Welcome

Introduction

COVID-19 has changed healthcare delivery in the UK. New and innovative ways of working have been rapidly developed across the NHS. As we move into the next phase of COVID-19, we want to stand up for the profession, act quickly to ensure that beneficial changes and innovations are captured and sustained in the new NHS as it evolves in the coming months and years.

We understand that you are very busy, but your expertise is crucial to define and deliver the best future for our patients. Please help us by sharing the beneficial changes and innovations you have seen and been a part of.

Please give as much detail as possible to help us best understand the changes and innovations fully. If you have more than one change/ innovation that you wish to mention, please number your changes. Please use the same numbers throughout the questions to refer to the same change, i.e. ‘No 1)’ in question 1 would refer to the same change as ‘No 1)’ in question 3.

Please do not include any personal data about either colleagues, patients or similar in your answers.

Our intention is to use the information we collect from this survey to share with NHS organisations, governments and other external bodies in order to effectively shape future health care services wherever our Fellows and Members are located. In particular, we aim to share responses we receive from responders in England with NHS England as part of their independent survey exercise, which closes at the end of June 2020. This survey will close on Jun 30 2020.
 

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* 4. Capturing Beneficial Changes and Innovations

Please give as much detail as possible to help us best understand the changes and innovations fully and their impact. If you have more than one change/innovation that you wish to mention, please number your changes. Please use the same numbers throughout the questions to refer to the same change, i.e. ‘No 1)’ in question 1 refers to the same change as ‘No 1)’ in question 3.

What beneficial innovations/ changes have occurred in your specialty/discipline and within patient pathways?

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e.g. impacting on patients, staff or the wider system.
What specific need prompted this change? How long has the change been in place? At what scale did the change happen?

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* 5. Describe the impact of these innovations/ changes (so far)?

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Please include any specific, relevant evidence of impact if available.
If no evidence is available please describe the intended impact.
Have there been any unintended consequences?

Examples of impact may include patient outcomes, safety or experience; population health or wider system outcomes; staff satisfaction; improved efficiency or productivity.

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* 6. What is needed to sustain the change/innovation?  

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What do you think is needed to ensure that this beneficial change can continue and be used widely?
What challenges have you faced in implementing the change?

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* 7. What, if anything, hasn’t worked so well?

Guidance:

Please highlight any changes which you feel would not have value for the future.

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