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NHS Quality and Safety Forum

12 November 202612:30 - 14:00

Online

  • Quality

  • Regulation

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Overview

Explore the latest developments in quality and safety

Connect with senior leaders with a responsibility for quality and safety to explore recent developments as the NHS continues to face reform. Reflect with peers on your key challenges and share insight and learning.

Why this matters

Quality and safety is at the core of health care. This forum brings quality and safety leaders from across sectors to hear the latest policy developments in this area. Step back from your day-to-day pressures and reflect on the key challenges facing your role, team and organisation.

Building on NHS Providers' legacy Medical and Nursing Directors Network, this forum will operating under Chatham House Rule to provide you an opportunity to:

  • Share ideas and exchange learning.
  • Hear presentations from quality and safety leaders on the latest innovative work across the sector.
  • Engage in interactive sessions to ask questions and share your thoughts.
  • Have open and honest discussions with peers in breakout sessions.

 

Agenda

Agenda

Thursday 12 Nov

  1. 12:30Welcome

    • Chair's welcome

      • Forum Chair and Chief Medical Officer, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

        Andrew McLaren

  2. 12:35Session 1

    • Strategic policy update

      Explore the current political landscape and regulatory context.

      In this session we will review the latest developments across the sector, sharing analysis of their potential impact and discuss key considerations for operational leaders. The update will also include our analysis of the new National Quality Strategy and its implications for NHS Alliance members.

  3. 13:15Comfort break

  4. 13:20Session 2

    • Learning from investigations: an update from Dr Rosie Benneyworth

      Rosie will provide an update on HSSIB's recent investigation into the expansion of advice and guidance services, as well as the National Quality Board's work to create a national repository of recommendations arising from reviews, inquiries and investigations. The repository is intended to support implementation by assessing the likely impact and cost-effectiveness of recommendations and helping to prevent unfunded mandates being placed on providers without proper scrutiny

      • Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB)

        Dr Rosie Benneyworth

  5. 13:55Closing remarks and reflections

  6. 14:00Event close

Speakers

Andrew McLaren

Andrew McLaren

Chief Medical Officer

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Quality and Safety Forum chair.

Dr Rosie Benneyworth

Dr Rosie Benneyworth

Chief Executive Officer

Health Services Safety Investigations Body

Dr Rosie Benneyworth

Dr Rosie Benneyworth

Chief Executive Officer

Health Services Safety Investigations Body

Rosie joined the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) in August 2022 and is now the Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB), having led the transition to the arm’s length body. She has a longstanding interest in improving the quality and safety of care that people receive and has held several senior leadership roles in health. This has included Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care at the Care Quality Commission (CQC), Managing Director of the Southwest Academic Health Science Network, and as a clinical commissioner with Somerset Primary Care Trust and Clinical Commissioning Group. Rosie has a background in primary care and worked as a GP in Somerset for 15 years. Rosie has significant non-executive experience and is currently a non-executive director on the board of Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. She has also held roles as a non-executive director and vice chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), non-executive director on the board of University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust and a trustee of Nuffield Trust.

How to book

Attendance for this event is free. Please follow the below instructions to register your place:

  • If you're from an NHS trust, foundation trust, integrated care board (ICB), third or independent sector organisation:
    Please use the booking button at the top of the page to register via our booking portal.

  • If you're from an NHS Wales Organisation, Health and Social Care Northern Ireland organisation or primary care:
    Please complete this short form to register your place. 

If you have any questions, please contact the Forums team.

Who should attend

This forum is open to all member audiences in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and all sector types including trusts, ICBs, CICs, primary care organisations and those from the independent and third sectors.

The forum is also designed for board-level leaders, who are responsible for quality and safety in their organisation including:

  • medical directors,
  • chief medical and nursing officers,
  • medical and nursing directors and GPs,
  • director of quality and executive director roles with responsibility for quality or equivalent, and
  • deputies and anyone with responsibility for quality and safety at senior or board level board level, or equivalent in primary care and other sectors.