Roadmap for quality launched

05/03/2010

The Chief Nursing Officer yesterday launched the Nursing Roadmap for Quality.

The Nursing Roadmap for Quality has been designed help nurses and their teams understand the elements of the quality framework that relate to nursing practice.

The purpose of the document is to:

inform nurses and their teams of their role in supporting quality improvements against the seven elements of the quality framework

provide a ‘one-stop shop’ for key resources, which nursing teams can use to further demonstrate their added contribution to quality

reinforce the need for nurses to identify ways to reduce waste and repetition, by contributing to the quality and productivity
challenge.

In launching this work, Dame Christine Beasley said

“Nurses are passionate about delivering high quality care. This Nursing Roadmap for Quality is an essential reference guide with over 40 key resources to support nurses’ delivery quality.

It will help them have the key tools, resources and approaches in one useful place. It aims to help them further improve the excellent care nurses gave day in day out, and assist them in telling the story on how nurses continually contribute to high quality patient care and experience.“

The Roadmapwill be available to all as a reference guide supporting good quality care across the NHS and in social care.

We would encourage people to download the document from the CNO website on the dedicated link www.dh.gov.uk/nursingquality.