Our strategy
The future of the Academy
Underpinned by four priority streams and centred on learning, our integrated strategy for 2018-21 aims to help us achieve our vision ‘to lead and facilitate improvement through innovation, learning and evidence based care across our communities’.
To support the delivery of our key priorities, we will dedicate ourselves to cultivating a culture of learning, where we will support colleagues across Solent NHS Trust to learn from things that happen. Whether it is from feedback, from events or from ideas, we will use and share this learning to make things better for people; for staff, for patients, for families, for colleagues.
Our vision and our priorities have been developed in partnership with our patient and public involvement group ‘Side-by-Side’, colleagues from around the Trust, key partners and our core team, with the five Solent NHS Trust values in mind.
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Increase the number of people who participate in research, and the scope of opportunities to be involved across the Trust and our communities |
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Ensure research is easily accessible, particularly for those whose voice is seldom heard |
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Demonstrate how our research is improving the care that we provide |
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Build research capacity and skills across the Trust, so that we can design and lead studies that are relevant to the services we provide |
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Ensure sustainability through income generation |
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Facilitate innovation from staff and those who use our services via the Dragon’s Den and other funding streams |
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Priority | How we are going to do it |
Via programmes of training and support, equip our staff with skills in Quality Improvement, Service Evaluation, Clinical Audit and Clinical Outcomes, and the confidence to identify and deliver their own projects, and use measurement to demonstrate improvement |
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Use Clinical Audit and assessment to provide assurance, benchmark the effectiveness of care and identify improvements |
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Support the development of spread of clinical and patient reported outcome measures across our services |
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Create networks and mechanisms to share learning from improvements and from excellence |
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Support staff to demonstrate the impact of improvement work on the care that they provide |
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Priority | How are we going to do it |
Cultivate a culture where staff are able to continuously improve |
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Offer skills development pathways and leadership capability for research, clinical academic and improvement careers |
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Promote learning from peers, internally and externally, including those who come into contact with our services |
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Create an environment where the Academy team have opportunities for personal and professional development, and experience joy in work |
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Enable learning and recognise outstanding work and excellence through dissemination and showcasing , presentations at external events, an annual conference and an awards scheme |
Priority | How we are going to do it |
Ensure the patient, service user and community voice is at the forefront of all improvement activity |
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Extend access to research and improvement opportunities by working in partnership with patients, service users, colleagues and community organisations |
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Encourage and facilitate patient and service user leadership in improvement work |
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Ensure that the way that we share learning is accessible to all |
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Ensure that staff have the confidence and skills to work in partnership with patients, service users and our communities |
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Work in partnership with our patients, service users and colleagues to deliver the Academy Strategy in accordance with our Side by Side Charter |