ADVANCING HEALTHCARE PRACTICE

Patients First - Supporting Nurse-led Innovation in Practice

This programme has been made possible by a new and forward thinking partnership between FoNS and the Burdett Trust for Nursing.

About the programme

The Patients First Programme provides support and facilitation to clinically based nurse-led teams to help them to develop, implement and evaluate locally focused innovations that improve patient care in any healthcare setting across the UK.

Over a period of 12 months, the Patients First Programme provides:

• Help to keep a central focus on the patient and/or service users and the issues that matter to them the most
• Advice on developing effective project plans/proposals
• Encouragement to identify and make links with people who may be able to offer support locally
• Access to practice development tools and resources
• A workshop programme of support and development that will bring together the nurse-led teams to explore and enable effective strategies for developing and changing practice and provide opportunities for networking and sharing
• Facilitation in the workplace to enable the development of knowledge and skills in leading and facilitating sustainable changes in practice and improvements in care
• Peer mentorship linking up team leaders with those who have completed similar initiatives
• Support with publishing and active dissemination
• Funding of up to £3000

The first 7 project teams were recruited in Autumn 2009 and more details about each of these projects can be found by clicking here. A further 8 projects will be recruited in February 2010. Details of these projects will be available on the website shortly.

Call for applications

This programme is currently closed to applications. We anticipate that a new call for applications will be announced in Autumn 2010.