Weekly News
Released on 26/10/2009
Events Diary
3 & 4 November
SCIMP Annual Conference
Applying e-health—making IT a success in primary care
Dunblane Hydro Hotel
Register at http://conventions.nss.scot.nhs.uk. Speakers
include Alan Hyslop, Head of E-health Strategy, Scottish Government. See
attached flyer for full programme details.
11 November
The Manufacturing Institute
Lean and Six Sigma: A practical guide for clinicians and
Managers
9 Queen Street, Edinburgh
Chaired by Dr Charles Swainson Medical Director, NHS Lothian, with a presentation from John Woodruffe Head of Lean Healthcare, The Manufacturing Institute, a charity delivering end-to-end Lean transformation programmes in healthcare. 15% discount for IHM members. See www.ihm.org.uk/divisions/5/events/view/476 for details and booking.
24 November
NHS Health Scotland
Health Promoting Health
Service
Keynote speaker: Public Health Minister, Shona Robison MSP. Full registration now open at https://nhshealthscotlandevents.wingateweb.com/attendee/event/HPHS.ww. See attached flyer for details.
This week in Parliament
Wednesday
11.00 Health & Sport Committee
The Committee will take evidence on the Scottish Government’s draft budget 2010/11 from Nicola Sturgeon MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, Dr Kevin Woods, Director General Health and John Matheson, Director of Health Finance, Scottish Government.
14.30 Scottish Government debate: Reshaping the Future of Care for Older People
NHS Scotland’s carbon footprint revealed
The Scottish Government has proposed new targets to monitor NHs boards’ progress in reducing their carbon footprints in response to a first-of-its-kind report commissioned by Health Facilities Scotland, which has revealed that NHS Scotland emitted 2.63 megatons of carbon dioxide in 2004. This accounted for a quarter of the total CO2 output of the Scottish public sector and 3.6 per cent of Scotland’s entire carbon footprint.
The breakdown of emissions shows that, in 2004:
· Travel, including patient and staff transport, accounted for 24 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions
· Building energy use, including heating and lighting, across the NHS Scotland estate accounted for 23 per cent of the total
· 'Procurement', including everything from the energy needed to produce medicines to catering and freight transport, was 52 per cent of the total.
While CO2 emissions fell by four per cent from 1990 levels overall, the decline was uneven with emissions from buildings' energy use fell by 34 per cent, while those from procurement rose by 20 per cent.
Welcoming the report, the Health Secretary said:
"The report covers the period from 1990 to 2004 and we have made significant progress since then, such as the creation of the centralised NHS Scotland National Procurement which is helping to cut costs and emissions. Individual NHS boards are also showing great innovation with their own green initiatives. However, it's clear that we have to do more.
"Scotland is rightly proud of having enacted the most ambitious climate change legislation in the world. But all organisations, including the NHS, must play their part if we are to reach our goal of an 80% emissions cut by 2050."
Read the report at www.hfs.scot.nhs.uk/news/?item=54.
Management code will foster ‘commitment and trust’
IHM Chief Executive, Sue Hodgetts, introduced the
Institute’s forthcoming revised Management Code to Scottish managers at this year’s IHM Scotland annual
conference.
Sue explained to delegates that the old code of conduct had not been re-examined for a decade and whether it was still fit for purpose was open to question. Building on discussion with stakeholders, including
representatives of other professional groups, an updated code of conduct is being developed, with the aim and purpose of promoting behaviour by managers that will create and maintain a culture of responsibility and trust.
The new code of conduct will place considerable
emphasis on ethics and behaviour in a variety of
managerial contexts, from interfacing and engaging with staff and the public, with the wider service and with
society as whole. It will set out a managerial profile, against which individual managers will be able to
measure their own actions, behaviour, leadership style, and the ways in which they discharge their duty of care to patients, relatives and staff.
Echoing comments by other conference speakers,
including IHM Scotland chair, Malcolm Wright, and NHS Scotland chief executive, Dr Kevin Woods, Sue argued that it has never been more important for healthcare managers not only to demonstrate their professionalism as individuals, but also their commitment to a culture of professionalism, based on clarity of purpose, clear
structures and rules, and ethical behaviour.
Erskine benefits from conference donations
Delegates at IHM Scotland annual conference raised a total of £715.10 for veterans’ charity Erskine, which has provided first-class medical and nursing care for former members of the armed forces since 1916. As well as looking after older veterans, Erskine now cares for
increasing numbers of young men and women who have been wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Mark Wright Centre, the first purpose-built Army Recovery Centre in the UK, was recently opened at Erskine’s
Edinburgh home.
See www.erskine.org.uk for more information.
IHM Fellowship programme open for business
The IHM has officially launched its new Fellowship Programme, following a
successful pilot which saw a number of Scottish managers from a range of
healthcare settings being awarded
Fellowship of the Institute, having
demonstrated their achievement of
excellence in management practice.
Those involved in the pilot fed back into a final review of the programme, which took place over the summer. That review is now complete and the Fellowship
programme is now open to any eligible IHM member who would like to work
towards formal recognition of their high standards of management practice.
Information and contact details for the new Fellowship Programme can be found at http://www.ihm.org.uk/membership/fellowship
New chief nursing officer appointed
Ros Moore has been appointed as the Scottish Government’s Chief Nursing
Officer. She is expected to take up her post in the new year, and will then be
responsible for providing national
professional, policy and organisational
advice on nursing, midwifery and public health nursing matters within the Scottish Government and to NHS Scotland. She will also lead on policy on preventing
HAIs, professional regulation and patient care.
Ms Moore qualified in 1981. She supported the Chief Nursing Officer in England
between 2004 and 2009 and led work on policy programmes and activities relating to acute care, quality, productivity,
workforce development and research. Since March 2009 she has been the
Director of Nursing at NHS Connecting for Health in England.
