The Christie Foundation Trust Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust Annual Report & Accounts 2021-22

Quality Report Part 1: Statement on quality from the Chief Executive

Everything we do at The Christie is aimed at achieving the best quality care and outcomes for our patients. I am pleased to introduce this year’s quality report which once again builds on our established foundations of delivering high quality services which continue to be rated as Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission. 2021/22 has been another challenging year experienced by the NHS. The COVID-19 pandemic has continue to need changes in the way services are organised and delivered. At The Christie we have continued to focus on the quality of care and treatment we give to our patients. Without a doubt, the strength of our underlying patient centred culture, highly motivated and compassionate staff, oncology expertise and organisational culture enabled us to respond in an agile and effective way to the new demands COVID-19 placed on us all. We continue to do all we can to make sure our patients get the treatment, information and support they need. Our track record of publishing information on the quality of our services continues, with our integrated quality, finance and performance report published monthly which demonstrates our achievements on each of the three components of quality; patient experience, safety and effectiveness of care. This annual report shows the progress we have made over the past 12 months and our quality improvement plans for the future. Through the on-going hard work and commitment of all our staff we continued to provide high quality care and services to our patients and their families. We continue to be one of the top scoring Trusts for quality of care in the national inpatient survey. During the course of 2021/22 we have continued to work hard on presenting readily available information for our patients about the quality of our services. Information screens outside each ward and department provide live information about safe staffing levels and achievement of safety standards. Feedback from our patients on the Friends and Family Test has consistently scored high as a recommendation of a place for care. During 2021/22 a quality accreditation programme for the wards continued and all of our wards have been accredited to ‘Gold’ standard, the best that can be achieved. All three of our radiotherapy centres have maintained The Christie Quality Mark accreditation which means our patients will have the same high standards of care whether they come to the main site at Withington or to the centres in Salford and Oldham. We are also implementing this same standard across our systemic anti-cancer therapy services at other sites. The Board has a quality assurance committee which scrutinises, monitors and provides assurance on our quality programmes and further assurance is given by our governors’ quality committee through which our council of governors supports and advises on current quality and priorities for the future. It is the voices of our patients and their families that really make the difference both in assuring us that we get it right most of the time and more importantly letting us know when we get it wrong and allowing us to make changes. We are extremely grateful to the many people who as healthand

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