Driving improvement, delivering results: healthcare science national delivery plan 2015–2020

Scottish healthcare science national delivery plan 2015–2020 to drive improvement and maximise the contribution of healthcare science.


Annex. Summary of deliverables

NHS boards

Deliverable 1. Health technology management

Support healthcare science leads, managers and heads of service to work with the Physical Science National Lead

Deliverable 2. Point-of-care testing

Participate in the national POCT programme on the use of POCT in primary and secondary care in Scotland (as described by the Scottish Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee (Scottish Government, 2011), implementing local plans to ensure cost-effective implementation and governance of POCT systems and sharing knowledge across boards on how POCT technology benefits patient-pathway outcomes

Deliverable 3. Demand optimisation

Support healthcare science leads, managers and heads of service to work with the national healthcare science leads and diagnostic networks in collectively progressing this improvement work

Deliverable 4. Developing sustainable services

Further develop and strengthen the use of extended interpretive roles and clinical reporting in laboratory medicine, with a focus on histopathology

Support the recommendation of the Diagnostic Workforce Short-life Working Group that "redesign, skill mix and role extension appropriate to task should be applied across all diagnostic specialties"

Deliverable 5. A new integrated model for clinical physiology services

Support clinical leaders and managers to explore a more integrated approach to service leadership and delivery of clinical physiology services to create more sustainable and coherent quality services for the future

Support healthcare science leads, managers and heads of service to work with the Clinical Physiology Science National Lead

National healthcare science leads and NHS board healthcare science leads, managers and heads of services

Deliverable 1. Health technology management

Work with NHS boards and relevant stakeholders to deliver a whole-systems approach to the management of health technology

Deliverable 2. Point-of-care testing

Work across disciplines to instigate whole-system improvements in the delivery of POCT in acute and secondary care settings

Deliverable 3. Demand optimisation

Work with NHS boards and diagnostic networks to reduce unnecessary testing and measure overall impacts on patient outcomes

Deliverable 4. Developing sustainable services

Work with stakeholders to explore new and developing healthcare science roles

Deliverable 5. A new integrated model for clinical physiology services

Work collaboratively with senior management to develop integrated models of service provision

Establish a network across the clinical physiology workforce

Support a community of practice to drive improvement

Scottish Government and others

Deliverable 1. Health technology management

Work with partnership organisations, universities, public health, social care, industry and the Health Improvement Scotland (HIS) Scottish Health Technologies Group (SHTG) to encourage the development of an evidence base for the use of health technology in the community and the adaptation and spread of proven technology and good practice

Deliverable 4. Developing sustainable services

Build on achievements to date to further develop excellence in extending interpretive roles and support growth in clinical reporting

Develop work plans to ensure healthcare science workforce data are accurately reflected, providing good-quality data to support appropriate multi-disciplinary workforce planning

Contact

Email: Julie Townsend

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