quality reports to NHS England North East
  • Annual quality visits from joint university/foundation school and General Practice Training Schemes
  • Rolling programme of visits to the Trust from specialty schools

 

External bodies:

 

NHS England leads the National Health Service (NHS) in England

 

NHS England – Northeast and Yorkshire

Is one of seven regional teams that supports the delivery and commissioning of high quality services.  It is responsible for the quality, financial and operational performance of all NHS organisations and play a key role in the assurance and delivery process of NHS providers.

They also support the identity and development of 4 integrated care systems (ICS). 

Integrated care systems

 

ICSs include two key parts: Integrated care boards (ICBs) and Integrated care partnerships (ICPs).  This dual structure is designed to support ICSs to act both as bodies responsible for NHS money and performance at the same time as acting as a wider system partnership.

ICSs have a critical role to play in driving forward efforts to improve the population’s health and tackling inequalities in their local areas.

Integrated care boards

 

The role of the ICB is to allocate the NHS budget and commission services it is directly accountable to NHS England for spend and performance.  The ICB and its partner NHS trusts and foundation trusts must develop a joint plan for capital spending (spending on buildings, infrastructure and equipment) for providers within the geography.

Integrated care partnerships

 

The ICP is a joint committee of the ICB and local authorities it supports partnership working to develop an ‘integrated care strategy’, a plan to address the wider health care, public health and social care needs of the population.

National bodies

 

The NHS organisations within ICSs, including ICBs, NHS trusts and foundation trusts, will be accountable to NHS England for their operational and financial performance. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) will independently review and rate the quality of partnership working within ICSs, alongside its existing responsibilities for regulating and inspecting health and care services.  

 

Interpreting the diagram 

The diagram uses the framework to explain how organisations will contribute to system working at these different levels. Many organisations will work across more than one level, while there will be variation in ways of working between ICSs given their different sizes and how they have developed

 

The General Medical Council (GMC):

 

The GMC is responsible for assuring the quality of education and training for Undergraduate and Postgraduate training.  They set the outcomes that medical students and Postgraduate doctors in training should achieve by the end of their training.

https://www.gmc-uk.org

 

 The Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians' Training Board (JRCPTB)

The Federation of Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK sets and maintains standards for high quality UK medical training via JRCPTB

https://www.jrcptb.org.uk

 

The Foundation Schools

 

Foundation schools are not bricks and mortar institutions. They are a conceptual group of institutions that bring together medical schools, the local deanery, trusts (acute, mental health and PCTs) and other organisations such as hospices. They aim to offer training to foundation doctors in a range of different settings and clinical environments. The schools are administered by a central local staff which is supported by the deanery.

The schools deliver training according to national guidance developed by the UKFPO. There are local variations in some areas

 

https://foundationprogramme.nhs.uk

 

The Royal College of Surgeons

 

The Royal College of Surgeons of England provides world-class education, assessment and development to 30,000 surgeons, dental professionals and members of the wider surgical and dental care teams, at all stages of their career

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