Our provider collaborative plays a significant role in quality assurance, safeguarding, and governance in the provision of specialised adult eating disorder services. Delivering better, outcome focused, integrated care, to patients is key.

For adult eating disorder services, this includes:

Quality Assurance

Standardisation of care: We work to ensure consistency of care standards across all partners. We use shared best practices, developing joint protocols, and agreeing quality metrics to monitor performance.

Continuous improvement: Using data, feedback and co-production with patients and partners, we drive improvements in patient outcomes. This enables the collaborative to effectively identify areas for improvement and implement changes across multiple partners and providers.

Peer review and benchmarking: Colleagues across the collaborative regularly peer review to assess another’s performance. Areas of excellence and those needing development can be identified, benchmarking against each other to help raise overall standards across adult eating disorder services.

Safeguarding

Patient safety: Develop and maintain effective systems and processes for responding to patient safety incidents. This is with the purpose of learning from and improving patient safety in line with the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), set out by NHS England.

Shared safeguarding policies: Ensuring consistency in protecting vulnerable patients within our services through the development of joint safeguarding policies for all partners and providers.

Training and support: Pooled resources enable better safeguarding training and support to staff. This ensures everyone is aware of safeguarding issues and the appropriate response.