Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust shortlisted for a HSJ Efficiency Award with the support of Enterprise Study
With Enterprise Study’s learning and compliance management system providing the backbone to its training operations, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust has been recognised by the Health Service Journal as a leader in healthcare, and has subsequently been shortlisted for the HSJ Efficiency in Training and Development award
As health service efficiency comes increasingly under the spotlight, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (OUH) is one of many healthcare organisations that has recognised the need to demonstrate innovative solutions and cost effective measures that deliver tangible improvements, whilst maintaining the highest level of patient care.
On recommendation from one of Enterprise Study’s other NHS partners, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, OUH implemented the ES learning and compliance management system back in June 2012, to enable them to meet the rising standards. The care trust had a stringent requirement for comprehensive live reporting to be accessed 24/7, as well as quality competency-based assessments to enable greater efficiencies amongst the workforce.
Ian Mackenzie, Head of Wider Workforce Education at OUH, explains the obstacle they were facing before ES: “Statutory and Mandatory training traditionally involves classroom training sessions that take up significant resources, yet feedback from staff and managers indicated that competent staff were spending a significant time away from clinical care re-training with no clear benefit.”
Ian continues: “The solution was to make a paradigm shift to assessing staff competence rather than staff attendance and this has been a major enhancement on how the statutory and mandatory programme is delivered. To achieve this we partnered with Enterprise Study to provide a learning management system that supported competence assessments, as well as providing a very powerful suite of compliance management data and access to live compliance data to both managers and staff. ES were a key member of our project team that enabled us to build, test and launch the new learning management system within 8 weeks to over 10,000 staff.”
Within the first 10 months of system deployment, OUH has already been able to evidence substantial return on investment. Utilising the ES Assessment Manager module, the education team have greatly minimised the time the workforce have away from critical patient care for training, and have since reported that over 62,000 staff assessments were completed, replacing 1,500 training attends.
Henry Jodrell, Managing Director of Enterprise Study also comments: “To be part of this successful project which has helped transform the way OUH carries out staff assessments, freeing up time for front line staff using Enterprise Study, has been inspirational. We are delighted that OUH has been shortlisted for a HSJ award in 2013 and will continue to support them in their delivery of exceptional patient care.”
For more information on the HSJ Efficiency Awards go to http://www.hsjefficiency.com/home or visit www.enterprisestudy.com to find out more about the ES compliance and assessment solutions.