Delivering the NHS Agenda
In addition to their work for Cygnet Health Care a number of our staff also contribute their own skills to a number of initiatives, both locally and nationally, in partnership with the Department of Health, NHS and other professional organisations.
National Initiatives
Payment by Results (PbR)
Payment by Results (PbR) is a Department of Health initiative, the aim of which is to provide a transparent, rule-based framework for paying providers. It aims to reward efficiency, support patient choice and diversity and encourage activity for sustainable waiting time reductions. Directors from Cygnet have roles within the main PbR board and the PbR currency pricing sub-group.
Secure Services and Quality, Innovation, Productivity & Production (QIPP)
Quality, Innovation, Productivity & Production (QIPP) is a National Mental Health Unit programme which is about moving forward and improving quality and productivity in services. Cygnet is supporting the Medium Secure QIPP programme by contributing to the workstream that involves service user experience and making information more accessible for service users.
Local Initiatives
Senior managers from Cygnet Hospitals across the country are contributing to the following initiatives:
East of England Specialised Commissioning Group
The East of England Specialised Commissioning Group's Low and Medium Secure Managers Group meet quarterly to provide a forum for low and medium secure managers to exchange ideas about achieving excellent patient care in line with best practice guidance. The groups overriding objectives are to:
- Ensure that Medium Secure Unit (MSU) and Low Secure Unit (LSU) standards are achieved in all secure services across the East of England region
- Maintain a regional network for communications across secure services
East Midlands Rehabilitation Provider Forum
The East Midlands Rehabilitation Provider Forum looks at ways of developing a rehabilitation care pathway in order to reduce lengths of stay and promote inter-agency working.
Yorkshire & Humberside Rehabilitation and Assertive Outreach Specialists Meeting
This is a forum whose aim is to provide education, peer support and a conduit of information from and to the Executive Committee of the Faculty of Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The group consists of doctors of all grades working within these specialist areas. The group was co-founded by a Cygnet representative and meets three times a year at a Cygnet Health Care venue.
Yorkshire & Humber i4i Meetings
i4i (Involvement for Improvement) is a forum for service user and staff representatives from secure services across the Yorkshire and Humber region. At present there are three different bi-monthly forums each focusing on a different area; 25 hours of meaningful activity, recovery planning, involvement, choice and lifestyle. There is also a yearly forum for My Future Plan and a bi-yearly meeting for 20 service user defined CPA standards. The i4i meetings drive the CQUINs and enable service users and staff to develop their services and to share good practice. Many initiatives from these meetings have influenced the national CQUIN's. Staff and service users from Cygnet hospitals regularly attend and contribute to these meetings.
Yorkshire & Humber Involvement Strategy
Yorkshire & Humber's Involvement Strategy meetings take place four times a year and are attended by service users and staff from secure services across the Yorkshire and Humber region. These meetings are part of the involvement strategy, Reaching Joint Solutions. Cygnet Health Care is represented at these meetings by staff and service users from our West Yorkshire hospitals.