NHS Resolution and NHS England have launched a new framework that will help deliver safe and effective patient care.
NHS Resolution, in collaboration with NHS England’s professional standards team, has launched a new framework to promote fairness, proportionality, and consistency in decision-making when managing performance concerns for all practitioners.
“We want to support employers to understand and adhere to process, ensure practitioners are supported appropriately and, where possible, keep healthcare staff out of formal processes to minimise distress and cost,” NHS Resolution said in a statement.
The Principles and Framework for Fairness and Proportionality is intended to support fair and proportionate approaches to concerns about a practitioner’s performance leaving more practitioners feeling that performance concerns were handled fairly and ultimately helping to deliver safe and effective patient care.
The framework seeks to address five key areas including ensuring welfare and support; understanding the issues; ensuring the practitioner is heard; adherence to process; and equity and proportionality.
The development of the framework was a collaborative effort by a working group consisting of experienced members from NHS England and NHS Resolution.
