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Download the details of high impact actions announced at the Chief Nursing Officer's conference

 Details of high impact actions announced at the CNO's conference (779.17 KB).

High Impact Actions

Nurses and midwives care passionately about improving the care they provide to their patients. Proof of that ambition was demonstrated when nurses and midwives posted 600 submissions on this web site in just three weeks. These actions, and the engagement of nurses and midwives throughout the country, have the potential to not only transform the care patients receive, but importantly, to also reduce costs. Nurses and midwives have seized the opportunity to lead the way in meeting the quality and productivity challenge.

A large group of experienced nurses and midwives have identified the eight high impact actions that are outlined in the pdf downloadable from this page, from the website submissions. In addition, a number of academic experts have provided references to best practice and some initial economic analysis has been undertaken. More detailed work will take place over the coming months to explore the good practice linked to these eight areas and to further quantify the potential impact if these actions were replicated throughout the NHS.

Each high impact action sets out the scale of the challenge and the potential opportunity in terms of improvements to quality and patient experience and reduction in cost to the NHS. The good practice examples highlighted demonstrate this. For each action the gains could be huge and nurses and midwives are able to lead on each of these actions which could have huge gains for the NHS.

There were many submissions made for each of the areas and these can be viewed by clicking here.

For nurses and midwives working across a range of NHS provided care this is the opportunity to drive up quality and reduce costs in a difficult economic environment. Commissioners of services, strategic health authorities and regulators will want to see nurse leaders engaged in focusing on these high impact areas and demonstrate the outcomes we know can be achieved.