Jargon Buster - Standards and best practice Category

A service that highlights how something can be done differently and better, and shares what it has learned with other organisations.

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A way of doing something that has been shown to be the most effective way of doing it.

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Describes the overall quality of health care that patients receive. Effectiveness is based on research and the best available evidence.

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What good commissioning should look like, in order to improve the care and support that people receive. The standards have been created to help everyone who is involved in commissioning understand what excellent services look like, so that they can put the right care and support in place. They cover things like focusing on outcomes for people, ensuring equality, and using evidence about what works best.

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An organisation that provides advice and guidance to improve health and social care in England and Wales. It looks at all the evidence on what works and what doesn’t and how much it costs, and advises on what treatment and care should be offered to people. It doesn’t have the power to insist that its guidance is followed in local areas.

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• NICE guidelines

Recommendations on health and care produced by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), based on the best evidence about what works and what is best value for money.

The guidelines set out the care, support and treatment suitable for people with a specific condition or who require a particular form of support. They are put together by professional experts and people who draw on health and care services and are based on evidence from research. They apply to England only.

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Ways of demonstrating that an organisation is doing what it is supposed to be doing. An example of a performance indicator might be how long people have to wait after requesting an assessment.

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A judgement about how good a particular service or organisation is, or how well it does something, to help people compare services and make a choice. It is usually given as a single description such as ‘outstanding’ or ‘inadequate’, or sometimes a number of stars.

Organisations have to display the performance rating they are given, for example by the Care Quality Commission, so that people can see it.

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• Care Quality Commission (CQC)

A set of rules or instructions about how something should be done.

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A way of explaining, measuring and improving the quality of services provided by an organisation. Quality can measured in a variety of ways, and should ideally include the views and experiences of people who access the services.

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Statements produced by an organisation to say what ‘good’ looks like.

For example, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) have a wide range of quality standards covering health, public health and social care. The standards say what good care, support or treatment looks like and are based on evidence about what works best.

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• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

A commitment by organisations that provide care and support to improve the care they provide so that mistakes are not made and people are not harmed. It requires a focus on safety at all times and openness about any mistakes, so that they do not happen again.

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