Risk Management Annual Report - August 2009 ... - NHS Lanarkshire

Risk Management
Annual Report
2008 – 09
A final report will be received by the NLP Board in June 2009 to work towards
implementation of the systems and processes that will be critical to effective joint risk
management for those receiving community care.
The Risk Management Staff from North Lanarkshire Council, South Lanarkshire Council
and NHS Lanarkshire are meeting frequently to improve joint risk approach. Outcomes
impacting on the NHSL Strategy will be considered and changes made to reflect
improvements.
Training, Education & Development
Risk Management, including incident/accident reporting, is core to the NHSL
Corporate Induction Programme, delivered via Organisational Development. This
programme is delivered on Monday and Tuesday of every week for all new employees
including bank staff. On joining the organisation and attending the Corporate
Induction, the opportunity was taken by the Risk Management Co–ordinator to
undertake an audit of the content of the risk presentation. The outcomes indicated
that no material change was required.
Local sessions development and maintenance of Locality Risk Registers continue to
be undertaken on an ad hoc basis.
As part of the implementation of the web–based module within the DATIX system,
there was a series of demonstrations of the system and re-iteration of the Incident
and Accident Reporting requirements. Ad hoc training continues to support this
as staff change positions, new staff are employed and have verifiers role. This is
now managed on a 1:1 basis as the initial cohort of staff have been trained. Group
sessions have extended this year to:
◦ Health Records Senior Manager Group
◦ Infection Control Team
◦ Locality Management Teams
◦ Information Governance Sessions
◦ Older Peoples Services Clinical Governance Group
◦ PSSD dedicated staff on reporting facility
◦ Pharmacy Managers
◦ Community Dental Teams
The Occupational Health & Safety Team deliver a variety of in–house risk training
both accredited training (IOSHH) and in response to department/organisation
needs.
The DATIX system is linked to the DOTS medical staff training/induction
programme.
Through the Medical Education Department, the Systems Administrator continues
to deliver demonstrations on the DATIX system and an overview of clinical incident
reporting for both junior medical staff and Consultants.
A series of awareness sessions have commenced across the Management &
Governance Groups to launch the revised Guidance Manual.
Performance for Year 2008 – 09
12