The Christie NHS FT Annual Report & Accounts 2019-20

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust Annual Report & Accounts 2019-20

prevention & control, health and safety, moving and handling and counter fraud and prevention. We aim to ensure that we learn from internal and external incidents and share good practice through a range of mechanisms including governance meetings, team briefings, action plans arising from external reviews such as National Inquiries, publications of the Royal Colleges, peer review and PLACE inspections. The board of directors also reviews the outcomes and action plans of relevant corporate reports. The risk and control framework The 2017-2020 Risk Management Framework has five elements, based on the Health Foundation 2014 Policy for monitoring and measuring safety. Each element has key milestones in place in order to: a) Ascertain whether it has been safe for patients, staff and others in the past b) Identify whether our systems and processes are reliable c) Ensure sensitivity to operations so that we are safe in the present d) Anticipate and prepare to ensure that we will be safe in the future e) Integration and learning to ensure we are responding and learning as appropriate The work is prioritised over the three years of the strategy and links with and is complementary to the quality improvement plan, the operational plan and the Trust's five year strategy. The operational delivery of the incident reporting and risk register system, electronic patient record and prescribing

responsibilities of the Chief Executive, executive directors, managers and all staff in managing risk. In particular, the risk and quality governance committee through its sub-committees of patient safety, patient experience and clinical & research effectiveness, provides the mechanism for managing and monitoring risk throughout the Trust and reporting through to the board of directors’. The risk management system was thoroughly tested during the CQC comprehensive inspection in May 2016 and again in 2018. The board receives its assurances on the risk management and governance arrangements in place through its quality assurance and audit committees. Both of these are non executive board committees and each is chaired by a non-executive director. All non executive directors have independent access to internal and external auditors. Our staff are well trained and equipped to manage risk in a number of ways appropriate to their authority and duties. Risk management training is provided for all staff through our comprehensive induction programme. In addition, there is specifically tailored training for individual roles and these are agreed with staff through personal development plans. Regular risk management awareness training continues for all staff through our corporate essential training programme. This includes key risk areas such as incident reporting and investigation, Root Cause Analysis training, human factors training, complaints handling, infection

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